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SchoolTube is a moderated video sharing website for K-12 students and teachers. Find videos on everything from anime to zoology. The design of the website is more modern than TeacherTube, which a lot of students appreciate.

85.    Convert pdf to word     This nifty website allows you to turn static PDF pages into editable Microsoft Word documents. 86.    Online Stopwatch     Online Stopwatch is a web-based stopwatch that is easy to display on an interactive whiteboard and can count up or down. Use it for timed exams, essays, and standardized tests. 87.    Hootsuite     If you use social media to communicate with your students about homework assignment due dates, projects, etc., then you should give Hootsuite a try. Use it to schedule message reminders ahead of time so that you don’t risk forgetting, too. 88.    Microsoft Worldwide Telescope Microsoft Worldwide Telescope allows your computer to act as a virtual telescope by bringing together images from the most advanced telescopes around the world. It’s great for science teachers who are doing a lesson on Astronomy, or even English and History teachers who are discussing ancient Greek and Roman gods.

89.    Poll Daddy With a free account, you can create online surveys and quizzes with up to 10 questions. However, you only get 200 responses a month, so it’s not something you can use every day. Your students can respond via your website, email, Facebook, iPad and Twitter. Also, the free account comes with some basic reports so that you can quickly see how well your class understands the topic. 90.    Zoomerang Use Zoomerang to create an unlimited number of online surveys and polls that can be answered via email, Facebook, Twitter or your website. Quizzes with up to 10 questions and 100 responses are free. 91.    Disapainted Animate basic web-based paint drawings with Disapainted. It’s a cool way to give life to a simple concept and, since it’s online, it’s even easier to project onto your interactive whiteboard. 92.    Grammarly Share Grammarly with your students because it’s a user friendly way to improve a paper. Simply copy and paste text into the box and click “check text.” Within 30 seconds, it provides a detailed analysis that includes 150 different grammar rules, plagiarism, word choice and more. The only downside is that Grammarly is a premium service; however, you can sign up for a free sevenday trial. 93.    Live Binders Live Binders is a cool online storage and organization tool. You can use it to create tabs for your important documents. 94.    Cueprompter A lot of students have a hard time giving class presentations, but Cueprompter helps to relieve some of the nerves. Copy and paste your script into the box and it displays just like a real teleprompter. Plus, it’s free to use. 95.    Twiddla Twiddla is a web-conferencing service that is great for helping students out after school. You can mark up graphics and websites, use it to brainstorm and more. It even has a few other nifty features that are free, including voice chat.

96.    YouSendIt YouSendIt is an online service that allows you to upload and send large files via email. Use it to send documents to colleagues. 97.    Socrative This web 2.0 tool uses cell phones and/or laptops to gather feedback from students. You can post as many questions as you’d like, which is nice if you have several classes. 98.    Memplai Create videos in collaboration with your social network. The online video editing tools are useful if you don’t already have video editing software on your computer. 99.    Wordle Create beautiful word clouds from text that you provide. Like Tagxedo, it gives prominence to words that appear most frequently. You can save, print and share your creation. 100.    Zotero Zotero is a neat tool that helps you collect, organize, cite and share research that you have done. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages and more. It indexes the full-text content of your library, allowing you to quickly find what you’re looking for. 101.    GoEd Online So, I’ll end the list with a shameless bit of self-promotion. Cut me some slack, I spent a lot of time on this post! There’s no other website in the world where teachers can rent streaming educational videos or download eBooks, PowerPoint presentations and interactive games all in one place. Do me a favor and check it out.

I chose to include each site based on several factors: a) Functionality (i.e. did it work?) b) Ease of use c) Applications in education (could a teacher actually use it for something?) d) Compatibility with popular educational technology and digital teaching materials

VoiceThread’s group conversations are stored and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. It allows you to create multimedia slideshows with images, videos and documents. Others can view the slides and then leave text, audio or video comments.

Screencast is another media storage website

You keep the rights to everything you upload and you can determine the privacy settings for each file

Screencast makes it easy to share and embed your media. Screencast also works seamlessly with TechSmith’s screen recording Camtasia software.

Create, share and collaboratively edit documents using a Google accoun

Google Calendar is great for planning lessons, exams and keeping track of assignment due dates

also has the ability to sync with some smart phones

easily upload any kind of video you create—