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99Polls offers a simple approach to making Web Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. 99Polls.com poll-creation tool requires no knowledge of HTML or coding, and once made, the poll can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Xanga and more...

Online free web polls generator, let your visitors vote. Easy to setup, customize and use. Great to use for students outside of the classroom since its accessible to anyone on the web.

Site that specializes in generating math worksheets and teaching aids. I presented this as a web site in class. I have used the free portion of this site for tutoring. The pay sections have much more content and capability.

Free worksheets generators, programs for teachers, game makers, worksheet wizard, and printables creators for teachers with images!

Website designed to help students with specific problems they have with a math topic. Answers to problems are generated in real time as the student types in their problem. It also shows how to get to the answer. Part of Education Discovery.

WebMath is designed to help you solve your math problems. ... Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems.

This is a neat site that generates dynamic graphs based on the data you enter for the "dynamics of your life". Imagine all the dramas student could graph. Graphs can be shared via MySpace or Blog and Rss feeds.

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.

Subscription based utility for teachers to use in creating rubrics for classrrom acitivties. Potentially a big time saver for teachers in place of using Excell.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

Create rubrics for problem based learning activities.

general ed - especially for just going into teaching or "frustrated" teacher...

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.

A math website to help generate math worksheets. You can create different types of worksheets may come in handy for extra practice.

The Educator's Reference Desk provides quality resources and services to the education community. Resources include over 2,000 lesson plans, over 3,000 links to online education information. Information ranges from general education topics to topics specific to classroom teaching by grade level.

This website requires a memborship but a group of teachers can join and share the ID. This website can generate puzzles, skills tests for pre-assessment!

This website has an endless amount of resources to use in the classroom for all subjects. Also lets you build your own reviews, worksheets, tests, etc.

Variety of worksheets, word problems, mixed review

brightly colored, lessons, practice problems, games and tips for teachers and students, prealg to precal

Calculators, games, worksheets, word problems and more. Sections: Too Cool to Miss; Fractals; Math, etc.; Math Lesson, etc.; Coolmath Link Center; Fractions; Calculators; Graphing Calculators and more. A fun site that helps kids learn.

Coolmath has a ton of cool math games and puzzles, lots of really clear math lessons (arithmetic, fractions, decimals, algebra, etc.), fractals, geometry, tessellations and more. Tons of very cool math stuff for kids, teens, parents and teachers too!

Live Documents offers a suite of web-enabled Office productivity applications (equivalents of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that can be used as software on your desktop or as services within your browser. Live Documents gives you unprecedented choice and flexibility and increases personal productivity and group collaboration. Live Documents office tools include feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, database and lists. This website could be a great help if you need to share presentations that are too big to send through email.

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'

wePapers collects and organizes the tons of student-generated academic papers that could help millions of students all over the world... but usually end up in the trash. We recycle them and make them available for everyone.

Helps students and others share and expand their knowledge. You can find and download the papers and documents you need to help students learn.

This site allows for personalizing and updating charts and graphs for either the teacher or the student. In can be used to create more formal illustrations of data or used as a lesson when addressing either geometric shapes or data representation. It includes instructions. For total use you need to sign in.

You have to sign up but there is a trial version to look at. This is a graph drawing application for the Web with a focus on usability.

Graph drawing application used to access graph projects from anywhere.