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Get A Date: Online Interactive Timelines

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Ian Aberle

If you have ever wanted to create an interactive timeline for your students to use and reference, TimeToast might be for you. This free online app allows you to easily create and share your timeline data. Once the timeline has … Continue reading →

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Need an Icon?

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Stephen Snider

Try ICONLOOK This site will find most any icon you might need for your desktop or web site. Be sure to see the Tag Cloud. Continue reading →

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Embed Flickr Slideshows with flickrSLiDR

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Stephen Snider

If you’ve been looking for a ridiculously easy way to embed your Flickr pics on your website or blog, look no further than flickrSLiDR. All you need to do is enter the URL of the Flickr photo set, user name, … Continue reading →

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The Honest Truth About Cheating

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Stephen Snider

This post from NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, May 6, 2007 – Donald McCabe talks to Liane Hansen about cheating among graduate students in the United States. He is a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University. Hear the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Smile Guy – Using the Awesome Highlighter.

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

Check out the Awesome Highlighter, a simple Web service that will allow you to highlight content on web pages and create a link to share those highlighted pages with your students, colleagues, or friends. It works. And, there’s even a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Sketchcast

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Stephen Snider

This nifty free tool could allow mathematician, statisticians, engineers, etc. to present and solve equations online while explaining the process to students. A new site called Sketchcast launched last year – it’s a tool for bloggers and others to create … Continue reading →

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Liberty Fillmore – The Shopping Cart Whisperer

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Stephen Snider

Just for fun… Liberty Fillmore – The Shopping Cart Whisperer . . . everywhere I go, I see shopping carts tossed aside. Cast off. Abandoned. In super-value-store parking lots. And, more and more, on the interweb which is online. People … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Stephen Snider

This post from Lifehacker: Editor: Say hello to fellow tech writer and Lifehacker reader The How-To Geek, who was kind enough to pull together some of best Windows Vista power tweaks here on Lifehacker today. Whether it’s the nagging prompts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BBtv: “Improbable Research Collections” debut

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Stephen Snider

Those crazy academics. This posting from Boing Boing: The Improbable Researchers are a group of scientists who collect and conduct research to provoke both laughter and thought. They publish a bi-monthly magazine, “Annals of Improbable Research;” they award the coveted … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ira Glass on Why Creative Excellence Takes Time

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Stephen Snider

This in from Open Culture: Ira Glass, host of the beloved radio show This American Life, offers a helpful reminder that excellence doesn’t come automatically. (See video below.) It takes work, years of it. And he revisits some of his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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