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The Biography Maker An interactive, online curriculum that walks children through all the steps of creating an effective, accurate, well-written biography.
This website has a wide range of free online classes to offer you.
Learn how to type correctly in just a few hours using all your fingers. You will soon be typing faster than you ever imagined.27 guided lessons to learn step-by-step from the beginning. Web-based course. No downloads required.
Offering free, beginning computer courses and other learning opportunities world-wide in English and Spanish. * This site is highly recommended!
Intel Education The Journey Inside
The Journey Inside is a collection of 35 interactive, online lessons for students to complete. The curriculum is divided into six sections: Introduction to Computers, Circuits and Switches, Digital Information, Microprocessors, The Internet, and Technology and Society. Many of the lessons include interactive Flash* activities, virtual field trips, and videos demonstrating the ideas discussed.
This course introduces the basic concepts and terms needed to discuss melody and harmony. It is intended for teens or adults with no background in music theory but some familiarity with reading common notation and playing an instrument (or singing). Concepts covered include interval, major and minor keys and scales, triads and chords.
This site has many computer software classes to offer.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant A complete curriculum to walk the writer through the details of all phases of writing essays, including organization, revision, editing, documentation of sources, and specific instruction in how to write informal, thesis/support, argumentative, and exploratory essays. This complete free mini-course in essay writing was developed by a professor of English at Boise State University.
CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.
This is a music appreciation course with built-in “listening galleries” and an interactive online workbook.
Start Something, a character-building curriculum that helps kids identify and pursue their dreams.
* Highly recommended ClassVideo instructional series; 52 half hour programs covering the scope of Western civilization. Uses video-on-demand, playable from the site.
TONIC is an easy-to-understand, practical guide to using the Internet produced by Netskills.
Virtual University, the Net's oldest learning community and a pioneer in Web-based education and offers lots of different classes.