Cool+Tech+Tools

Here are some sites that we just couldn't live without, hope you grow to love them as much as we have.

__Teacher Productivity:__

 * Diigo**- http://www.diigo.com - Allows you to bookmark sites online
 * Linkable **- @http://www.linkable.com/ -Allows you to bookmark sites on a page
 * DropBox-** http://dropbox.com- Online file storage, sharing and collaboration
 * Fences-** @http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp - Organizes your desktop into managable categories, also allows you to clear your desktop for presentations just by double clicking.
 * ShowMeWhatsWrong** - http://showmewhatswrong.com - Records your screen and generates a URL that you can send to others when you're needing trouble shooting help.
 * KeepVid** - http://keepvid.com - Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!
 * Kwout** - http://kwout.com - Quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.
 * Prezi** - @http://prezi.com/ - Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint
 * Audioboo** - @http://audioboo.fm/ - Easily upload audio and share it in multiple places, you could easily post instructions for lessons.
 * ClassTools** - Class Tools- A great site to create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds.

__Reading:__

 * Wordia** - http://www.wordia.com - A video dictionary. See how others use words in their vocabulary.
 * Character Scrapbook** - @http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ - A site to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect scrapbook pages as you create them.
 * Storybird** - http://storybird.com - Digital story telling site. Images provided, text added by user.

__Math:__

 * Create-a-graph** - @http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/default.aspx - Create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs quickly online
 * Bitesize Math** - @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths - Interactive activities for math
 * Pentominoes** - @http://www.scholastic.com/blueballiett/games/pentominoes_game.htm - Drag and drop shapes to make them fit into a grid.
 * Arcademic Skill Builder** - @http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ - Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games. Click on our games below to get started.

__Writing:__

 * Build Your Wild Self -** http://buildyourwildself.com - Allows you to create an avatar and save it as an image for download. Perfect to use as a story starter. Students can create a Wild Self and then tell a story about that character. Also great to use as an avatar, no need to upload an actual picture of themselves as an online presence.
 * National Archives Experience** - http://www.digitalvaults.org - Visual search of the national archives.
 * Bubbl.us** - @https://bubbl.us/ - An online mind mapping tool.

__Science:__

 * Bitesize Science** - @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science - Interactive activities for life science, chemistry, and physical science.
 * Invention at Play** - http://www.inventionatplay.org/playhouse_main.html - Interactive physics activities.
 * EdHeads** - http://www.edheads.org - Interactive activities for a variety of science areas.

__21st Century Tools:__
Bloom Apps iPad apps that help facilitate Bloom's levels
 * Living Sasquatc** - @http://www.livingsasquatch.com/ - An augmited Reality site with Sasquatc as your main character.
 * Letters Alive**- @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWiSYWN5Ck- A video sharing some augmited reality software.
 * Custom Sign & Image Creator** - http://www.addletters.com/image-list -Use this site to create custom signs & images, like the one on the front of this wiki.
 * Bloom's Taxonomy& Web 2.0 Triangle** - @http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm - A Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle with Web 2.0 Tools that help facilitate that level on Bloom's.