Creating websites:

Wix
www.wix.com is the more technical of the two.  Flash driven. Not html required.

Weebly
www.weebly.com  This was on a list for the top 10 new sites of 2009. Simple to use, easy to create. Will host site. Portion just for educators

Bravenet
http://bravenet.com Free counter to track website traffic – has graphs and other goodies.

Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/counters/Among many other great websites, this long list of possible counters gives very complete feature descriptions of each one.

Filamentality
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/index.html A great site that walks you through creating many types of web-based learning activities. HTML knowledge or web page creation not necessary to create a web based activity if you use this site.

Internet4Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ This site has especially rich resources for tutorials. All the Office suite applications, Dreamweaver, Inspiration and archived tutorials for some older programs people still use.

Find good books to read:

 ALA Book Awards
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm Lots of lists continually updated and sorted by interest, prizes, genre. Good blurbs and descriptions.

LibriVox
http://librivox.org/  Free audiobooks in the public domain for download.

Based on the book
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/year.cfm?id=2005 'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 950 book titles, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority on release dates, all movies in this collection have been released since 1980. Titles may be view by: Title, Release Year, Book Title, Book Author.

Wired For Books
http://wiredforbooks.org/ "For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to
45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century." The site contains a number of great renditions of various works especially for children, including some fine readings of the stories of Beatrix Potter and a great performance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

SciFan: Science Fiction & Fantasy Series, Prequels & Sequels
http://www.scifan.com/series/ One of the most comprehensive and accurate SF&F series database available. For each writer, you'll find books listed in reading order, book that belong to a common universe, related subjects, and links to dedicated sites, both official and made by fans.

Jacket Flap
http://www.jacketflap.com/index.asp Connects you to over 200,000 authors, publishers and readers of literature.

Science

USA Gov for Science
http://www.science.gov/index.html Index to various government documents and databases in the sciences. Authoritative and free!

BBC Science and Nature Visuals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml Lots of interactive visuals of the body. Much of this is also useful for psychology and human behavior.

Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com Offers a collection of links to the most recent science, technology and medical research results from leading universities and organizations around the world.

MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov/ Authoritative and comprehensive health topics.

Genetics
http://www.tcps.k12.md.us/uploads/EHSMC/gen.html Good collection of links to free, authoritative sites linked to general information on genetics as well as specific conditions linked to genes, such as ALS.

National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/ Searchable by topic, age level, type of file. Includes research, lessons, interactive materials, video in STEM disciplines. Funded by National Science Foundation.

Quackwatch
http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html “Quackwatch is now an international network of people who are concerned about health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct.” From their mission statement. Hosted by a physician whose special expertise and interest is keeping people medically safe.

AllPsych Online: The Virtual Psychology Classroom
http://allpsych.com/about.html AllPsych Online is one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet.  Inside the site you'll find over over 920 individual, cross referenced, web pages and an estimated 3000 pages of printed material.  AllPsych is referenced by over 100 colleges and universities in ten countries.

Social Studies

Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp This link is to the front pages on hundreds of newspapers all over the world on any given day. You can limit by geography, popularity and other filters. The site has many other useful features aimed at educating the user. It is linked to a journalism  museum in D.C.

Street Law
http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark.aspx “Street Law provides resources and solutions for teachers and educators; lawyers, law students, and judges; law enforcement officers/school resource officers; juvenile justice professionals; government agencies; and more.” From the website.

Exploring Constitutional Law
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/home.html Created by a professor of law who has also written a book on this subject. Covers specific cases and broad principles in simple language.

Researching primary sources on the Web
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm Comprehensive links to sources, how to evaluate good ones, created by the American Library assosciation.

Teacher Oz
http://www.teacheroz.com/  Quirky - search the Table of Contents for history sites – very complete for high school curriculum. Many primary sources.

Symbols
http://www.symbols.com/  What does that symbol mean? Searchable by description, which they teach you how to do. Can also search by word description – “what does a caduceus look
like?”

In the First Person.
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.shtml   An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives. Complete citations.

Map Sites
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/outline_sites.html  Maps of all sorts including outline maps to fill in.

Popular Culture
http://dmarie.com/timecap/ Snapshot view of popular culture – prices, movies, songs, headlines – on any chosen date

National Archives Video
http://video.google.com/nara.html Digitized video clips from the national archives organized by topic, department of interior or newsreels. Not extensive, but very interesting and not likely to be found on Netflix.

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu A quality research tool for high quality historical resources organized much like a digital textbook offering direct links to primary sources as well as various other multimedia links.

Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm  "Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection."

U. S. Census Bureau International Dababase

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html Just as the title indicates, this databases has current population demographics for international countries.

NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php  "NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD"

Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ “History through the eyes of those who lived it.” Primary source accounts of important events in history, written accounts as well as photographs and videos.

National Archives for Educators and Students
http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html The National Archives hold the documents of our national history. This subsite makes them more accessible and understandable for educational purposes.

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html “This site lists organizations that are generally defined by the American special collections library and research archives (or manuscripts
repositories) models: government archives are often represented; business archives most often are not. Nevertheless, it remains the most comprehensive online source for research archives and is an invaluable contribution to the field. It is maintained by Terry Abraham of the University of Idaho.”(quote from Ready, ‘Net, Go!)

