Pick of the week: Khan Academy

As I was attempting to decide on the Pick of the week for this week, I realised that I had not mentioned one of the great education sites ever: the Khan Academy.

The site was created in 2006 by MIT graduate Salman Khan and now hosts more than 2400 video tutorials on subjects such as math, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, finance, economics and computer science. The videos are promoted as "micro-lectures" and are truly fantastic!

If you're having some difficulties helping your kids with their homework, or simply need a refresher on solving quadratic equations, the Khan Academy is for you!

Online Tools review: TikiToki

Although the task of creating animated timelines is not necessarily the most common, for the times that you have this task on your to do list, you might consider checking out Tiki Toki, a fantastic online, animated timeline maker. With several types of accounts (including a free one!), Tiki Toki makes it easy to create attractive and interactive timelines, which can display images and videos as well as text. With great integration with Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo, its easy to integrate your online media into your created timelines.

Head over to Tiki Toki and try it out for yourself. I think that you might find yourself creating more timelines, just to use this tool!