60+Sites+for+Julie+Wise

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 * Summary**: Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect, collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the social media for each and every leaner.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can create an online classroom to foster collaboration through group discussion, collect students' work, grade work without ever printing out a paper. You can create an Edmodo to for professional development.


 * Examples**:

www.edmodo.com

=2. Prezi=

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 * Summary**: Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvaz makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.======

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 * Examples**:

edu.prezi.com

=3. Present Me=

**Summary**: Present me is a Powerpoint presentation with a video of yourself right next to your Powerpoint.
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 * Teaching Relevance**: Create videos with yourself right next to you. Allows your students to review was was taught. Have students create their own Present Me presentations.
 * Examples**:

=4. iBooks Author=

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 * Summary**: Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone t create beautiful Mulit-Touch Textbooks - and just about any other kind of book - for iPad. With galleries, videos, interactive diagrams, 3-D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can create virtual text books to be used on the ipad. You can insert media, such as videos, pictures, podcasts in more into your interactive textbooks.

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 * Examples**:

@http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

=5. Flubaroo=

**Summary**: Grade online assignments in a single step! Get reporting and analysis on student performance. Email students their scores. Designed by a teacher, for teachers.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Grading script for Google Forms. Just follow the easy instructions and you can use Google forms easily and save time.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.flubaroo.com/

=6. GooRu Learning= ==

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 * Summary**:Math and Science resources including videos, interactives, websites, discussions, slides, Textbooks, Handouts, Lessons, exams, and wild card interactives. Finds the resources you like and simply drag them in "my resources" for your students.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Grading script for Google Forms. Just follow the easy instructions and you can use Google forms easily and save time.

@http://www.goorulearning.org/
 * Examples**:

=7. StudyLadder=

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 * Summary**: Studyladder is a highly effective, logically organized Mathematics and Literacy program. It has been developed by experienced educators to inspire and motivate learning. It is suitable for Elementary and Middle School students and is very easy to use - students simply login with a username and password to access all the learning materials.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Elementary and middle school teachers can use this to create printables, interactive white board activities, assess skills, assign homework and much, much more!


 * Examples**:

www.studyladder.com =8. Kidzui=

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 * Summary**: Free kid web browser that protect children from bad stuff on the web. Allows children to see youtube filtered and allows parents to have their children on the computer without having to worry about inappropriate content.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can share with parents to help protect their students from inappropriate content at home. Could be possible to have students to access KidZui at school.


 * Examples**:

www.kidzui.com =9. Reading Bear=

**Summary**: Reading Bear teachers children to read by introducing phonics principles painlessly and systematically while teaching new vocabulary.

 * Teaching Relevance**: K-3 teachers can use this resource to help their students practice reading. Woks really with an interactive whiteboard to help students work on phonics.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.readingbear.org/

=10. Starfall=

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 * Summary**: A free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grad, second grade, special education, homeschool and English language development. Starfall is an educational alternatives to other entertainment choices for children.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Great resources for teachers to use with students learning to read. Use it on the classroom computers, lab or netbooks. Students can continue to play when they get home to show mom and dad what they are learning in school.

@http://www.starfall.com/
 * Examples**:

=11. Hippo Campus=



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 * Summary**: HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to middle school, high school and college students free of charge.======

http://www.hippocampus.org/
 * Examples**:

=12. Learn Zillion=

**Summary**: Learn Zillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a common core, starting in grades 3-9.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Sign up for teacher account and get access to hundreds of video lessons that you can sue to create a customized learning experience for each class or individual student. Teacher create playlists of lessons associated practice questions and students complete assigned playlists. LearnZillion tracks completion and mastery of each lesson, allowing teachers to track progress effortlessly.


 * Examples**:



@http://www.learnzillion.com/

=13. Math Train=



**Summary**: Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids' project from Mr. Marcos and his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers use these excellent student created math videos to help teach their own students math concepts. You can also use these as examples to have students create their own videos!


 * Examples**:



@http://mathtrain.tv/ =14. SideVibe=



**Summary**: SideVibe offers you turbocharged Web Questions, placing students online discussion and activities in direct context with Web Content.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers create vibes (activities) for students to complete in a companion that shows over the web content for each completion.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.sidevibe.com/

=15. School Notes=

**Summary**: An easy to use school to home communication tool where teachers can easily add assignments and announcements to students and parents.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Post assignments, announcements, and links to important resources. Notify parents and students each time you update your classroom page. Create an online calendar of class events and activities. Use free storage to upload documents and add images to your pages. Access practical tips and other resources from EducationWorld.com. Use handy tools to create flashcards and other learning materials.

@http://www.schoolnotes.com/
 * Examples**:

=16.Yacapaca=

**Summary**: Online teaching environments that provides interactive resources, quizzes and surveys, shared resources and more.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers create an online classroom where students have accounts to login and can work on self-paced courses and resources. Students have access to instant feedback and assessments.


