Sites Along The Way: You Don't Want To Miss These 07/29/2011 (a.m.)

• ChartTool - Create nice looking charts with Image Charts!

  A variety of charts, tables, data maps and more from Google that are editable and can be embedded on a web page easily.

  tags: google charts graphs tools chart charttool create api

• Test Your Vocabulary: How Many Words Do You Know?

  Works for everyone, from small children (with parental help) to college professors!

  tags: vocabulary English esl

• Twitter Icon | Free Buttons, Graphics and Twitter Backgrounds

  Get More Followers NOW with Striking Icons & Twitter Backgrounds
  
  Well done! You’ve just found the best place on the net for fresh, striking graphics, created to boost your social networking presence and accelerate your twitter following.
  
  Choose from 100s of free twitter icons or twitter backgrounds, or enhance and promote your brand identity with a professional custom twitter design.
  

  tags: twitter graphics icons icon instructional technology technology learning teaching integration web 2.0 cloud computing computer

• Using Tic-Tac-Toe to Manage Differentiated Instruction

  Two Indiana teachers, Harriet Armstrong and Autumne Streeval, whom I trained how to use tic-tac-toe as a strategy for implementing universal design for learning in February, won a national contest sponsored by Microsoft. They will travel to Brazil in November to compete internationally. Read more in eSchool News. View their award winning tic-tac-toe grid on the Industrial Revolution (9th grade), and view their rubric.

  tags: resources UDL education tic-tac-toe templates differentiated instruction differentiation

• Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Web Client

  Allows you to use your computer as a virtual telescope!

  tags: Astronomy science telescope space microsoft tools reference web

• Teacher resources

  Find lesson plans, free tools for our classrooms, training, and other information for primary and secondary school teachers.

  tags: Resources Education Microsoft Lessonplans teacher teaching

• Pete's Power Point Station - A Collection of FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format for K-12 Teachers and Students

  "FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format
  & Free Interactive Activities for Kids
  "

  tags: powerpoint resources education powerpoints lessons teaching templates k-12

• Cueprompter.com - The Online Teleprompter

  Free teleprompter/autocue service
  CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
  Check the system requirements and give it a try. Bookmark this site and come again when ever you need teleprompter services.
  Free for any use (both commercial and non-commercial).

  tags: teleprompter podcasting tools cueprompter.com cueprompter tool prompt

• BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans

  "The Body Explained, with Cassius Bordelon, PhD, is a light-hearted video production that answers common questions about how the human body works. Segments generally run one minute and are designed to help capture students' attention and curiosity. Dr. Bordelon is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and an expert on anatomy."

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.