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from Ted Mannino

Collection of studies about distribution of technology along with ideas about classroom layout.

"A.nnotate is an online annotation, collaboration and indexing system for documents and images, supporting PDF and MS Office formats. Instead of emailing different versions of a document back and forth you can now all comment on a single read-only copy online. Unlike online word processors, the document is displayed in high quality with fonts and layout just like the printed version. It is easy to use and runs in all common web browsers, with no software or plugins to install. "

PikiKids provides a variety of layouts to which students can upload images then edit the images or add text bubbles and titles. The comics that students create can be embedded into a blog or website as well as be shared via email. PikiKids is free to use, but it is a for profit website as it offers options for buying tee-shirts or mugs with user-created comics.

This addon to Microsoft Excel 2007 analyzes your spreadsheet data (up to 8,000 cells worth) and suggests chart layouts for you.

Neat time-saver for the data crunchers

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Blank sheet music generator with lots of time-saving advanced functions.

The sheet music generator allows you to freely insert notations for various instruments, alter the layout of the sheet, and customize the colors, key, and time signatures. There's also a large directory of pre-populated sheets for a variety of instruments

Very good for teachers who want a teachable method (acronym included!) for teaching themselves as well as students how to do better online searches. Very friendly layout and treatment. Examples geared more toward teachers.

Welcome to the Teacher Edition of Pageflakes You can customize this page by adding and deleting Flakes (Widgets). Click the yellow button at the top right corner to: * browse the Educational Gallery * change the layout * customize your theme * share and publish your page By default, all your pages are private. To publish a page or to share it with your colleagues please click on "Make Pagecast". Of course you can have as many pages (tabs) as you want.

A free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. We are all about collaboration. Whether you're here for fun or more practical things like layout planning, concept diagramming, or tutoring a friend in math, Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.

Yields two results when you search. Google search results on the left, and WolframAlpha results on the right. Especially helpful since the Google/Wolframalpha FF addon no longer works with the new Google results layout.

It's my new start page

"Looking for new ideas for how to set up student classroom desks? You have come to the right place! This site is designed to give you some new ideas and fresh perspective for our classroom set up! This site has several pages of possible student desk arrangements for class sizes from 16-24. Hopefully you are able to incorporate something new for your classroom this year! "

Free stuff to dress up your webpages.