Edmodo is a safe and secure social networking platform for students, teachers and parents. With Edmodo, you can:

• Fill classes automatically as students log in with a special code.
• Easily edit settings, view classes and individuals.
• Create a sub-domain for your school quickly as easily.
• Easily moderate student comments, as well as provide individualised feedback and general alerts.
• Set revision and or pre-lesson quizzes and polls.
• Share links and resources with Google Drive.
• Subscribe the class to RSS feeds.
• Compile and perform basic analyses of quiz grades automatically.
• Interact and share with other teachers around the world.
• Form and join groups.
• Get assistance quickly from the friendly support team.

But the best thing about Edmodo is the ability it gives you to create and award badges to students for doing great things. Now they can get rewarded for offering creative solutions, for demonstrating critical thinking and even for helping one another. Interaction becomes more personalized; students love earning badges and teachers can encourage the acquisition of important skills. The number of Edmodo users around the world has doubled in the short time I have been using it, and it is sure to continue growing.

Dropbox allows you to share files with students and colleagues quickly, securely and easily. As an added bonus, being a teacher, it is easy to get more and more space as your students join! Dropbox is ideal for storing lessons, and for those times when you need to come up with a fun lesson filler, or post past papers. Dropbox has a relatively good iPad app so that I can literally share files as I need to.

Pinterest is mainly effortlessly, you can create boards and add pins even on an iPad. It’s curation on the fly. If you want to win teachers over, ease and speed of use are vital. Most of us haven’t got the time or the patience to sit and fiddle needlessly. (Setting up a bookmarklet on iOS Safari does require a bit of wangling. Check out www.iosbookmarklets.com for the java code, and for a few other cool bookmarklets to use with Safari on an iPad. 

We help you easily discover new and interesting stuff on the Web. Tell us what you like, and we’ll introduce you to amazing web pages, videos, photos and more that you wouldn’t have found on your own.

As you Stumble through great web pages, tell us whether you Like or Dislike our recommendations so we can show you more of what’s best for you. We’ll show you web pages based on that feedback as well as what similar Stumblers and the people you follow have Liked or Disliked.

Our members have given us some pretty great compliments in the past, including describing us as “the entire Internet, all in one place,” ”an epic journey” and “a map to an adventure you wouldn’t otherwise have found out about.”

Whether you’re interested in Humor, Photography, Fashion or Sports, we have something for you. Every Stumble is an adventure, and something amazing is always just a click away.

GCFLearnFree.org® creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education.

Learn almost anything for free.

With a library of over 3,600 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

We are a donor-supported not-for-profit and would not be possible without the generous support of users everywhere. In particular, we'd like to thank The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ann & John Doerr, the O'Sullivan Foundation, Reed Hastings, Google, and the Windsong Trust for their strong support of our mission.

Engage the class using any device:  Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Just when everyone is starting to think about buying hand-held ‘clickers’ to encourage feedback and just-in-time modification of lessons, along comes Socrative and makes clickers all but redundant. All that is required is that students have smartphones and access to the internet. As with so many of these apps, I cannot believe that Socrative is free. Quizzes come in multiple formats, and are dead easy to set up. (You can even set up your quizzes off-line using the Excel templates Socrative provides, which you then import into the programme in seconds.) Socrative works across all ‘phones and platforms, and provides the teacher with live feedback as students complete quizzes. Results are emailed quickly and easily.

Socrative is intentionally low bandwidth, and thus students can even devote some of their own data towards answering quizzes when the school network is down. Finally, teachers can share quizzes with one another on the forum. I cannot recommend Socrative highly enough!

Online file conversion, covering a wide range of different image, document, music, video and compression formats. Free for files up to 100MB.

EasyBib teaches students to properly credit their sources in the style that they will use from elementary school through college.  By collecting information on sources as the student researches, EasyBib lets the student concentrate on addressing the topic instead of on the details and format of the citations.
 

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn.

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.  From digital storytelling, reflection, photo essays, and more, this tool has been one of my students favorites.

SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches 35000 credible Web sites that have been evaluated and deemed reliable by our research experts, teachers, and librarians.  In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students).

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.  Do you want to use Highcharts for a personal website, a school site or a non-profit organisation? Then you don't need the author's permission, just go on and use Highcharts.

 This is a great site for animating text w/ music, and publishing via a link. Click here for an example... http://www.rightwork.jp/fontdemusic/#permalink?id=381

DropEvent allows you to create photo galleries that others can contribute to without signing up, so everyone at the party/wedding/birthday can share their photos in one place.

Plagiarism is as old as mankind. There was even a time, when imitation was the only way of carrying human knowledge over the generations. Today plagiarism causes economic damage in billions of dollars. Plagiat are nothing but theft of intellectual property of creative people and serve to make otherplagiarism prevention!s rich. How to avoid plagiarism? Try our software - the solution for plagiarism prevention!

PDFescape is a free, online PDF reader, editor, form filler, & form designer.

Boxify.me is a website for file sharing for groups.  A simple and easy way for teachers to share files with students and different classes.  Also provides a way for students to share files for group projects or with teachers.  Each "box" has a private URL.  The people that you share your "box" with can upload and download files to/from this "box".  You can customize the URL for the box as well.

DOGO News has fun articles for kids on current events, science, sports, and more! There are also lots of stories, pictures, videos, and much more.  DOGONews is an online newspaper and web guide for children. "DOGO" (not Do-Go), means young or small in Swahili. Our goal is to provide a fun, safe and interactive environment for children to read and learn about real world news. Our news articles are short, simple and include photos/videos in order to keep children focused and interested. We also augment our content with an integrated dictionary for challenging words and maps for geographical context. 

