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Learner.org is a site with lots of teacher resources. They use media and telecommunications to advance teaching in American schools. They try to find more effective ways to train teachers. There are workshops the teachers can attend to improve learning in classrooms.

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.

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.

This website helps teachers share resources on every subject. Any resource on any subject can be submitted. It is a great way for teachers to learn new information on the topic they're teaching.

JeopardyLabs allows teachers to create Jeopardy type games, containing content-based questions for review. This site provides an easy alternative to power-point for teachers to create jeopardy games to use as an easy and fun way to review information.

For big projects, instead of doing a poster board or presentation, teachers can opt for their students to create blogs with this tool. Weebly is a simple and easy blogging site and with Weebly for education, teachers can quickly create accounts for all their students. Weebly becomes more than just a blogging site with Weebly for education; teachers can accept homework and keep parents up to date on their child's work.

Viddler is a video website similar to YouTube, but it has more features and more uses for education. There is more privacy, analytics, customization, and users have the ability to generate money from their videos. Educators can use Vidder for online video discussions to supplement classroom discussions. Teachers can record and post videos directly to their Viddler channel using a web cam. Students can comments in response to the teacher at the specific part of the video in which the teacher asked a question.

Vidder offers educational videos on almost all subjects. Students can even upload their own videos and write messages.

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.

Social networking site for teacher-to-student & student-to-student interaction.

This website is good for putting assignments online and getting help from classmates.

Secure, Facebook-like website where teachers and students can collaborate and discuss classroom topics.

On the PBS website teacher, students, and parents can access tool to help them with their or someone else's education.

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.

A site which students and teachers can use to teach and learn skills and concepts in music and music theory using interactive practice assignments.

Planboard is an online lesson planner made for teachers. Create, share, and manage lesson plans with simple and easy to use lesson plan templates.

ThingLink lets users add interactive links to any photo and turn them into fun web experiences that drive engagement. Using ThinkLink, anyone can make interactive images. Adding text, video, sound, and other media to the picture, ThinkLink can be used as a unique learning device. Classes can also interact and collaborate on images. Teachers and students can add their own input and links to the image to create an educational masterpiece. Teachers can create images for their students to explore and contribute to. Students can do the same and can also use ThinkLink as a unique means for presenting information for any kind of project.

Teachability is a website that shares things relating to education and is designed for teachers.

With PollSnack, teachers can easily collect data from students by creating a simple poll. This website is applicable for all subjects. It's free and an easy way for teachers of any subject to get thought and opinion results from their students.

School Tube is a great website where students and teachers can create channels where they can share their videos. There are also lesson plans provided to help teachers use videos in the classroom.

Turnitin.com can be used by teachers to determine if their students plagiarized papers or not, it can also give confidence to the student that all of the work they wrote is original. Turnitin.com also offers grammar check so students and teachers can better see the grammar mistakes the student made and help improve on those.

For students, teachers, these 340+ games and websites are organized by topic - history, government, geography, states, explorers, cultures, world organizations and religions. There are project ideas, activities for kids, lessons for teachers and information to help kids with research.