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Managing your Twitter account can be a full-time job. Apps are a great way to use Twitter more efficiently, but with so many options, choosing the right tool is difficult. Below, we've handpicked seven of our favorite under-the-radar tools to take your Tweeting to the next level. 1.

I'm a big fan of Universal Design for Learning and CAST (http://cast.org) tools. This is a great resource for instructional materials.

If you want to generate teams and groups randomly (and quickly), you can't go wrong with this easy-to-use tool. Copy & paste the names of your students in one box, choose team names (optional), the number of teams you want to generate, choose your output format (HTML or Excel format), and click Generate Teams! If you don't like the teams, click Generate Teams! again. Very simple to use. And fast!

This is a new search engine launched specifically for eBooks. As more people are easily creating ePubs, this could be a great tool.

Free online grapher ... very nice graphics. Handles polar & Cartesian, function & inequality forms very well. No tools (intersection, etc.), but very nice, FAST graphics.

Have you tried it on the iPad? Do you think it could replace the Virtual TI app?

Richard Byrne, award winning social studies teacher from Maine, posts 4-5 new resources every day. His blog is an amazing resource for finding tools to use in the classroom.

Thanks for sharing this Beth! Did you get my message about your upcoming visit to Atlanta and trying to get together. Bob

Blog post from Technology Transformation.

This is a great digital storytelling tool that now features characters and sets for political satire. It's a great way for students to create and publish stories.

You won't find Willyn Webb telling her high school students to put away their cell phones, even though they are technically banned in her Colorado district. She's been using cell phones to augment her lessons at Delta County Opportunity School for years.

Teachers talk about this problem from a 'restrictive" perspective, can it be a learning tool?

Greg Kulowiec has done some great work with cell phones in his classroom. You can learn more on his blog: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/ Specifically, he has used them for blogging and as a student response tool: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/search?q=cell+phones

This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.

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In this digital world, opportunities for education are available like never before. Though teachers using online tools are empowering students take part in their education, they may also expose them to inappropriate material, sexual predators, and bullying and harassment by peers.

A social network designed for educators who are interested in integrating social media and Web 2.0 tools into their classes.

OK, this is a biology game, but image the power of a math game that could accomplish what this does for cell biology.

OK! I just played the game, Cell Craft. Very interesting and potentially a good classroom or study tool to make the learning of cellular respiration interesting. What do you all think?

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.