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Firefox & IE addon that claims to speed up your internet research by analyzing all of the links on a page and displaying chunks of information in a big sidebar.

Learning Focused Schools practices are assisting teachers with developing and implementing "Best Practice" however, the effective integration of the latest 21st Century tools and strategies is also necessary to develop highly differentiated instructional practices. These strategies will assist students with not only core content area proficiency but also 21st Century skills and NETS proficiencies. This page offers many ideas and practical application of LFS and effective 21st Century instructional technology strategies.

Nicely-organized wiki of student-designed review pages for math concepts. Includes videos, screencasts, and links to useful sites.

AT&T provided this "yellow pages" of videoconferencing opportunities.

draw and annotate over google maps and then save them and embed into other pages. quick and dirty.

Library of Congress Teacher page-highlights the use of primary sources in the classroom

Online web dictionary & thesaurus word linking lookup reference tool. Can "scan" a webpage, looking up vocabulary on that page.

PowerSet uses a technology that attempts to mine meaning out of web pages -- specifically, Wikipedia articles.

A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.

Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items - including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts - reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics page, with lessons, activities, and more.

Create neat embeddable posters. Awesome for the landing page on your wiki or website.

An online publishing site that gives students a very creative platform to present their work.

Upload multiple-page PDFs. This converts to online, clickable, embeddable "book" format.

MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. MathType works with 100s of applications and websites, allowing you to put Equations Everywhere and Anywhere™.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages.

One web page for every book ever publish is the goal of this project. Quite a large number are available with the full text of the book.

A web-based site developed for the tweener set. Features a spot for teachers to have their own class pages and even includes lesson plans. The animated look draws kids in, and the site has all the social networking gadgets of the larger sites, but the teacher areas are open only to whomever the teacher allows in-other teachers, students, and parents. This site gets contributed content from its corporate sponsors, which include PBS and Disney.

Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications. Create games, build mashups, design webpages.

Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free

Welcome to BibMe! The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.

Explanations and examples of different types of question writing techniques to encourage higher order thinking in the responses. One of my favorite pages!