Weplay.com, the ultimate online destination for the youth sports community, has launched its free Basketball Skills and Drills library featuring content from the LeBron James King James Academy summer basketball camp in San Diego.

Weplay.com was granted access to film drills at LeBron’s camp where kids learned and practiced the fundamentals of basketball, team play, good sportsmanship and healthy habits. Weplay.com’s library of hundreds of free basketball drill videos, animations and basketball plays also includes footage of the NBA’s biggest stars including Tony Parker, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 

“Millions of players and coaches are playing basketball this winter and Weplay is dedicated to providing them with the information and tools they need to stay organized and make the most of their season. Our partnership with basketball’s best such as LeBron James gives us a compelling and helpful offering,” said Steve Hansen, CEO, Weplay.com.

The basketball drill library is organized by skill, including ball control drills, defensive drills and plays, offensive drills and plays, passing drills, rebounding drills and shooting drills. The comprehensive library is also organized by skill level so that parents, coaches and kids can find the right basketball drills based on the age of their teams and leagues.

This is much more than a web cam - it is an Educational Reality Show. Whale Watching TV is produced by an award winning wildlife filmmaker, "Capt. Dave" Anderson, of Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari, in Dana Point, California.

Capt. Dave even built an underwater viewing pod on his boat, (the first of its kind anywhere in the world), for passengers to get eye to eye with dolphins and whales. He also placed seven cameras onboard, including an underwater camera, and an underwater hydrophone, so you can see and hear the dolphins and whales underwater. They also have microphones on the captain and crew, so you can learn about the ocean, and the many marine mammals in this area, from them. There are even fact sheets you can download, clips from recent trips, and excerpts from Capt. Dave's films and more on the site.

The site is already Live 24/7 from the boat so check it out now! And on October 3, 2009, dolphin and whale defenders; Actress Hayden Panettiere star of “Heroes” TV show and Isabel Lucas star of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", will be joining them live on their boat, Manute'a, for Whale Watching TV's official grand opening to raise money for the Whaleman Foundation and the Save The Whales Again Campaign. You will also learn what it is like to work on a commercial whale watching boat...

With the maturing of the web, the proliferation of school data has been both a blessing and a curse for parents. Parents now have a new tool for evaluating the quality of their child’s education.

SchoolDigger.com has introduced a new school ranking service that gives parents an intuitive way to compare a particular school’s performance to other schools in its district, city or state. This free service is a result of 3 years of feedback from site users and is the only one of its kind on the web. SchoolDigger.com already ranks public schools based on average state-administered standardized reading and math test scores, but this unique tool also allows parents to create customized listings based on other criteria such as school grade, test and year. For example, a parent might want to see how well his child’s 5th-grade class performed state-wide in science, or how well New York high school students performed on the NY Regents French test, or how many of the top ten schools in Florida are magnet schools. The flexibility of this tool allows parents to identify and compare schools based on what is important to them. Also new with this release is the ability to compare school rankings from year to year. With this data, a parent can see which schools in the area are most improved, and see how a particular school’s ranking has changed over the years. SchoolDigger.com’s new tool is exceptionally powerful, useful and intuitive, and gives parents extraordinary access to...read more

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This past February at the Washington Auto Show, the X PRIZE Foundation, the United States Department of Energy, and Discovery Education launched the first phase of an online knowledge center designed to teach K-12 students and the public about advanced vehicle technologies, energy efficiency, climate change, alternative fuels, and the science, technology, engineering and math that underlie efficient vehicle development. FuelOurFutureNow.com features activities for grade levels K-12, as well as high-quality videos, virtual labs, and other interactive resources intended for use from the classroom to the living room. This online knowledge center is just one component of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Education Program, a national program designed to encourage young people to pursue careers in energy-efficient sciences and technology, made possible through a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The goal of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that offer more consumer choices. A ten million dollar prize purse will be split between teams that win a stage competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 Mile Per Gallon equivalent fuel economy (MPGe). www.FuelOurFutureNow.com serves as an interactive online portal offering stimulating STEM lessons and resources for students, teachers and families as the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE competition unfolds. Together, parents and students can explore a variety of grade appropriate STEM topics through a number of exciting activities. K-2 students will be challenged to find out what makes cars go, while students in grades 3-5 will focus on building the skills needed to learn about force and motion and efficient energy transfer within a vehicle. Students in grades 6-8 will investigate fuel efficiency and develop a futuristic, energy efficient vehicle, and high school students will be tasked with analyzing patterns in mass transit issues...click to read more

URL: http://undsci.berkeley.edu

Understanding Science is a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works — and that helps K-16 teachers reinforce the nature and process of science throughout their science teaching. The site provides a variety of resources at different levels for students, teachers, and the general public. UCMP launched the Understanding Science website in association with the Year of Science 2009 at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Boston. Ken Miller (Brown University) and Natalie Kuldell (MIT) unveiled the site to the attending scientific community, introducing an exciting new paradigm for explaining the process and nature of science. Here's an overview of what's available now — but be sure to subscribe for updates on new features and to look for resources throughout the site that are coming soon. Understanding Science 101: An in-depth, multi-part course that explains what science is, how it works, and how it is intertwined with our lives and with society more broadly. In addition to this basic content, look for links to advanced-topic side trips. Resource library: A wide variety of interactive science stories, special features, and links to exemplary resources from other organizations. Resources for teaching Science: A set of resources designed to help teachers integrate and reinforce the nature and process of science throughout their regular instruction...click to read more..

