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Word Sense is a convenient site, combining features of that of a dictionary and thesaurus. Searching up a word will give you not only the definition, but words related or connected to that word.

Pixabay is a source in which you can find free public domain images which can be used for projects.This source is useful for people of all ages.

MixedInk's collaborative writing platform allows groups of any size to weave their best ideas and language into a single text. Cutting-edge government agencies, news organizations, advocacy groups, and businesses use MixedInk to gather meaningful input and give their communities a voice.

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.

Storyboardthat is a free online source that provides an easy, fun, and interactive way to present information. Students can use this source for anything from a book report to a foreign language project.

An online painting application that features unique links to each drawing created, allowing for quick saves and sharing. Notes, drawings, outlines, and even 3D art can be created.

With this online graphing software one can construct all kinds of graphs, figures and diagrams. With the option to even export these files having professional looking figures in presentations is easier then ever.

Looking for trivia to challenge you or just a fun way to spend time. Take a moment and look a blubbr a free website where people share video trivia or trivs. Create your own trivia about any subject your interested in or take a random challenge from another user. The knowledge you can obtain is endless with blubbr!

Provides educational games for a less-stressed but equally as important subject: art. The virtual activities vary from identifying details in paintings to completing jigsaw puzzles. These games should be offered to elementary and middle school students for art or in other subject areas in which teachers wish to expand content.

Where is...? is a fun and educational geography game that scores players based on their accuracy. Players are given the name of a city, and they have to guess where that city is located by clicking on the map. The game then gives them the measurement (in kilometers) of the distance between their answer and the correct answer. Students could use this website to help them improve their map-reading skills. There is a practice mode that does not record points. Once students feel a little more comfortable with world geography, they can try the scored rounds.

Meograph is a great way to make map and timeline based stories. Meomath allows you to put in pictures and videos along with audio in order to create an amazing digital story.

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.

Ribbon Hero is a downloadable game which provides a fun an intuitive way to learn how to use Microsoft Office. It combines with Microsoft Office to create interactive missions such as changing the font or creating exploded pie charts. Overall, Ribbon Hero is a fun way to teach Microsoft Office skills.

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.

Collaborize is a great tool which allows student and teachers to interact through streamlined chat and personalized lesson plans. It allows for the sharing of different document types from PDFs and Microsoft Office documents. It would be a great tool to create a more personalized lesson along with extending the classroom beyond.

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.