Using Widgets for Student Education--One Teacher Uses Widgets to Teach Math, Science, and Grammar Skills

Widgets aren't just fun—they can be educational too.

Widgetbox has a variety of interactive widgets that can help students learn math, science, history, and grammar skills. From kindergarten to high school, there are a wide range of widgets that help students of all levels with various subjects.

Parents and teachers have found our educational widgets to be a fun and simple way to teach students while keeping them engaged.

Some of our most popular educational widgets include:

• Maths-Whizz Scientific Calculator
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Grammar Girl Quiz
• Bill of Rights

See how one high school teacher is using Widgetbox to teach her students »

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Make Halloween Even More Fun with Cool Halloween-Themed Widgets

It's almost Halloween, and that means it's time to spice up your websites and social network pages with fun Halloween-themed widgets.

At Widgetbox.com it's easy to find just about any kind of Halloween widget you're looking for. In just a few minutes (and with no coding knowledge necessary) you can install widgets directly to: Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, You Tube, iGoogle, or just about any other site.

Get started today with some of our most popular Halloween-themed Widgets including:

• Halloween Countdown
• Design Your Own Jack O’ Lantern
• Halloween Picture Puzzles
• Halloween Costumes
• And many more!

Check out all of our cool Halloween-themed Widgets

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2 New Facebook Apps

We’ve just added two new Facebook apps that you can add to your Fan Page—our Gallery and Poll apps.

The Gallery app will allow you to showcase your brand’s news or products, while highlighting one featured item. Your followers will be able to click on each individual article or product summary—driving traffic back to your website.

The Poll app will allow you to create customized polls for your Facebook Fan Page. Poll your followers on new releases, hot article topics, or just about anything else. With our real-time updating, you’ll be able to view up-to-the–minute results of your poll anytime you want.

Like all of our Facebook Fan Page apps—the Gallery and Poll apps allow you to include; a customized header with an image, font colors of your choosing, and a sidebar widget.

Facebook Fan Page apps are only available to our Publisher Pro and Business Pro users.

If you’re not currently a Publisher Pro or Business Pro user , you can go Pro for free and start using Pro features such as our customizable Facebook Fan Page apps.

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Try Pro for Free

Many Widgetboxers have been asking if there’s a way to try all our cool Pro features for free. Well good news—we now offer free 7-day trials to all of our Pro accounts! You can get started with a free 7-day trial to Widgetbox Pro, Publisher Pro, or even Business Pro. All of our Pro trials give you full access to the benefits of your chosen Pro account and you can cancel at any time. Start a free trial and go Pro.

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Make Awesome Forms with our Newest Pro Widget

After months of hard work, we just released our brand new Form widget! With our newest widget you can create and share a customized form in minutes. Create a contact form, registration form, questionnaire, or just about any other form you can think of.

With no coding knowledge necessary you can easily make a multiple choice questionnaire to put on your blog, a “Contact Us” form for your website, or a fun party invitation to share with friends on MySpace.

You can choose from 8 basic themes and include up to 5 fields in your Form widget. Best of all you can easily download your form submissions results right from Widgetbox.

Pro users get even more customization options and features for their widget. In addition to choosing from 16 themes, Pro users can; add unlimited fields, upload their own header image, and even hide the Get Widget button.

Not a Pro user? Go Pro for free with our new 7-day trial and start adding Pro features to your widgets.

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