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12 Jul, 2009

The Free Sound Project

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Audio| Online Database| Podcast/ Vodcasting| Video

http://www.freesound.org/
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

06 Jul, 2009

Gapminder –

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Data & Statistics| Online Apps| Online Database| Top Pick

http://www.gapminder.org/

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.  We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

23 Apr, 2009

World Digital Library putting human history a click away

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Fine Arts| News| Online Database| Web 2.0| World Languages

PARIS — A globe-spanning UN digital library seeking to display and explain the wealth of all human cultures has gone into operation on the Internet, serving up mankind’s accumulated knowledge in seven languages for students around the world.
James Billington, the librarian of Congress who launched the project four years ago, said the ambition was to [...]

25 Apr, 2008

MyBloop – Online File Manager

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Fine Arts| Math| Online Database| Web 2.0| World Languages

MyBloop is an online file manager and storage service. Here you can upload, store, share and manage all kind of files in a fast and stylish Windows Explorer like interface. In adddition to online storage, it also allows users to organize and stream uploaded music files, watch stored videos remotely, view pictures, and more.
MyBloop Features:

Upload, [...]

04 Apr, 2008

The Way Back Machine

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Fun| Online Database| Top Pick| Web 2.0

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
 
 Libraries exist to preserve society’s cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and [...]


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