These are site to help you succeed with your students and break away from the same boring curriculum and teach them something new, or something they already know, but in a new exciting way!
Web 2.0 Tools and Education Software Links
This is a brainstorming site for students and teacher to think and create collaboratively-https://bubbl.us/
Every try to make math interesting? This site will help. It goes into fun activities on how to help them learn and grasp math and apply it-http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
This is great site to bookmark websites you have visited and loved without having to find them in your recent history, then you can share them with other people in the world if they are linked to your account. Great for teacher to teacher communication, parent communication, as well as with students-http://www.diigo.com/index
This site is a way to connect to other people and remember the important dates, that you might forget, like birthdays, and classroom assignments! This is a great way to set up reminders for students and parents to get them to do homework or study for tests-http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
SuperKids has created a collection of easy-to-use, free educational resources, for home and school. They can be used for students by teachers in the classroom, to send home for extra help by parents, and even by parents who would like to home school their children-http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/
This is an app on your Ipod or Iphone which shows how when your heart starts pumping where it goes, and the spaces in your body that it will flow more, and at quicker speeds. great for anatomy or science teachers at a higher grade level-http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heart-rate-free/id401450171?mt=8
Tagxedo "turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text", so if you would like to show your student the amount of times a word has shown up in a ext, for word frequency models, then they will show up bigger then the other words in the "cloud" and the students can point them out-http://www.tagxedo.com/