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All you need for back to school on the Web

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

Headed back to school? Here are all the most useful back to school sites, services, and tools that you'll need.

11. Back to School - Essential Government Sites

Get the information you need with my picks for the Top Twenty Essential US Government Web Sites. There are literally hundreds of thousands of US government and government-related Web sites online today, however, I found that these sites consistently offer the best user experience, helping you to find what you need quickly, easily, and efficiently.

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12. Back to School - Answers, Factbites, and Answer Finding Search Services

Answers.com is an innovative way to find answers on the Web, without searching for them. Instead of going to your favorite search engine and typing in a query, then sorting through various links to find the answer that you are looking for, Answers.com "displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information."

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13. Back to School - Free Educational Videos

There are PLENTY of places on the Web where you can find free educational videos. Here are my picks for some of the best free educational videos and education video sites online.

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14. Back to School - How to Find Multimedia

Finding multimedia on the Web is easy with my picks for some of the best free movie downloads, free audio clips, and free image sites on the Web. Use these sites to find some great audio files, BitTorrent files, free movie downloads, movie trailers, and all kinds of multimedia. Want even more? Check out my article titled Top 10 More Ways To Find Multimedia on the Web.

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15. Back to School - Find Resources with Social Bookmarking Sites

What are social bookmarking sites? Basically, these are sites that allow users to post their favorite sites, using tags (or keywords) to categorize and organize them; then other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection or share them with even more users. This is a great way to find excellent sites if you're researching something for an academic paper, by the way.

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