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My Great World is a photo album that allows you to choose images based on a world map or list of locations.  You can add the photos to your web pages, blogs or send them as an E-Card with a lengthy message.

http://landmark-project.com/  - check out the links under their Library of Links menu

Sources of Images and Maps

• CIA World Factbook:  maps & facts about the world.  
• Clasroom Clipart Maps
• NationalAtlas.gov Map Maker  creates map in U.S. with choice of features
• DK Maps - physical maps
• Clasroom Clipart Maps
• Free Blank Outline Maps from About.com
• Owl & Mouse Online Atlas
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Public Domain maps at Wikimedia
• Australian Antarctic Division Picture Gallery  photos of the Antarctic

Interactive Maps

• Owl & Mouse Educational Software interactive games using maps
• World Geography Flash Games
• Brookscole Geography Pronunciation Guide:  facts and spoken pronunciation of world nations.  
• Google Earth 
• Interactive Weather Map:  from the Weather Channel
• Map Maker from NationalAtlas.gov:  
• Microsoft Virtual Earth - Zoom in and on on map, satellite, or combined images of the earth.  Sign up to create and save collections of places
• National Geographic Maps
• National Weather Service:  a radar image of the U.S.
• Wikimapia - combines Google maps and NASA images with information on geographical features.  
• Maps That Teach: simple outline maps; hover over an area, and the name appears.  
• Virtual Earth from Microsoft

Podcasts

Podcasts from National Geographic

Quizzes

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/geography/index.html

http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/geography/