Short Description:
Lexile.com matches readers with texts and novels that appropriately match their lexile level. Materials, books, and articles receive lexile measures based on factors such as complexity and vocabulary. Lexile.com helps parents and students find texts that hit what lexile.com calls readers "sweet spot". This is texts that are between 100L below to 50L above their lexile measure. Readers can type in a book they like and find the lexile level that way or they can type in their lexile level and find books that match the lexile range they need.
Examples for Uses:
Teachers picking out appropriate texts for their student's lexile levels.
Parents finding books for their children that are in their lexile range or that will challenge them.
Readers finding books that are in their lexile range.

Short description:
https://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=61932&vt=ngraph&dc=focus
DebateGraph is a website that allows people from all over the world to create graphs in real time. The graphs allow people to discuss all the sides and factors pertaining to certain topics or major issues occurring in our world. One can also just peruse the website in order to learn more about topics.
Examples for uses:
1) Students can use Debate Graph to create a graph that shows all of the ideas, opinions, or thoughts relevant to a particular subject they are working on.
2) Students can look at graphs that are already made and see opinions, thoughts, and facts about important topics.
This tool would be beneficial for students in any classroom (there were graphs about economic growth which can be used in a math class, nuclear politics for a civics or history class, graphs about the future of newspapers which could be utilized in a journalism class, a climate change graph for an agriculture class, and many others).
3) Teachers can look up educational topics and read about the different perspectives.