Polyhedron Maps
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/foldout.html If you ever wanted a 3D map of the world in a variety of forms, here is your site.

World Mapper
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html “…a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”

Authentic History
http://www.authentichistory.com/ “…artifacts and sounds from American popular culture.” Organized by decades. Good primary sources/

Arizona Geographic Alliance
http://alliance.la.asu.edu/azga/ Good outline maps at this link – emphasis on the Southwest United States, but cover the world.

Maps of War
http://www.mapsofwar.com/index.html The information here is so well presented that I recommend a look here. I cannot find yet whose work this is, so use with caution.

WGBH Public Television Archive
http://openvault.wgbh.org/ Many Primary source interviews, video, images - productions on all topics produced by the largest distributor of public television programs. Searchable, organized by topic.

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ Even though it has not been updated recently, this is still a treasure trove of resources, particularly primary sources, searchable, well described and organized.

Controversial topics

International Debate Education Association
http://www.idebate.org/index.php Searchable materials on many controversial issues – designed to help student debaters prepare.

Santa Ana College
http://www.sac.edu/students/library/nealley/websites/controversial.htm Extensive links to hundreds of topics, updated regularly and well-indexed.

Awesome Stories
http://www.awesomestories.com/about-us “…gathering place of primary sources…” as images, documents, videos, audio clips and slide shows. Hundreds of “stories” and their supporting documentation.

Controversial topics
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm Hot topics – best information on the net.

Selected sources on social issues
http://www.infotopia.info/social_science_issues.html Portals to many of the websites dealing with controversial issues.

For Teachers and Librarians

Thinkfinity
http://www.thinkfinity.org/ Sponsored by Verizon Foundation to support education, this website is one of the most linked to by educators for their own use. It is comprehensive yet has focus on state by state standards and training. Links to  variety of subject specific websites off high quality, sponsors webinars, blogs, interactive tools and plans for lessons.

Worldometers
http://www.worldometers.info/ Choose carefully what you emphasize here, but its power is the real time counters that run as you are watching showing numbers about health issues (deaths from smoking), economics (money spent for education), media (how many emails sent today) and many others. It is compiled very selectively as it must be, but certainly could spark awareness.

Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/ Web highlighter and sticky notes, online bookmarking, collaboration with a special enhancement for educators. Allowing clss sharing among students for assignments and discussion. Souped up de.li.ci.ous.

Live Binder
http://livebinders.com/ Takes advantage of the familiar binder design with labeled tabs that link to your choice of topics. Basic service is free. Many created ones are available to browse.

21st Century Information Fluency
http://21cif.com/ Tutorials; courses; links for good web use – 21st century skills. For teachers or librarians. Well organized, clear, updated constantly; uses latest technology. Outstanding for learning efficient use of the web.

Book Talks
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/default.htm  Lots of book talks for all ages – well organized searchable by genre, interest area, age level, award lists. Well done. Podcasts included.

Spoof Sites
http://www.panexa.com/ Spoof websites – this one looks like a prescription drug site – very amusing.

Incompetech
http://www.incompetech.com/ Has all sorts of goodies – royalty free music, graph and other design paper patterns, calendars and much more.

Plagiarism Tutorial
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/  Tutorial on plagiarism. Simple but clear.

Credible Web Sources
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/ Tutorial on credible web sources. Again, simple but clear.

WebEnglish Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ Organized links with descriptions for most topics such as AP/IB, journalism, drama, mythology, poetry and many more.

Common craft
http://commoncraft.com/ Video clips that explain difficult concepts visually.

TED
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/5 Started as the website for Technology Entertainment Design, but has become a center for spreading the ideas of some of the most innovative and original thinkers in technology and other fields. Primarily in the form of webcasts, searchable with information about its yearly conference. Very inspiring and positive.

BibMe
http://www.bibme.org/ Creates citations in MLA, APA, Chicaco and Turabian style. Can save an account, unlike EasyBib.

WatchKnow
http://www.watchknow.org/default.aspx Video clips explaining by watching - organized and searchable. Age rated with short description. The interface is a little young looking, but the clips are for everyone. It will search YouTube, TeacherTube, and School tube as well as other video sources.

PBS Teacher Site
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ Links, lesson plans, standards-based resources. Very well organized, searchable, comprehensive.

Google Search Tips
http://websearch.about.com/library/cheatsheet/blgooglecheatsheet.htm Includes Boolean tips, limiting searches, useful search terms, search within a search - has printable versions.

Flashcards
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ World’s largest flashcard library, so they say. And you can create your own and share as well.

Math

Economic History Net
http://eh.net/hmit/ Calculators for converting a certain amount of money over time. Includes values of old currency and other ways to compare money. Emphasis on England and the U.S. You can look at costs in terms of GDP, unskilled labor, compared to other countries, etc over a wide range of years.

AskNumbers
http://www.asknumbers.com/ An online conversion site. Convert weights, distance, currency, computer storage,temperature, cooking, clothing and much more.