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6-12 Teachers and students can use this FREE online program to edit and enhance their photos. Con: Program may not work as expected.

This site is a free suite of powerful online creation tools.

3-12 Teachers and students can create a hotlist, treasure hunt, sampler, scrapbook, or webquest.

Online gradebook and more

If you haven't looked at this site in a while, it's worth another look. Appropriate for all grade levels. This is a free online grade book. Recently they have added more sophisticated communication tools, class calendars, the ability to upload files and much more. The discussion feature could double as literature groups or Socratic Circle. The one downside to this is if you do not wish for students to have access, as soon as you print them out a progress report, they have their student code and can get online and check their grades at any time. This could be difficult in the instance that students and/or parents are wondering why this person's project is graded and theirs is not. Check out the new wiki feature.

3-8 Factsheets, quizzes and activities to build skills in math and literacy. Classroom Connections: Students can use independently as a center choice to reinforce skills in math and literacy. Teachers can use to project on SmartBoard for introducing concepts and whole group practice and reinforcement of concepts.

Elementary Classroom Connections: A site that has math and ela games to improve your skills in these areas. Puts content into fun practice for students.

K-12 Online poster creator. User can make personal themed posters, using various fonts, images, videos and links. Classroom Connections: *Teachers- create a poster of vocabulary words in science social studies, literacy or math-- include images, fonts, words, videos to reinfoce concepts * Students- create posters to demonstrate what they learned about concepts in any content area- by including text, images, font * Students- Create posters of research done on various topics- or books reports

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Students can create a glogster for a Roman Emperor as to why they would be the best candidate to be Mr. Rome Overview- A great site to post ideas, important information, and great organizational tool designed with images and color. Cons- Need some time to get used too.

This is a tool to be used by students or by teachers to create an online poster. One con to this site is that students will first have to be familiarized with copyright law before reusing information. If the poster is intended to communicate research information, there is no built-in way of creating a bibliography. Check out "Today's Top Glogs" for fresh ideas.