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Tool for making location based games, stories and art

The iPad offers many math apps to help students who need visual tools and manipulatives to help understand basic functional concepts to more advanced math. 

Google is a vast machine with all sorts of apps, programs and tools. A lot of these - like Gmail and Google Docs - are clearly useful and loved by many. But hidden inside Google's network are some awesome, lesser-known gems that can make your life easier.

Be Web Aware comprises a PSA campaign on television, radio, print and outdoor and this comprehensive Web site. The site, which was developed by MNet, is full of information and tools to help parents effectively manage Internet use in the home. In 2010, Bell funded the re-design and updating of www.bewebaware.ca. MNet would like to thank Bell for its generous ongoing support of this valuable resource for Canadian parents.

Site which generates Favicons (the small images in the tabs of your browser which shows which page you're on). 

"Powerful and Free Tools for Teachers and Students

Rushton Hurley's resources from the Google Apps for Edu Summit

Great list of various resources from one of the presenters at the Singapore Google Apps Summit Sep 2012

Interesting blog post from Jabiz Raisdana - do your reporting methods match our teaching methods and do the 21c learning tools we are using and expecting the students to use fit into the 'old' style report cards. Interesting things to think about

Good to tool to set up a meeting time.

Another good tool to schedule meetings ...

Great news visualization tool pulling images from the top search engines. Links to the the news stories.

Rome is a nice graphic design tool

Muzy is a great collection of creative publishing tools: photo collages, kinetic typography.

Powerpoint? Really?

Article speculating on what Apple's big education announcement might include. Garageband for Textbooks?

Draw and type text on a web page, then save and share with anyone

Wow. That's pretty cool and a great tool. Will definitely use this in class. Thanks!

My blog to help others learn about photography and give them the tools to be a better photographer.

To help our teachers build their Personal Learning Network... a good idea to bundle up a bunch of great blogs at various grade levels for them to get ideas and inspiration. Jennifer LaGarde (aka Librarygirl) made a similar tool you can find here... more specific to different grades.

"There are thousands of apps out there that allow you to compose music, here are 10 whether you're a current producer or simply a production enthusiast, you'll be able to get some use out of them"

"Below are some of the top web apps for students looking for helpful tools to focus while online, as selected by Google's Chrome Web Apps Guru, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury. StayFocusd - StayFocusd is a productivity extension that helps you focus on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites.  You can restrict entire sites or just parts of them for as long or short of a time as necessary. Todo.ly- Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online to-do list and task manager. It helps you get organized and get things done by organizing your tasks into projects and subprojects, adding customized icons and labels, and assigning due dates to your tasks. Read Later Fast - This app lets you save pages to read later - online or offline, and fast. All you have to do is right click and save the page for later to avoid having too many open tabs on your browser. Write Space - Write Space is a customizable, full-screen text editor that lives in your browser. It is designed to minimize the distractions that come between you and your writing.  This app also auto saves your work and works offline. StudyStack - StudyStack helps students memorize anything with millions of flashcards that have already been added to the site or the ability to create your own.  There are dozens of flashcard categories including foreign languages, math, LSAT and GRE. Graph.tk - An app for math majors, Graph.tk is an app that brings the graphing capabilities of your calculator to the browser. It's easy to use and good for plotting graphs based on equations. WordReference - For anyone taking a foreign language course or studying abroad, this extension gets you the translations you need in a fast and easy way.  Since it's an extension and placed right next to the address bar, you don't even have to leave the site you're on for a quick translation. BONUS APP: Panic Button - Ok, this app won't help you pass your class, but it might just come in handy during