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Wikipedia defines a timeline as a kind of graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and (usually) events labeled on points where they would have happened. Here are some tools educators can use to create timelines.

Creating a Generation of Mathematicians through Innovative and Interactive Curriculum

Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

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Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents.

Just type in url and click "create pdf"

Ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom. More than 3,000 primary sources selected from the National Archives. Created online activities and opportunities to select documents/activities. Many higher level thinking skill-based activities. Some activities include student reporting out via email/etc.  REALLY GREAT SITE!

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.

"It's what's cool on the Web; all in one place and made by YOU. Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. Montage is an expression of you. "

The Meta-Mole, created by the Centre for Design in the Digital Economy (D-LAB) based within the University of Teesside's Institute of Digital Innovation, will

yeah i love the labs where creativity is still there, just before the "belived market" 187 softs ... but the searchtool is awfullt buggy ...

Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

Create powerful visualizations of charts and graphs from a variety of sources, and easily share your widgenie with the world.

Hypercards on the web! Very interesting way to create games.

From Patrick Woessner

BgPatterns is the perfect tool if you are looking for a background pattern for your themes. Of course you can create stunning patterns with creativity but these kind of tools are for the ones who want a quick solution or doesn't have skills to do it from scratch.

GoAnimate comes highly recommended by a friend and colleague of mine for creating neat animated stories and sharing them with others.

Free forums for everyone! Start a free forum on Nabble; embed a free forum on your website; customize a forum to exactly match your website; provide free message board hosting; create free discussion group; archive mailing list; free standard forum like phpBB, vBulletin and SMF.