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Interactive Mathematics Activities for Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, Probability, Logic, Mathmagic, Optical Illusions, Combinatorial games and Puzzles

This website allows students to play math games and look at puzzles. There is also a section that allows them to be taught how to do problems. They are neat because they allow the students to visually see a problem worked out without having it physically in front of them.

Notifu allows sending a message to an individual or group via email, IM, SMS, or phone; knowing which recipients have acknowledged the message; and optionally gathering responses from recipients to make simpl decisions. Free.

Allows you the use of sending messages to individuals or groups. This site also allows you the opportunity to receive quick feedback to these same messages.

Although Zefty functions like a bank account, there's no real money involved. Parents set up each child and specify how much allowance they get and how often. It's their money, you as a parent are simply holding it for them - so the mom and dad are the bank.

Live Documents allows you to create documents online to share with a group or community, which has obvious implications as a teacher. A desktop application allows you to create documents offline. This service is free and is great for working in a group setting. Aside from documents, there are also tools for creating 'live presentations'

This is a website where you can communicate with others over the internet while sharing information. Anything interesting you find, just put it on this website to share.

This website allows you to bring everything together and checks webistes for things that might interest you. It allows you to have everything at your fingertips on one site. Also, you can find other people with your same interests at this website.

This website allows you to answer prompts. It would allow students free writes and they could use it to get to know their classmates. You can post these on Facebook and other blogs. This also might be beneficial to get to know people on your team or faculty. It could be a continuos learning process!

Simplify your life and get things done with Doris! This website allows you to organize your life and get more off your mind. It is a portable to do list. This would allow you to check your list wherever you have internet access.

Engrade is a free online gradebook/attendance book that parents and students will be able to access.

Free online tools for teachers including a free online gradebook, free homework calendar, free student messaging, free attendance, and more.

This 2.0 website allows teachers to manage their students grades and allow parents to have access to the content on-line. Sign up is free and the website includes a demo.

Jiffle is a online service that dramatically accelerates the process of scheduling meetings. Jiffle's patent-pending technology allows you to selectively share your Outlook calendar with your contacts and eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth process (seven e-mails/voicemails on average) required to set up meetings with your colleagues and clients.

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more... For free. Teachers could use this application when creating charts for lessons.

This 2.0 website allows teachers, parents, and teachers to review picture books from front to back. This is a tool that would be a good resource for students who need to refresh previous knowledge at a basic level for topics such as fractions and multiplication. It is also a good way to have access to basic trade books without having them on bookshelves.

Lifehaps allows you to organize all the important events in your life over a timeline. Then you can share it with friends, or just keep it private to yourself and family.

Domize is a site that allows you to search for open domain names. If you are trying to create a site or a blog domize will let you check the availability of that webpage in order for you to create a name that best suites your site.

This website will allow you to email things to their server. From there they will create a custom webpage for everyone needed to view it.

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.

AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A

An internet site which was created by parents to deliver fun and engaging learning content for children for free to keep them off of potential harmful and inappropriate web pages.

Kidthing keeps kids off Web Browsers and all of the inappropriate things but allows them to play fun engaging games. You can download the free kidthing player and try out demos to see if you enjoy it. There are a variety of games so every kid can find something they enjoy.

This site allows the user to create and share activities and knowledge that help improve productivity and collaboration. Discussions and ideas and saved and shared with others in an organized way. The program must be downloaded to see all features.

Google Docs will store documents for access to groups, and also allows students who may not be able to afford nice word processors and spreadsheet creators to use the same tools as everyone else. This would be a great tool for teachers trying to incorporate a e-community into their classroom and would be able to level the playing field for disadvantaged students.

Education World®. The Educator's Best Friend. The surfing is over. Here you will find the best education links and original content the Net has to offer. Lots of content: lesson planssing, technology integration, school issues, professional development, and more.

This is a great site for teachers. It provides numerous activities, lessons, recent and archival educational articles, time saving templates, and much more.

Resources, resources, resources. From Lesson Planning to Technology Integration, Administrator's Desk to Professional Development. Like many education sites, they cover all bases in the education profession but what I appreciated was the sense of humor they allowed in some of there articles.