Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you’d like to read about.

Tech in the Classroom: StudySync
This is a Web-based supplemental curriculum. Aligned to the Common Core and aimed at middle-school and high-school students, StudySync enlists broadcast-quality video, digital media, mobile platforms and social learning to advance reading, writing and critical thinking

Tech in the Classroom: PresentationTube
PresentationTube Network provides a video presentation recorder and video sharing and streaming network that facilitates the process of producing, publishing and sharing quality, accessible and interactive video presentations

Tech in the Classroom: Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is an engaging, award-winning second-language program that correlates to state and national standards.

Tech in the Classroom: SpaceChem
Students take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. They must construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products. They have to streamline their designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem.

Tech in the Classroom: Apple TV
Apple TV is a device that wirelessly streams content from the Internet to your television. When paired with the AirPlay feature of iOS devices, Apple TV can wirelessly display, in real time, what the mobile device is displaying.

Tech in the Classroom: OpalCalc
OpalCalc takes the concept of a PC calculator and one-ups it by allowing the user to insert natural language as part of the sum, along with multi-line support that allows users to go back and adjust previous calculations.

Tech in the Classroom: Mobile HotSpot
A device about the size of a credit card (depending on make and model) that provides Internet access to areas that do not have it.

Tech in the Classroom: VisiTimer
This unique timer displays an image rather than a series of numbers

Tech in the Classroom: Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
For the first time in history, people around the world are able to view the actual Dead Sea Scrolls without having to travel to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Tech in the Classroom: GoogleMaps
Google Maps is an online mapping service that provides street maps; a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.

Tech in the Classroom: LANSchool
LANSchool 7.6 software allows teachers to integrate technology while eliminating student distractions.

Tech in the Classroom: RenWeb
RenWeb is a school management system that can be used to organize and store important school information including contact info, grading, progress reports and parent communications.

Tech in the Classroom: GradeKeeper
GradeKeeper is a school management system that allows users to keep track of grades, seating charts, progress reports and more

Tech in the Classroom: Discover, Learn and Play
Discover, Learn and Play is an online music curriculum designed to take students from instrument selection through song performance.

Color It by Numbers
A digital coloring program available for both Mac and PC, Color It By Numbers lets students “color” using a mouse to control a virtual brush.

OtterBox Tablet Cases
OtterBox addresses the concerns of education officials who are wary of the beating young children can deliver to school equipment.

iPad App Store
This installment of Tech in the Classroom explores the possibility of using the iPad App Store in the classroom.

Adobe Creative Suite
This package of software allows you to create everything from documents to Web sites, and includes Photoshop, the industry-leading photo-editing software.

Classroom "Jeopardy!"
Using any other digital projection device, teachers can transform their classroom into the set of the television show “Jeopardy!” 

BlogTalkRadio.com
BlogTalkRadio.com lets anyone sign up and do a podcast or radio show over a phone.

eBeam Engage
This interactive whiteboard device combines more than ten multimedia and navigation tools in one sleek console to make content delivery effective and fun.

The Online Books Page
This site offers over one million legal, free books of all types including classics, reference books and other books that would be useful in a classroom setting.

Kindle
The Amazon Kindle is a black-and-white electronic reading device that allows you to carry thousands of books with you, downloading from either a WiFi connection or through 3G service.

Skype
A free videoconferencing program, Skype allows any two people with an Internet connection and computers with Web cameras to participate in a two-way online chat.