Matific is a fantastic site/mobile app (iOS/Android) for Math grades K-6. The free mobile app has a wide variety of educational games/activities for El Ed aligned to Common Core Standards. While the site has tons of educational resources such as: worksheets, activities, videos, and more. Best of all is the educational portal which allows educators to track student progress and differentiate instruction.
Tiggly Words is a new learning system iPads that help develop early Literacy. 
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Riddle is a new (beta) site that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's wonderful blog. This is a great site for creating polls, quizzes, and more, that can be embedded into a blog or site. These quizzes can either be texted based or include an image w/ text underneath.
Monster Math is an excellent iOS app/game for learning basic Math skills (i.e. addition, multiplication, etc.). This is done through an engaging and fun game, as a student helps Maxx solve Math problems to find his friend Dextra. Best of all, is the detailed reporting that allows 
Modern Chalkboard is a wonderful new free site for finding SMART board resources. This is a great place to find interactive lessons on a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Grammar, Science, and Social Studies. Also, this is a nice place to find other resources such as links and help files.
Quizizz is a wonderful site for creating multiplayer quizzes that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. The way this works is an educator signs up and then creates/selects a virtual room or game. Once the room is created a unique code is generated that can be given to students to join. A educator has a choice to select a previously created game/quiz or create their own. Once the game starts an educator sees all results live and in real-time.
DimensionU the innovative site for Game Based Learning in Math and Literacy is launching their "Great Summer Chill (online camp) virtual competition. This is a 5 week fun Math competition for students grades 2nd-12th. Registration is open and the first 50 registrants receive a free limited edition DimensionU drawstring bag. Also, players can win lots of prizes such as: gift cards, Nintendo 3DS, and more.
Simple Machines is the new iOS app from TinyBop that is ideal for ages 6-8 learning about STEM. The way this works is students interact w/ six different "simple" machines to learn about the forces that control them and how they work. They will learn about motion, pulls, levers, and more as they try to make music, launch items, etc etc. Also, a user can download free worksheets from their websites.
Storyboard That is a fantastic Web 2.0 tool for digital storytelling w/ educational portal. This portal allows for educators to create student accounts (even batch upload) and assign them to their class via a URL and unique code (i.e. ClassDojo). Not only can and educator create, manage, adjust privacy settings, and more, they can create storyboard templates and assignments for their class. Everything is COPPA compliant and very safe to use in an educational setting.
Mystery Word Town is the new game from Artigig Apps. This mobile (iOS/Android) app follows the same familiar style as the Mystery Math Town games where a user has to travel through a town collecting letters to spell a word (instead of numbers to solve an equation). Mystery Word Town features high replay value as students try to help the town's sheriff capture outlaws by spelling sight words. They can interact w/ their environment and learn about the outlaws as they unlock new boards and characters. Also, this game saves a user account that it makes it ideal for multiple users on the same device as well as the ability to select a users "game" level.
Math Games is an excellent site for finding free games grades K-8. Also, a educator can search by skill/subject (Division, Addition, etc.) or by standard. Best of all Math Games tracks students progress and differentiates instruction.
Creatubbles is an excellent for sharing/collaborating on outwork in an educational setting. The educational portal allows educators to create, manage, and monitor student accounts making it safe for classrooms. Also, students can comment (pending moderators approval) on other student's outwork from around the world and use Creatubbles on any device. Best of all, all artwork that is uploaded to Creatubbles is reviewed before being displayed on their website.
Splash Math is an excellent site/iPad app has recently announced their summer program for K-5 to help prevent summer learning loss and prepare students for their upcoming school year. This is a free program and has students using the Splash Math program just 20 minutes a day. Splash Math is a very popular online/app that can be downloaded by individual grade or in a complete package of 1st-5th. Splash Math is aligned to Common Core Standards, can track student progress in real-time, and is self paced for each individual learner, and has lots of resources such as worksheets and more.
It's that time of year again for my annual list online summer learning opportunities or programs. Being a parent of four kids, I often find myself asking what I'm going to do w/ them when school gets out. There are lots of options out there for parents but I wanted something that would be fun as well as educational. Over the last few years Ed Tech companies have started to offer online summer "schools/programs" that are affordable and help prevent learning. These programs help fill a gap that sometimes is lacking over the summer months and best of all can be done at the comfort from home.
Studyladder is an excellent site for finding educational resources. These resources are designed for K-6 and cover a wide variety of subjects such as Math, Literacy, and more. This is a great place for educators or parents to find, printables, worksheets, videos, educational games, etc.
SpellingCity recently announced that they will be offer a online Summer Program designed for students grades 1st-12th. This program will focus on Spelling, Writing, and Vocabulary, through various online activities and games. Best of all the SpellingCity Program is self paced and includes over 40 customizable assignments, and works on both the web or free mobile (iOS/Android) app.
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.
