Useful+Websites

=Useful Websites=

Feel free to add useful web links to the table below. Be sure to add a description in the right column so that people know why the link is here. Kiva's mission is **to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.** Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Our partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. FreeRice has two goals: This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site. Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself. Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you. ||
 * Website || Description ||
 * [|http://www.educationalinnovations.com] || David Spencer's Website ||
 * [|www.watchknow.org] || The site more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history."Think of it as YouTube meets Wikipedia, filtering out everything but quality educational videos," says Dr. Sanger. "WatchKnow.org links together content from traditional sites, and also allows users of the site to improve the organization of the video categories, which makes finding the video you need much easier." The site, which features videos from National Geographic, YouTube and Google Videos among others, took more than 18 months to develop and has been endorsed by educators from schools including Harvard, Stanford, Brigham Young and more. WatchKnow.org is designed to complement and enhance the traditional learning experience for students as they study concepts that are traditionally hard to learn. ||
 * [] || useful websites for teachers ||
 * Visual Literacy || This website would work great with getting students thinking about what they are seeing ||
 * http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html || good website for math for all grades. ||
 * k12olineconference.org || [|The K-12 Online Conference] invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2009 conference theme is “Bridging the Divide.” This year’s conference begins with a [|pre-conference keynote by classroom teacher and international educator Kim Cofino] the week of November 30, 2009. The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, over fifty presentations will be posted online to [|our conference blog] and [|our conference Ning] for participants to view, download, and discuss. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” are listed on the [|events page of our conference Ning] and [|Facebook fan page], and live events will continue in 2010 through twice-monthly “K-12 Online Echo” [|webcasts on EdTechTalk]. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during and after the conference as well as asynchronous conversations. Over 122 presentations from [|2008], [|2007], and [|2006] are available, along with [|archived live events]. Follow the K12 Online Conference on [|Twitter] and [|Facebook]! ||
 * kiva.org ||
 * The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals.** When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else. ||
 * freerice.com ||
 * 1) Provide education to everyone for free.
 * 2) Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.