PFTSTA Web Mastering 2013

LiveMinutes is a great productivity tool which combines chat rooms, video meetings, document editing across multiple formats including Microsoft Office, PDF's and many more. Also it can sync with your to-do list on evernote. The site even has an app which will send you notifications on workspace activity and you can even video conference from your phone.

This tool allows students who may not be technically aware of the need for security to create personalized and easily memorable passwords for future use in sites that teachers may utilize with their class. Password Bird uses a special name, a special word, and a special date to generate this case and number sensitive password.

WriteRhymes is a useful tool for writing. Whether it me poetic or prose, WriteRhymes helps you find words that rhyme with a word you choose. You can use WriteRhymes in English classes or any class that requires writing.

Another great service to make surveys and take-home quizzes available to students after school hours. Because you can add pictures and videos to your questions, Kahoot! is a way to get students more involved in the learning process. Only teachers need to have an account, and students enter a PIN number given out by the teacher to access the content.

StackExchange is a great websites for getting help with LaTeX commands, or for anything else.

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.

MindCipher is a site filled with riddles, brain teasers, and logic puzzles on subjects ranging from math to science. An additional feature is the difficulty level of each puzzle. Moreover, puzzles can be sorted by "most popular" and by difficulty level.

With this piece of freeware you can pick a random person from a list of names. Ever needed to solve a dispute fairly? The answer is simple with the Hat! With the ability to save name sets, the number of lists of randomized names is infinite!

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.

On this site, you can type in text and change the font, color, or size. To the right, it shows you what codes you would need to use if you want to make the text look like this in CSS.

Wealth of information for teachers and librarians to use to teach information literacy.

This is a search engine much like google, only this site has credible feedback.

This site is an interactive site that shows how life was during the dust bowl. It also shows how the weather was like during this time in history. - By Harris Dorado

Alphabet Organizer is a great way to teach kids about the alphabet

History.com is a site that gives information on historical periods far before todays' time.

Postimage.org is a website that allows you upload images to a webpage where you can link the images directly. You can also create an account where you can create folders for you to store your pictures inside.

This is a great tool for teachers to create a class website and organize lesson plans which can be shared online with other colleagues.

This is a word processor similar to Word, except free and with a few more features.

This website is a great learning tool when it comes to chemistry.

This will help users network the books that they are interested in. This will also allow networking of reviews which could be beneficial to librarians.