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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.

View Pure is a great way to show YouTube clips in class without all the on-screen clutter and dodgy comments. I've written about ViewPure in the past, but the site has had a revamp and is worth another blog post! Basically you go to ViewPure website, enter the URL of a YouTube video, or do a search, and it then displays the video on a class-friendly page without any of the on-screen clutter. ViewPure removes all comments, ads, and related videos, allowing videos to be watched without distractions, or more likely, without "inappropriate content". Read more http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2014/08/viewpure-watch-youtube-videos-without-clutter/

Webwhiteboard is a new website that provides users with interactive whiteboard software that runs in a web browser. It will run on any brand of interactive whiteboard, all you need is a web connection. There's nothing to install, and your whiteboard files live in the cloud so you can access them anywhere.

"Everystockphoto is an excellent search engine that allows you to conduct quick searches for free photos. Students can use it to look for images to use in their class projects and/or in their blogs and websites. Everystockphoto indexes and searches millions of free photos in all around the web. Photos returned in search results come under different licenses. Students need to verify the source license of images and make sure they have the permission to use them in their work."

Share customized Google maps, measure distance between two points, and map out routes to share with others or embed in a website.

"Have students make info graphics and posters quickly and easily using this wonderful website! Piktochart has pre-made backgrounds, fonts, and layouts that make designing an info graph on what you are teaching simple. Or, have students show what they know after a unit or a lesson by creating their own piktochart."

This website has a wealth of strategies that can be used to increase student engagement and achievement

Professor Word is a neat tool that can help students learn new SAT and ACT vocabulary words. Professor Word operates as a browser bookmarklet in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. With Professor Word installed in your browser whenever you're reading a webpage you can click on the Professor Word bookmarklet to quickly identify SAT and ACT vocabulary words on that page. You can also use Professor Word to get definitions for any unfamiliar word on a webpage. To get a definition just highlight the word and a small dialogue box containing the definition will appear.