Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup:

The photo site Picnik has a special feature where you can decorate yourself for the World Cup. Check-out Football Fever.

World Cup 2010 South Africa is a TIME slideshow.

Live The Beautiful Game lets you upload your photo and be a professional player.

Check-out the Carbon Footprint of the World Cup in this infographic.

Learn about World Cup Technology Throughout History in this infographic.

World Cup Comes To Africa is a USA Today video.

World Cup Opening Ceremonies is a pretty impressive series of images from the Sacramento Bee.

World Cup Replay — Day One is a New York Times slideshow.

Top Ten Football Games is a post from the great blog Digital Play that shows how you can use online soccer games for language development.

Top 10 Precarious Buildings is a fun TIME Magazine slideshow.

I’m adding it to The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own).

The Secret Annex Online is a 3D interactive of Anne Frank’s hiding place during World War II.

If you’re learning about Anne Frank in you class, this is a not-to-be-missed resource.

I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank.

I’ve recently learned about two excellent infographics that are very accessible to English Language Learners.

The first is called Africa In Perspective. It very vividly compares the size of Africa with the size of a number of other areas on the earth.

The second is Our Amazing Planet: Top To Bottom. You just have to see it to believe it. Thanks to Cool Infographics for the tip.

Michelle Henry has a great collection of Webquests/Internet Scavenger Hunts about New York City.

I’m adding the link to The Best Sites For Learning About New York City.

…here are a few more additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup:

World Cup 2010: South Africa fans party in the streets of Johannesburg during a Bafana Bafana parade is a Telegraph slideshow.

World Cup 2010: Bangkok’s prison World Cup – in pictures is another Telegraph slideshow.

Here’s an interactive World Cup Schedule.

The World Cup’s Kick-Off is a Wall Street Journal slideshow.

MSNBC has an interactive map with information on all the teams.

I’m adding these next resources from The Wall Street Journal with some reluctance. They’re interesting, but they seem to me that they may play to the Western stereotype of the “African witchdoctor.” I’m going to share them, but I am very interested in hearing from people if you think I should keep them here, or remove them from the list:

A Magical Edge For South Africa

Some Africans Are Betting on World Cup Witchcraft

Here are today’s additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Gulf Oil Spill:

Here’s an updated Oil Spill Timeline.

The Sacramento Bee has a series of new images from the oil spill.

TIME Magazine has a slideshow titled “The Oil Spill Spreads.”

Mashable has a post sharing a several online video spoofs on BP and the spill.

The Under-Told Stories Project is a partnership of Saint John’s University and the PBS News Hour, and has a video collection of international news stories.

Here is how it describes itself:

The Under-Told Stories Project works to expand, sustain and improve coverage of the world outside America in broadcast, print and emerging new media outlets. Our challenge is to direct American eyes to the daily concerns of far away people who increasingly affect our lives. We hope to reawaken the generous curiosity of Americans –our students in particular– about a world we can no longer ignore.

I’m adding it to The Best Tools To Help Develop Global Media Literacy.

Jeez, there are certainly a lot of accessible resources coming-out for the World Cup.

Here are the most recent additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup:

Preparing for the World Cup is a series of great photos from The Boston Globe’s Big Picture.

FIFA World Cup Countries Best Results, 1930 to Present is a useful interactive.

Soccer Photography comes from National Geographic.

The Game: Football Anticipation is a series of photos from The Denver Post.

Animals Playing Soccer is a slideshow from LIFE.

Stunning South Africa is a LIFE slideshow.

The Best World Cup Ads (thanks to Monika Hardy for the tip)

TIME has a slideshow of body paint used by World Cup fans.

Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Gulf Oil Spill:

Oil Spill: Tracking The Oil And Cleanup Efforts is an AP interactive.

BP Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill spreads from Louisiana to the beaches of Alabama and Florida is a slideshow from The Telegraph.

World’s Worst Oil Spills is an infographic from Fast Company.

Here’s another interesting infographic.

Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup:

The Economics of the World Cup is a useful infographic.

Here’s a video about the World Cup’s “diski” dance.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an excellent webpage on the World Cup, including many multimedia features.

BBC Schools has some nice videos on actually playing soccer.

As Much Love as Hate for World Cup ‘Soundtrack’ is a not-to-be-missed musical interactive from The New York Times.