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Good filesharing service (free) for students and teachers to share and post data to be graded/resources to be accessed etc.

Private or open way to vocally communicate with students/teachers..."power of voice" to motivate/inspire

The Teacher's Desk is a tool that has lesson plans, and writing tasks that would be useful for integrating writing into Math or other content areas. It focuses on 5th and 6th grade - and is language arts oriented, though I would explore this website for ideas on how to integrate writing into my class.

A free web-based tool for educators allowing them to manage their classes while providing parents and students with class information.

Here you can select information and Juice will automatically find more infomation about what you have selected. It seems like a great tool to quickly do research on the internet if you are a student completing an assigment or a teacher planning an activity.

Search engine that incoporates organization features

Survs is a collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance. It is collaborative in the sense that you can cooperate with your teammates through the journey of building, deploying and analyzing your surveys. You can even share your surveys results, templates and themes online.

Timetoast allows people to create interactive timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web.

Timetoast is a quick and easy way to create timelines that you can put on your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of past events, or just create a timeline of your vacation. It's all up to you.

This website allows you to enter words and then make some larger and different colors. This would be a neat tool to make posters for the classroom.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. This would be a good way of working with vocabulary words, word walls, or having students recognize prominent words in a text.

Since most administrators require us to have a word wall in the classroom. Wordle will allow us to play with the words by creating word clouds.

An all time favorite of mine. Ask Dr. Math has many resources for teachers and students alike.

The Internet's premier ask-an-expert math help service. Ask Dr. Math a question using the Dr. Math Web form, or browse the extensive archive of previous questions and answers.

The Internet's premier ask-an-expert math help service. Ask Dr. Math a question using the Dr. Math Web form

This site offers templates for use in the classroom, as well as student activities and planning resources.

For the times in need of surveying multiple people, this website can help you. Teachers can have their students create other maps besides pie charts with the outcome of the answers. Create an account and you can poll people with whatever questions you need to be answered. Once you are done polling, it creates a pie chart to show the final results.

Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it in your blog.

MATHguide offers a variety of mathematics lessons. Numerous lessons in algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus are available. One can also utilize an assessment resource, called quizmasters. They test students' abilities by: 1) generating random problems, 2) waiting for student input, 3) checking student input, and 4) instantly reporting if the input is correct. This is all available in the lessons section.