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This website gives everyone the opportunity to learn. It has videos that teach you information on what you want. You can make a playlist of videos.

Associated with most of the textbooks at this school, Class Zone has interactive lessons to help advance in lessons and get a deeper meaning for the lesson taught in the class.

WizIQ is an online classroom that allows teachers and/or students to connect anywhere in the world. It has a multi-way audio tool and a four-way video tool that allows learners and teachers to collaborate and share information online. Their is an interactive white board tool lets teachers control interaction from within live virtual classes. It is integrated with moodle to where teachers can upload documents and manage/schedule classes. An unlimited amount of students can join a class.

Students can create a slideshow for whichever class may require it and then present it to the class through their computers using slideshare.

Slidershare uploads and shares slideshows. This makes it easy to share powerpoints.

It can help students with any subject. It can also help teachers plan for their classes. It is a tool that has a section for student resources, class room tools, and professional development.

Grammar base is an easy to use tool to check your grammar online. This will be helpful for students in English classes or students required to write papers for classes.

This would be a helpful tool for education when a class is using a new program that they might not know much about or not really understand how to use. This website could help gives the basics on how to use it before they actually need to apply the program for class.

WriteRhymes is a useful tool for writing. Whether it me poetic or prose, WriteRhymes helps you find words that rhyme with a word you choose. You can use WriteRhymes in English classes or any class that requires writing.

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.

An online tool that can be used for making flow charts or other presentations.

With Lucidchart, anyone can create charts needed for education. Lucidchart is easy and appropriate for school and all ages.

This program, which is now compatible with Google Drive, allows for the easy creation of charts, flow charts and wireframes. This would be put to good use from middle school through high school in order to organize study material, make charts for a class, or create rough sketches of drawings or websites.

A free teleprompting tool that can help you work on stage presence and public speaking. Also, it can help you with class presentations and any other presentations you may have in the future.

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.

Online tool that offers vocabulary, spelling, writing, parts of speech, handwriting and alphabetical order games to elementary, middle and high-school classes.

This tool can help students learn and explore new words and phrases.

This is a site that allows students to add words to corresponding images. This allows students taking a foreign language to get a visual of words which can be more effective in learning. Also this site can be used for student in a social studies class to have an interactive activity with maps or science with models.

myHomework is an app that works on the majority of smart phones and is designed to help students keep track of their classes. Enter your schedule in day or block format and keep track of assignments and due dates. "If you're looking for one schedule and homework reminder service that you can recommend to all of your students regardless of which mobile operating system they use, myHomework is worth trying out" (Richard Byrne).

Zygote Body is a 360 degree view of the human body. Viewers have the option to view one or more of the different layers (muscles, bones, organs, skin, etc) at once. Clicking on a specific body part, such as a rib bone, will tell the viewer the name of the body part, coastal cartilage 2.This tool can be used in Biology classes to educate students on the human body and its systems in a visual and accurate way.

Body Browser gives you a 360 degree view of the human body. You can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. You can turn on all the layers at the same time and alter the transparency of each layer.

This tool can help teachers compare their class to the state to see where they stand and what needs working on.

A free video editing software that can be used towards video projects for any class.

A free site for making digital magazines. This site can be used towards projects or activities for any class. You can include pictures, videos, etc. in your digital magazine.