Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the …
10 Outstanding Sites for Downloading Lesson Plans
The following websites will help you make your planning easier and more rewarding, find online resources more quickly and easily, and engage and inspire your students.
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Google Docs Self Check Quizzes
Many of you have discovered the power of using Google forms and spreadsheets to gather data. In fact, they can be a step forward in creating paperless classrooms! For this week’s tip, I have created some templates for self-checking quizzes …
TinyPad – Replace Notepad With Automatic Syncing & Sharing Built In
If you are thinking just how interesting an application to replace Notepad can be, you could start off by downloading TinyPad. The 1.34MB free download packages some features that are part and parcel for a typical Notepad replacement and some …
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: A Resource for History and Fine Arts Teachers
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. The Metropolitan Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff research …
Happy 5th Birthday, YouTube!
It’s hard to believe that YouTube, which serves more than 1 billion videos per day, is a mere five years old today. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. The company sold to Google in October 2006 …
EyePlorer – Visually Explore Wikipedia
EyePlorer is a reference search engine that takes your original search term then displays related terms in a circle around your original search term. Clicking on each related term reveals more information from Wikipedia about that term. If the information …
LearnCentral – A Social Network for Educators
February 2009 saw the launch of the social network for educators called, “LearnCentral”. LearnCentral is a free community that allows educators to network, share and post resources and participate in a variety of discussions. Educators can create or join groups …
Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos
When I was a middle school and high school student, mathematics was the one subject for which I had to have visual demonstrations in order to comprehend its concepts. Unfortunately for me, when I was in high school I couldn’t …
Readfresh – watch your favourite websites in real-time
Readfresh watches sites for you and brings the most recently updated sites to the top, so you can see what’s new at a glance. To add a site, just type its URL into the box and click Add Site.
Engaging Students with Voki
Voki is a free service that allows your students to create personalized speaking avatars and embed them on a blog or wiki or send them via e-mail. This service provides numerous features to help students personalize their speaking avatar’s voice, …
Find Top Internet Searches In Your Niche With Google Insights
Today, I’m going to provide a brief overview of some of the coolest advanced features of Google Insights for Search that let you identify not only the top Internet searches, but it’ll let you isolate the top searches within your …
Free Webinar: “Web 2.0 as a Medium for Sharing Knowledge” (February 17th, 2010, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm)
Dr. Enrique Velasco will be on site from UNAM University in Mexico with his students (college teachers) to present his experience on using Web 2.0. He will explain collaborative knowledge building, why it is important, and how we can facilitate …
Microsoft patents ‘personal data mining’
Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie and a bunch of other heavy-hitters from Microsoft are named as inventors on a newly issued patent for a “personal data mining” system that would analyze information and make recommendations with the goal of aiding a …
Textbooks, Wikipedia and Primary Source Research
This article shows an experiment on how to use Wikipedia in your classroom. M. Byrne says: “A couple of weeks ago I sent out a Tweet that my students were working on a comparison of Wikipedia articles to articles in …