URL: http://www.brainify.com
Brainify.com has launched a new Web site where students and faculty can share resources and links. The site, founded by Murray Goldberg, uses the collective intelligence of its student members to determine which Web sources will be the most helpful to them. “The problem students have is not finding material online,” Goldberg said. “The problem generally lies in finding the best resources available. Students may have to sort through an abundance of Web sites, but Brainify allows students to be pointed right away to the best Web sites available to them. One student who finds a certain Web site helpful can put it on Brainify, allowing all students access to it. These Web sites might not show up on a Google search,” he added. Selected sites are tagged by students who then rate and give complete descriptions of that site. Brainify is designed to be most useful for students. There are two ways to search the site. Via an academic hierarchy organized by subject, or by keyword. Professors, Goldberg said, are also putting groups on Brainify with useful Web sites and are asking their students to join. “This gives professors the ability to work with students to build a nice resource for their course,” Goldberg said. Students can also use the resource to ask any question they have pertaining to their courses. Although anyone can view the information on Brainify, a college or university e-mail address is required to become a member. “The best way to make sure that the site is useful for students is if it is only students and professors whom...click to read more

WorldWide Telescope, is a rich Web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. WorldWide Telescope has been eagerly anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical resource for students and lifelong learners, and as a way to make science fun for children. “The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it possible for everyone to explore the universe,” said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). “By combining terabytes of incredible imagery and data with easy-to-use software for viewing and moving through all that information, the WorldWide Telescope opens the door to new ways to see and experience the wonders of space. Our hope is that it will inspire young people to explore astronomy and science, and help researchers in their quest to better understand the universe.” The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high-performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky. People can freely browse...Click to read more

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URL: http://openvault.wgbh.org
Muhammad Ali discussing his refusal to fight in Vietnam; African American students arriving at school during Boston’s court-ordered de-segregation; Bill T. Jones performing a monologue and solo dance; Robert McNamara reading from a letter sent by Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis — that’s just a taste of the resources available on Open Vault.

Launched by the WGBH Media Library and Archives (MLA), the Open Vault (http://openvault.wgbh.org) Web site offers access to select video clips and interview transcripts drawn from WGBH’s award-winning programming created between 1968 and 1993. Designed to encourage educators and scholars in higher education to incorporate these materials into classroom curricula and outside study, Open Vault includes over 500 streaming video clips and more than 1,000 interviews drawn from: New Television Workshop, an experimental video art series that supported the creation and broadcast of experimental works by artists from 1974 to 1993; Say Brother (now Basic Black), an African American public affairs series with programs from 1968 to 1982; and Ten O’Clock News, a Boston-based nightly news program including stories on the African American community and busing from 1974 through1991.

Users can search by keyword or browse by topic (Arts; Business; Education; Humanities; Massachusetts; Science and Technology; Social Science) and view data alphabetically by person and by series. Advance search allows for narrowing keyword searches within a single series and/or subject. Resource management tools allow educators (after logging in) to annotate and tag records, create topical lists and send information to students for further study or classroom discussion...more

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Medical Assistant Website Speaks to Thousands of Medical Assistants Coast to Coast

URL: http://www.medicalassistant.net

According to the US Department of Labor some of the hottest careers lie in the health care industry. Opportunities in this field abound for men and women alike. Here is where Danni R. and her website at MedicalAssistant.net come into play. Danni is a former Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) herself, who has worked side-by-side with her peers in different medical offices and has taught the medical assistant curriculum at well respected vocational schools in her community and online. Therefore she understands the concerns and struggles of medical assistants unlike anybody else, and knows the needs of those who are preparing for tests, quizzes, and final exams. more »

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So how did an ex-gangster Burrel Lee Wilks become an inspiration to others, and why did he turn to the web to take his message as far afield as England, Tokyo and Africa? "I knew my life story of transformation and personal success was motivational--I've worked with inner-city kids for years--and I felt it was time to take it to the world. The web was the only way a guy like me, raised in the ghetto, could do that. I've had letters of appreciation from as far afield as England andTokyo, and believe me, this is just the start."(More...)
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