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Whether you want to have students turn in homework via an online form or simply take a quiz or test, online quiz tools are critical to having a connected classroom. Most tools are free, all are robust, and they're quite easy to use. What could be better than that? You can use any of these below tools to get feedback from parents, students, colleagues, and more.

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This is another version of online student response system that seems to go a step further than the Socrative learning tool.  This system allows you to record the questions in audio, use pictures and set up different classrooms.  You can even provide a link where each of the students can view the same web page at once while the teacher discusses a topic.  The tool allows the students to respond with a drawing which is great for dyslexic students struggling with writing.  

"It can be difficult to find useful and engaging programs to use in your classroom, especially when budgets don't allow for it. Here's a fresh idea: meaningful content using real-life scenarios that engages teenagers and doesn't cost a dime. That's Banzai." OMG this program and the reviews look great! Everything is there for you to use. Read the FAQ portion first and you will get most of your questions answered. It is suppose to work on the iPad but I would use traditional computers for this web tool. You need to print the booklets for the students first and the time to use the program is said to be three to four hours or at least 4-5 classes. It looks great to teach financial literacy with a small group or classroom.

This looks like an excellent resource with MANY web tools...I see that it is an aware winner, so its worth keeping track of this one.

Quiz Maker is a Web-based assessment platform that allows educators to create and administer public and private tests. It includes six question types, a bank of pre-built questions and quiz templates, reporting and analytics features, privacy/security tools, and support for multimedia. Quiz Maker comes in both free and paid subscription editions, with subscriptions ranging from $3.97 to $9.97 per month for educators. (The free edition is ad-supported and limited, lacking reporting, privacy, and other features.)

a free web resource for teachers, students and parents that finds and explains how to use free web tools in the classroom

Meograph is a free, easy multimedia storytelling tool. Students can quickly combine videos, audio, pictures, text, maps, timelines, and links to create what the developers call "four-dimensional storytelling." No registration is required and an education version is available.  You have to play around with it to get the concept before introducing it to students.

This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years. This is our attempt to put together all that information in a categorized format so parents, educators and other professionals who work with kids with special needs can benefit from the knowledge we already acquired.

TEACHERS CAN TRY THIS FOR FREE! "MRI is an online formative assessment tool designed to make teachers' classroom instruction more effective. The MRI questions focus on number and operations and are based on content from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics prior to sixth grade. They are questions that we expect…and hope…all middle school students to answer successfully."

Take a minute to share your thanks for one (or a bunch) of your favorite teachers and what they inspired you to do. Brownie points for sending your story along to them! (We've got a feeling they'd love to hear from you too.) Excellent tool to use with students to enhance writing and social emotional development

Free tools to use and share. Over 1,300 reproducibles from 72 different books on 20 different topics that you can print, copy, and distribute for educational purposes. Reproducibles include useful links, electronic forms, and printable documents. Look at the expansive list of sped resources.

A good blog (actually looks like a newpaper page) that has lessons where students are asked to give their opinion on a topic. Very good questions to develop reasoning, judgement and decision making skills. These questions can be used to link in your own blog, wiki, or web tool (like the collaborize classroom). Students can comment on the blog site their opinion. Nice to get your school recognized.

This wonderful post discusses the iPad as uses for the following skills: reader, creator, student response system, classroom manger study tool, organizer and differentiator. Phenomenol post.

This site assists you in clarifying the blurred lines between cyberbullying and socially responsible digital citizenship. A good resource tool.

Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. And it's free. This works on the Ipad and the teacher has a content tool that they chose grapics, text, and materials from to present an interactive slide show where the students can interact with on their Ipads.

"Post assignments, announcements, and links to important resources Notify parents and students each time you update your classroom page Create an online calendar of class events and activities Use our free storage to upload documents and add images to your page(s) Access practical tips and other resources from EducationWorld.com Use our handy tools to create flashcards and other learning materials"

This playlist is intended to offer tools to make the case that it's critical to teach digital citizenship. There are links to videos that can be used when teaching digitalcitizenship

iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online and show your creativity with iPiccy editor!

Lifehacker's App Directory is a constantly maintained and updated directory of the best applications and tools for computers (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and smartphones (Android and iPhone). Want to make sure you've got the best of the best installed on your system? Simply click on your platform-of-choice below to get started.