Education
165 sites
Subcategories:
- Schools & Universities (15)
- Tutorials & How-To (71)
- Reference (78)
https://fieggen.com/shoelace
Ian Fieggen, aka 'Professor Shoelace,' has spent over two decades building the internet's definitive reference on shoelaces, covering more than 100 lacing methods with step-by-step tutorials and thousands of photos. The site is home to the famous Ian Knot, claimed to be the world's fastest shoelace knot, and includes an interactive lacing tool, knot comparisons, and detailed guides on shoelace construction and lengths.
https://austinhenley.com/blog/cosine.html
Austin Z. Henley, an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, dives deep into implementing the cosine function in C from scratch without relying on math.h, exploring several approaches including Taylor series, lookup tables, and bit manipulation. The post includes performance benchmarks, accuracy comparisons, and code samples, and became popular enough to be discussed multiple times on Hacker News and Reddit.
https://mrdonn.org/powerpoints.html
Mr. Donn's site offers a large collection of free PowerPoint presentations covering ancient history, American history, world history, mythology, holidays, and geography, all designed for classroom use with kids in grades 5 and 6. Created by Lin Donn and illustrated by Phillip Martin, this educator resource includes presentations on topics ranging from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to the Civil War and Buddhism.
https://cogdog.info/
Alan Levine, known online as CogDog, is a veteran web educator and consultant who has been building open web tools, storytelling projects, and digital learning resources since the early 1990s. His landing page showcases a career devoted to connected learning, open education, WordPress-based tools like SPLOT, and creative web storytelling experiments such as ds106 and 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story.
https://biologycorner.com/
The Biology Corner is a comprehensive teaching resource built by a biology teacher with 30+ years of experience, offering free worksheets, labs, case studies, and student activities covering anatomy, cells, evolution, genetics, and ecology. Highlights include gel electrophoresis simulations, dissection guides, reading guides for major textbooks, and creative case studies like 'The Honey Badger Heist' and 'The Island of the Colorblind.'
https://informationr.net/ir
Information Research is a long-running open-access academic journal covering information science, information retrieval, digital libraries, and information seeking behavior, with an archive spanning from 1996 through 2023. Researchers and practitioners will find dozens of peer-reviewed issues organized by volume, alongside author and subject indexes for navigating the extensive back catalog.
https://learninfreedom.org/
Karl M. Bunday's Learn in Freedom site has been a comprehensive hub for homeschooling and education reform resources for over seventeen years, linking to more than 1,000 external sites across forty-plus pages. Visitors can explore topics ranging from socialization research and language development to college admissions for homeschoolers and self-directed learning philosophy.
https://members.tripod.com/~Paul_Nowka/Index.html
Paul Nowka, an underground safety and mine rescue trainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, shares resources and photo albums related to mine rescue training, firefighting drills, and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) information. The site also features a yearly safety recognition award honoring accident-free miners, alongside personal extras like music links and a free poker game download.
http://tekeli.li/onomastikon
Kate Monk's Onomastikon is a massive dictionary of names from cultures and historical periods spanning the entire globe, originally compiled to help role-players find authentic character names. Preserved and re-hosted by Roger after the original site went offline, it covers everything from Celtic and Saxon England to Melanesia, the Ancient World, and the Americas, with historical background notes alongside male, female, and family names.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~dinia/index.htm
A sparse university faculty or student page hosted on Montclair State University's web server, identifiable by its MSU domain structure. The page contains almost no visible content, with only a single image and one link present in its structure.