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eduTecher is a free social web resource dedicated to helping educators, students, and parents find the latest web tools for use in an academic setting 42 Tasks is a cross-platform task managing tool, a perfect way for students to manage their workload and keep on top of due dates. The site/app is simple to use and is very user friendly.

HTML5 scientific graphing calculator, which millions of students around the world use for free. We also create activities on top of that calculator, helping students use a powerful tool to experience all the curiosity, beauty, and sense that math has to offer. Those activities were used so often by so many teachers around the world that we decided to create an Activity Builder, helping every teacher create digital math activities that equal and exceed the activities we create ourselves. E-LEARNING: We invite students to solve challenging problems using the tools they already have. We create a need for new tools before we help students learn how to use them.

Assess students in real time, without clickers Students participate using the devices they are already bringing to class - laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Instructors control question delivery and keep tabs on student understanding in real time using a laptop or tablet.

SoapBox is a controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement by breaking down the barriers students face when deciding whether or not to participate in class, and gives teachers a concrete assessment of student comprehension, in real time.

Our full-featured wikis offer unlimited usage and our stellar visual editor. Check out our plans and pricing, and see why our customers call us the best wiki out there. Now hosting over 5,530,000 members and 2,110,000 wikis! We have given away over 366,000 wikis for K-12 education. Learn more and create your own classroom wiki today.

Social Writing for Education Get your students excited about learning in a modern, easy-to-use environment with the web tools they know and love. Help students connect with their work and engage with peers, teachers, and parents. Learn more.

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. Besides our flagship product, we also offer a premiere Vocabulary Builder tool designed to help students learn proper usage of more sophisticated words. Learning a new word with just a definition was always a frustrating experience when growing up, so we solve this problem by integrating example sentences to show the correct usage of each word in a real context.

LectureTools provides a range of student response options plus it allows students to Take notes synchronized to lecture slides,Draw on and save the instructor's lecture slides,Pose clarifying questions that can be answered asynchronously during class or after class andSelf-assess their understanding during lecture.

Timeline Tool 2.0 Recently improved from Timeline 1.0, The Timeline Tool 2.0 is a web- based tool that allows an instructor to construct an interactive timeline with audio and visual effects.  Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool enables content experts to easily combine video, audio, images and texts into one synchronized learning object.  Handwriting Toolis a language learning tool designed to help students learn to write and use asian characters. Vocabulary Memorization Platform Image Annotation Tool allows instructors to upload images and quickly create text boxes referring to parts of a diagram, painting, or photo. The tool will provide a link to the annotated image which can then be distributed to students.  Language Pronunciation Tool

Use QuizStar to create online quizzes for your students, disseminate quizzes to students, automatically grade quizzes and view the quiz results online.

Dr Mathis Wackernagel's (developer of the ecological footprint) footprint calculator. "Every semester I have my students calculate their Footprint, change their lifestyle for one week to decrease that Footprint, then compare the results and how it would impact the number of people that could sustainably exist on the planet. Students are shocked when they discover their results. The fact that it is personal and tells them how many planets we would need if everyone on the planet lived as they do drives home the issue better than I ever could in lecture."

a free collaborative education platform for students and teachers

Flipped learning tool for you to transform video content into an active experience for your students through time-embedded formative assessments. With the monitoring system, you are able to easily determine whether students watched the video and the learning objectives they struggled with.

SogoSurvey is the best online survey tool with amazing features and ready to use survey templates. One can try creating surveys for free with the help of huge collection of survey samples or sign up for a paid account for more advanced features. Special discount plans are available for students & non-profits.

Make any video your lesson. Edit a video by cropping it, adding your voice or embedding questions. Then, track your students with powerful hassle-free analytics.

SweetSearch4Me searches only Web sites that our staff of research experts, librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved as high-quality content appropriate for young users. Only the best sites directed at elementary school students are included, and many of the results on the first page were created exclusively for kids. 

I did not like the fact that when I put in my school's name, expecting to come up with our school's website, I got 6 or 7 dated entries from Rate My Teacher.

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

NoteMesh is a free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other. It works by creating a wiki for individual classes that users can edit. Users are free to post their own lecture notes or contribute to existing lecture notes. The idea is that users in the same class can collaboratively create a definitive source for lecture notes

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

Easily Build Super Simple Mashup Slideshows now built for teachers and students!