Association of Education, Japan (AIEJ)
was founded in 1957 with the aim of advancing international educational exchange under the auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and is financed mainly by the government. AIEJ provides information on study abroad for Japanese and study in Japan for foreign students who want to study in Japan
http://www.aiej.or.jp/index1e.html

Bow Wow Meow
helps with the important task of naming your dog or cat, featuring a searchable database of thousands of pet names.
http://www.bowwow.com.au/

Connecting the Continent
chronicles the "wiring" (telegraph!) of a continent, Australia, "in sequence, a day in the life of each of the Australian outback communities on the Overland Telegraph line between Port Augusta and Darwin."
http://www.connectingthecontinent.com/

Crash Course in Copyright
University of Texas offers this free, online course developed to help faculty understand the issues of copyright, fair use, and intellectual property. "The Copyright Crash Course Online Tutorial will help you learn about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials."
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

EBook Library
The Uvniversty of Virginia provides publicly-available ebooks in Web, Palm, and Microsoft Reader formats: "classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more."
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

EarthTrends
"is an environmental information portal, offering searchable databases, data tables, country profiles, maps, and feature articles in ten subject sections."
http://earthtrends.wri.org/

Ethics in Computing
From the North Carolina State University comes the course resource on the basics of ethics in computing. From the start, yuo are presented a map to navigate form including the "provinces" of "Commerce", "Social Justice", "Privacy", "Intellectual Property", and more.
http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/eos/info/computer_ethics/

EyeWitness
presents "history through the eyes of those that lived it.. Illuminating the past through personal narratives and other first-hand sources."
http://www.ibiscom.com/

Foundation for Teaching Economics
The Foundation for Teaching Economics offers a variety of programs for high school teachers of economics and students who are selected for their leadership potential. Programs are held in all parts of the country and are free for participants. The web site offers lesson plans and other resources fo economics teachers.
http://www.fte.org/

Google Image Search
the cutting edge search engine now allows you to search specifically for images located on web pages.
http://images.google.com/

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
Available freely online from the National Academy of Sciences, "This book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to these and other questions. New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb."
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6160.html

Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
"Do you aim to become a member of the literati, or do you wish to be a savant? Do you want to avoid being verbigerative and be succinct instead? Search the Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words' A-Z index of over 13,900 difficult words to increase your vocabulary or just find out what those words really mean!"
http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/

ITForum
"is an electronic listserv where people from around the world discuss theories, research, new paradigms, and practices in the field of Instructional Technology. ITFORUM is sponsored by the Department of Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia... ITFORUM is a little different from most listservs in that specific discussions are conducted throughout the year. From September to May, leaders in the field are invited to write a short paper or essay that is posted on the list prior to discussion. This guest discussant remains available electronically on the list for a period of one week to discuss, debate, or answer questions from subscribers."
http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/

Invisible Library
"is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound."
http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/

Labor Arts
features art about labor issues.
http://www.laborarts.org/

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)
"is a mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text...Several educational applications that employ LSA have been developed: (1) selecting the most appropriate text for learners with variable levels of background knowledge, (2) automatically scoring the content of an essay, and (3) helping students effectively summarize material."
http://lsa.colorado.edu/

Molecular Universe
"aims to provide accessible information on molecules and molecular systems. The site contains a range of graphical images relating to recent and not so recent developments in molecular and material sciences. The overall goal is to enhance understanding of the beauty and complexity of matter at the molecular level and to improve awareness of the central role of molecular processes in underpinning life itself and the operation of the world around us. The site includes explanatory text and links to relevant educational, academic and industry sites."
http://www.molecularuniverse.com/

National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
"is committed to enhancing the nation's capacity to recruit, prepare, and retain well qualified diverse educators and related service personnel for children with disabilities."
http://www.specialedcareers.org/

