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.

LittleBirdTales is an interactive story building tool that helps children write stories. In addition it has tools for teachers such as interactive assignments and common core templates.

Braingenie is a site that allows students to master math and science skills by first learning, then practicing, and finally quizzing themselves. The math subjects included are Algebra I to Pre-calculus, while the science subjects range from Biology to Physics. Braingenie is geared towards all students from grades K through 12. There are hundreds of math skills for all ages as well as hundreds of science skills for grades 6 and up.

Picadilo is a free online photo editor with tools and brushes that allow you to enhance a photo as you wish. Picadilo gives you the option to work on multiple photos at a time and makes editing easy to do. This site is more convenient for fast photo editing and enhancement. Picadilo can be used on pictures applied in any type of project including presentations, brochures, research papers, and webdesign.

The Digital Public Library of America features digital access to thousands of artifacts and articles of history from museums all over the United States.

The Digital Public Library is a useful resource that is full of exhibitions, maps, and timelines visually represent and describe particular events in history. A person can search for items from other libraries, archives, and museums. Students can use the Digital Public Library to research information about various events in history. If they are visual learners, students can look at the timelines and exhibitions to learn about history.

This online collage tool allows you to upload pictures, choose a style, then create a collage to share with all of your friends.

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.

Online graphic tool that creates interactive charts. Features include rollover statistics, hiding specific variables, and sharing through popular social medias. Also marks copyright ownership and features tags.

Slidesnack is an easily accessible tool, allowing for others to convert PDFs into presentations with a recorded voice in the background (slide casts). In addition, students or teachers can download their presentations as videos. Slidesnack allows for students and teachers to share their presentations without the worry of having to email a large file size.

Mr. Vincent's Place is an amazing site for anyone taking AP United States History or World History. The site contains easy to find APUSH Released Documents such as test questions and essay prompts.