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"Welcome to Shelfari! Shelfari is a community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers. Create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favorite books - all for free."

"Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plugin system to a graphical user interface, with familiar timeline controls. Completely free and open source, popcorn maker offers a collection of useful templates, but since it's built from standard HTML, you can customize it to your heart's content."

This tool is still in Alpha stage. Still, it's great fun to play with. Read more about it here: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/11/create-virtual-tours-with-street-view.html

Pregnancy Due date calculator can be amazingly precise. The maternity usually continues 266 times. It is believed that enough time from the last interval to the day on which you designed is a couple weeks. These computations can help you find out your due time frame, and the system is easy. You only have to add 280 times to enough time frames on which you had your last interval to determine your approximated time frame of distribution. But even though you do the analysis, your physician will have the last term on verifying the due time frame.

"John Taylor, retired superintendent of schools in Lancaster, S.C., offers this history of the above essay which he wrote while leading that district: "The parody was originally titled 'Absolutely the Best Dentists.' It was written and sent to every newspaper and legislator in South Carolina a number of years ago in an attempt to point out the absurdities inherent in South Carolina's then new accountability act which was focused on 'absolute' performance and threatened retention for every child who couldn't meet very challenging grade level standards. (Not to mention severe penalties for 'poorly performing' schools, teachers ands administrators.) Since then it has traveled widely to the point that I have not been able to keep up with the uses; but I know it has appeared in teacher association publications in at least three Canadian Provinces and in Australia, as well as dozens in the USA. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) seems to have given the story a new life." Thus: No Dentist Left Behind. The essay remains on the Lancaster County School District's Web site."

Full text version of Julius Caesar available as all-in-one page, or organized by Scene.

Free games for young children

"If you're a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow 'doesn't even realize [yet] that there's a decision to be made,' should you even be working in a school or university? Don't our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who's in a different place than you are? It's one thing to still be a learner; heck, we're all learners with this technology stuff. It's another to opt out or not even recognize the choice. If we look at what our kids need, shouldn't we replace you with someone else? "

tired of the same ol' griping? Read this.

So eat it, every single crabby English teacher that I've ever met!

Article on a Wisconsin school that is just sticking their heads in the sand. If they don't see it, it must not be happening!

I like what this says about how to teach plagiarism. It should NOT be viewed as another opportunity for a "GOTCHA!" And, it can't be taught for one occassion and ignored the rest of the time. An interesting read.

INteresting article about Plagiarism.