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New York Times Learning Network Teaching and Learning with the New York Times

Edmodo Edmodo has a facebook-like format. It is a free and safe way for students and teachers to connect and collaborate.

Photo Story Microsoft Photo Story is an application that allows you to create your own photo presentation and save it as a video file. It has a simple and easy-to-use interface, that uses the same style as a step-by-step wizard. This will guide you through the process of making your presentation. To make your photo slide-show, you simply drag the images you want to use and arrange them in the order in which you want them to appear.

Wordle Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary [|audience response hardware] with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works [|internationally with texting], web, or [|Twitter], its simplicity and flexibility are earning [|rave reviews].

Qualtrics Free web-based survey software.

Google Earth for Educators Get lesson plans and ideas on how Google Earth can help students learn in your specific subject. View videos, tutorials and an interactive game to help teach Google Earth basics to your students.

Google docs Create and collaborate

Wikispaces for educators We make wikis that are easy for everyone, not just technical users. We provide an intuitive interface, a simple visual editor, and a focus on community collaboration.

Earth Exploration Toolkit Developed by teams of scientists and educators, the //Earth Exploration Toolbook// (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system. Within the context of a case study, each chapter guides users through a step-by-step process in which they access data and use analysis tools to explore real issues and questions in Earth system science. In the course of completing a chapter, users produce and analyze maps, graphs, images, or other data products. The ultimate goal of each activity is to build users' skills and confidence so they can use data to conduct their own investigations of the Earth system.

Flipped classrooms

Teachers 'flip' their lectures, homework to reach more students. The idea is that by working on 'homework' in class, teachers and students get more out of their time together.
Tumblr A microblogging platform and social networking website. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. https://docs.google.com/demo/edit?id=scACUlmXXtmYSEqYhNiFy3_v_&dt=document#documentEdmodo