Teaching Tools & Toys

Webmonkey

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Webmonkey is a free, public resource for web developers. Builders, designers and programmers like you — the people who know best — write the articles, tutorials, code snippets and other contributions.
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Verbix

Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity [UNESCO Observatory: Multilingualism]. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages.

Free Verbix products and services

Verbix on-line web conjugator.
Verbix on-line verb conjugator conjugates verbs in tens of languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, etc. Use this free verb conjugation service as much as you desire! [Read more]



Verbix for Windows supports hundreds of languages. Download and install this software to conjugate verbs off-line and to conjugate verbs in languages that are not available on-line. [Read more]



VerbWiki provides users with background information of languages and con-langs and their verb conjugation (some of the languages allow conjugation on-line). Read & participate in this project that holds 200+ languages. [Read more]



Where on Earth on-line tool shows on map where user-specified languages are spoken.[Read more]



Verb finder helps to find out, if the word that user enters is a verb, and if so in which language. [Read more]



Language Guesser automatically detects the language from user input.[Read more]


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Optical Illusion – Shades of Difference

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This video demonstrates that the human eye (and the visual cortex of human brain) are better at detecting edges and contrasts than they are at determining actual shades of colors.  There is a discussion thread about this illusion at Reddit.

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Edmodo

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Edmodo: Edmodo is a private micro-blogging service for schools that allows teachers to edit privacy options within their virtual classrooms. Educators generate a join code and students log-in to chat, link to files, share notes and check their collective calendars for upcoming exams, quizzes and Pro-D days. While some of the other tools we've presented offer an open-access learning environment, this invite-only service offers students the chance to utilize web-based multimedia tools while allowing teachers to control an online discussion's security.

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Moodle

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Moodle: Moodle is a free open-source course management platform designed to help teachers create better online resources. Microsoft Education Labs recently announced a new Live@edu plug-in for Moodle. Now in addition to providing lesson plan, assignment and quiz-making tools for teachers, schools also gain access to Outlook Live for e-mail, Office Live Workspace for document sharing, Windows Messenger for chat and Windows Live SkyDrive for 25 GB of storage. This tool is slightly more advanced than some of the others in the industry, but it does offer a number of scalable solutions.

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Edutopia

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Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation launched Edutopia in the hopes of creating educational best practices for multimedia in the classroom. The site includes online polls, curated blogs, assessment tools and a dedicated magazine for educators at the K-12 levels.

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