Useful websites
These websites contain lesson plans and teacher resources.
Teacher resources: Find lesson plans, free tools, training, and other information for teachers to make the best use of technology in the classroom.
Interactivity
Use these tools to actively involve students in the classroom
Quizlet is an online memorization tool. Equipped with games to engage the learner.
Weebly for Education is web based program that allows students and teachers to create professional looking websites in minutes.
Tagxedo is a word cloud program that allows you to represent text data and website information into a visually appealing form.
Engagement
Students using these tools will engage in gaining knowledge of the subjects they are studying instead of being passive listeners
Social Bookmarking website that allows you to highligt and add sticky notes to websites.
Website that creates on-the-fly multimedia presentations of information.
Dropbox is a free service that allows you to share your photos and documents to all and easily syncs to all of your devices.
Motivation
These tools will highly motivate students to participate in assignments.
Glogster is a web-Based interactive poster creator. It allows you to present information with pictures, video and audio. In a whole different way.
Empowerment
Using these tools will empower you to teach students to take ownership of their own projects.
FotoFlexer is the most powerful online photo editor in existence. It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration jump right in!
A wiki is a website that allows users to modify the contents of the group website to be using for collaborate projects.
Differentiation
These tools allow students to use different learning styles. Students who are visual learners can read information; auditory learners can listen to information on podcasts.
Aviary education is a free web-based design suite that is 100% school safe. With this powerful application students and teachers alike can foster their creativity using the image editor, the vector editor, the audio editor, and the music editor.