 * Examples**:

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=17. Simple Meet=

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 * Summary**: Simplemeet is a simple service to solve an awkward problem. You are corresponding with someone on the phone, a potential new business for example and no electronic contact information was exchanged yet. During the call you want to exchange some textual information which is too complex or simply too much to spell which is where Simplemeet.me comes into play. Simplemeet.me provides an instant chat between two or more users, the only thing necessary: A simple code.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can create chat rooms to share with students, or students can create chat rooms to collaborate with each other on projects, all without a log in. Teachers can giver their email to get a chat log of the students correspondence as well.

http://www.simplemeet.me/#

=18. ClassDoJo=

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 * Summary**:Improve student behavior and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback. Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff. Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class with just one click. No extra data entry required.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can easily keep track of student behavior both positive and negative. There is an easy to install app that send dates directly to the website. Teachers can also share behavior reports with students and parents in a very visual format.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.classdojo.com/

=19.Gnowledge=

**Summary**:Gnowledge is a free-to-use education platform where everyone can create, publish, share and take tests, exercises and assignments.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Create test to give in class and have them graded by Gnowledge. Look at test create by other teachers, so much more here worth looking at!

@http://www.gnowledge.com/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

=20. DropBox=



**Summary**:Using dropbox you can back up your data in the cloud by saving in your dropbox folder on your computer. Easily access all your documents on many devices, computer, phone, ipad and more.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher scan share documents with students via a simple url or share a folder with students that have a dropbox account. Throw away your flash drives and have them save to dropbox and never lose any data again.

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 * Examples**:

@https://www.dropbox.com/

=21. 1001 Free Fonts=



**Summary**: Free fonts you can download and use on your computer

 * Teaching Relevance**: Let your students be create and select a ton of different fonts for graphic design.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.1001freefonts.com/

=22. Oh Life=



**Summary**:Journal through daily emails that ask you how your day went. You reply to the email and Oh Life saves your responses and tells your life story one email at a time.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teacher can use Oh Life to capture their teaching career by simply responding to the email when they like. Students can create journal entries for class by responding to their email.


 * Examples**:

@http://ohlife.com/

=23. Boom Writer=



**Summary**:BoomWriter is a supremely engaging create writing website that has students writing, and assessing content in ways they've never done before!

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers get their students writing by using BoomWriter to collect students writing and allows them to voe on their favorite chapters. The highest ranked chapter gets selected and becomes part of a book. So the class writes a book all together.

@http://www.boomwriter.com/ = = =24. Scrible=

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 * Summary**:Add scrible's Toolbar to your browser. Use the toolbar to annotate webpages and shar your we research with others. Then save it online to your personal library in the cloud. Peruse, organize and search and retrieve your research in your personal Library.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can annotate websites for students to emphasize important content. They can simply share the link and their annotations are seen by the students. Students can annotate websites as well and share with their peers.

http://www.scrible.com/#news:social_launch
 * Examples**:

=25. PaperRater=

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 * Summary**: Robust grammar checking allows you to find those pesky mistakes and correct them before turning your paper. Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor/teacher does. Our proofreading system alerts you to opportunities to improve your writing. Please Note: //The Auto-Grading feature is only displayed when the writer's education level is greater than 8th Grade because our grading algorithm is based on high school and college level writing.//======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can run papers through paper Rater and look for plagiarism, grammar and see student level of writing. Students can use Paper Rater to assess their papers before they had turn them into their teachers. Drop-down includes 4 grades 6 and up.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.paperrater.com/

=26. Youtube Teacher=



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 * Summary**: YouTube.com/Teachers was created to help teachers use educational YouTube videos to educate, engage and inspire their students. We know how busy teachers can be so we've worked with a group of teachers to put together playlists of partner videos that aline with common core standards.======

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 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can create a YouTube channel so students can easily access all your great ocontext and playlists in on east-to-remember destinations. You can also search for other educational vdeos created by teachers to use with your students.======

@http://www.youtube.com/user/teachers
 * Examples**:

=27. Capzles=

**Summary**: All of your media, your life, your stories together like never before. Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can create Capzles timelines to teach and students can create Capzles for projects and content.

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 * Examples**:

@http://www.capzles.com/

=28. Docs Teach=
 * Summary**: Ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom. Thousands of primary sources from the National Archives.


 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can create activities to teach their students using primary resources from the National Archives.


 * Examples**:

@http://docsteach.org/

=29. Desktop QR Reader=

**Summary**: Desktop QR code reader that uses your webcam to scan QR codes and take your browser to the information.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can install this onto their classroom computers so students can scan and create codes to share information.

