The visual thesaurus is a neat new online tool which will especially help those visual learnings see meanings and relationships between words. Unfortunately, this is a pay site however, some free hits are provided.

A new class of education-specific weblogs is providing teachers and students new opportunities to share ideas with each other and with audiences that may be oceans or continents apart. Says one third grade teacher in the Seattle Times article, “Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than… Read More Blog Power!

Have few dollars to purchase technology for your school?  This free online tool to the rescue!

WWWTools for teachers seems to be a very informative site for teachers interested in learning more about using the Internet in their teacher. I just found the page which teaches about wikis. The presentation is quite full, describing the development of wikis, how they can be used and the pros and cons of using them.… Read More Tools for Teachers

I just found this great little tool to add to my tool bar while browsing the Daily MashUp. Its called LibX and is a beta tool for Firefox from MIT. Toolbar: LibX is a Firefox toolbar that allows you to quickly search the Barton catalog, Vera, Google Scholar, the SFX FullText Finder and other search… Read More Tool Bar Searching