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TRAVEL & LANGUAGES |
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France
and
Paris |
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Italia |
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Learn Arabic
or
Turkish |
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Middle East Online |
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Pology.com: Travel &
World Culture |
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES & POLITICS |
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Amnesty
International |
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Gendercide |
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National Priorities
Project (U.S.) |
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Nonviolence.org |
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Outfoxed:
Independent Journalism?
and
Project Censored |
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Fight Hate & Promote
Tolerance |
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Stetson Kennedy: His
Fight Against the KKK |
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT |
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Environmental
Working Group |
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Food Revolution |
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Human Genome Project |
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DOEgenomes.org |
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Sierra Club |
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National Resources
Defense Council |
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World Resources
Institute |
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A Better Earth |
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GRIST MAGAZINE:
Environmental News & Commentary |
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How Stuff Works |
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Scientific American
website |
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Smithsonian |
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Union of Concerned
Scientists |
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World Overpopulation
Awareness |
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Broad Institute
(MIT) Genome Projects |
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Online Mendelian
Inheritance in Man |
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Internet-Based
Science Projects |
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Center for Medical
Consumers: Informed Decisions About Health |
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General Biology
Topics |
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"Fragile Fringe"
Coastal Wetlands Teaching Guide |
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On the Brink:
Solutions to Global Warming |
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Grocery Store Wars:
Organic Foods vs. Foods on "The Dark Side" |
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2005-2015: The Water
For Life Decade |
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geneimprint.com |
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Action Bioscience
for Science Educators |
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Make Your Own
Strawberry DNA. Fascinating Project! |
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Understanding
Genetics: Human Health and the Genome |
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Green Power Network:
Renewable Energy Resources |
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FAITH vs. ATHEISM |
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Why Won't God Heal
Amputees? |
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God Is Imaginary-50
Simple Proofs |
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Richard Dawkins
website |
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Sam Harris website |
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Sojourners |
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CRITICAL THINKING & THE INTERNET |
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Evaluation of
Information Resources |
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Project Look Sharp
(Ithaca College): Media Literacy & Critical Thinking |
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Information Literacy |
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PLAGIARISM PREVENTION |
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The Citation Machine |
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MDC Students' Rights
& Responsibilities (handbook) |
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Turnitin.com |
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Academic Dishonesty |
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Plagiarism:
Understanding & Addressing It |
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Plagiarism & the Web |
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Plagiarism.org
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UMUC Plagiarism
resources |
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Plagiarism |
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Center for Academic
Integrity |
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Online Tutorial
about Plagiarism (by
Eleanor Snow at USF) |
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The Plagiarism Plague: In
the internet era, cheating has become an epidemic on college
campuses |
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Teaching
Students About Plagiarism.
An on-line article. |
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TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY |
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African Technology
Forum |
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Learn the Web |
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Mousercise |
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Online Tutorials for
Internet Literacy |
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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES |
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WebMonkey: Web
Developer's Resources |
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Learning Objects |
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IP-Based
Communication Tools |
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MERLOT: Multimedia
Educational Resources |
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Quia |
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Sloan Consortium:
Online education |
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Innovate: Journal of
Online Education |
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Learners Online |
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Project Gutenberg:
Free Books On-Line |
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Directory of
Newsletters, e-Zines, etc. |
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Educational Software
Downloads |
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Blogs: Getting
Started |
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Creating Passionate
Users: Crash course in learning theory |
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eMints and eThemes |
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ESL RESOURCES |
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ELT Web: Index of
English Language Resources |
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Harper Audio:
Listening Practice |
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Knowledge network |
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Interesting Things
for ESL Students |
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Federal Resources
for Educational Excellence (FREE) |
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English Teaching
Forum On-line |
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TESOL |
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ESL Resources at
Capital Community College
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Resources for
Writing |
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English Grammar on
the Web (Instructional Resources) |
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Idioms Links |
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Hypergrammar |
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Center for Advanced
Research on Language Acquisition
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OTHER RESOURCES |
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The British Library |
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Ask Oxford: On-Line
Dictionary Resource |
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Dictionary.com
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World Wide Words |
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Learning Innovations
Resource page |
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Resources for
Writing Instructors |
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ClipArt: Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse |
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LangNet: National Foreign Language Center, University of
Maryland |
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HUMOR |
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Humorous Mistakes in
Language Learning |
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Do you speak
American English or British English? |
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