@http://www.dansl.net/blog/2010/desktop-qr-code-reader/

=30. QR Notes=



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 * Summary**: qrnotes is like short URL for the real world. You create a page and we provide you with a QR cord that you can print and post on real world objects. Then, whoever sees your qrnotes can can it and get a link to your page.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can quickly create a page with notes and an image to share with their students. Students can scan the QR cord and take those notes with them using their cell phone or computer. Students can also create these notes for classroom content and sharing.


 * Examples**:

@http://qrnot.es/ =31. QR Voice=

**Summary**: Type up to 100 character note and have it translated and out into a QR code.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can create translated notes for scavenger hunts, class reminders encouragement and more!


 * Examples**:

@http://qrvoice.net/ =32. p Table=

**Summary**: Interactive periodic table that provides Wikipedia explanation of each element, its properties, orbitals and isotopes. All on one page respectively.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can use this in class to explain elements and students can use it to gather data and explore all the elements and their different properties.


 * Examples**:



@http://www.ptable.com/

=33. Screenr=

**Summary**: Create real quick and easy screenshots without having to download any program, then share it.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can create screencasts for their students, teaching them content or explaining how to do something. Students can create screencasts for absent students, next year's class or parents on tools they use in the classroom.

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@http://www.screenr.com/ = = =34. Study Blue=



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 * Summary**: Make online flashcards with photos and audio. Prep for exams with personalized practice quizzes. Get reminders about when (and what) to study next, and study on your phone with free mobile apps.======
 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can create or use already created flash cars to share with students to study. Students can study these online flashcards on the computer or on their mobile device.

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 * Examples**:

@http://www.studyblue.com/

=35. Cacoo=

**Summary**:Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams, such as site maps, wire frames and network charts.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can create diagrams to teach concepts or organize their thoughts. Great visual too that will enhance learning!


 * Examples**:

@https://cacoo.com/

=36. Spaaze=




 * Summary**:Spaaze (pronounced "space") offers it's users so called boards. Each board is an infinite space which resembles a virtual coard board - hence the default cork background, but other backgrounds are available. On these boards, items be put. Currently, Spaaze offers 7 different items: labels, notes, bookmarks, images, files, videos and HTML.


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can create diagrams to teach concepts or organize their thoughts. Great visual too that will enhance learning!


 * Examples**:

This example can be found at this link: http://www.spaaze.com/board/01bba17f27ea538b72a69e96a8df1200 @http://www.spaaze.com/home = = =37. Vocaroo=



**Summary**:Quick and easy audio recording that you can then easily listen to, send or download.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can create audio recordings for students. Students can create audio recordings for podcasts, assignments, and then send them or download them. In addition, they could record and monitor their fluency.

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 * Examples**:



**Summary**:Select an image, set the mouth position and then make it talk!

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can use this site to excite students about learning new topics by making a picture talk. Students can create talking pictures and pretend to be that person to tell a story and more. Great for figurative language.

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=39. Fotoable=

**Summary**:Select a picture and talk about it while your audience looks at it. Add to slide shows and create a talking presentation.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can use this site to talk about images and their educational relevance.


 * Examples**:

@http://fotoable.com/en/help.html =4o. VoiceThread=

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 * Summary**:A voiceThread is a collaborate, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and vidoes and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice, text, audio file, video. Share a VoiceThread with friends, students and colleagues for them to record comments.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher can ask students questions via images, video or text and they can comment on VoiceThread from anywhere. Then the teacher and the students can see everyone;s responds on the Voicethread.


 * Examples**:

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=41. Jelly Cam=

**Summary**:Make stop-motion films with a web-cam or a bunch of photos.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher sand students can easily make stop motion films using jelly cam!

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**Summary**:Tweet chat creates a chat room that goes out to Twitter and automatically gives the hashtag of the room. You can also search twitter without a login to see relevant Hashtags.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can use Tweetchat to search for ideas for lessons and units. They can also create chat rooms for their students to talk about different topics.


 * Examples**:

@http://tweetchat.com/

=43. Pen.io=

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 * Summary**:Pen.io is a super fast way to publish content online - It takes just seconds to create a pages and start adding content. Pen.io has been designed as a more permanent alternative to blogs. Blogs are great for posting regular content - with Pen.io, you can create a page and set and forget.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: This would be great if you taught in a middle school or high school and you had multiple classes with the same content and expectations. The students could refer back to it throughout the semester.

@http://pen.io/
 * Examples**:

=44. Sumdog=



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 * Summary**: Sumdog's games are always free to play, either at home or at school. They cover 100 numeracy skiills, split into 10 levels. Most are multi-player so you can play against thoughts of students worldwide. Because the games are so engaging, students can finally enjoy developing their mental math skills.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers create student logins, and share with their students. Students can then begin to play Sumdog and enhance their math skills and compete against other students in competitions.

