Tim Childers’ Blog

These are my links for September 28th through November 17th:

• Tinychat - your own live web show! - another site to create a personal tv stream on the web.
• Cell Size and Scale - A great visual of the element of scale. Use the slider bar to probe deeper into the unseen.
• SlideSix :: Multimedia Enabled Presentation Sharing -
• Free Online OCR - Convert JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PDF to Text -
• One Page Artist - This is a great one-stop shop of a page that gives you tons of relevant information on pretty much any music artist you want. Interesting concept. Easily find mp3s and videos too.
• Graphic Organizer Templates -

These are my links for June 27th through August 16th:

• Google Apps K-12 Lesson Plans using Docs, Sites, and Calendar. -
• PhotoSnack | Photo slideshows - A fast and convenient way to create slideshows from uploaded pictures
• AllPlay Web - Add quizzes and polls to your online webinar.
• A Collection of Photo Effects - Online Photo Editor - Simple and easy to use.
• English Companion - A Ning site dedicated to K12 English teachers.

These are my links for June 8th through June 17th:

• 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 -
• ASCD Inservice: Project Natal Thinking Inside the XBox -
• Hypotheses: They’re Not Just for Science Anymore - A great article on including hypotheses into the language arts classroom
• Maptrot - Map Your Community - Map your community. Create KML files for Google Earth
• Seavus DropMind | Powerful, highly-interactive and unique online mind mapping tool - free online collaboration tool for mindmaps
• Welcome | Wordnik - An ongoing project devoted to discovering “all the words” and everything about them

These are my links for May 18th through June 4th:

• RoamBi - Your Data, iPhone-Style - Transform data into iPhone style visualizations
• Planbook by Hellmansoft - Now teachers can put their lesson plans online for easy access anywhere.
• GizaPage - Upload your email lists and instantly discover more profiles of your friends
• Cobocards » Study flashcards and vocabulary online - Flash cards online
• Word Generation - Developing Academic Language -

These are my links for May 2nd through May 14th:

• 100 Incredibly Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators - Learn-gasm -
• Nest Unclutterer - Unclutter your Twitter account automatically.
• TypingWeb | Keyboarding Lessons | Learn to Type -
• Virtual Stock Exchange - Home -
• Videos - Awesome Stories - A great site for kids with over 650 videos included.

These are my links for April 18th through April 26th:

• Procaster: One-click live streaming, powered by Mogulus - Broadcast anything: camera, webcam, desktop, and games.
• Home | PBS Video - Full length PBS shows available for free
• Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom - Google Docs -
• 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About | MakeUseOf.com - Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just
• 21 More Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs | Fonts | instantShift - We recently compiled a article on Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs, and in response to reader requests, we’ll compiling the new list here with more fresh free , instantShift.com is the light chronicle moments of knowledge, created as world moving forward.

These are my links for April 12th through April 15th:

• Stanford biologist raps science - San Jose Mercury News - Stanford biologist raps science
• Students build empires to learn math - Salt Lake Tribune - Students build empires to learn math
• Your Fitness Music -
• Struggling Teachers: Boot or Retrain? - Compelling argument here. What do you think?
• Free Music Archive - Great Royalty-Free music for movies, podcasts and more.

These are my links for March 20th through April 9th:

• Origami: Diagrams - Sign in»Book
• Visual Field Trips - Webcam Feeds for Classroom Viewing | Making Teachers Nerdy - Great list of webcams
• Get-Tuned.com - This website is dedicated to helping you tune and learn how to tune your musical instruments.
• Makeup Photo! - Automatic online photo retouching - This is an absolutely awesome tool to clean up pictures.
• 12 Ways to Add Randomness and Creativity to Your Photography - Cool blog on how to use your camera to get very creative in how you take pictures. Great ideas!

These are my links for March 10th through March 12th:

• Goal For It - Home -
• What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects) | O’Reilly Media -
• Peace Corps Challenge Online Game -
• METRONOME ONLINE FREE - Best Metronome.com - Need metronome for music practice. Use Best Metronome online.
  It’s a free metronome and it’s online so there is no need to install anything.
  It’s precise, user friendly and natural. Get it now.
• NASA - Do-It-Youself Podcast -

These are my links for February 26th through March 8th:

• Sending Homework to a Phone Via MMS Messaging « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - Using MMS messaging to send homework to students via their cell phones.
• Math Focal Points: Grade 8 -
• Skype - TLC Online Home -
• SpaceTime TV -
• Welcome - E.gg Timer - Online timer. Set the time at the end of the URL in plan english. Look at the examples to see how it is done.
• YouTube - sports science -