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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

WEB 2.0 Guru provides LFS strategies enhanced with Integrated Technologies. These strategies will not only assist students with core content area proficienty but also 21st Century skills and NETS proficiencies.

Great wikispace with lots of integration strategies for Essential questions, vocab activities, activating strategies, teaching strategies, summarizing activities, and extending and refining learning.

Karen Sipe shared this wiki with resources for LFS.

Edit Grip allows users to collaborate via the web on a spreadsheet. Works very much like Excel.

Posterous sites are the simple way to send your message where you need it. Posterous groups are great for sharing privately via email, mobile, or the web. Discuss, collaborate, or just keep everyone on the same page, whether it's colleagues, a club, team, group of friends, or family

History matters is a database of coursework, guides, and primary-source documetns on topics in American history, History Matters was produced by two academic programs at the City Unviersity of New York and George Mason University. The site is most useful for high school history teachers and studetns, and educators can use it as a professional-development resource. The Digital Blackboard page offersr curriculum guides with links to third-party reference sites. Another page hosts a series of Q & A interviews with history teachers, who reveal the secrets behind teaching a successful history course. The Students as Historians page links to web-based projects created by high school and college students. And don't forget to check out the primary-source search engine, located on the Many Pasts page. The search enging links to more than a thousand images, audio, and text-based documenets from American history sites across the Internet.

Ozge Karaoglu's blog post 5_6_11 A-Z Web tools for the letter "F".

Article on 10 steps to a better web research.

Sheppard Software has a fantastic collection of free web-based educational games. Sheppard Software's free games cover Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. Most of the games are appropriate for elementary and middle school students, but some games are appropriate for high school students. The geography games are particularly good.

42 explore is a web project that provides resources and teaching materials on different subject areas and disciplines.

This site provides teaching tips, lesson plans, activities, academic articles, web resources and many more items.

Soundjay is a collection of music and sound tracks that are free to use as long as you cite the Soundjay site and you are not allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else. You can put them into your videos.

Wordhippo is a great vocabulary web tool that lets you easily provide antonyms and synonyms to your words.

This would be a good site to have available to students on a moodle or wiki as a student resource. It would be very helpful when students are writing and want to vary their words.

"QR Island is a free and easy set of tools to allow you to: Convert a link to QR Code Create a simple "text-only" QR Code Convert images from the web or your PC to QR Code Create a webpage that is instantly accessible by QR Code Decode QR Codes with your webcam"

"De Mobo Slides is a great application to remotely control the presentations you create through Google Slides, Prezi, and Slideshare right from your iPhone or Android-operated device. The process is ver simple: you install De Mobo app on your mobile device and pair it with your computer using a generated code as shown in the video below. Once the two devices are connected you can then start streamlining presentations from your mobile device. However for this to work, you need to make sure both of the devices are connected on the same network. Some of the features provided by De Mobo include: 'integrating your webcam into your presentation as a Smart Overhead Projector, access to your speaker notes on your phoneA, embedded timer, playable embedded Youtube videos, ptions to change presentation animations on the fly, and access to PDF on your local storage, Dropbox or Box.net. Watch the video below to learn more about how to use De Mobo.'  Follow us on : Twitter, Facebook , Google plus, Pinterest . You might also like: All The Resources and Tips You Need to Effectively ... 7 Ways Teachers Can Create Videos without Installing ... Two Excellent Web Tools to Easily Record and Share Audio ... 4 Awesome Google Drive Templates to Help Students Create ... Linkwithin Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Visit Med's profile on Pinterest.   GOOGLE+ BADGE SEARCH THIS BLOG ABOUT US Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is operated by a team of dedicated teachers located in Canada. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, Med Kharbach, at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Copyright © 2010-2016 Educational Technology and Mobile Learning . By : EdTech Team. "

This PBS site has a Galileo biography, an exploration of Galileo's telescope, and other interesting articles as well as fun interactive activities for grades 6-12. These games feature animated experiments including Galileo's ingenious experiment on gravity demonstrating that all objects fall at the same rate. Teacher's can find an archive of over 120 companion Web sites to past Nova TV programs by interest, program title, or year of broadcast. There is a searchable teacher's section with classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and explorations for students. The video is not free but the interactive experiments on this site are very nice. They are animated and the kids predict what will happen before you activate the animations.

This link goes to a variety of interactive web sites for a variety of content areas.

Kwiqpoll is a free quick polling tool for educators

Search Engine for students. Brings up hits from 35,000 web sites that have been approved by a staff of teachers, librarians, and research experts.

Site for students with sites approved by educators.

Lots of great web links as you go deeper into specific areas.

This website is amazing. It is a maaaassive interactive list of web 2.0 tools, complete with links, tutorials, reviews, descriptions, strengths, weaknesses, and samples aimed directly at teachers. If you want to feel overwhelmed with possibilities, check it out. I've been trying to experiment with one or two things from their list each day and have already found a couple I'm in love with (see big think above).

Gail Desler's (Blog Walker) post 4/6/2009 about resources for teaching about earthquakes.