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twiducate.com is a free resource for educators. Developed in 2009, our goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning outside the classroom. We attempt to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners in a social networking environment. We understand that many social networking sites exist, however the control of content is limited for teachers. Also, many of these social networking sites are continuously being blocked by school firewalls and administrators. Our service proudly differs in that only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a private network for you and your students and a safer online learning environment.

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Learning in isolation can be hard. One of the main benefits of learning math in a classroom is having instructors demonstrate solving a certain problem, explaining how each step of the process works. MathTV.com aims to give you at least some of this benefit via the power of online video.

Mathwire.com is designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards.

This is a jump off point for the Rader pages devoted to sciences and math. Biology4Kids Chem4Kids Cosmos4Kids Physics4Kids NumberNut.com Geography4Kids Mostly informational and two-dimensional

Create an online community of your classroom, share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, post discussions, deadlines, homework, create surveys for students, keep parents informed.

recommended by makeuseof.com

CatchYouTube enables you to convert YouTube videos into any number of different video and audio formats and then to download these to your computer. It's FREE and very simple to use.

Excellent overview for using Glogster

collaborative video editing community. Upload videos, share clips, then mix it up and mash it out. Thousands of clips, hundreds of collaborators, unlimited possibilities

Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

I found this in a blog by Jay Cross. Here is his sample of experimentation of the site. http://www.spaceded.com/jaycross/courses/373-Learning-About-Learning

This is similar to the Free Rice site http://www.freerice.com/

Ringpoem.com allows you to publish your poetry online - in your own voice - by simply calling our toll free number.

You can change those shortened URL's from sites like bit.ly, j.mp, fb.me, tinyurl.com, ow.ly,and dlvr.it with this site! It unshortens the URLs!

An interesting blog devoted to Digital Pedagogy. It is attached to the Visual Blooms Wiki. http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/

Charts and graphs are a great tool because they communicate information visually. On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free. We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.