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"Testing in the public view is an important part of increasing confidence in software and hardware tools. Developing extensive and exhaustive tests for digital investigation tools is a lengthy and complex process, which the Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT) group at NIST has taken on."

"The Open Source Digital Forensics site is a reference for the use of open source software in digital investigations (a.k.a. digital forensics, computer forensics, incident response). Open source tools may have a legal benefit over closed source tools because they have a documented procedure and allow the investigator to verify that a tool does what it claims."

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"sleuthkit.org is the official web site for The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy Browser. Both are open source digital investigation tools (a.k.a. digital forensic tools) that run on Windows, Linux, OS X, and other Unix systems. They can be used to analyze disk images and perform in-depth analysis of file systems (such as NTFS, FAT, HFS+, Ext3, and UFS) and several volume system types."

"EON Creator is an interactive authoring tool that allows users to create stereoscopic 3D scenes. It can be used to develop unique 3D lessons with blended learning content including video, Wikipedia, PowerPoint, sound effects, YouTube, annotations, quizzes, and more. Users can create 3D scenes using high-quality interactive 3D content from the EON Experience Portal, which contains thousands of models and scenes that users can access directly from inside the EON Creator tool. Once the content is downloaded into EON Creator, users can add contextual knowledge to any of the 3D objects in the scene."

Freemium MEOGRAPH, the interactive storytelling tool which proved best in show at EdSurge's Inaugural Teacher Tank, has released a new set of premium features aimed specifically at educators. Meograph's core functionality -- story creation through maps, timelines, web links, and multimedia -- is still 100% free, but the new licensed features remove some of the practical barriers to classroom-wide implementation. They include a classroom management tool that lets teachers view student content in a single place (addressing direct feedback from one of our teacher sharks!), privacy options for sharing with groups or individuals, and privacy-compliant registration for users under the age of 13. Plans start at $19.99/year for up to 40 students. 

great list of tools to use for collaboration

"4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students. "

Use these free tools from Mozilla to create websites, look at the coding from other websites, and link your video directly to popular web services like Twitter, Wikipedia, Google maps and more

BigMarker.com is the social network for Communities. By offering unlimited web conferencing and key project management tools, we hope to empower Communities to make a difference. We believe that with the right tools, any Community can make a visible and lasting impact in the world.

Just what every teacher needs, a quick and simple cool tool! Quicklyst does more than let student take notes or make lists. Students can organize, save and search their notes with just a username and password. Registration is not needed. This easy to use site connects to Wikipedia and Merriam Webster. Download, print or send notes to a Kindle. Tip: Have students use the organization capabilities as a pre-writing tool before they create their research projects.

Do more than watch a video: discuss, question, and comment. Vialogues puts the "think and do" into video watching. Vialogues allows you to post a video and then invite participants to answer questions, discuss or just comment. This asynchronous tool can be used for private or public interactions. Tip: Use this tool with media literacy lessons.

TryRuby.org is an intermediate - advanced tool that helps you learn the programming language Ruby. Useful for developing mobile tools and other web 2.0 products!

Great website for using technology tools in reflection FOR learning, all grade levels

AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook. Great resource for gathering feedback froms students!

great resource to find good digital tools for K-12

Great index of web tools!

"Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.Start drawing now!"

Great collaborative list of tools compiled by TCEA.

Great livebinder of tools for teachers to integrate into the curriculum, organized by type.