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Cyber streetwise is a great site for anyone who is new to the internet and is looking how to be safe. It gives you a walk through on how to be safest on the web. It goes through how to make a strong password, how to shop online, and social networking.

This is a French Dictionary. It translate English to French and vice versa. This website can be used by students who have difficulty understanding French. This resourced can be used most grade levels, but it is mostly for middle and high school students.

Knovio is a great tool to build upon regular old power-point presentations, especially if your looking to create a presentation that can be understood and presented without you even needing to be there. What Knovio does is it provides an easy way to add audio or video to your powerpoint in order to easily narrate it. It also lets you share the power-point directly from Knovio either privately or across social networks.

Tweet2Cite is an easy website that allows you to convert tweets into MLA, APA, and Wikipedia citations. As our school is becoming more involved with social networking (school Facebook group and Twitter), it seems fitting to be able to reference Tweets from Twitter, where information can be shared to the masses.

This is a free tool that can be used by teachers to make online videos, such as Khan Academy uploads, into personalized tutorials and quizzes for students. By inserting voice commentary and self-made questions on a timeline, student and teacher can interact without necessarily being in the classroom.

Students can share and work on assignments over Voice Thread, and teachers can check and comment on assignments. It can be accessed on mobile devices and on a desktop.

A good forum website. Forums automatically delete themselves.

TodaysMeet is an extremely simple website that allows users to create temporary chat rooms, to be used for communication and sharing of notes or questions, during class discussions or presentations.

Stixy is a website that can be used to collaborate, create, organize, and share content on Stixyboards, a flexible Web-based bulletin board. You can customize and design an unlimited number of digital bulletin boards by uploading files, photos, documents,etc. Tip: Use this site to help students organize information in a way that make sense to them to collaboratively create and share projects.

This is an engaging presentation tool which allows the user to insert videos, feeds, and other content that is not usually on a presentation. This tool also allows users to collaborate on a project. With the paid function user may create polls that other people will be able to answer

Presentation.io is a service that allows a presenter to sync their presentation to the devices of those they're presenting too. Rather than collecting everyone's email address and sending the presentation to them, Presentation.io produces a link to the presentation and it will change slides as the presenter does. This service can be used by students and educators alike, it's a great way to make sure everyone is on the same page, literally. There is a feature that allows the audience to comment on and ask questions about the slides. This is good for student-to-teacher communication.

Stat silk can be used for many reasons but this part of the website provides statistics based on the selected area or region on the globe.

This is a video uploading website which is totally free and can also be very helpful in changing video formats, etc.

TagCrowd is a word cloud that allows people to add in words to create an image. These word clouds can be visually pleasing and can get a point across to people viewing them.

Creaza is a tool for making any sort of media project. It can be used for cartoons, video, and audio.

List of lessons and other resources for the people who are starting Spanish or want to learn some of the language for travel. it can also be a review for higher level Spanish students who may have forgotten the basics.

Pathbrite provides a free and simple way to create an academic portfolio. It provides a template where you can include transcripts, letters of recommendation, pieces of your work, etc. and showcase it in an exquisite portfolio. Pathbrite also maps out and individual's achievements against those of their peers in a Knowledge Graph. According to Pathbrite, "School admissions officers and employers rely on our Pathbrite Portfolio Platform to get a holistic view of candidates, and to better evaluate their readiness for and organizational fit to the opportunity at hand." Pathbrite can be used by high school students to create portfolios in applying to programs and colleges.

Flashcardmachine.com is a free online tool that allows students, teachers, and professionals to create web-based study flash cards that can be shared with others. You can study your flashcards online or access them on other devices, such as your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android, available on the App Store and Android market. You can also view flashcards that others have created as well, which makes this online tool very interactive and collaborative.

Smore is a site that allows you to create a digital poster or flyer that can be shown on Facebook, sent in emails, or embedded in a blog or site.

This is a great website for students currently taking biology. This website can help you answer questions about biology if needed. If you subject is somewhat related to biology, you may still be able to use this source.

This website lets you browse or create a "playlist" of videos to help you. It's basically a educational YouTube. They have videos in almost every subject and even has things for parents and it could be helpful for teachers as well to find a new way to present an idea.