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NPR music's first listen series consistently features new music that I am bound to be interested in or to love. NPR not only produces great news features and stories but the music staff seems to have an impeccably sophisticated sense of what's fresh, hip, well-written and well-produced.

On this website, I was able to find a video on the battle between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex in the teenage brain. It was the exact thing that I needed for my class, and the video was appropriately short for the teenage attention span.

Here's a useful place to look for clean, crisp stock image photos. The website also suggests similar photos and allows you to choose the size of the images as well as parts of the image (so useful).

I used Spyguys math lessons with one of my boys with Asperger Syndrome. Spyguys is a product of learnalberta.ca and was perfect for that particular student as the lessons are very specific, providing a comprehensive lesson and an adequate amount of practice exercises. For some students, you may consider padding the lesson with more practice. http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/math6shell.html

A website full of free and simple worksheets for topics from math to reading to science and social studies. This site is really a jewel for our teachers who need simple, distraction free websites with big print and few problems per page. Working with children with special needs, we've found that super teacher worksheets allows us to accommodate to our students very easily!

Starfall is a wonderful free resource for pre-reading and basic reading skills. It has a kind of Sesame Street, commercially feel but it actually is fairly well-developed and easy to access.

Oh how I love Into The Book, a project of the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. The website provides resources (lesson plans, videos, interactive series of activities) on the 8 researched strategies for reading comprehension. The website can be accessed for free by students and by educators and the ideas for each strategy can be applied to reading comprehension and content areas.

Reading is Fundamental (http://www.rif.org) is a really nicely organized site with resources for educators, parents and children. There are plenty of free resources, such as ready made packets, depending on grade levels and themes. The best part is that there is a fairly ample section in Spanish, making it more accessible for our school in Guatemala.

Our school raised funds to donate to the Haiti Children's Relief Fund, and I accidentally made the payment to the Global Fund. Folks told me it was not a big deal, but I wanted the money to go where our students thought it would be directed so I called Save the Children. They fully understood my concern and redirected the funds the next day. As well as that, they sent me an email asking for the school's mailing address to send a certificate of gratitude (which arrived in the mail this week) to our 23 students for the $300 donation. Though it wasn't a large amount, in comparison to other organizations and individuals, Save the Children still made the time to make our students feel special for their contribution.

My friend Jessica linked me to this, and I left it sitting there for an hour before I actually tried it. The concept is this - pick one of the moods that are available (from "feel like crying" to "driving route 66" to "sunday morning"), and there's a couple of hundred tracks playlist right there at your eardrums. There's a very decent selection of indie, electronic and non-top 40 tracks. All in all, I was impressed although I can't help but think that this may have been developed by a group of folks with a tremendous collection of music and Itunes's "Genius" button.

Yes, there's a bias towards indie and electronic, but that's A-OK with me, especially the Indie part. An obsession with Hot Chip's Made in the Dark stripped down version actually made me sign up for this Hype Machine business, and boy, was it worth it. Endless listens to remixes and barebones versions of my favorite tracks, for an obsessive personality like myself, is too good to be true.

My friend Ario tweeted this. I thought I'd give it some more exposure. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Make-Something-Cool-Every-Day-2009/*******
This guy made something "cool", interesting, rather, everyday.

Your friends live far away, as in another continent. You want to do a little happy dance for them, or a sad dance, or a robot dance, depending on your mood and their desires. You don't want to get on to skype because you really don't want to TALK to each other, you just want to show your friend the dance. nimbb.com solves your problem. Make your robot dance using your webcam, press record, check it, save it and send your friend the link. So easy. Thanks, nimbb, for helping me maintain my friendships cross-continent.

When you get tired of your regular websites or have exhausted all they have to offer, but are looking for something along the same lines, insuggest.com is a fairly decent tool to use to find websites similar to your favorites. It seems to still have a limited range as I end up getting the same recommendations but is a neat idea nonetheless.

If you are a hipster who doesn't take yourself seriously, you may find this website mildly amusing. Unhappyhipsters provides clever captions to photos of modern people existing in their post-modern spaces. I think all of these photos come from Dwell magazine, and most are so funny that even my architect friends find humor in them.

This is not legitimate. See other reviews.

I placed an order on the 14th of December for 2 small containers of theraputty and one bodysock. I received the theraputty within about a week but still have not received the bodysock. Shipping cost me $18 for items that are so small you could stick it in a $10 USPS box. The website did not indicate that the bodysock would be on backorder, and I've tried twice to contact them with my concern. No response. I'm not sure if this is a scam or if the company is just incredibly irresponsible. For these items, next time I'll go straight to therapyshoppe.com.

Readwritethink.org is an educator's friend. It has great lessons for teachers and activities for students. My favorite parts are interactive tools such as the interactive Venn diagram, http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/, which makes it easier to help students organize their ideas and to practice their computer skills.

Find out where to recycle just about anything from paper to plastics to metal clothes hangers. I could even find out where to recycle polysterene (#6 plastic) at a location less than 4 miles from my house.

Trailermash is similar to Fanedit, the website that Chris O. Reviewed, but I think the Fanedit folks have more time on their hands. Trailermash collects edited and mashed up trailers. Good stuff.