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MixedInk is a free and democratic collaborative writing tool. With MixedInk, any group can weave their best ideas and opinions together to collectively write reviews, op-eds, letters to the editor, petitions, mission statements, blogs, and more.">This is a cached version of http://mixedink.com/main.php. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x

An interesting site that gives visual comparisons of "stuff". Visual comparisons of objects. Perspective of size.

Periodic Table of the elements in QR codes. Each code links to a YouTube video about the element.

Sharing files over the internet can be done in many ways. File hosting sites can be used for large files but these websites have their own file size and speed restrictions hence you need to be selective.

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest."

Upload your work, add comments, share files, and more. Invite your co-workers and start collaborating. Copy and paste from, and link to, any web site. Share with your friends to get their input.Upload photos from your last vacation. Design, and add a few comments if you like. Allow "guest view" so the whole wide web can see, but not add, edit, or delete.

Stixy lets you create online bulletin boards for collaborating with family, friends, and colleagues. You can share pictures, files, reminders, and notes by using different widgets whose size and color you can change. It's fun, free, easy, and colorful.

Simply capture part of the screen or a specific window with the same shortcut. Simple. Don't bother to save screenshots on your drive, Screenpresso does for you. Practical Drag and drop screenshots from history directly to your favorite email editor. Webmails like GMail are also taken into account! Swift. Crop, spotlight an area or comment parts of captured image. Efficient. Can't fit it on the screen ? Make a unique image thanks to the stitching mechanism. Smart. Add effects Look like a pro. Add drop shadow, round corners and reflection and more. Sleek. Need to export images or create thumbnails at specific size, one click. Easy share screenshots on Twitter thanks to Twitpic integration.

One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

Website - A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.

This website was shared at the Discovery Day. Make sure you click on a word. Above it will show that word used in other Presidents' speeches. Interesting.

"Anyone can use LeveledLibrary without registering for a free account. However, registered users have access to many features that are not availble to the unregistered users. Most notably, registered users can: Everyone Keep an inventories of the books you own and their levels Specify the leveling system in which you want the book levels displayed. Print labels for your leveled books in popular label sizes View book details, such as binding, dewey decimal number, suggested categories, and cover images Keep books in your shopping cart across multiple computers All Educators Search the inventories of colleagues at your school Vote on book levels for books in the system Manage Courses and Track Student Lending Access reports about your classroom library Administrators Purchase and unlock reports: See what books are in your school Analyze how well a teacher's library matches the students in the class Track student reading growth over time See how well your students are picking books on their reading level"

I have often wondered if there was a tool to organize my own library of books and I think th is may be it.

OKAPI! is a web-based application that allows you to enter a text sample and to format that sample as a set of Examiner and Student Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) reading probes. The application also computes a readability index for the sample. OKAPI! can save you hours of work in creating correctly formatted CBA reading probes that include estimates of reading level. OKAPI! gives you a range of options. You can for example change the font-type and letter-size for the CBA probes. Additionally, you can specify that either the Spache or Dale-Chall Readability Formula be used to compute a passage's readability index.

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Choose a subject, i.e. people, planet, politics, etc. and watch the map change based on the data representation.

Use this free tool created by an educator to create great objectives for differentiated instruction.

Use this tool to plan for differentiation in the classroom. Start with a verb from Blooms and then continue by adding the content, resources, product, and group size.

Know the exact size and position of any element with this screen ruler. Pixel Ruler features horizontal and vertical orientation, dynamic mouse measurement tracking in pixels, cool design.

Free Website Thumbnails and PHP Script to Generate Web Screenshots Now you can display high-quality website thumbnails on your site with our easy to drop-in php or java code. Just enter the URL of the page you want to generate, choose a size and copy & paste the code. It's super easy!