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Everything about instant messaging
Learn tips and tricks of instant messaging for AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and more.
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Read about the rise of the instant-message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships.
Catalyst Portfolio
Lets you quickly create a personal Web site to showcase your skills and experience.
Glossary of Internet Abbreviations & Acronyms
Describes how and when to use acronyms and provides an exhaustive list of terms you can use to flavor your sentences.
netforbeginners.about.com/cs/netiquette101/a/abbreviations.htm
Pupil Pages
Pupil Pages allows students to create and maintain an online portfolio of his/her work. This online portfolio will follow students and their progression in school. At the close of your student's secondary schooling he/she has an organized and stylized way of presenting their accomplishments.
ManyBooks
Thousands of eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or Symbian cellphone. Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations from our visitors, or special collections. All of the eBooks here are free!
How Everyday Things Are Made
"AIM has developed an introductory website for kids and adults showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4 hours of manufacturing video. It is targeted towards non-engineers and engineers alike."
WebNote
Webnote is a tool for taking online notes in a web browser. Notes are in the form of sticky labels. You can share your workspace and work collaboratively by giving the url to others.
Project Steve Guttenberg
A PHP-driven diary/journal/blogging application that integrates seamlessly into an existing Web site. It provides many of the core features (including comments, archives, searching, and an RDF feed) and administrative controls (all Web-based) of other, larger systems, but doesn't use a database, is XHTML 1.0-compliant and its look can be completely customised via CSS.
Bonus Links
The Vietnam Project
Over 1.5 million pages of information on the Vietnam War. There are also hundreds of interviews with soldiers recorded as videos and sound clips.
Science Podcasting
We ecourage teachers to show students videos that are engaging and entertaining. We have teamed up with scientists and graduate students around the globe (with central hubs in Washington, Panama, Hawaii, Sweden, Wisconsin and Montana), to diversify your understanding of the world around you.
John James Audubon
Audubon was a famous painter of birds in the Americas. His paintings have been placed in flash movies with original music. The site also has a catalog of over 400 of Audubon's paintings.
Mysteries of the Catalhoyuk
The site takes a comic bookish approach to talking about an excavation site of a 9000-year-old city in Turkey. There is a lot of detailed information intermixed with interactive activities.
Designers
A government report on designers including fashion that has lots information on working conditions, job outlook, how much money you can make and more!