DimensionU is a wonderful place for educational online games in 3D virtual worlds. This site is used throughout schools in the US and offer exciting tournaments for students to take place in. They also offer an innovative educational allowance system which helps ignite learning.
Screen Draw is a Firefox plugin that allows a user to type or draw on any webpage viewed in FF. This is ideal for those that want to annotate a web page and can be very handy when doing professional development or presenting to a class. These "drawings" can also be saved.
Worth Ave Group is one of the most popular companies for insuring computer equipment for education. This is ideal as 1 in 5 students will experience damage to their laptop. Also, WAG is top of the line for tech support and customer service.
Google Drive is the latest web application from Google that allows users to store 5 GB of files online for free. Also, it allows users to share and collaborate w/ others on these files as well and integrates w/ Google Doc's as well. For a price users can increase their Google Drive storage space too.
What do you love, is a great way to search by Google that I just found out about from ADE specialist, Sue Gorman. This is a great way to search by google that indexes terms by (are you ready for this?): maps, videos, events, blogs, books, languages (57 translations), images, emails, trends, and more (phew).
This is a great educational site to teach students 21st Century skills in electronics. Not only does this site offer free resources such as handouts and videos, but it offers up events and upcoming classes. Also, this site has nice tutorials for electronic projects and more.
Tutoring Hut is a wonderful tutoring social community for educators and students. This is an ideal place for students to find tutors on any number subjects. Also, this is great for teachers as they can create a virtual classroom for $2.99 a month and host as many classes as they like to help engage their students and increase their learning.
History Engine is a site I just learned about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a great site for History teachers & students to learn about history by searching events either in "search engine mode" w/ text, tag cloud, or map/location results. Also, a person can use the History Engine Map to search US events by timeline/decades.
Moo-O is a site that has to be seen to be believed. This is a great site for digital storytelling that helps students w/ reading and engage them by putting them right into the story. What does this mean? It means a student can select a story, and then w/ a web came/camera add their photo to the characters of that story. Then a student can read the story and even record it to turn into a movie. Also, students have the ability to resize, move, and animate the characters of each story.
NetHound is a wonderful site for the IT person managing a small network of 200 computers or less. This is great for monitoring network behavior w/ detailed reports and more. A person can see who's doing what, stop virus and spam, etc.
ParentSquare is a new online communication tool designed for schools/parents/administrators etc. This is a wonderful online tool that allows parents to keep in touch w/ teachers via an online email/messaging system. Also, users can collaborate on a calendar, share fundraising information, set volunteer schedules and more.
Is a free ebook that I just found out about. It is offered by the author of Edgalaxy, a wonderful blog. This is a wonderful resource that offers 13 tools that will help educators become familiar w/ an integrate technology into their teaching. Some of the content includes: lesson plans, web 2.0 tools, Google integration and more.
SlideShark is a free iPad app designed to allow users to edit/view/share a Powerpoint slideshow. This is a very useful app as w/out it the old school method was to convert to a PDF or video. The controls are simple to use such as swiping right to progress forward or left to move back.
iPiccy a wonderful site for adding effects/editing photos that I've covered before, has just released some new updates to make it even better. Users can now batch upload photos to save time as well as access a few new tools such as: blender and collage creator.
Teaching Appz is a wonderful site for finding educational apps for iOS devices and Android. These apps can be browsed by subject, age range, or device. Also, all apps have a nice review w/ possible classroom uses as well as a link to download.
Lessonopoly is a site I just learned about from the great blog, Educational Technology Guy. This is a new (beta) site for creating and sharing educational resources. They also have a a nice classroom planner for a registered account.
VerticalSet is a new (beta) search engine that offers some nice features. It allows users to customize their browsing experience by installing extensions that are suggested upon searching. Also, there are some nice features for privacy and the way VS indexes results for a more effective search.
Here are a list of features that makes Learning Playlists so attractive for educators:
myHomework is a nice iOS/Android app for tracking homework. This is designed students track classes, assignments, projects and more. This is nicely done w/ a nice calendar and other features such as alerting, etc.
Kikutext is a great way for teachers to communicate w/ parents through text messaging. The way this works is by giving parents a code (which is assigned to a registered user) to which they send text messages to receive messages.