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"JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique."

It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete.

Web2.0calc is a free online scientific calculator that can be embedded on your blog or website for students that don't have a scientific calculator available.

Snappy Words is a free dictionary and thesaurus. By entering a word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box, it will create a web of related words phrases and definitions. Snappy Words could help students who are stuck in the rut of using the same words and phrases repeatedly in their writing. Snappy Words can help students find the word they are looking for faster than looking through a thesaurus since it is a web of related words. The fact that it is a web could help visual learners.

A site that helps you with math.

Web Math is a great website for any student, even in high school, to get help they need. A lot of students go to tutoring for math and this is a website that can assist when ever you want, especially when you're away from your tutor.

Mathematics, Learning and Web 2.0 can be used by both teachers and students for help on math topics and more examples.

Your Next Read is a sight which recommends books based on books you have already read and like. By searching a book or author you like Your Next Read makes a web of different recommendations. By clicking on a recommended book a new web is made with the new book at the center. The site also gives a small summary of the book you have selected, so you can decide if it's something you may be interested in. The site also has reviews just below the summary.

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.

This website is used to focus on coding. It allows you to switch between design and view mode which allows you to see the automatic changes made in the code.This allows you to create websites easily. Google Web Design is also compatible with tablets, mobiles, and computers.

Stixy is a website that can be used to collaborate, create, organize, and share content on Stixyboards, a flexible Web-based bulletin board. You can customize and design an unlimited number of digital bulletin boards by uploading files, photos, documents,etc. Tip: Use this site to help students organize information in a way that make sense to them to collaboratively create and share projects.

The most education health website known to man. Cover pretty much every thing medical related.

Hooble is an online homework manager that maintains transparency of homework assignments for parents, teachers, and students via web, iOS, or Android.

Flashcardmachine.com is a free online tool that allows students, teachers, and professionals to create web-based study flash cards that can be shared with others. You can study your flashcards online or access them on other devices, such as your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android, available on the App Store and Android market. You can also view flashcards that others have created as well, which makes this online tool very interactive and collaborative.

Shows short videos that students and teachers can use to learn how to use Web 2.0 applications and other types of interactive technology

Make education fun again! Quizdini is an easy Web 2.0 tool that helps teachers teach and students learn, for free! Create engaging multiple-choice quizzes (though we prefer to think of them as games) where you control the content, and let your students learn at their own pace!

This is like a pen pale, but over the web. This site allows students to connect to classrooms around the world. This site is great for learning hands on about cultures around the worlds and learning new languages. This site offers free engage student learning centers and collaborate library.

Padlet is a universal tool that allows you to add text and photos as well as links to a 'wall' where information on a central topic can be found.

Professor Word was created mostly to assist students in ACT and SAT prep. High-schoolers will find this tool quite useful.

Note: click here to see the full syllabus and other related teaching materials. As anyone who's ever done it knows, the art of syllabussing is a fine one. (Yes, it's a word; don't look it up, take my word for it- Syllabussing: creating the perfect syllabus for a college-level course). Open culture is a high-quality cultural and educational media source. A staggering collection of 400 courses, online, for free, from Ivy League universities, such as Stanford, UCLA, Columbia and Oxford University.Courses run from science and art to math and economics.

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.