Jeopardy Labs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that's cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn't get any better than this!

Resizr is a free online image resize and crop tool with lots of extras!
 

Free Online Images Converter: Here you can convert over 100 image formats, among them BMP, DIP, JPG, EPS, PCX, PDF, PNG, PSD, SVG, TGA, etc. Our Online Image Converter is quick and reliable, and what is most important quite easy-to-use.

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional and intuitive way.   “Spectacular images galleries made simple.” This amazing, free resource allows users to create professional, Flash image galleries in a matter of minutes. By incorporating an incredibly easy-to-use desktop interface, creating a stylish gallery is a snap. There are several cool features, but probably my favorite is that SimpleViewer supports Universal Playback, meaning image galleries created with the software can be viewed on mobile devices that do not support Flash (e.g. iPhone and iPad).

Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. To create a word cloud you can paste a url of a webpage you want to analyze, type/copy and paste words into a text box, or enter a del.icio.us username to view their tags. Completed clouds can be customized with a large number of fonts, color schemes, and layouts. Although your final creation can be printed, you can't save them without taking a screenshot of your cloud, and cropping it on an image editor.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.  Tagxedo is my favorite word cloud generator and one that is great for teachers to use with their students. This free tool requires no login accounts, and has the additional bonus of offering educators the chance to save their word clouds in a variety of different jpeg resolutions. The user interface is clear and well organized. You will have no trouble customizing your fonts, colors, and layouts due to the easy one click selection process. Shapes can also be used in Tagxedo, and there is a much greater variety here than there is with the likes of Tagul. Example shapes include a map of the USA, fruits, animals and more.

This is a simple tool that automatically fills a heart shape with any words you like. Enter some words separated by commas in the text box and press the 'Enter' key. You can also choose one of three fonts or change the colors.

Tagul, (http://tagul.com), is another useful word cloud generator because of the number of options and ways that you can customize your finished product. It is free, but you do have to sign up for an account to before you can get started. With Tagul you can again select text or a URL to make clouds from, but you can also choose from a variety of regular shapes like hearts, stars, circles and rectangles. Words that you do not want in your cloud can be excluded, and you can have each word searchable on Google by clicking on it. Completed word clouds can be embedded in classroom websites and blogs, or saved to your Tagul account for future edits. Like Wordle, there is no direct way to save your clouds as jpegs.

Wordlings is a new service for creating word clouds from blocks of text. Sign into Wordlings with your Twitter or Facebook account to have it create a word cloud of your posts. You can also copy and paste chunks of text into Wordlings. Wordlings allows you to choose from a large variety of shapes and sizes for displaying your word clouds.

 

Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the font used in your word cloud. The feature of Word It Out that I like the best is that you can choose to have Word It Out ignore any word or words you choose. Ignoring words keeps them out of the word cloud.
 Word it Out, (http://worditout.com), does pretty much what all the others do, but with a few interesting twists. For instance, using an acceptable format, you can have a table of results turned into a word cloud. As with the other sites on this list, the largest word in the cloud is the one that appears the most often in your original input, so viewing the results from a table in this way is an interesting way to look at your data. You can also paste large amounts of text, such as student stories, directly into the text box. Again, words chosen by the user can be included or excluded as required, and the usual font and color adjustments are found here too.

The one thing that sets the ABCya word cloud generator apart from the others in this list is its simplicity and ease of use. It is ideal for using with younger children as its interface is designed specifically for them. There is no URL feed option, just the ability to type or paste text in a box. Fonts, colors and layouts can be customized, or you can go wild with a random choice of all three! Word clouds can be saved as jpegs or printed. It is a simple but easy to use generator, and one that you can rely on with your students because Abcya.com is one of the best educational game sites on the internet.
 

Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want?

PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds!

Collaborize Classroom is designed to complement classroom instruction and engage students in online activities, assignments and discussions that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom. Do more with less. Allow your students to participate on their own time with an easy-to-use platform.

Neevia Document Converter makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert many of the file formats that are used daily to PDF or Image.

Welcome to your own personal cork board. You've been given a special link -- bookmark this page. Click to write a note, click-and-hold to move around. Paste an image link and see what happens? Enjoy!

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Discussing a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Wishing a happy birthday?
 

Sticker Lite is sticky notes freeware for Windows that offers you an easy way to keep all your thoughts, quick notes, web links, addresses, phone numbers, and other information in one place. Whether you need to create a todo list, plan daily tasks or organize recipes, Sticker Lite is the only sticky notes freeware that provides you with everything you need.
 

Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, and text.

Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members.

Your Free Video Editor Online - Engage your audience with the world's premier online video editor seamlessly integrated on your website, or edit your own videos on JayCut's community.

Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time.  You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes:  historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment.
 

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!

A site with worksheets, lesson ideas & plans for preschool, kindergarten, and other elementary / primary school students on a wide range of themes and topics. Our original lesson material is free to download for usage in your classroom or at home. Each topic comes with ideas, crafts and materials for lessons. What you will not find here are strict lesson plans to follow: The suggestions, worksheets and other materials can be used to create your own lessons. LessonSense is a place for teachers, student teachers, esl learners, kids and parents. You you find lots of downloadable printables for free, use the menu to browse through the site. New stuff is being added all the time; Have a look around, and enjoy your stay!

Share screen clips for any site.    Create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites.

Twitter is a rich source of instant information. Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.

Check up on your students via Facebook. You can even keep them updated on class assignments and due dates through this application.
"Facebook is not the future, but just a very temporary present."