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Create lists of apps and anything else you like. Find list of apps, new technologies, teaching ideas, etc. Others can vote on your list. You can use the list for presentations.

When you deploy an iPad in your classroom, you most likely download some of your favorite apps and load up bookmarks to your preferred web tools. Then you hand out the iPad to students and help them use said resources. Great, right? Now we're learning with gusto! Not really.

How can you use Twitter, the newest social media craze, in your classroom most effectively? Here are some answers.

Easy tool for shortening long, unruly web address for easy sharing and posting on social networking (like facebook and twitter). When you don't want to ask students to type a long web address with lots of numbers and symbols (which most likely will be typed wrong and not work), shorten the address using Bit.ly

Create word cloud graphics containing lists of words, vocabulary, or names, or generate a word cloud from a popular text. It is recommended that you create the list of word in a word processor (Word) so you can save the list (in case you wish to edit and regenerate the word cloud later). Copy and paste the list into Wordle and have fun generating just the right combination for the right effect. The more often a word is listed the bigger it will be in the cloud. Using a ~ between words identifies it as a phrase and will keep the words together in the cloud.

StoryJumper is an online tool that makes creative writing fun for kids. Using our interactive workbook and lesson plans, teachers spark students' interest in developing and writing complete stories. Kids can then put their creativity and project skills to work in crafting their very own professionally published hard-back books!

Get your students blogging. Create a virtual classroom and BlogPortal. Instant use, hosted, free. Safe, secure environment

Site includes some interesting reading and resources on creating e-portfolios.

Great resource site for web 2.0 tools to integrate 21st Century Skills into the classroom. They include links for everything from differentiated instruction and digital citizenship to digital story telling and evaluation & assessment.

Pick a "Thing" and get started with training on using FREE web tools to integrate technology into your classroom! The purpose of 21things4teachers is to provide "Just in Time" training through an...

"With the Mathematics 4.0 free download, you get a full-featured graphing calculator with a formulas and equations library, a triangle solver, a unit conversion tool, ink handwriting support, and more."

Teaching guides for critical thinking: finding, evaluating and applying information

How to make educational environment more accessible to students, teachers and staff