Tim Childers’ Blog

• The Alphabetizer puts just about any list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize words, songs, titles, email addresses, phrases, sentences. Sort your library today!

  Alphabetize lists and much more. The Alphabetizer puts just about any list in alphabetical order. A great tool for alphabetizing song lists. An online alphabetizer.

  Tags: tools, alphabetize, alphabetizer, web2.0, list, tool, lists

• Home of the Free online gradebook for teachers students parents - GradeBookPortal

  gradebookportal.com free online gradebook system, free web based tools for teachers, free homework calendar, free student & parent messaging, free attendance tool

  Tags: online gradebook, gradebook, gradebookportal

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• Html Comment Box - Comment Box Code

  Create a comment box on your wiki or other site.

  Tags: commentbox, comment, html

  • Create a comment box on your wiki or other site. - By Louise Maine

• Food Nutrition Comparisons | twofoods

  Tags: nutrition, food

• Home | MyPlantId : Find, Identify, and Post Plants

  Tags: classification, botany, plants

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• FunPhotoBox - Best Photo Effects and Gif Animations. Photo Fun online. Create funny pictures.

  Tags: photos, editor, effect, funphotobox, image, montage, photography, fun, mashups, web_2.0, technology, images, education

• ZuiTube - The largest collection of online videos for kids

  Tags: zuitube, children, youtube, kids, education, technology, web_2.0, video

• Free Printable Sample Document Templates, Calendar, Invitation, Card

  This site has lots of free downloadable and printable templates including some educational worksheets.

  Tags: letter, calendar, resume, organizer, education, math, worksheets, cards, templates, print, download

  • This site has lots of free downloadable and printable templates including some educational worksheets. - By Jennifer Dorman

• Home | MyPlantId : Find, Identify, and Post Plants

  Tags: botany, plants, identification, maps, mashup, images, education, technology, web_2.0, classroom, learning, PLN, PLC

• animoto - Using video clips in Animoto videos

  Animoto now takes video clips! This is awesome for quick, slick video publishing.

  Tags: PLC, mashups, PLN, images, video, education, technology, web_2.0, learning, classroom

  • Animoto now takes video clips! This is awesome for quick, slick video publishing. - By Jennifer Dorman

• Collaboration Projects | How I Spent My Summer Vacation

  The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st.

  Tags: collaboration, online, backtoschool, collaborate, web2.0, art, reading, writing, math, K-6, elementary, technology, integration

  • The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st. - By Jennifer Jensen

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• Encyclopedia of Life

  The Encyclopedia will be an online reference and database on all 1.8 million species currently known to science and will stay current by capturing information on newly discovered and formally described species. The Encyclopedia of Life will help all of us better understand life on our planet.

  Tags: science, biology, encyclopedia, reference, education, nature, animals, wiki, social

  • The Encyclopedia will be an online reference and database on all 1.8 million species currently known to science and will stay current by capturing information on newly discovered and formally described species. The Encyclopedia of Life will help all of us better understand life on our planet. - By Randy Rodgers

• Multiple email addresses for one Gmail Account at Sean Deasy

  Handy tip that lets teachers register students on sites requiring email addresses, even if student do not have email accounts.

  Tags: gmail, google, email, accounts, tips

  • Handy tip that lets teachers register students on sites requiring email addresses, even if student do not have email accounts. - By Randy Rodgers

• Free Online Lesson Plan Software for Teachers of All Grade Levels

  Tags: no_tag

• Infloox - Literary search engine/wiki

  Website devoted to literature research; combines a search engine with wiki-style pages and artificial intelligence. Use it to find an author’s favourite influences, as well as who they in turn influenced.

  Tags: infloox, influences, influence, inspiration, books, literature, authors, literary, writers, web, 2.0, librarians, academic, research

• TubeChop - Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes (01:13)

  Tags: tubechop, music, benjamin_zander, classical, education, conductor, teacher, shining_eyes

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• EconEdLink | a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic education lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students

  Tags: math, socialstudies, economics

• Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com

  Tags: geography, maps, socialstudies, education, science, resources, teaching, lessons

• EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web

  Tags: humanities, education, lessonplans, history, literature, teaching, resources, reference

• Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations

  Tags: math, interactive, resources, lessons, education

• ReadWriteThink

  Tags: reading, literacy, earlychildhood

• ARTSEDGE: ARTSEDGE Home

  Tags: education, arts, resources, music, teaching, lessonplans, thinkfinity, theater

