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This tool is good for visual learners because it gives a visual representation of anything you search. It is augmented reality so you can see an object and relate it to objects you already know.

Wake Up Brain! is a great tool that can help students brainstorm ideas for essays, projects, presentations, etc. It is a good way to get students' creative juices flowing before writing. It can also help students when they get stuck on a writing topic.

Tagxedo is a great tool which can turn your words into pictures. It can be used as a great visual for turning your blogs, news articles, tweets, and many more things into pictures. The website automatically takes words from your blog, news, etc. and forms it to a picture shape of your choice. It is much like the website wordle, except it is more shape oriented allowing you to choose more intricate shapes.

10 Secrets to Staying Motivated is an article that gives students advice on how to stay motivated (especially high school students). Along with the ten ways to staying motivated are short explanations on what students can do to stay determined and persistent in high school and in life. Students can use this tool to help them to realize the purpose of high school. By senior year, many high students are close to being burnt out by all of the hard work that they have put into their high school career. This website can help high school students find motivation, even in stressful times.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9slides is a presentation tool which allows you to seamlessly create presentations while adding video and audio. Moreover, it makes it possible to share your videos worldwide along with adding your videos to your own blog or website. The service also provides analytics on your presentation allowing you to track success and traffic that is viewing your presentation.

PodBean is a website that you can join to create podcasts and share them with other users. PodBean features statistics on your podcasts, customizable themes, and powerful analysis tools. PodBean also allows you to easily share your podcasts by giving embedded codes and links. Podcasts are applicable for any time of educational use, from teaching to student projects.

Visual bookmark website that adds customization to websites in the form of icons. Multiple pages to create specific bookmarks such as websites for a specific class. Integrated search engine, encyclopedia, and other useful tools.

This website offers two technological tools, one that would be more applicable to elementary students while the second could be used by middle and high school students. The former, Draw Me a Game, allows children to draw their own world and create a video game out of it, exposing them early on to the advantageous aspects of technology at an early age. JellyCam, the latter, allows older students to make a stop-motion video that can be used in subjects such as arts, science, English, and social studies.

StoryToolz is a source that can be used by those writing stories, or essays. Among other tools StoryToolz has a word count meter which you can use to monitor how your word count has increased as you have progressed.

This website compiles videos from YouTube and Khan Academy, and offers 8-day courses and free lessons in Spanish. You have the option to buy lessons, books, and other tools to aid your learning of Spanish language. Students who are taking online Spanish courses can use this to supplement their learning.

Coursera is a free online learning tool which provides free courses for a variety of different subjects. Coursera has 107 partners including top colleges such as Stanford and Duke which provided educational videos. It provides up to 536 courses and is used by over 5 million people.

World's Greatest Math and Science Rap is a website that has short videos about various math and science topics. The interesting thing about this website is that the content is rapped, which helps to make learning about these topics more intriguing and memorable. Each video includes lyrics so that the viewer can see the words to the song (in case it is hard to understand what the rapper is saying). Students can use this website as a study tool for particular topics in math and science. It is a fun way to learn and understand science and math.

YUDU serves as a multi-platform publishing tool, in which users can upload and embed pdf's from iOS, Android, and the web.