Lingro is an amazing online tool that turns any website or digital text file into an interactive dictionary where users can click on a word to view it's definition and hear it's pronunciation. Support by 12 languages, Lingro is also a very useful tool for translating text. 
Oolone is a new visual search engine that displays results as web previews instead of text, offering a nice option for efficient and intuitive searching. An oolone search displays the top four results in a grid that allows uses to scroll over the images to get a closer look at the site before actually selecting it. Designed to be a quicker and more efficient way to search, it speaks to the idea that that sometimes an image is the best answer to a question. 
Multi-media Search Engine: Qwiki is a multi-media search engine designed to improve the way people experience information by appealing to users on a human level. A Qwiki search delivers content in the form of a narrated, interactive slideshow that tells a story. Use Qwiki to support all learners. No login required. 
This tool makes it easy to generate vocabulary lists from digital text. Just copy and paste text into a box and watch the tool generate a word cloud in which the most frequently used words appear larger in size. Those words are sorted into categories so users can extract specific content-related words from the cloud, or generate a general vocabulary list. 
Search for results by readability: This is a search engine designed to help users find digital text at appropriate readability levels. Teachers can use this tool when planning for students with a variety of reading levels. Students can use this tool to find digital text you can understand. 
Collect Feedback: AnswerGarten describes itself as a minimal tool for maximum feedback that can be used for creative brainstorming. Just create a question and publish it for students to respond to. The answers are immediately displayed as tags in a word cloud, which means responses that appear more frequently appear larger in size. Try it for yourself by answering the question below. No login is required. 
Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA. 
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EasyBib is a free and popular tool for creating citations. By using this tool, students no longer need to learn to format citations, which means they can focus on the reason for creating the citations and the importance of giving credit to the author. Beyond citations, EasyBib has some really great features worth exploring. 
Internet Safety: Creating an avatar is a really great way to teach students to protect their identities on the Internet. Avatars provide students with a safe way of representing themselves while also providing opportunities for creative writing experiences. Use this website to help students build an avatar. 
Google Art Project is an interactive website that uses the same street view technology you've probably seen in Google Maps to allows visitors to virtually explore museums and view hundreds of pieces of art. Even better, visitors can view them at incredible zoom levels to get even closer than you could if you were actually standing in front of the original painting. Visitors can even create and share their own collection of masterpieces. Use this site to prompt writing and discussions across the curriculum. 
An amazing online tool that turns any website or digital text file into an interactive dictionary where users can click on a word to view it's definition and hear it's pronunciation. Supported by 12 languages, Lingro is also a very useful tool for translating text. 
Simplify and Summarize Digital Text: Text compactor is an online tool for summarizing digital text that has a very user-friendly interface. Start by finding some digital text. Copy, and paste it into the compactor. Then choose the percentage of text you want after the compacting. 
This online image editing tool lets users upload an image from a computer and edit it. There are plenty 
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