Digital Education...

SOUNDCLOUD.COM (RATING:5) If you are a teacher having trouble looking for a way to communicate with students using the best audio tool, worry no more because SOUNDCLOUD is here for the rescue.SoundCloud.com is an online audio distribution platform, allowing you to create, record, and share sounds with anyone around, especially your students. Soundcloud can help facilitate education in a number of ways, whether you want to record or just distribute your audio, SoundCloud is the best tool to use. Using SoundCloud, you can upload lectures and push them to relevant social networks, embed on the site and also submit to iTunes. SoundCloud can also be used to document lessons easily for your students. There are endless possibilities when it comes to using SoundCloud for Education, Get started and start using SoundCloud! More info With our Record 101 , you can learn how to use our site, iPhone and Android apps. With our Takes Questions 101 , you can learn how to use our Q and A feature.

DIGGO.COM (RATING:5) DIIGO.COM For the best Bookmarking tool, Diggo is the tool to use. It is a free online bookmarking, research, and knowledge sharing tool. Diigo is an excellent tool for teachers/educators as both a collaborative resource between themselves and students. Diigo lets you do more than just bookmark web pages online. For instance, if you install the Diigo toolbar, or toolbar button, you have the ability to highlight text and pictures in a variety of colors, or add sticky notes to a bookmarked page. With this feature you can annotate web pages with thoughts, ideas or additional information. All these notes are saved for the next time you access the saved bookmark, and anyone else you share the bookmark with, (students or teachers), will also see your annotations. It is a great way to focus attention on a large article. YOUTUBE VIDEO:diggo

WOLFRAM ALPHA.COM (RATING:5) Wolfram Alpha is not just another search engine. Woldfram alpha is a computational knowledge engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. To differentiate,Google is a search engine where it looks externally for what it thinks you want whereas wolframAlpha looks within. WolframAlpha is great for teachers because it has a whole site dedicated to education. For example, it has mathematical problems for students where they can challenge their skills as well as science and social studies problems. visit wolfram alpha education today and learn more ways to start engaging your students. More Info Wolfram Mathworld: Explore the web's most extensive mathematics resource, with information on algebra, calculus, geometry, statistics, number theory, and other math-related topics

SCRIBLINK.COM (RATING:5) Introducing Scriblink.com, a free digital sketchpad that users can share online in real time. Sorta like pen and paper, it is almost like a whiteboard except its digital. This website provides you with a digital online whiteboard so you can use it to teach other people online or just to have some fun by drawing on it. ScribLink.com has other useful features, like the possibility to upload images for your online whiteboard background. This is not a free image hosting service to share photos, but ScribLink will let you save the uploaded images and share your whiteboard images with other users. You just have to enter this site to get your online whiteboard without any registration. check it out now! How do I invite people to my Scriblink?

BLOGGER.COM (RATING:6) Introducing, Blogger.com. For the first time, I finally have an idea of how to create a blog or post or comment on a blog and I have come to see how much of a great help it has been for my learning experience. Blogger is a great, free, easy tool that you use to create blogs. It will keep you connected with your students, allowing the teacher to have a resource for the students that is easy to create and update. I can personally learned alot from blogger and my teacher, and I am actually using blogger now, so try it now because blogger has helpful links and resource and so much more for both the teacher and students. How to create a blog: Blogger.

DISCOVERY EDUCATION (RATING:5) Discovery Education is a great resource for educators. It supports teachers in accelerating student achievement, bringing the world of Discovery into classrooms to ignite students' natural curiosity. Discovery Education helps the students to ENGAGE in standards-aligned rich media to interactive digital textbooks, our world-class content takes students beyond the classroom, TRANSFORM the classroom experience and ACHIEVE,measure results and accelerate student achievement with digital curriculum that engages today's students. Visit Discovery Education today and learn more on how to interact with your students in the digital world. Try our stuffs out: puzzlemaker. Teachers Resources.

DROPBOX.COM (RATING:4) Introducing,Dropbox, a file sync and storage system that allows you to keep files in sync across multiple computers and backed up on their servers. There is a free account available and ways to increase your free storage. You can even select which directories and files to sync on which computers.This is a great tool for educators to use because it can help keep your files safe in the event of a computer crash and you can also access your files from any web browser and mobile device. So incase of lesson plan emergency and you have no back-up, Dropbox will be there for you to acess. Dropbox and Education.

GOOGLE CALENDAR (RATING:5) As Teachers or educators, there are just too many events to attend and sometimes its hard to keep track of every single date. And that is why I am introducing Google Calendar, Organizing your schedule shouldn’t be a burden. With Google Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. Google Calendar is an easy way for teachers, administrators and students to share time-related info like team schedules, assignment deadlines and school holidays. Anyone who needs to view a calendar can use it from any Internet-connected computer and access it on existing school web pages or within their own Google Calendar account. Changes made by a calendar organizer are automatically seen by anyone who checks, which makes outdated versions a thing of the past. How to get started: YouTube Video