PFTSTA Web Mastering 2013

As a teacher it's sometimes hard to get students interested in subjects that they think are boring or hard. This is especially true in mathematics but numberphile provides a solution. Chock full of wonderful videos explaining concepts and the history behind mathematics, this website can pique the interest of anyone who watches.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Online PDF reader and editor, featuring a unique URL to share, tagging for search, and adding images.

Having watched many of CGP Grey's videos on their channel, I have first-hand experience that these videos are both fun and extremely educational. Although they may not cover subjects that will always be relevant to the material learned in class at any given time, these videos act as both interesting fun facts and important world lessons.

National Geographic education has photos, videos, maps, games and activities, and homework help. Homework help includes a glossary, encyclopedia, and articles on various subjects. This website offers resources for both middle school and high school students. National Geographic education is a useful and fun resource that can help students learn and understand about various topics in science and social studies. The hands-on activities allow students to engage in learning. The videos and photos are good resources for visual learners.

Tildee is a online tool which allows you to create step by step tutorials in an easy and intuitive way. It also provides a huge library of other user produced content which helps to explain all kind of things such as how to change a tire and so on.

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.

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.

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.

Kuler is an interactive color scheme designer that can find balanced and matched colors to fit any website.

Math run is an interactive math game which gradually becomes more difficult as you progress. This source is a fun and interactive way to brush up on your basic math skills.

Stoodle is another wonderful program that allows users to interface on the same document much like Google docs. The online difference is that instead of a word document you draw and write on a whiteboard. Users can even hook their microphone up and speak with other people viewing their board. The services are free and all you have to do to get into someone else's room is know the URL.

This site can help students of any level write Research Papers. The site includes tips for styling and special formatting, such as MLA or APA.

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.

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.