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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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