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Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers – Helping teachers make better classrooms, one mouse-click at a time. Classroom Technology News | Educational Apps | Bloom's Taxonomy | techlearning.com. Five Easy Tools to Build a Website. No matter how modest your launch, your business will need a web presence. Maybe you've been putting it off. After all, we weren't all put on earth to write code on the web--and hiring someone who was is expensive.

Luckily, you don't have to know a thing about programming to build a respectable website these days. There are loads of affordable--even free--tools that do the grunt work for you. You'll need a sense of what you want your website to do for your business. As long as you have a germ of an idea, the best do-it-yourself services will guide you along. Here are our top five picks for launching your business on the web without skimping on quality. 1. What it does: Yola lets you build a basic website by picking a template and filling out a few simple forms. What it costs: The basic web-building tool and a Yola.com address are free. Bottom line: If you're looking for a basic, professional site at a reasonable cost, Yola's your answer. 2. jimdo 4. 5. What it costs: It's free. 50 new tech tools you should know about. You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn't mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips.

New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with them is a nearly impossible task. Just when you think you're up to date, something newer and hipper comes along. But before you wave the white flag, let us help. Once again we have sorted through hundreds of new and emerging tech tools to bring you 50 of the most buzzworthy ones. These apps and services can help you do everything from shooting better smartphone photos to cataloging your bottle-cap collection to finding the best pad Thai in your city.

Which of your favorite new tech tools did we leave out? 360 Panorama (99 cents): Want to enhance your smartphone landscape photos? Alfred (free): It's a discovery tool for your palate! Find My Friends (free): Think the Find My iPhone app, but for people. The Top 27 Free Tools to collaborate, hold discussions, and Backchannel with Students.

1- ChannelME ChannelME is a great web tool. It allows its users to browse a particular website simultaneously. They are able to look at the same content of a web page with friends in real time and even chat with each other . 2- Search Team It allows its users to search in small teams and collaborate to find the best search results. It is a collaborative tool that we can use with our students. 3- Mind42 Mind42 is a great collaborative mind mapping tool . 4-Entri Entri is a free collaborative tool for writing and sharing documents . 5- Bounce It is “ a little application that lets people quickly add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and forth with other people” . 6-Wiggio Wiggio makes group work much more easier as its easy and straightforward design provides everything you need to work productively in your groups. 7-My Simple Surface My Simple Surface is a very simple online whiteboard. 8- Hackpad This is a tool to develop collaborative note-taking and writing outlines. 9- Synchtube.