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This site can be used to organize your books. There is access to Amazon books, ratings and sales ranks. You can check books' availability in over 300 libraries in 11 different countries, check out what's in your friends' bookshelves and view books previewed through Google Books. You can embed your bookshelf on your blog.

BookJetty is a social utility that connects you with your friends' bookshelves and checks books' availability in the libraries. As a teacher this would be beneficial to share knowledge with other teachers. Also, being able to check availability of a book at one site would save time.

HomeworkSpot.com is a free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot.

A "safe" internet browser that your students will be able to utilize in the classroom on the student use computers.

The KIDO'Z browser is a protected environment made for young kids that enables children to surf sites, watch videos and play games. The system blocks links, scripts and any other attempts that lead to sites and content which have not been approved, preventing them being viewed by the children.

Dropvine is a utility that I put together that speeds up the process of sending links to one or more friends. When you've found a page that you want to send, you just click the Dropvine bookmarklet and on the next page click which friends you want to receive that link then hit send. Takes about 5 seconds.

Dropvine is a utility that I that speeds up the process of sending links to one or more friends. When you've found a page that you want to send, you just click the Dropvine bookmarklet and on the next page click which friends you want to receive that link then hit send. Takes about 5 seconds.

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.

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.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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