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"Curate & Publish Content in Minutes. Turn web links into visually appealing newsletters, web pages and website embeds." Very cool and easy way to share web resources with a class. In a couple of clicks you make a web resource that can be emailed as a newsletter, embedded on a website, or shared as a webpage.

Below you will find 50 of the best math resource websites available. Parents and teachers of children 3 to 23 who are looking for videos, games, worksheets, printables, lessons, tutorials, calculators, worksheet generators, activities or interactives will likely find what they are looking for.

Graphite is a free service from Common Sense Media that makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom use.

A socially-curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning.

With Known, students and teachers can easily create websites, share content, and discuss projects. Known for Education gives individuals all the features of Known Pro at a lower price.

"Easily Annotate Videos 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". Organized Ant Farm Create a user account to create and save collections of Ants. Authenticated users can manage their Ants from their account dashboard, otherwise known as their "Ant Farm". Export Options Export your annotations in a variety of data formats. You can even embed your Ants on a personal website, learning management system, or anywhere HTML is allowed."

Here are the top 20 government websites.

Zoho Survey lets you mix and match 21 response formats in your surveys. It provides you with ready made templates and themes to use with your surveys Multiple question types are available and hence you can ask your audience exactly what you want. Add logic to your surveys by skipping or adding questions. Depending on the survey taker's previous responses, you can always make the surveys shorter and more relevant. Share survey links across social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus and watch the responses roll in. Zoho Survey automatically generates links and HTML/embed codes, so you can display your surveys on your website or blog. Analyze your survey results through reports that include a detailed summary of responses and visual representations with numerous charts. With Zoho Survey's app for the iPad, you can create surveys while on the go.

Throughout my different experiences working with teachers integrating technology in their classrooms I noticed that several of them still do not know about the powerful features that YouTube has. The fad that YouTube is a mere video hosting platform is still pervasive among many while, in fact, most if not all of the features provided by premium video websites are also found in YouTube and for free.

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Parapara Animation is a free animation creation tool developed and hosted by Mozilla. The tool is easy to use and it does not require registration in order to use it. To get started simply visit the Parapara Animation website, select a digital crayon, then start drawing. Click the large "+" icon in the top of the screen to add a new frame to your animation. You can playback your frames at any time in the creation process. When you're done making your animation it will be assigned a unique URL that can be shared via email. A QR code for your animation will also be generated for you.

List of vocabulary words with CCSS references

ForAllRubrics is another cool web tool for easily creating rubrics, checklists, and badges. The site provides a wide variety of interesting features for teachers including: the ability to score across different mobile devices, issue digital badges with evidence, view the status of your whole class at a glance, access assessment results on ForAllRubrics website, one click sharing of assessment results by email with students and parents and many more.

If you have been searching for an online collaboration tool that is versatile and easy to use, then Twiddla may be what you are looking for. Twiddla is a real-time collaboration whiteboard that allows an unlimited number of people to come together at one time to share or edit documents, images or websites.

"Vibby is a new service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website."