Remind101
This website becomes an online texting medium that teachers can use to text their students reminders without any cell phone numbers being exchanged. Teachers can download an app onto their smart phone and message students from their own phones, or they can use the website to send messages to all the students who "sign up" to receive the reminders.
PollEverywhere
This website features online polls where students can text or email in their answers and a live feed is produced. If you have a projector you can allow students to see the answers as they are sent in. If you want to use this as a formative assessment tool to test knowledge and not just opinion, you can tell students to text their answer but don't have the feed showing. You can make Wordles to make a visual of the responses the class gave you. In the Wordle, the bigger the word, the more common it was used in student's responses. Here is a Wordle that my 30-1 class produced when they were asked "Why do we still study Shakespeare today?"
Websites to Implement into your Lessons
These websites vary from tools to use within your lesson to platforms to base assignments off of. They vary from games to video creators; from citing tools to collaborative documents. They will work to spice up your lessons just as much as you need and allow your students to learn how to use new devices that are based in the technology that they love.
flipsnack.com
weebly.com
wordpress.com
makebeliefscomix.com
zotero.org
wallwisher.com
bibme.org
zoho.com
dropbox.com
evernote.com
screenr.com
animoto.com
wikispaces.com
prezi.com
googledocs.com
screencast-o-matic.com
quizlet.com
dipity.com
penzu.com
tricider.com
goqr.me brainshark.com
freetypinggame.net
typingweb.com
www.xtranormal.com
www.ning.com
www.bitstrips.com
www.textcompactor.com
www.flocabulary.com
flipsnack.com
weebly.com
wordpress.com
makebeliefscomix.com
zotero.org
wallwisher.com
bibme.org
zoho.com
dropbox.com
evernote.com
screenr.com
animoto.com
wikispaces.com
prezi.com
googledocs.com
screencast-o-matic.com
quizlet.com
dipity.com
penzu.com
tricider.com
goqr.me brainshark.com
freetypinggame.net
typingweb.com
www.xtranormal.com
www.ning.com
www.bitstrips.com
www.textcompactor.com
www.flocabulary.com