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A Platform for Good (PFG) is a project of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) designed to help parents, teachers and teens to connect, share, and do good online!  At FOSI we work with leaders in the field of online safety and, regularly, we hear about incredible stories and exciting opportunities in our digital world. We hear stories of parents, teens, and teachers using technology to raise social awareness, encourage activism, enhance our education system, and of course, have fun!

"this new Chrome extension called Google Reader Readable is a pleasant surprise. It intends to bring a clutter free reading experience to Google Reader by helping you focus on the post you are reading. It works similar to services like Instapaper and Readability."

"Check out our list of 50 awesome videos for gaming teachers to discover what experts, teachers, and even students have to say about using games for education."

Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops.

ThisMoborobo is an application for Android users that allow them to do pretty much everything with their Android smartphone - in terms of management. The software can be used to easily back up and restore data that includes backing up contacts and apps to PC and easily transferring them between Android and iOS devices.

 Sharing files is a core Internet activity. It is done through e-mail, instant messages, posting links in Twitter, or by using Dropbox and Google Drive. But what if you just need a simple drag-and-drop interface and a quick link? Dropcanvas is a simple app that does exactly this. 

OnWebinar.com is a free platform for hosting and scheduling webinars, web-meetings and web-conferences. Organize online coaching, online-meetings or give online-presentations.

Gmail Backup is a migration tool for Gmail service from Google. You can backup or restore your emails on any email account from Google. Backup your emails on Google Apps Restore emails Incremental backup

Have you ever wanted a way to create a survey that looks a lot nicer and more professional than just some text on a webpage? If you have, than you should check out Survey Legend, where you can make beautiful surveys with just a few clicks.

"Hundred Zeros is a collection of best selling eBooks that are currently free on Amazon. You can download and read any of these books on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, Kindle or inside your favorite web browser. The list is updated every hour."

Today people share files and photos mostly by emailing them or by uploading them to their social networking accounts. But what if you wanted to share files conveniently without revealing your email address or without exposing your Facebook account? The answer is DropMark.

Bland presentations come to life when you add audio and video elements. Audio also becomes much more important when you are sending presentations online. Fortunately, Hello Slide is a text-to-speech mashup that lets you add audio overlays to presentations and then host them for you.

If you ever need to make a few quick tweaks to a photo, and you do not want to take the time to load up Photoshop, you should check out enThread. Sure, it doesn't have nearly as many features as Photoshop or one of the big image editing programs, but if you just need to make some small changes, the convenience of having it in your browser is awesome.

"The New Hive makes it easy for you to express yourself online. Whether it's a journal, collection of recipes, portfolio or flyer, it's fun and easy to create and update all of your media and ideas in one ad-free space. Decide what you want to share to the community, the world and all your social media sites. What's your vision to change the world?"

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

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MentorMob is an attempt to organize learning into relevant chunks i.e. playlists. Learning playlists are created by the community of users, and this collaboration it is hoped will lead to quality. As each playlist is rated by the community, the good ones will come to the surface.

"With the free Wappwolf app you have your whole photo and doc editing and sharing toolbox on the go. Reduce the number of apps in your life and be more productive. Wappwolf covers more than 25 must-have actions."

Do you ever find a YouTube clip you want to share because of the audio, but the imagery is boring or annoying or unnecessary? Here's how to embed that video as only an audio player. It's very easy.