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17 Free YouTube Tools Every Teacher should know about.

If you use Youtube you will definitely want to check out some of the tools that make it more friendly with regard to eliminating the junk around the video. It also provides some google chrome tools to use with Youtube videos.

Conceptua Math has some free tools available for users. While there is a subscription with conceptua math, the free things look interesting and worth checking out.

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"YouTube Toolbox: 100+ Tools and Resources to Enhance Your Video Experience"

Wolfram/Alpha is to be the first web-based tool that can find answers to all systematic knowledge in the world. For educators, this "computational iknowledge engine" can find objective and fact-based answers for a variety of subject areas. Type in "Newton's Law," for example, and the formula for force is explained. Enter in an equation for a line, and the site plots the line on a graph. Ask "What is the GDP of the United States and Canada?" and a chart depicts a side-byside comparison of the nations' economic data.

Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality. This site would be great for students who are writing but are at a loss for what words they could use. In playing with this site I found it was fun to put in a word and see how many other words would come up in relation to the word I used. What a helpful tool for students.

This is an example of a 5th/6th grade class wiki. Neat example because the class has integrated a variety of resources, information and links to other web tools into their wiki.

Memorize.com is a new learning website that allows users to create their own study guides and then share them on the web. The free site assembles user-generated content in three formats -- flash cards, multiple choice, and visual learning diagrams. The topics range from traditional school subjects, such as history, languages, and geography, to less academic categories, such as food, billiards, and television. Users can follow other users and their pages and edit other users' pages to craete their own unique page.

free and covers a variety of content areas.

Share your family tree. Free

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

Teacher's Domain offers free digital media from public TV broadcasters for educational use. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common c ore State Standards, or national standards from different organizations. Website users can create onlin eprofiles in order to share the resources they have learned for a particular lesson with others.