National Hurricane Center
is everything you want to know about hurricanes! It provides current storm information and images, hurricane safety information, and much more.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Navarasa Multimedia
"Using Navarasa Multimedia you can create your CD-ROM presentations and websites in the same editor! Navarasa web presentations are multi-platform and multi-browser compatible!... Navarasa can be used as an electronic book or text editor, since it has sophisticated document management capabilities. It can now be used as a website generation tool as well. This entire website is built using Navarasa in about one third the time it took to generate it using any other editor."
http://www.navarasa.de/

New Designs for Connected Teaching and Learning
a white paper by Margaret Riel: "The first section examines current theories on learning and their relationship to the educational context of school... In this second section, I focus on the relationship of teaching and research, historically and in the present time... I close with some new ideas for how to create learning environments for students and teachers that balance the four dimensions of learning. These ideas are offered in the spirit of a collective rethinking of schooling in the context of evolving understandings of learning and our rapid advances in the development of tools that mediate minds."
http://www.gse.uci.edu/mriel/whitepaper/index.html

Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
is a "web page designed for the specific needs of organic chemists... Its mission consist in collecting and independently annotating all useful organic chemistry sites and to present them in an intuitive way. Furthermore, the guide has no access restriction as it available for a worldwide audience and no registration or user fee are required."
http://www.organicworldwide.net/

Physics Central
"The American Physical Society represents some 42,000 physicists, and most of our work centers on scientific meetings and publications-the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With Physics Central, we communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news. We'll describe the latest research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where to go on the web."
http://www.physicscentral.com/

Technology Learning Community Internet Guide
'Now that you have access to INTERNET...what next? "What role can the Internet play in teaching and learning for me and for my student? " "How do we find what we are looking for?" Each question has multiple answers.. I want to propose that you think of the Internet as a networld, as a place where people meet and exchange ideas and activities --not merely as a collection of information. I will explain why I think this conception of the Internet is important and then take you to some of the "places" that I know in the networld.'
http://www.gse.uci.edu/tlc/

Teoma Search Engine
"Teoma delivers three types of search results Web Pages (authoritative sites relevant to search term); Web Pages by Topic (top result pages are grouped based on their topics); and Experts' Links (pages contain directories of links for related general subjects)"
http://www.teoma.com/

WWW Virtual Library:International Affairs Resources
This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Most of the sites are in English, and are carefully selected for long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online.
http://www.etown.edu/vl/

Web based course management software
Class Act! is a web based course management system. Designed for educational institutions or large organisations Class Act! can be used to deliver high quality web based learning support to new or existing courses. Traditional non web delivered courses can now benefit from user/tutor interaction through online forums, discussion groups and web links to content. Tutors may create courses, forums, topics and threads, Students can post messages/replies and upload file attachments with their messages. Web based assessments/assignments can take the form of timed true or false, multiple choice, text input and answer upload questions, with online results posting and automated marking. Single server instance licence allows unlimited users.
http://www.darasoft.net

With These Hands
is a "web documentary"built around the stories of four family farms
http://www.with-these-hands.org/

Workplace Hazardous Material Information System
Virtual WHMIS is an online training program in Workplace Hazardous Information Management Systems. Virtual WHMIS training program fulfils legislated WHMIS training requirements for all Canadian Provinces
http://virtualwhmis.com/

World Café
"is a metaphor. It's a guiding image, a scenario of possibility, and an innovative set of tools and methods for evolving collective intelligence and creative futures."
http://www.theworldcafe.com/

getCITED
"Imagine a single academic database with which we could search for all of the available research on a given topic. Not just journal articles, not just books, but "publications" of all types, including individual chapters in edited volumes, papers from conferences and in proceedings, working papers and reports, even conference presentations. Now imagine being able to click on a particularly interesting publication and having its bibliography available for inspection, with each item in that bibliography providing the possibility of clicking on it and viewing its details. Or alternatively, imagine being able to click on the authors' names and bring up their CVs in their entirety. And to find out who their colleagues are, being able to simply click on the faculty or department name to get a list of all its members. Finally, imagine that the contents of this database are controlled by us rather than corporations and you'll have some idea of what is possible with getCITED."
http://www.getcited.org/