"...includes a thesaurus,
a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics,
extensive appendices.
...not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it.
...etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms, translations..."

Answers.com:
answers for everything!
Try it.
Type your question
here: (really!)

Answers, not links

for British & Canadian
word spellings, etc.
(several dictionary types)

Glossary of
Online Education
Terms
from Digital Bridges

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eLearning Glossary
from WorldWide Learn

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from EdTechPost

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eLearning Glossary
from eLearning Guru

DICTIONARY

Hyperdictionary.com Check out their other dictionaries and THESAURUS!

THESAURUS

(it searches in Webster, FOLDOC, jargon,
acronyms, and more)

English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries; a Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedias, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine

• articles, information
• classrooms that use the internet
• copyright
• discussion forums
• distance education info & issues
• "e-Learning" defined by the experts
• ethics
• exemplars
• journals, news, texts
• misc. information resources
• plagiarism, secure testing, etc.
• policy
• problem based learning
• teacher tutorials
• Web 2.0, Social Networking,
  Web 3.0, Web 4.0....

• Blackboard / WebCT links & resources
• content & lesson plan resources
• digital games for learning
• digital photography resources
• ESL Resources: for teachers, students
• miscellaneous
• MOODLE links & resources
• Second Life + Education
• texts online
• TWITTER - using it in Education
• WIRELESS & handhelds for Education

• about your students
• FOR your students: resources, guides, tips, & tutorial
• ePortfolios: articles & tools
• ESL Resources: for teachers,  students
• find a place to eLearn

Here's the best NETIQUETTE site on the web.

• blogging, blogs & wikis in Education to explore
• course creation tools
• CMS's (course management systems), VLE's (virtual learning environments), LMS's (learning management systems),
  with comparisons
• design for learning
• file conversion tools
• learning objects, repositories, etc.
• math for webcourses
• MEDIA online - articles & methods
• podcasting, videoblogging
• RSS
• web conferencing tools
• WebDAV
• webpage making: HTML tutorials, guides, design tips, & more

• adaptive technology
• articles, issues information
• design for accessibility

• dictionaries
• encyclopedias
• grammar guides
• idiom links
• libraries & book collections
• miscellaneous resources galore
• quotation sources & resources
• software: helpful computer applications
• style guides
• thesauri
• tricks of the trade
• words, words, words! wordplay

• MY PERSONAL FAVORITES
  in HELPFUL TOOLS
• blogs, wikis, podcasting, video blogging
• color resources
• css (cascading style sheets)
• dreamweaver
• file conversion tools
• fireworks
• flash
• graphics
• HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, etc.
• javascript
• multimedia
• PHP resources
• podcasting
• RSS
• SSI (Server Side Includes)
• standards, checks & refinements
• WebDAV
• miscellaneous

GOOGLE for eLEARNING!

Embed Google Maps
In Your Webpage or course pages
(I'm linking you to this entry on another
page in my resources site)
09/03/07

Google for Educators
"a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom...a number of additional tools...examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom" 03/02/07

Google Educational Videos
(a simple trick about how to search for them)
03/02/07

Google Book Search
(as of Aug.30/06)

Google Tools to Make Learning Work
and
Google Homepages: A Knowledge Revolution
(two good articles from the Kineo group)

GoogleTutor.com
(some awesome tips/tricks)

Google Guide
(helps experts too)

GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

ALSO: Check out Firefox's Extension
for Google Scholar

Google's DESKTOP Search tool:
for searches on your own computer! 10/17/04

GURUNET is indispensible! Complete reference tool for your desktop. It's the most-used tool on my computer.

Best-Ever Freeware Utilities

A categorized site that truly leads to some excellent FREE software.

Digital Darkroom

A resource page devoted to information, links, tutorials, etc. -- all about what we can do to photos in the "digital darkroom" after taking them.

NEWS at

An AMAZING way to get the news of the minute!
You have to experience it!

Word Spy ~ The Word Lovers Guide To Modern Culture: For writers and people who just love WORDS! "This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources." How about "homicide bomber"? 10/07/04

A useful, Find Everything site

FREE FILE CONVERSION:
Convert many types of files
to many other types!

Zamzar: Convert Document, Image, Music and Video Formats (even YouTube videos!).
Exact conversion types listed here.

TopWebBased In-BrowserTools
No Download, No Install !
A growing list, continually updated by
author Deniz Akay.
12/25/08

For example, the site pointed me to SumoPaint.
Check out "the fastest, most creative paint application on the 'net".
12/25/08

The ODP
Open Directory Project: Resource Listings
"The largest human-edited directory on the web."
A categorized resource listing of over
5 million sites. Find resources FAST!

What does the internet look like to a kid?

How Stuff Works: an amazing resource for the curious.

Turn up your sound and click to see this unique PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED.

And here's another unique PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED. Result of putting "weapons of mass destruction" into the Google search box.

eLearning Business Translator "for eLearning cynics"

Pink Flamingos: A brief tribute to my site's mascot -- a little history and perspective on the Pink Flamingo. From a site called Useless Information: Stuff You Never Needed To Know But Your Life Would Be Incomplete Without, here's the TRUE story of the familiar plastic bird. "So Tacky, Yet So Cool". Let's hear a big squawking honk for Don Featherstone! 10/01/05

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