Reading - Improve Your Reading Speed ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free!
Read It Later Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.Think of it as a ’staging area’ for bookmarks. (Use with Firefox)
Recipe Zaar Choose from 313 member-contributed recipes.
Recipes - Video Watch the recipe made via video.
Religion The goal of this website is to provide free, reliable information — "just the facts" — on the various answers that have been given to these questions, as well as the rituals and customs that go along with them.
Repair - Common Repairs Made Easy Simple instructions and tips on troubleshooting and repairing or recycling household things that break. Fix-it club
Research Paper - How to Use this free Internet tutorial to learn to discernthe good, the bad and the ugly for your online research.
Reverse Dictionary OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. (Keep it short to get the best results.) In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.
Resume Builder Create your own: just fill in the boxes. (You may also use Microsoft Word, "Resume form".
Rivers and Streams - from Google Directory - Best on the internet on this subject. (links)
RSS Viewer Enter the URL of the RSS you want to view, and press "Go!
Rubrics -Rubistar RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
Schedule Meetings Diarised is free – You can schedule as many meetings as you like, and suggest unlimited dates for your meetings.
Screen Capture - Mac only webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.
Scrapblog Create a scrapbook online.
Search Engine Creation with Google.
Spell Checker Spell Check Your Text or Website Right Now!Free Online Spell Checker. Fast and Accurate Results. No Software Required.
Stopwatch / Count down If you want to time yourself use this stopwatch or count down timer with alarm (check it out in full screen)
Store Information Online SnapBits is a free service that may be used to securely store, search, sort and easily retrieve “Bits” of information. These “Bits” may be anything you wish to remember or keep a note of. You may store as many as you like and unlike conventional paper notes, you will never lose or fail to find your information.
Summarize Anything Document Summarization Quickly get the gist of a document, webpage, or any text selection of your choice. Identify the key topics of a document while eliminating redundant information
Teleprompter CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
Tip of My Tongue Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.
To Do List Gubb gubb is a free web-based application with an easy-to-use interface that enables you to create, manage and share an unlimited number of lists. gubb is for any and all the lists you can think of: from every day shopping and to-do lists to wishlists, brainstorming notes, personal goals, group projects and more. Just about as easy as jotting something down on paper, only better. You'll always know where your lists are; you can edit and organize them any time; and you can share with friends and co-workers in seconds.
To do List Prioritize Simple to-do lists that anyone can use. Make a list to organize your tasks. Drag tasks up and down as your priorities change. Mark items complete when you finish. It's that easy!. Access your lists anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Print, email, subscribe via RSS, and view lists on your mobile phone!
Timeline create your own timeline (Beta program)
XTimeline This is a free timeline creation. Very easy to create.
35 Tools for Teachers, Tutors and Students. Here you’ll find resources for learning management systems, social networking communities for students and teachers, tutoring services and more.
Icing On the Cake Tools Online Tools for Classroom Use
Tools from Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators
Class Tools Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
Typing Speed TypeSpeed is the fastest way to reach your full typing potential. You can use the 'exercises' to learn how to type, or review the most efficient typing techniques available. If you ever want to know what your typing speed is, you can take the typing test, which will tell you how well you type.
Typing - Keyboard Typing is CoolYou can customize the following options: 1. Switch input language and keyboard layout, if you use an unconventional one 2. Switch text source to random text, custom text or web site 3. Show chart with the history of your typing speed to see how you have been progressing over time
Dictionary -Voycabulary VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice.
Virginia Beach Library The Virginia Beach Public Library has a collection of more than 1,000,000 items. The collection includes books, audio books, music CDs, videos and DVDs, books in large type, and magazines and newspapers - for all ages. The Library subscribes to numerous online reference sources and digital ebook and audiobook services. Check it out!
What have I learned - Daily Assessment Tools You are responsible for progressing in your research every day. One or more of the following tools may be used by your teacher to assess your daily progress during research time.
Web Cams The portal WorldCam.pl collects a series of webcam addresses broadcasting live videos from all around the world.
Web Site Information everything about a website Place the url into the search box and find factual information about the web site.
White Board Dabbleboard is a powerful digital whiteboard that's actually easy and fun to use. With a revolutionary new interface, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw.Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Share and collaborate in real-time. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil.
Wikipedia The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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.
Writing Media Pre-production (Download) Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
Writers' Window is a site for school aged young writers (aged from 5 to 18) to publish their writing.
Writing Prompts After years of leading a normal life, you discover you have a special ability. Afraid to share this information with anyone, you confide only in your closest friend. To your surprise, your friend shares some information with you—he also has a super power.
Writing -The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of Dominoe story and links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki.
Writing -Random Story Generator This story is about what happens when a Frenchman, who is motivated out of the desire to impress a superior, and a misanthropic person, who is motivated out of deep friendship, meet in a zoo. A key element of the conflict is going down in (literal) flames together.
Writing Analyzer -Topicalizer Topicalizer is a service which automatically analyses a document specified by a URL or a plain text regarding its word, phrase and text structure. It provides a variety of useful information on a given text including the following: Word, sentence and paragraph count, collocations, syllable structure, lexical density, keywords, readability and a short abstract on what the given text is about.
Writing Word Replacement (download windows free) WordFlood 1.2 is a powerful word replacement program designed to help writers and 'private label rights' content users choose the best words and phrases during the creative writing and rewriting process. WordFlood 1.2 was formerly a paid program, but is now free! Watch the short demo video below, then scroll down to download your free copy!
Write to Done That’s what Write To Done is about, at its core: the craft and the art of writing. But from that core we’ll be covering many topics: journalism, blog writing, freelance writing, fiction, non-fiction, getting a book deal, the business of writing, the habit of writing. And so on.
Writing Fix interactive lessons and quality resources for classrooms where writing is taught, not just assigned.
Write It Right This is a guide for students to use a resource when creating and publishing writing projects. To use this guide, click on the links in the frame to your left.
Writing Word Play Come play with puns, palindromes, anagrams, tongue twisters, rhymes, limericks, oxymorons, and other verbal nonsense. Name your phobias, look up words that mean their opposites, and laugh at absurd quotes.
2400 Tools for Learning This Directory contains over 2,400 tools for learning in two main sections: 1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions 2. for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration (also includes some enterprise tools)
100 Useful, Free Web Tools for Lifelong Learners This mega list of 100 free web tools and sites will grant you access to courses at Harvard Medical School and MIT, social media sites that connect you to bookworms, videos and podcasts about everything from medical news to politics, government resources, and a lot more. The best part? Everything is free, and there’s no grading involved.
Web Site Evaluation 'With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels."