Edublog Awards site listing the top educational blogs including; Best Individual, Class, Student, Ed Tech/Resource, Teacher, Library, Administrator, Influential, Tweeter.
Best Education Podcast 2017 - Edutopia's Best Education Podcast pick for 2017.
Slides Carnival - Slide and Power Point template site.
Soundtrap - Online music studio for everyone! Here is a three minute tutorial from Apps Events #GooglePD
Premium Beat - Curated music library. Two plans $49 or $199
Telepromptme - Online teleprompter.
Unsplash - Beautiful free photos.
Creative Commons - Share, collaborate, re-mix, re-use.
Pexels - Royalty free images
Pixabay - Royalty free stock photos and videos.
101 Places to Find Amazing Royalty Free Pics - Article from Mashable
Today's Meet is closing June 16, 2018
Tozzl - chat platform that allows you to quickly create private, password-protected message boards as well as public boards.
Backchannel Chat - On Backchannel can create a free backchannel room (AKA chat room) in which you can post comments and questions for your students to respond to. Your students can respond in realtime. Students can ask you and their classmates questions within the confines of your Backchannel Chat room. The free version of Backchannel Chat limits you to 30 participants at a time.
Google Slides Q&A - The Q&A function built into the presentation mode of Google Slides is a good option for gathering questions from students when they are viewing slides that you or their classmates present.
Mentimeter - is an audience response tool lets you create polls and quizzes for your audience to respond to during your presentations. Responses to open-ended poll questions can be displayed as a word cloud, but there isn't a true chat function in Mentimeter. You can create and display polls and quizzes from the Mentimeter website or you can use their PowerPoint Add-in to display your polls and quizzes from your slideshow. Your audience members can respond from their phones, tablets, or laptops.
GoSoapBox - allows you to have your audience respond to questions through their laptops, tablets, and phones.
AnswerGarden - is a neat service that allows you to embed a open-ended feedback tool into your classroom blog or website.
Hypothesis - collaborative annotation tool.
QRStuff - At QR Stuff we give you the opportunity to generate QR Codes in ways that most of the other places on the internet overlook.
WriteAbout - Write About is a classroom writing community and publishing platform built by teachers.
Sketchnoting - Let your creative juices flow. Sketchnoting is the rage for modern note taking.
Edji.it - K-7 Understanding the text. Group annotation and comments.
Perusall.com - Seconday Understanding the text. Group annotation and comments.
SnapGuide - A place for makers. Create How To Guides.
California Writing Project - Writing is pivotal for learning. No matter what students are studying, they benefit when they use writing to understand concepts, solve problems, communicate ideas, and make sense of what they read and learn. Because the California Writing Project has a central mission—to improve student writing and learning by improving the teaching of writing
Virtual Museum - Create virtual museums with these templates. They are .ppt's but you can download, upload to Google and convert to Slides.
Media Literacy: How to close Read Infographics: Article from www.MiddleWeb.com explaining Infographics and how to analysis and teach them.
Infographic's are everywhere. There's at least one in every classroom. We call them Classroom Posters. Now you can digitally document your learning and present it in beautiful visual format.
Smore - Newsletter App
Google Drawing is also a great tool.
Google Drawing in the Classroom
Adobe Workshop - Create and Teach with Infographics
Template for creating a Facebook Profile by Derrick Waddell -Creating a fake Facebook profile for a character in a book or of a famous person in history could be a good way to get students interested in writing about that person. It's a violation on FB but here is a template that doesn't post to FB. Here is a link to some lesson applications.
Vicki Davis blog on blogging. Great resource for building and monitoring your blog.
Grammar Girl - Getting started with Blogging
Will Richardson's Wiki - WebBlogs in Schools - Resource site with links to various topics and information on Blogs
ShowMe - Chromebook and iPad
Educreation - iPad only
Explain Everything - iPad, Chrome and Windows App, 14 day free - education subscription available
Levels of ePortfolio development for K-12 - A resource for teachers (and students) to determine what students should include in an ePortfolio based on grade level.
11 Essentials for Excellent ePortfolios - Article in Edutopia by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
Cornell University - Center for Teaching Excellence - ePortfolio tips on integrating, implementing and assessing
FlipGrid - Quick and easy video chat in the cloud through your browser.
VoiceThread - Quick and easy video chat plus much more. VoiceThread allows for multiple participatory methods of response and also has an annotation for picture posts
Playing With Media - Resources for video, audio and multi-media tools and ideas. Wes Fryer, PhD. A VIDEO LIBRARY & eStore supporting "simple ideas for powerful sharing"
iPadio.com - Site for audio uploads and browser based audio playback. Install the iPadio App on your Android or iPhone.
AudioBoo - Site for audio uploads and browser based audio playback. Available for Android and iPhone.
EdTechTalk - Collaborative open WebCast community.
PechaKucha - 20 slides, 20 seconds
Freesound.org - Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
Kaizena - Google Docs Add-on that allows for voice comments on a Google Doc. Great for accessibility.
SoundCloud.com
Freeloops.com
ccmixter.org
Jamendo.com/en
Freemusicarchive.org
archive.org/index.php
8 Simple Formula Plot Templates - The Wise Sloth Blog
7 Simple Ways to Make a Wise Story Great - Writers Digest, Elizabith Sims, 2012
GeoStories by National Geographic - GeoStories are like map-enabled slideshows that incorporate dynamic maps, pictures, video and sound, with captions and links.
Storybird - provides illustrations; you just have to write.
Zeega - Almost like a slideshow. Good for poetry, creative pieces, and social science pieces.
Magnetic Poetry Online - digital word magnets, just like the ones you play with on your refrigerator
Adobe Slate and Adobe Spark - Adobe Slate is an iPad App. Adobe Spark is one of the top rated apps for quick story telling and video needs.
Adobe Spark Storytelling Example
Book Creator - iTunes App $
Nawmall - Video made with animations. Sound effects, character movements, facial expressions. $$
GoAnimate - Video made with animations. $79 a year. 14 day free trial.
WeVideo - Allows for collaboration on video. Short video w/watermark, free.
Comic Life - build comics and graphic novels. $29.00
Pixton - build comics with your own characters and scenes. $
ToonDoo - Free comic builder
Make Beliefs Comix -Free comic builder
Pixar Short Plot Lessons - Teachers Pay Teachers account needed. Resources are free.
Aladdin Video Plot Lesson - 2.22 minutes.
Tim's Printables - Plot Diagram - Lots of other great printables also.
StoryBoard That - Story outline, storyboard template and many more writing resources.
SampleTemplates - 33 free storyboard sample templates.