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A Platform for People who want to Study or Tutor Online. BuddySchool is an opened education platform. The main assignment of the platform is to establish and to maintain contact between a tutor and a student. The service gives the teachers both opportunity to represent their offer and number of functions supporting the education process and settlement. The platform offers also other helping functions such as lesson reminder, the notebook, chat with the possibility of saved session edition, the calendar, message system, grade system, the possibility of keeping a few profiles by the teachers or students.

Twiigs is the place to get the pulse of the world on any topic. Vote on the polls that interest you, or post one of your own. The inspiration for polls is everywhere, in politics, sports, pop culture, business, and our everyday lives. Discover the way the world thinks about the topics that interest you. The results will be enlightening.

I use the website for extra credit for the students. They can complete the self-check quizzes for test points. The quiz results can be printed or e-mailed to me. I also let parents know about the site so they can help their child study or if the parents want to print worksheets for their children to have extra practice at home. The Parent and Student Study Guide is a worksheet that has an answer key provided for the parents.

You can create floorplans or room plans with furniture. Teachers could use this website for an activity applying scale or surface area. It even give you the measurements of the furniture with imperial or metric measurements. Who knows, it may save a spouse from moving around furniture until it looks "right"!

This online room planner helps you arrange any space by visually planning out the specifics. You input the exact dimensions of your room, and furniture and other objects are available to scale to better help see the possible arrangements of the classroom. This is extremely helpful for a teacher because it will save time by not having to rearrange the classroom a number of times.

Student Organization Made Easy Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organize your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized and achieve better grades. (Updated 1/26/2009 2:58 PM) Student Organization Made Easy Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organize your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized and achieve better grades. (Updated 1/26/2009 2:58 PM)

Notely is a tool for students of all ages who are looking for help getting themselves better organized so they can get better grades. Tools include: scheduling, calendar, note-taking, and homework planner.

Helps students organize their notes. If teachers have students with papers everywhere in their notebook, they can tell the students to check out this site.

Over 1000 lesson plans and units for math teachers! This website also includes what part of the standard course of study the lesson pertains too, as well as teacher feedback from the use of the lesson. I think this would be very useful if a teacher is struggling with a particular topic. They can come on this website and find a new way to explain a topic. This website also gives you questions that you can ask (sometimes higher level questions are difficult to come up with).

Over 1000 lesson plans and units for math teachers! This website also includes what part of the standard course of study the lesson pertains too, as well as teacher feedback from the use of the lesson. I think this would be very useful if a teacher is struggling with a particular topic. They can come on this website and find a new way to explain a topic. This website also gives you questions that you can ask (sometimes higher level questions are difficult to come up with).

Gives specific nutritional information favorite fast food restaurants...real data your students will be interested in

When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.

Fatburgr gives you nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. A math instructor could easily use this information in a project dealing with nutrition, especially since March is national health month throughout schools, to appeal to the students. Students could gather data after attending the specific restaurant and then put their information into graphical form.

Power point templates of many populargame shows. You add the questions and the answers and the template provides the backdrop, the music and/or sound effects that help make the game identifiable.

This site is the website for a television program TV411. It is focused on adult education in the practical basics of reading, writing, vocabulary and math skills. I found the math lessons tie the use of math in every day problem situations like buying something over time, Mortgage Basics, Using Credit Cards wisely. These are good sources for teachers to show relevency and the practical use of the math they are learning in real life problem situations.

The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. League specialties include math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school.

The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. League specialties include math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school. Contest questions are designed to cover a range of mathematical knowledge for each grade level. Questions on the contests never require any mathematics beyond the grade level tested. They're fun too!

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.

The resources by grade level provide great activities and puzzles for each objective of the ncscos. The indicators questions provide vocabulary and word problems for each objective for the ncscos. The week by week essentials are for review and problem solving.

Want to learn a foreign language enough for travel, education, or just for the heck of it? This is a free online site to learn a language with the ability to converse with people who speak the language you are learning via the web. I would use it for learning Spanish which could be helpful in the classrooms of today!

This is a site from the University of Michigan and it tackles the question, "How do we close the achievement gap? Really nice articles to read and discuss with peers. We all know there are no simple answers and dialog can only help define the multiple ways to close the gap.

This site like many similar math sites has great ideas for math teachers. What makes it different is that every week they post a POW, Statistic of the Week, Humor of the week, Website of the week, Resource of the week, Oldie but Goodie for the week. There are also Archives of each category. This is a nice resource that teachers can use daily in their classroom

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.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

SimpleWeather.com is an easy-to-use, no nonsense weather site. The site gives you exactly what you're looking for: the weather.SimpleWeather.com is an easy-to-use, no nonsense weather site. The site gives you exactly what you're looking for: the weather. Use with graphing/ line of best fit comparing weather data

Here you can make custom candy party favors. You choose the candy, the container, and the quantity.This site could be used in a fun way in the classroom, as a place for students to practice rounding, counting, multiplying, etc. It could incorporate activities with decimals as well.