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Search the Web together with people you trust. What is SearchTeam.com? SearchTeam is a collaborative search engine. To start with, you can use SearchTeam to efficiently research the Web for information. You start your research by creating a SearchSpace on a topic of interest. From within a SearchSpace, you can search the Web, videos, images, books and more. You can find and save only what you want while you are searching and throw away what you don't want or find irrelevant. You can automatically organize what you save, into folders of your choosing. Everything is automatically saved into your personal account, and you can return to your searches any time and continue from where you left before. What makes SearchTeam unique and valuable is that you can do your searches collaboratively with others you trust, such as friends, colleagues and family members. You can invite any set of people you trust to search with you from within a SearchSpace. An invitation is sent via email to those people you invite to join your search. When they enter your SearchSpace, they see exactly what you've found and saved so far. They can comment on or like your findings.

"By leveraging the instructional potential of web-based resources, you can increase student engagement, expose them to authentic content, and engage them in collaborative activities that trigger critical thinking and creativity."

"Students and teachers can use the Share to Classroom Chrome extension to share web content. Teachers can use it to create and share assignments and announcements as well." Link to Chrome Web Store to add the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-classroom/adokjfanaflbkibffcbhihgihpgijcei

"VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called "Ants"."

A neat web conferencing and webinar site that is completely free. Uses chat, voice, and video to collaborate.

"Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App. Unlike the regular Chrome web apps that are nothing but fancy bookmarks, the Dictation App for Chrome will run entirely on your computer."

Bunkr is an online presentation tool which not only enables you to create your presentations (a la powerpoint) in your web browser but also to collect and store content (image, video, quote, text) from the internet which you can use later in your slides.

"Piktochart is a great web app that allows students to create products that other students will actually WANT to read. It lets students combine visuals, text and interactive web elements into a dynamic, eye-catching presentation. It's free (of course!). It's powerful. It has tons of options. And the products created by it can be shared in many formats. So why not jump in and give it a shot? Here are 20 ways Piktochart can be incorporated into the classroom."

PrimaryWall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.

Timeglider is a data-driven interactive timeline application. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out - much as you would with a mapping app - to view centuries at a time or just hours. You can create create event spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, Timeglider lets you collaborate and share easily. Excellent option for informational text creation and distribution.

"Web Whiteboard is the simplest way to instantly draw and write together online. Nothing to install or learn. Passwords and accounts are entirely optional. Just create an online whiteboard with one click, and share it live by sending the link to people. You can use this whiteboard in conjunction with a Google Hangout."

Great resource for learning new web tools and how to best utilize their features in 5 minutes or less.

Save web articles as PDF for reading later.

This blog contains numerous ideas on how to incorporate various web tools into your classroom.

Excellent presentation about web tools for our students' education for the future.

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative learning and iterative improvement."

"eMeet.me is a free, web based, online meeting service thats so easy and fun, that even grandma could use it. You can video conference, screen share, and chat. People can dial in by phone, or use their computer camera and microphone. We even record your meetings for later playback! Take your virtual meeting to a beautiful place around the world with our built in backdrops."