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Social site that offers tools that encourage teens to create and share videos, games, Facebook apps, more.

Powerful online music creation tool for students with knowledge of notes, scales, chords, etc. Create, share, save original musical compositions.

Very useful tool for finding images for student projects. Enter the search term, select Educational for Permitted use, and check "none" for requirements (doesn't even require citation).

Geographical Media is a news monitoring tool designed to make it easy to follow news and find statistics about the people, places and other things you are most interested in. We read thousands of news articles a day from news sources from all around the world and identify who, what and where they are about.

Another good alternative to PowerPoint

Narrated slideshow creation tool. "Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues"

Great tool for creating 3D models of buildings using Google Earth and photos.

Tool for sharing videos, particularly via Twitter.

Windows-only screen capture/sharing tool. Works with Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, other sites.

Online tool for tracking student behavior with simple points system, cute avatars for students. Think assertive discipline.

Great tool for creating and sharing virtual badges.

New, click-and-drag animation creation tool. Currently in beta and requiring invitation for access.

Nice, easy tool for group brainstorming or feedback. Acts like Wordle for teams--repeated words display larger.

Nice, simple, free drawing and painting tool. Variety of brushes and textures. No registration needed.

Very useful resource--allows you to clip and share parts of YouTube videos.

Web app lets students use web-connected mobile devices to indicate whether or not they understand a topic, then provides teachers a real-time graph of student responses.

"Free online service for teachers to create their own customized portfolio webpage." Includes a personal URL, ability to upload files, links, photos, etc.

Create online flashcards that students can access via web browser or mobile apps (iOS and Android); tracks student progress.

This site lets users create informative, web-based graphics using images and "tags", which function much like people tags in Facebook. Thinglink has the advantage, however, of allowing tags to contain links, media, etc.

Web-based, free infographic creation site.