Assorted+Widgets

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Widgets are mini-applications that may be embedded in websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, etc. They are often dynamic and interactive. You may use widgets to subscribe to RSS feeds and other push content. Note: Most of the Digital Storytelling Tools and online Video portals provide embed code.

**Finding Widgets**

 * [|NetVibes Ecosystem]
 * [|Widgets for Free blog]
 * [|Widget Box]
 * [|Flash widgets]
 * [|Google Gadgets]
 * [|Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs]
 * [|About.com Web Widgets]
 * [|ReadWriteWeb: Evolution of Web Widgets]
 * [|About.com: Top Widget Galleries]
 * [|Widgipedia]
 * [|SpringWidgets]
 * [|Embeditin] (tools for embedding documents and web pages)
 * [|Widgenie] (create and embed charts and graphs)
 * [|Widgets Everywhere] (TechCrunch)
 * [|Feedzilla]
 * [|WidgetBeat]
 * [|50+ Web Widgets for Learning]
 * [|Britannica Widgets]
 * [|Widgadgets Widget Gallery]
 * [|MyBooo]
 * [|Wikispaces Widget Handout]
 * [|Top Ten Widgets for your Class Blog]
 * [|Education.com Free Widgets and Tools]
 * [|Using Widgets for Student Education]
 * [|Embedit.in] (create embed code for any file or url)
 * [|Exhibit: Create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations]
 * [|Timeline: Visualize temporal information on an interactive drag-able timeline.]
 * [|Timeplot:Plot time series and overlay temporal events over them.]
 * [|Runway: Display images in a Coverflow-like visualization.]

News Widgets
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 * [|USA Today Widgets]
 * [|New York Times Widget Builder]
 * [|Washington Post RSS]
 * [|Washington Post Widgets]
 * [|Washington Post Time Space Widgets]
 * [|Reuters' Widgets]
 * [|CBS News Widgets]
 * [|NBCU Widgets]
 * [|Time Magazine]
 * [|Twitter Badges]
 * [|Feedzilla News Widgets]
 * [|EdWeek Widgets]
 * [|Scitopia] (science research)


 * Government Widgets**
 * [|US Government Gadget Gallery]
 * [|Government Widgets]
 * [|Free Government Information]
 * [|CDC Widgets]
 * [|EPA Widgets]
 * [|NOAAWatch Web Widgets]
 * [|Federal Citizen Information Center Widget]
 * [|FBI Widgets]
 * [|Open Congress]
 * [|Capital Tweets]
 * [|Open Secrets]
 * [|GovTrack](Congress)
 * [|Library of Congress: The Commons] (photographs)
 * [|Library of Congress Flickr Photostream]

Database Widgets

 * [|EBSCO Searchbox Builder]
 * [|Gale Widgets]
 * [|Gale Access My Library>]
 * [|Gale Publication Search Widget]
 * [|Gale Widgets for iGoogle]
 * [|Facts on File Widgets]
 * [|Alternate Facts on File Widgets (works better on wikis and blogs)>]
 * [|ProQuest Search Widget Creator]
 * [|WilsonWeb]
 * [|JSTOR Search]

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Presentation Widgets

 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|AuthorStream]
 * [|Issuu] (for presentations)
 * [|Glogster] and [|Glogster.edu] (for embedding collage/posters)
 * Digital Storytelling Tools
 * Online Video portals
 * [|Scribd]

**Assorted Widgets**

 * [|PBS Teacher Activity Packs]
 * [|National Geographic Widgets]
 * [|Education Week Widgets]
 * [| Daily Quotes for Lifelong Learners]
 * [|EdTechWidgets]
 * [|Daily Language Arts Printables, Grade 5]
 * [|This Day in History]
 * [|Gigapan] (allows for amazing zooming and moving around)
 * [|EdWeek Widgets]
 * [|SuperStickies]
 * [|Cozi (calendar widget)]
 * [|Picture Trail] (for creating an animated slideshow)
 * [|ShowYourself] (for true social networking transparency)
 * [|ClustrMaps]
 * [|FriendFeed]
 * [|Twitter Widgets]
 * [|Twidget]
 * [|FlickrSlider] (embed image sets, groups, etc.)
 * [|Picasa] (albums, images, slideshows)
 * NetWeather
 * [|Scribd]
 * [|PollDaddy]
 * [|fmAtlas] (embeddable maps)
 * [|PictureTrail] (fancy slideshows)
 * [|Voki]
 * [|PhotoFaceDashboard]
 * [|Periodic Table]
 * Learning Activities Widgets
 * [|Learning Activities Widget Games]
 * [|Surfing the Net With Kids Widgets] (Barbara Feldman)
 * School House Widgets
 * [|MuseumPod]
 * Feedzilla Music Video Widgets
 * [|ProProfs] (quizzes, flashcards, polls)
 * [|Image Chef] (image generator)
 * [|Online Stopwatch and other cool tools]

**Book Widgets**
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 * [|Shelfari] (social networking too)
 * [|LibraryThing] (big book network)
 * [|GoodReads]
 * [|GuruLib]
 * [|Random House Book Widgets]
 * [|BookBox] (embeddable bookshelves)
 * [|KidderLit] (twitter chat about children's lit & widgets)
 * [|HarperCollins BrowseInside]
 * Go to [|GoogleBooks]and click on the link icon on upper right for embed code
 * [|Embeddable Google Books]
 * [|Google Book Search Widget]
 * [|JacketFlap]
 * [|JacketFlap: Children's Book Choice Award Widget]
 * [|International Children's Digital Library Book of the Day Gadget]
 * [|BookLoverQuotes]
 * [|New York Times Book Review Widget]
 * [|Scholastic Teacher Book Widget]
 * [|Amazon SlideShow Widgets]
 * [|Children's Book Review]
 * [|Dewey Decimal Rap]
 * [|Renaissance Learning Widgets]

Video (more at Video Search)===
 * [|TeacherTube]
 * [|YouTube] (choose frame and size)
 * __[|TED: Ideas Worth Spreading]__
 * [|Academic Earth (video lectures by top scholars)]
 * [|TeacherTV]
 * [|SchoolTube]
 * [|ScholarSpot]
 * [|ForaTV] (issues and ideas changing the world from universities and conferences)
 * __[|Snagfilms]__ (free full-length documentaries)
 * [|Free Documentaries]
 * [|Top Documentary Films]
 * [|JohnLocker] (documentaries)

**Personal Information Portals**

 * [|NetVibes]
 * [|PageFlakes]
 * [|iGoogle]
 * [|SproutBuilder]
 * [|Yahoo! Pipes]
 * [|Protopage]
 * [|LibGuides] (pay service)

Map Widgets

 * [|UMapper]
 * [|Flagr]
 * [|Frappr]
 * [|ClustrMaps]
 * [|Google Maps]
 * [|Click2Map]
 * [|MapBuzz]
 * [|MapSkip (Places have stories)]

Posters
See this page for strategies for using wikis to create portals
 * [|SproutBuilder]
 * [|Glogster] and [|Glogster.edu] (for embedding collage/posters)