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Educational websites for students aged 12- 18:

Student Health: gives students plenty of advice about dealing with exam stress, sleeping problems
 

Al-Nayzak: Concretizing the concept of fun learning by using games, encouraging learning science by using new and exciting methods and providing educational means and programs, to be used as a subsidiary tool next to the curriculum, and to develop the pupil’s intellectual and academic skills.

Learn English: An excellent learning facility for students who want to learn the English language or improve in it as it teaches English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation. It has a wide range of games, quizzes and tests; it also has a chat room for live English practice.


Go 4 English: is a good resource for students to learn English in a unique way in addition, it provides a variety of online resources for teachers such as lesson plans, worksheets and many others… have a look!
 

Higher Education:  If you're thinking about continuing your higher education abroad this is the place for you as it provides you with all the information you need in terms of courses, study centres and universities, how and where to apply, financial loans and immigration details.
 

University World: Provides a listing of universities and the available courses they have world wide. It also has information about certain scholarships and financial aid.
 

• Student voluntary work: provides students with the opportunity to volunteer in many places such as the Middle East and more.

http://www.palestinecenter.org/education/volunteer.html ; gives you the opportunity to work with different aspects such as development, human rights and educational programs in Palestine.

http://www.transitionsabroad.com ; also offers a lot of voluntary work all over the world.  

http://www.oxfam.org ; has plenty of ways you can get involved in volunteering all over the globe including many places in the Middle East such as Palestine. 

Student leisure: It is a social network website where you can keep in touch with your friends and make new ones from all over the world, users such as students can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.
 

• 50 things a student must have for FREE:: Resource for a multitude of online tools.

  1. easy-to-use and a secure Internet browser;  Firefox
  2. an e-mail system; Gmail
  3. a social bookmarking tool; del.icio.us
  4. an online RSS reader; Google Reader
  5. an online calendar; Google Calendar
  6. a learning management system (LMS); Moodle
  7. Hosted LMS? Here are SEVEN!
  8. Learning Activity Management System? LAMS
  9. a collaboration tool; Ning
  10. a social networking tool; Facebook
  11. a content authoring tool; here's two; eXe & CourseLab
  12. a screencasting (recording) took; Wink
  13. an audio recording tool; Audacity
  14. Hosted screencasting tool? Jing
  15. a tool to host audio recordings; Odeo
  16. File hosting solution that allows me to share files up to 250MB each? FileCrunch
  17. a Virtual Classroom; DimDim
  18. a Hosted Virtual Classroom; WiZiQ
  19.  Videoconferencing chat service; Vawkr
  20. a Tool to make calls from my computer; Skype
  21. an Online Quiz tool; ClassMarker
  22. an Online polling tool with a bit of fizzle; Polldaddy
  23. an Online survey tool; Click here to choose
  24. a tool to broadcast myself to the world; USTREAM
  25.  an online suite of office tools; Google Docs
  26. a Wiki tool; PBwiki
  27. a blogging tool; WordPress
  28. a microblogging tool; Twitter
  29. a Tool to share my slides; Too easy! SlideShare
  30. a Tool to share my videos; Come on! YouTube
  31. a Tool to download videos from any video sharing site; ClipNabber
  32. a Tool to create flowcharts, diagrams, technical drawings; Gliffy
  33. a Tool to create cool personalized images; Custom Sign Generator Widgets
  34. a Tool to create comics and cartoons; ToonDoo
  35. an Image Resizer? Dosize
  36. a search engine with visual display interfaces; Here is KartOO
  37. a Watermarking tool; uMark
  38. a Screen Color Picker; ColorSchemer
  39. a Tool to make screenshots from different browsers with one click; Browsershots
  40. a File hosting solution that allows me to share files up to 250MB each; FileCrunch
  41. an Online visual dictionary and thesaurus; Visuwords
  42. a Mindmapping tool; FreeMind
  43. an Interactive 3D business simulator; INNOV8
  44. a Tool to create Flash games (templates); ClassTools.net
  45. a Self-publishing tool (books, papers, articles, etc); Scribd
  46. a Tool to improve my typing skills; Peter's Online Typing Course
  47. a Gaming tool to help me learn ICT; ReviseICT.co.uk
  48. a Tool to highlight text in a webpage; The Awesome Highlighter
  49. a Tool to aggregate all my resources, mail, RSS feeds, etc, in one place; iGoogle
a Site to make you shut up; Here you go;25 (must-have free) Tools: Professional Development Programme (Jane Knight)


 Good Educational Sites for Kids:

Kid's Educational Site 1: offers a range of games that help kids improve their math and English reading skills.
 

Kid's Educational Site 2: challenges the child's brain with fun quizzes, brain teasers and optical illusions about science.
 

Primary Games: Fun way to learn about language arts, math, social studies and science, check out the fun games and quizzes online as now you can play while you learn.
 

ABJAD: Offers games that helps children learn Arabic letters and words; it also has free audio lessons online and has its own store where you can order educational products online.

• World Water Monitoring Day: Full of fun and games but also teach kids the essentials about the environment in general and water in particular