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Socrative is a student response system. It can be used with any laptop or smartphone. Teachers can create or share quizzes, polling questions, or exit tickets. Socrative allows the teacher to see in real time students' answers. The students also receive instant results. It also has a racing game in which students can work individually or in groups. Socrative seems to be a great resource for any teacher. Teachers are able to give instant feedback to students. Given this, teachers would be able to adjust their teaching to reinforce concepts or reteach concepts. Socrative would be easy to integrate into any classroom as long as the teacher has access to laptops or the students are allowed to use their phones in the classroom.

Socrative is an amazing resource! It's perfect for a BYOD school!

Amazing website from the Library of Congress - just for teachers - with digitized primary sources. You can search the digital collections and library catalogs also. This site has tons of resources on the most popular lessons.

TenMarks is a site for students to practice math skills. Teachers can preselect math topics for students to practice. As the students complete the different tests, they can earn rewards which can be redeemed at the reward zone. Parents can also see how their student is performing. It also has its own tutorial section for additional help. TenMarks seems to be a great tool to help students gain confidence in their mathematical skills. With teacher direction of setting up topics, the students can focus on area(s) in which they need help. This seems to be a helpful site. It would be easy to integrate into any math classroom: inside or outside.

Science Kids is a site designed to help students understand different science topics. It has different sections: games, experiments, facts, and quizzes. The games allow the student to test their knowledge. They give instant feedback to the student. The experiments allow the student to try different experiments at home. They give a list of supplies and the science behind the experiment and results. This site is great for reinforcing different scientific concepts. It has both life and physical sciences topics. The games are more beneficial when reviewing a unit as opposed to the end of a lesson. This site would be beneficial for a teacher to use inside the classroom for quick reinforcement when a student may have some time at a computer. The teacher might also reference the site at a parent/teacher conference or open house.

This is a web-based meeting tool that allows people to share drawing. It's a lot like etherpad. This site requires a login and lets teachers have professional accounts. If you have an edu account that works easiest, but if you have a dot.org email they will allow it. You can only have one whiteboard open at one time - not good for multitab browsers. You can upload images on this board. This site has a chat port too.

This is a cool web 2.0 tool that allows you to add a list of links and submit it to get a single link to them all, conveniently displayed in tabs. You can then share it on email, IM, Twitter or SMS. It's perfect for teachers who want kids to visit a series of websites.

This is a great site for kids and teachers. Ms. Warner likes the standards part. You enter your school username and password. Do the assignments in oder if possible. We like the games part. It's sorted by grade level so if you want to make it harder you can. It tells you if you make a mistake it shows you what you got wrong.

This is a great resource for history teachers or social studies teachers. This site is a multi-level, interactive game where students become a fictional character in history. The two time periods they can play in are the American Revolution and the Civil War. In each game, students make choices based on scenarios and conversations they listen to and watch. Then the game progresses based on their choices. There are multiple paths the game can take, which makes it different when different kids play - generating great conversations. it is a long game - this will take at least two or three full class periods to play. Best for elementary/early middle school.

Sporcle is one of the most addicting, trivia based, gaming web sites that students will enjoy for reviewing content or new material pre-testing. Instructors can create their own content using anyone of the three major delivery methods. Image identification, fill in the blanks, or answer bank selection. Students challenge themselves to answer the questions before time runs out and then scored based on percentage completed. Once the game is over, students are revealed the correct answered and where they fall in the percentages of games played. Sporcle is free and can be run on any platform or web browser. Games or test are easily created using manually entry or loaded from a document. Sporcle allows all users to create content giving everyone opportunity to add content specific to unique topics. Once content is created, the links can be shared and the data is view able for all users to see and collect.

PowToon is an outstanding online tool to create animated presentations. Animations are easy to set up and put in motion using simple tools and provided characters to present ideas or stories. Sounds can be added along with voice over capabilities. Once the animation is created, it can be viewed using an embed code or exported to different online media through using a simple link. Powtoon is a web based client that can run on any web based platform. Powtoon is a great teacher resource to let students bring their stories to life through animations and sound. Students can tell stories or create their own adaptations and tell the story they intended. Students can take events and re-enact the dialogue or create their own dialogue that parallels that even.