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 »

We are super excited to announce that today we are launching a new homepage that users will see when they log in to widgetbox.com!  We’ve listened to your feedback and we hope this page will help make finding and creating widgets an even simpler and more fun experience.

The new page gives you a quick snapshot of your recently installed and developed widgets, as well as a new widget playground that shows you two of your recently edited widgets.  And not to worry, you can still browse the gallery by clicking the “Gallery” tab, or see your full list of developed widgets by clicking the “Developed Widgets” link in the top navigation.

If you want to check it out, go to http://www.widgetbox.com/home/. We hope you like it, and look forward to adding more great new features  in the weeks to come!

Eons has created categories such as News, Sports and Weather within their widget gallery, but users can also search from over 70,000 widgets listed within the gallery.  As new content is submitted to Widgetbox, the Eons widget gallery will grow as well, keeping the content fresh and dynamic.

Are you interested in a Custom Gallery for your network?  Learn more about it here, and see all the cool things we’ve got to offer.  We’d love to provide you with a total widget solution for your network.

What countries are those, exactly?  Well, here’s a (shhh – super secret!) chart from our internal metrics.

Sorry that United Kingdom and The Netherlands get cut off in this picture – since this is internal only it hasn’t gotten the Widgetbox UE treatment…  Anyways, you can see that we have the most distribution in the US and Europe, which isn’t too surprising.  What I find more fascinating is the “other” category.

You may or may not know this, but there are different answers for  the question “How many countries are there in the world?” The UN now recognizes 192 independent countries, The US State Department recognizes 194. and apparently most World Almanacs list 193 (source for this info is here).  So, does that mean Widgetbox is somehow being seen in more countries than there are in the world?  Like maybe in Outer Space by robots???  Nope – it means that some of the countries whose residents see our widgets aren’t independent nations.  There are 244 total possible “country-type” entities in the world.  So, on August 18th, 2008 from 12 AM to 12 PM, Widgetbox widgets were only not seen in 31 possible countries.  Plus, if you look at this distribution over a period of one week, or even one month, our widgets were seen in 217 countries for both periods, which means that our massive distribution is normal – there wasn’t something funky going on. That’s pretty hoTTT.

Some of my personal faves from yesterday’s full list are the 45,132 widget impressions that came from Taiwan (vs. the 33,064 that came from China, which I find interesting), the 10,059 impressions that came from Brunei Darussalam (bonus points if you can tell me where that is!), the 4,253 impressions that came from Iceland, and the 101 impressions that came from the Federated States of Micronesia.  You may also find it interesting that Iran got more hits than Iraq (5,911 vs. 614), and that Afghanistan and North Korea were nowhere on the list.  And who brought up the caboose yesterday?  Come on Turkmenistan – you saw one widget; we know you want more!!!

Pretty fun stuff.  Who knew you could get such a good geography lesson from widgets?  That’s the power of the Interwebs!