Greetings, DUPLICHECKER is a free, online plagiarism checker. Of all the links and resources posted on this web site, the plagiarism checkers are the most popular. I’m not sure whether to be happy about that or sad. I suppose anything which draws users to the DE Tools blog site is a good thing but I [...]

Greetings, PINBALL is an unusual, online mind mapping tool. I found today’s offering nestled in amongst a long list of mind mapping apps on a web page curated by a well known teacher librarian (who’s name escapes me). It was the name that first caught my attention — PINBALL. What a weird name for a [...]

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Greetings, ONLINE BOOKS is a collection of more then 1 million free books. Today’s site — ONLINE BOOKS — was created by the library of the University of Pennsylvania and contains more then 1 million volumes. That’s an impressive number by any standard. While the site itself is very spartan in comparison to commercial [...]

Greetings, PROCON is a web site which presents controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan manner. One of the big complains about the current education system is the lack of problem solving or critical thinking instruction. Instead, students are taught to “learn” a set of facts or information which is then validate by a test where ...

Greetings, The FREE BOOK CENTRE is a collection of links to sites offering free online technical books. With the growing popularity of tablets and eReaders, sites offering free eBooks have become both popular and prolific. Recently, I’ve been working through a list of 50 sites claiming to offer free eBooks/PDF documents. Unfortunately, most ...

Greetings, DOCUMENTARYZ is a web site containing a collection of documentary films. Actually, the description above is not entirely accurate. Like many similar sites, DOCUMENTARYZ does not actually archive or own the documentary files which it features. Instead, the films are located on sites such as YouTube, Google Video and the BBC archive. ...

Greetings, TEACH BY MAGIC is a web site with a series of magic tricks which can be used when teaching. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest so, how about a fun site that has only the slightest connection to teaching. It’s called TEACH BY MAGIC and it has a series of videos which demonstrate, [...]

Greetings, MOVIEMATH is a web site containing numerous video clips from movies and TV shows in which some sort of mathematics appears. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Today’s site — MOVIEMATH — could be labelled semi-restful and semi-work related. I hope that’s okay. One of the chief criticisms levelled against the present day [...]

Seasons Greetings, HOTFREEBOOKS is a a web site offering more then 20,000 freely accessible online books. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I hope you are enjoying this festive day with family and friends and perhaps sampling a gift or two that Santa Claus left you. If you didn’t get exactly what you were hoping for, perhaps [...]