Free course materials and educational games Woodland's Junior School in Kent has links on its website to a huge range of educational resources and games for children, see: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/ichild.html Sheppard Software has lots of free educational games on its website. The geography ones are particularly good fun: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com The BBC CBeebies site is probably the best place for games and stories for younger children: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ The BBC also has an excellent typing tutor for children, Dance Mat Typing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ Another excellent free educational site for children is: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ Jog the Web, which allows people to create their own annotated guides through the web, has some good collections of educational sites, including maths games: http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/1NJhMR6H1CSD/Math-Games and Web 2.0 Tools for Kids: http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/z1O1GPxm4bCR/Web-2.0-Tools-for-Kids Singup is an educational site designed to get kids singing, and has a song bank with all sorts of songs sung by school choirs (especially ones that five year olds like to sing over and over again...): http://www.singup.org/songbank/index.php Both MIT (one of the best technical universities in the world) and Yale University are making their course materials available for free on the web, see: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm and http://oyc.yale.edu/ If you're feeling really adventurous, you could learn Chinese here with free podcasts and Flash video courses: http://chinesepod.com/ The BBC offers free language courses in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese and Chinese here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages Shared Talk, which is run by the people who produce the RosettaStone language courses, allows people to link up to teach each other languages: http://sharedtalk.com/ Lingofriends does pretty much the same thing: http://lingofriends.com/ I suppose it's a bit like having a foreign pen friend used to be, just a bit more realtime. Party Games
Party Game Central has hundreds of free game ideas: http://www.partygamecentral.com/ as does: http://partygameideas.com/
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