@http://www.sumdog.com/

=45. Pinterest=

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 * Summary**: Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterst allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. People use pinboards to plain their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can use Pinterest to create a page of interesting sites on a particular topic, or share sites with their social networks. Works a lot like a social bookmarking page but allows you to pick an image and put some information about the site.


 * Examples**:

@http://pinterest.com/

=46. Pattern Cooler=



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 * Summary**: Add your own colors to 100s of cool FREE pattern designs or browse from 10,000s of pre-colored patterns using the new seamless pattern background editor. All artworks on thsi site can be used freely for Blogger and Twitter backgrounds.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can use as backgrounds or as foundations for web design or any other graphic design project.


 * Examples**:

www.patterncooler.com/

=47. Mentimeter=

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 * Summary**: Mentimeter is the ultimate tool to interact with your audience - whether it's done in a business setting during a lecture or simply for entertainment. We provide easy-to-use web-based tool that enables you to create questions, collect answers and show the results in real time. Our goal is to make presentations more interactive, engaging and fun.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can use this to poll their students or colleagues using a computer or mobile device. Students can use this to collect data from their peers.

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=48. Symbaloo=

**Summary**: Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking site for teachers and students.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can post a symbaloo to their website and students can click on the icons that will take them to the site. Great for primary aged students who can't read the address but recognize the picture for a particular site.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.symbalooedu.com/

=49. Pearltress=

**Summary**: A social bookmarking site that allows you to store websites in a visual environment. You can share links with others and comment on the different links.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers can share their pearls with students on their wiki or by providing the URL. Students can create their own pearltress and share with peers or teachers.


 * Examples**:

www.pearltrees.com

=50. Dushare=



**Summary**: Send large files without a login with ease and you can password protect.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teacher and students can share large files with each other through email.

http://dushare.com/#
 * Examples**:

=51. Remind 101=



**Summary**: A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers instantly message a class of students or their parents from your computer. Teachers never see students' phone numbers. Students never see theirs. Students and parents join by sending a text message. No computer needed!

@http://remind101.com/
 * Examples**:

=52. Shmoop=

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 * Summary**: Shmoop will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.======


 * Teaching Relevance**: This is a great site to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. Great resource for students if they are reading a book and just aren't getting the theme, a certain chapter or just not any part of it at all.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.shmoop.com/

=53. Free Sound=



**Summary**:Free sounds to use in Podcasts, video editing and more!

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can find great sounds to share with students. Be aware that there are inappropriate sounds on the site as well.


 * Examples**:

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 * Summary**: Start an online newspaper today. Publish twitter feeds, Facebook content, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper. Paper.li monitors your content sources to update your paper automatically.======

they are interested in.
 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers can create a Paper.li that pertains to their class topics or a certain unit. Students can create a Paper.li to keep on current events or other things

@http://paper.li/
 * Examples**:

=55. Goodreads=



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 * Summary**: Document the books that you have read, those that are on your To Be Read List and connect with other readers/students to find out what books they are reading. The Book Whisperer, Donalyn Miller says, "It is Facebook for nerds."======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can connect with other teachers and students who are reading similar books. Find book reviews for titles that have recently been published. Connect with authors of the books you have read or are reading.


 * Examples**:

@http://www.goodreads.com/

=56. Storysnoops=



**Summary**: Serving fresh scoops of new books for you everyday.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Students can come to storysnoops and find a book that is an interest to them. No more "I don't know what to read next." Teachers can recommend a book to a student when they know the type of books the child enjoys or hasn't tried.

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 * Examples**:

@http://www.storysnoops.com/

=57. SpringNote=



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 * Summary**: Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files. Springnote is also a great tool for group projects as it allows group members to easily collaborate.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students can create a springnote on what they have learned each day and keep this going throughout the school year. You could have each section of your class add to the notes page using a classroom scribe.

@http://www.springnote.com/
 * Examples**:

=58. Kidblog=

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 * Summary**:Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.======


 * Teaching Relevance**:Students can answer an essential question, comprehension question or just simply talk about what is on their mind. Teachers monitor each and every post and comment and have access to turn on/off controls at anytime.

@http://kidblog.org/
 * Examples**:

=59. Simple Password =



**Summary**: Generate a unique password for each website you use from a single master password. Get secure.

 * Teaching Relevance**: Teachers and students will be using many of these websites that require usernames and passwords. Why not use one password for each of the sites?


 * Examples**:



@http://www.simplepassword.com/

=60. Google Docs=



**Summary**: Create and share your work online and access your //documents// from anywhere. Manage //documents//, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more all in one website.

 * Teaching Relevance**:Teachers and students will never loose a paper again. Students can create a document, share with their teacher and received live feedback prior to finishing the paper. Share the document as a link, webfile or embed it into a website for all to see.

Link to a letter my son wrote to the tooth fairy. We were able to share it with
 * Examples**:

@http://www.google.com/google-d-s/documents/ There is another image editing window open. Close itwithout saving and continue?