• Picnik

  Tags: photos, photography, tools, editing, editor

• Free teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive activities

  Tags: thinkfinity, teaching, lessonplans, technology, resources

• Thinkfinity Literacy Network | Achieving Literacy Across the Lifespan

  Tags: literacy, resources, lessons, thinkfinity, professional_development, literature, education

• #Edchat: Join the Conversation | Teacher Reboot Camp

  Tags: no_tag

  • Over 60 educators have participated in #edchat discussions. Will you collaborate with us to create educational change?
  • Although relatively new, #edchat has become an incredible collaborative tool for educators to debate and evaluate solutions to various problems through Twitter. Over 60 educators and administrators have contributed to the #edchat discussions from various countries around the world. In what other forum would this be possible?

• Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

  Tags: education, moodle

  • Mr. Regier sees things evolving fairly rapidly, accelerated by the increasing use of social networking technolo

  • The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more tailored to individual students than is possible in classrooms. That enables more “learning by doing,” which many students find more engaging and useful.

• Discovery Educator Network Details - Twibbon.com - Start Something!

  Twibbon - Start something!

  Tags: twitter, den, pictures

  • Twibbon - Start something! - By Heather Sullivan

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Does Homework Raise Attainment?

  Tags: no_tag

  • Does Homework Raise Attainment?

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• Main Page - SalamanderWiki

  SaLamander Wiki

  Tags: secondlife, education, salamanderwiki, Wiki, sled

  • SaLamander Wiki - By Jackie Gerstein

• Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

  2009-2010 National Special Education, Disability and Assistive Technology Conferences of Interest

  Tags: blog, Blogs, aac, specialeducation, resources, Curriculum, accessibility

• Welcome | Teaching Copyright

  Tags: copyright, education, fairuse, teaching, curriculum, creativecommons, technology, fair_use

• Lights At Night

  Tags: lights

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• Printable Maps - Reference

  Tags: maps, geography, reference, map, travel, printable, download, pdf, states, counties, cities, county, city, state, atlas, education, technology, classroom, learning

• precipitate - Project Hosting on Google Code

  Precipitate for Mac OS 10.4 and greater lets you search for an launch information you have stored on the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac including: Google Docs (and apps accounts), Google Bookmarks, and Picasa Web Albums.

  Tags: google_docs, google_bookmarks, picasa

  • Precipitate for Mac OS 10.4 and greater lets you search for an launch information you have stored on the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac including: Google Docs (and apps accounts), Google Bookmarks, and Picasa Web Albums. - By Ann Oro

• The Knowledge Sharing Place - LiveBinders

  Tags: education, technology, web_2.0, learning, classroom, mashups, PLC, PLN, images, aggregators, video

• KMLFactBook

  KmlFactBook is a unique site which lets you load data sets from CIA Factbook and WRI Earthtrends into Google Maps and create cool presentations from them. You can view facts such as population of various countries, their GDP, immigration rate and a lot more on Google Maps and on Google Earth. If you would like to view the data offline then you can download it in kml format and open it with the desktop version of Google Earth.

  Tags: maps, googleearth, Google, Google_Earth, geography, data, visualization, Factbook, KML, gis, education, technology, web_2.0, learning, classroom, mashups, images

  • KmlFactBook is a unique site which lets you load data sets from CIA Factbook and WRI Earthtrends into Google Maps and create cool presentations from them. You can view facts such as population of various countries, their GDP, immigration rate and a lot more on Google Maps and on Google Earth. If you would like to view the data offline then you can download it in kml format and open it with the desktop version of Google Earth. - By Jennifer Dorman

• Atmosphere Design Lab

  Tags: atmosphere, Science

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• Seth’s Blog: Education at the crossroads

  Actually, there isn’t one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. Should this be scarce or abundant? MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost…

  Tags: education, school, learning, school v. learning, crossroads, future, sethgodin

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• 25 (Free) 3D Modeling Applications You Should Not Miss | Tools

  Tags: 3D, application, 3dmodels, modeling

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• Welcome to Bubble Guru

  Tags: Tools, widget, bubble, webmaster, blog, webcam, recording, cool

• Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education | Media Education Lab

  Tags: copyright, literacy, fairuse, medialiteracy, creativecommons

• Teacher attends national event - Bedford, MA - Bedford Minuteman

  Discovery Educator’s Network National Institute 2009

  Tags: DEN, DENNI, *Bedford, MA*

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