Need a way to easily create a graph? The National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education has put together an easy to use tool to create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs. Users can email the graph to themselves, which will also give a link to save the graph for 30 days. Read more →
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Fun stuff, two hundred and fifty pounds of Silly Putty
From the Official Google Blog: I’m feeling silly: Naturally, we were all curious to see what 250 pounds of Silly Putty would look like, so before distributing the stuff, we put it all in a single pile to see. Huge mistake. Read more →
Placeopedia.com – Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations
Placeopedia.com allows users to connect Wikipedia entries with their geographical location. What a great way to see what landmarks/historical entries are located near your home town. It allows anyone one to place entries on the map, so if your area is blank you can search Wikipedia for local landmarks and place them on the map yourself. And if the local… Read more →
Cool search site
We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes, it gave me some categories… Read more →
Fun Friday – Houghton Mifflin Education Place
Houghton Mifflin has several educational games available at Edugames. Read more →
Writer’s block fix: the Imagination Prompt Generator
Can’t think of what to write, maybe the Imagination Prompt Generator can help you get started. Read more →
KidsClick! Web Search
A search engine geared toward pre-selected kid’s sites, KidsClick! Web Search was: was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites. Read more →
Student Gallery
Apple has a Student Gallery up that has examples of completed projects using Apple’s iLife tools. The Garageband songs sound really, really good. There are examples of music, photos, and movies. Read more →