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Create your own website in a snap! Weebly guides you through all the basics of creating a website. It comes with visually appealing templates and drag and drop ease to create pages, add text or images, or share links. Students can create websites too for many classroom applications. Weebly is easy and free with premium options for users that want additional features and are willing to purchase an upgraded membership.

This website uses primary sources to teach the humanities to students. It is great for lesson plan ideas and has a strong focus on concepts rather than facts. Teachers can use it in the classroom by downloading the sources from the website. Teachers can either use the given questions or apply their own.

This website uses primary sources to teach the humanities to students. It is great for lesson plan ideas and has a strong focus on concepts rather than facts. Teachers can use it in the classroom by downloading the sources from the website. Teachers can either use the given questions or apply their own.

Educators rate and review apps, games, websites, etc and explain how they are using them in the classroom.

Abby - This looks like a nice teacher site. It's nice to read a quick blurb about what the sites are along with the rating. I liked that there was a section of the site to connect apps to common core standards. This could be very helpful and I appreciate that I can start with the standard (objective) and connect it to the technology. I think sometimes teachers start with a cool piece of tech and try to make it fit in their curriculum and it becomes more of a bell and whistle than a purposeful use of technology.

Sarah I agree! I will admit that sometimes I see something so cool that I want to use, but am not sure it really fits.

This website has full transcripts to every episode of Good Eats with links to YouTube! Good Eats is an excellent series that highlights a different food ingredient in every episode. Family and Consumer Sciences teachers will find these useful for explaining food sciences aspects.

This website has full transcripts to every episode of Good Eats with links to YouTube! Good Eats is an excellent series that highlights a different food ingredient in every episode. Family and Consumer Sciences teachers will find these useful for explaining food sciences aspects.

An inspiring website for teachers. Krissy is a director of a gifted and talented charted school, but offers inspiration for all who need it. Go visit her site on sad or bad days, or just browse her image gallery until inspiration strikes.

An inspiring website for teachers. Krissy is a director of a gifted and talented charted school, but offers inspiration for all who need it. Go visit her site on sad or bad days, or just browse her image gallery until inspiration strikes.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

This is an e-reading website with the capability to pose questions to students as they read. You can create a class and add content from the web.

This is an e-reading website with the capability to pose questions to students as they read. You can create a class and add content from the web.

QR code generator. Has some options other than plain B/W. Pretty cool!

I like QR Stuff so much I have even paid for its use. I like that they keep track of your history in a paid subscription. I've used QR Stuff to create vocabulary scavenger hunts, to make a poster of sites to share with other teachers and post a video of the scavenger hunt to share. I've even made my own audio book recordings through QR Stuff. I see this resource as one to be used by students and teachers. The site has so many options for teachers to create codes for their classrooms. Students can link documents to digital portfolios, QR Creators are popular, but I haven't found another one that offers as many choices in codes and personalization features as QR Stuff. Ben you should look into Aurasma, an augmented reality app that adds a 3D component. And Socrative can be used for formative assessments.

QR codes are great for students, teachers and community members. I would guess many students and adults are familiar with them and if they don't know how to use them, know someone who is. Renee and Ben, I know some teachers use QR codes as a link to their Aurasma pages. I like this site because it offers more than the first-generation QR code generators. I can see many uses - I'd love to try one of the t-shirt or visual AR codes. I'm a fan of Tagxedo, which reminds of of the visual AR codes shown on the website.

Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

Classroom resource for games and management tools. This website provides very easy tools for creating seating charts, random name picker (think digital popsicle sticks) and random group maker. On the game side, easily create games like Jeopardy, Speed Match, and Who wants to be a millionaire. Save the links and use over and over. Highly motivating!

Free science resources for teachers. This wiki contains links for materials, content, websites, etc. Science teachers will find many useful links and ideas here.

I think this is a very under-utilized resource in schools today, for both teachers and students. There is so much available on this website. The possibilities that these resources provide teachers are endless. One of my personal favorites that is on this site is Atomic Learning. This provides training resource videos in almost any technology tool you can think of. I have used this multiple times to help me out of a jam when using anything from Movie Maker, to to Excel, to Skype to iPads. The videos are chunked into short, searchable segments that are very useful when you are trying to learn anything about computers and what to do with them. This is a great resource to use in the classroom, both for personal (as a professional) use or for student use. Students are able to search videos independently and use them for assistance, contributing to self-reliance and independence in implementing classroom technology. I am not aware of any similar resources with a database this large, in one location. Although most websites or programs have instructions, sometimes even instructional videos, available to help new users understand the technology, Atomic Learning has them all in one place with easy to use videos that do a great job of demonstrating how to use the particular programs. apps, or instructional technology with your students.

I agree with Tamra and Maria that this is an under-utilized resources. I have introduced and stressed the importance of these databases to students, teachers and other staff for several years. It is too easy to just 'Google It.' I used Atomic Learning when teaching middle school technology explore. One of our 8th grade skills was an understanding of Word, and I let students pick their own topics to study further through Atomic Learning. I just used Gale for peer-reviewed journals. I am also using SIRS to find articles for our Digital Citizenship (Protect It) curriculum. I am not aware of any other collections for education as robust as Iowa AEA Online.

I love AEA Online. Being a former AEA employee, I've become very familiar with it over the years. Like the other ladies who commented before me, it is very underused. I'm not sure whether it's because people are not well enough familiarized with what they have to offer, or because it presents another opportunity for information overload. Regardless, it is a wonderful resource for students and teachers. I used Atomic Learning to help a teacher develop her own skills. I've also recommended it as a resource to our Special Education teachers as a resource to learn when students need reinforcement of new concepts.

Create and share information webs on your blogs and websites.

Create interactive infographics & online charts. Add photos, video and more to share or embed on your website or blog.

Symbaloo gives you a great place to book mark specific websites, videos, or documents to use in your classroom at a later time.

Symbaloo gives you a great place to book mark specific websites, videos, or documents to use in your classroom at a later time.

This is a very easy and colorful way to keep track of those bookmarks a user wants on multiple computers. This is very easy even for those who are not tech savvy.

A new to me blogging website. Great edtech blogs

Curriki offers teachers a place to find lesson/material ideas for current projects they might be working on. This website also gives teachers a place to collaborate with each other for free!

This website is great for both teachers and students. It has millions of primary sources from U.S. history. It works for research or even simply as a lesson starter with an interesting photograph.

This website is a great place to find lesson plans, materials, and other resources for me the teacher to use in my classroom.

This website allows you to make a "word cloud" of important words to make things such as thank yous, a way to intro a topic, a way to introduce a new book, and more.