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Safe share.tv This site provides a way to safely share Youtube videos.

Great resource with a variety of web 2.0 resources for secondary teachers. Great exampl of livebinder (another free tool)

35 interesting ways to use Twitter in the Classroom

TenMarks provides the teachers and administrators with the tools necessary for assessment and instruction for all 3 tiers of Response to Intervention (RTI).

It provides more than 2500 free videos covering several topcs such as: Algebra, Geometry, Pre-calculus, trigonometry, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

This site has virtual fieldtrips that teachers can explore. There is also a link to create, add and edit your own virtual fieldtrips.

The social platform Google+ has some excellent integrated tools that students can draw on to study collaboratively. Two of these tools are Circles and Hangout. The Circles feature allows users to create group of contacts with whom they can easily converse and share materials. Google Hangout allows you to hold video conferences with a limited group of people. The great thing I like about Google Hangout is the things you can do while using it. You can for instance share your screen, collaborate on a Google Doc or even use a collaborative whiteboard. Hangouts can be recorded and streamed live on YouTube.

Common sense media provides a variety of science games for kids ages 2- 13+

Fun Science games This site allows the user to filter by experiments, comics, games and videos

Digitales is a great site to assist in the development of evaluation rubrics for a variety of project types.

Digitales is a great site to use for development of rubrics for a variety of projects.

This is a tool designed for history classrooms but able to be adapted to any discipline.

Free site that looks like it would be fun for kids.

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Lots of free tools. I liked the diagrams available.

Teacher training videos. There are lots of videos to view on this site covering a variety of tools.

Here are a number of sites in one location.

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.

Look like some fund activities that could be used for a variety of content areas.

Free and can be used by a variety of content areas

scribblemaps lets users create custome maps and share them. Users don't need a login to create a map. Students can add text and pictures to the information boxes, and they can see their project in map view, satellite view, hybrid view, and night sky. They can zoom in and out and find a particular area using the search box.

Another free tool.

Icyte is a research bookmarking tool. Icyte assums that teams of students already have a common research task and quickly facilitates sharing and collaboration.

Free tool for students to share research collected.

Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

Free

The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities for students. Shared by Jesse White

Docs Teach provides ready to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom.

This site can be used to create 3D animations that can be used for storytelling. Digital storytelling would be possible with this site.

students can create their own animated stories.

"Welcome to Photo-notes.com ...a fun way to share your photos! A free service for generating PolaroidTM-like images and emailing them to family and friends!"