PFTSTA Web Mastering 2013

Sokratik is a tool that is used to create visual narratives. People can share and learn form each others stories. You can insert text, an image, or a video and then record over the slides. This website provides a quick and easy way to tell stories. Sokratik can be used for educational or entertaining purposes.

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.

An online tool that can be used for making flow charts or other presentations.

With Lucidchart, anyone can create charts needed for education. Lucidchart is easy and appropriate for school and all ages.

This program, which is now compatible with Google Drive, allows for the easy creation of charts, flow charts and wireframes. This would be put to good use from middle school through high school in order to organize study material, make charts for a class, or create rough sketches of drawings or websites.

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.

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.

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.

Canva is a newly launched service for creating elegant projects, such as flyers, infographics, photo collages, and greeting cards. Canva provides its own layout templates, text boxes, and backgrounds as well as a library with an abundant collection of both photographs and clip art. Finished Canva projects can be shared as links or as PDFs or PNG files.

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.

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.

WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique

Wikimindmap is a tool that helps you browse wiki content. It is in the form of a mind map which gives you a visual way of navigating content. It also helps you to find search terms related to a very broad topic.

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.

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.