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The content is laid out clearly in a bright and appealing way for the younger net surfers.
They can learn about people, places and animals through videos, photos, illustrations and text.
There are fun educational games to be played, and projects and activities to be done away from the computer.
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This site enables children to collaborate on building a simple picture story book online.
There is a huge library of art to browse through until you find a set of pictures that inspire you.
Once you have picked images, drop them one by one onto the page. All the resizing and positioning of text is done automatically.
You can publish your creation privately, or in the public gallery, for free.
At some point, the site plans to add a premium paid-for service which will enable you to print your book.
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This blog is not very pretty but it has a clean and uncomplicated feel.
It focuses on quotes, articles, wisdoms and follies that the blogger, Greg Ross, has found on his travels.
The main page displays the latest posts - one for the RSS feed if you want some daily doses of inspiration.
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This is a medical website that aims to entertain and inform children and adults alike about the major health issues facing us today.
The content is written with a North American audience in mind - so the statistics and figures will not necessarily be relevant to where you live, and the Healthcare locator certainly will not be.
But there is one feature of this website that I found really interesting and wanted to share with the world - the virtual body.
Split into four key parts this interactive display allows you to tour the human body in several ways. There are stills with information panels, animated models, and even some narrated tours, which will help you reach a fuller understanding of how your body works.
Nice to navigate and clearly illustrated and labelled, this should prove a useful study guide as well.
KIDS CLICK (www.kidsclick.org)
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The web is a wonderful place for children to explore and learn - but as any net-savvy parent will tell you, there is plenty to be worried about out there as well.
Kidsclick.org is a site created by librarians that aims to allay our concerns by providing a search engine of content that is suitable for younger surfers.
The site covers more than 600 subjects, from health to sports & the arts.
Instead of using spiders and search bots to sniff out the content like regular search engines, this content is all human-filtered - so you can be sure that the results you get back will be age-appropriate.
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This application allows users to create presentations in a map format, rather than the usual page after page style.
There is 100MB of storage space and plenty of features for free, but users have to pay for premium packages.
You can add text, images, PDF files and even films to presentations - and it is easy to play with the layout to achieve a stylish look.
The site has a good interactive demonstration on how to get to grips with this app, but there are also other tutorials in YouTube.
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This website has a virtual museum of cultural treasures such as manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.
It can be viewed in a variety of languages including Russian, Arabic and Chinese - click on the thumbnails to find details about each piece, videos and articles.
My only gripe is that there is no forward and back button on the details page itself, so use the browser back button to navigate the site.
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