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Pealtrees is a great site for students to organize and arrange their favorite websites into webs or mindmaps. Each bookmark of a website is made into a circle, which is a "pearl." The pearls can be connected to each other in any way, which serves as the branches. Pealtrees also allows others to share their webs with others on the site. With this site, students can make digital portfolios of all of their work created online, such as blog posts, in addition to any offline work.

Twiducate is a website that allows students and teachers to network in a class group for better communication. This can serve as a tool for students to collaborate and ask questions in a more organized, convenient fashion. At PFTSTA, communication between students and teachers is imperative--hence the many emails written between us. Some emails are more simple than others, for example where it may be reminders or notifications. Twiducate can be used to send out mass messages from students to teachers and vice versa, without the trouble of having to email everyone to see the message being relayed.

An image search engine that locates the source image from a user-uploaded file or URL. Useful for finding higher quality images, images from a cropped photo, and images without watermarks.

Tired of boring PowerPoints filled with paragraphs of information? With this YouTube PowerPoint Add-in, you can embed YouTube videos into your presentations just by using the URL.

This website provides free music for the public domain. The music is categorized into different moods, and the download link is easily accessible. Along with the actual track available for play, there is a description of the music. You can use this music in many different projects such as presentations, videos, or podcasts in any school subject.

OpenEd is an educational resource catalog which provides videos and educational games. This site is also aligned to common core standards so it provides students with the information needed to graduate.

Mashpedia serves as a median for finding a variety of research sources on a specific topic. Searching up a topic will direct you to a page full of videos, news, and the Wikipedia page relating to that topic. With this website, students will be able to access the most up to date information on a topic--all in one place.

5 Proven Ways Students can Learn Better is a good website that offers students 5 tips on how they can develop a better understanding on what they are learning. Students ,teachers, and even parents can use the information on this website to help make learning more enjoyable and worthwhile. By using the tips offered by this website, students may be able to improve their grades and have a deeper understanding about the material they are learning.

Dumpr allows you to take your photos and turn them into jigsaw puzzles, virtual rubik's cubes, and many more things.

Quick, easy-to-use survey service that provide updates data in real time. Provides statistics in the form of bar graphs and circle charts. Unique URL allows for easy, distinct access to each survey created.

Watch2gether is a great video tool which allows multiple people to watch the same video at the same time. It provides a chatroom so that students can interact and comment on the video with each other. Watch2gether is a great tool for students to help with collaboration. It allows you to enter a youtube URL and create a playlist to watch.

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.

A versatile and easily accessible site, Tackk allowing users to create simple webpages filled with images, videos, and audio files of their choice. Users are also given many design options ranging from color schemes to backgrounds. The purpose of the webpage can be just about anything. Another feature enabled to users is searching through existing "tackks" or webpages by featured or popular tags.

Online image editor that can use uploaded images or pictures found on the web. Contains many features such as layering, distortion, and recoloring.

MorgueFile is a website that provides free high-resolution images for public use. They also provide lessons on photography using the "classroom" feature, and offer a portal of pictures contributed by the morgueFile "community."

College Board allows students to sign up for SAT standardized tests and to practice for them. It also gives pointers for the SAT subject tests and AP tests. Finally, the site allows you to check your scores after you have taken the tests

Free Royalty Free Stock Photography is a website that offers "over 1000 images" that are free. It has a variety of categories, such as animals, technology, textures, buildings, etc. This website allows anyone to use these photos (they do not have to worry about copyright laws). Students can use this tool to find pictures for projects and presentations. Since it is royalty free, students do not have to worry about copyright restrictions.

Provides educationally-based games for students, stratified by grade (from kindergarten to fifth grade) or subject (math, reading, word, and matching).

Online collaboration tool that allows multiple users to simultaneously work on one document. Features real-time editing, a chat box, and custom colors which will highlight each individual's edit.