EMU Distance Education

The National Museum of American History is a wonderful resource for k-12 teachers as well as education students studying curriculum development. The homepage provides links to numerous virtual "Exhibitions."

ArcGIS is fairly easy to use and is applicable for virtually any field of research with need for a map. Users can sign up for a free account and have two GB of online storage space.

Academic.edu is a free online paper-sharing platform that encourages academics to increase their visibility and monitor research within and across its scholarly network.

Altmetrics, or “alternative metrics,” are an emerging field of new methods for measuring the use and importance of scholarly articles, particularly in the sciences. These are a range of nontraditional metrics that can be used to assess the impact that scholars have on research in their areas of study.
Altmetrics.org is a free website that provides information about the growing altmetrics movement.

There is a free online grammar, spelling, and proofreading site at http://paperrater.com/