These are links to websites that may be of interest and/or assistance:
The OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. A wonderful resource.
JURIST - Legal News and Research is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. JURIST is produced as a public service for the continuing legal education of its readers and law student staffers, and uses the latest Internet technology to track important legal news stories and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format
Scratch you will need to download the application file. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up), develop 21st century learning skills.
Tux Paint is a free, award winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Christmas Crisis - Free Christmas Arcade Game Download! Santa has fallen sick this winter holiday! Ms. Claus has been cooking some of her most powerful chicken soup, but even that’s not powerful enough to cure Santa from his perilous cold! He won’t be able to make his first deliveries until much later than usual — but that is TOO late to deliver ALL of the presents!
EduVentures You can download fun games for kids of all ages, made by a teacher.
Family Playtime — Jack O’Lighter RAMDreams Games ~ The Gnome Herder RAMDreams Games ~ The Snowmen and the Crown RAMDreams Games ~ The Bows of Shoga-La
The above games are made by RAMDreams, a small multimedia creation company specializing in interactive artistic media for family enjoyment. The company hopes to inspire others to be creative and to appreciate the beauty and fascination of this world. In the future, they will be offering different interactive experiences, as well as movies, picture books and audio books to download and enjoy.
OLPC (one laptop per child), provides an opportunity for children of developing countries to get computers at a cheap rate.
Who has not heard of Grameen Bank? But did you know that there is a Grameen Foundation based in the USA that can direct you to an organization from where you can get microcredit financing — of course, it would all depend whether you a) qualify; and, b) fulfill their requirements.
Link TV | Television Without Borders. This is a TV Channel that has a very thought provoking line-up. Whether it is a film, a documentary or an interview, you know that the information you receive will be something that you will not see or hear through the usual channels. Their music is also delightful — very diverse. Unfortunately, while there are a few groups and individuals from
FORA.tv - The World is Thinking
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VIKRAM SOOD’S PERSPECTIVES… Ex RAW Chief’s perspective on global security issues ranging from terrorism, engery, geo-politics, nuclear proliferation, US, China, India, Pakistan, Middle East and Central Asia.
The World Conservation Union in Asia
Portal to Asian Internet Resources Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the
Federal Pell Grant Program. The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduates and certain postbaccalaureate students to promote access to postsecondary education.
Vaccines for Children Program. Vaccines for Children program helps families by providing free vaccines to doctors who serve eligible children.
The Global Fund for Children. The Global Fund for Children provides capital to strengthen innovative community-based organization serving the most vulnerable children and youth.
Drawing for Children. Runs on any windows version (95 till Vista).
HEARTSPRING. Heartspring School offers day and residential services for children with special needs including autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, mental retardation, speech and language impairments, visual impairments, deaf/hard of hearing, cerebral palsy, challenging behaviors and those with multiple disabilities. Their Pediatric Services serves children ages birth to 21 with a special need through occupational, physical and speech therapy, psychological services and developmental medicine. And their Hearing Center helps individuals of all ages with hearing deficits. Licensed audiologists provide hearing testing, evaluations and hearing aids.