Padlet

Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. This is a great tool to collaborate, collect ideas, brainstorm, summarize, and more!

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.

Google Drive

Google Drive is a free service from Google that allows you to store files online and access them anywhere using the cloud. Google Drive also gives you access to free web-based applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Google docs makes creating stuff easy and collaborative, no matter where you are or what device you’re working from. You can see others make changes in real-time and edits will be automatically saved in Google Drive.

Book Creator App

Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. These books could include picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, and more. This open-ended, universal tool allows teachers to cross content areas seamlessly. This tool allows narration, images and video and exports nicely to Google!

Google Hangouts

Take advantage of some of the innovative features of Google+. Create a Circle for your class to share course announcements, and important links. You can also divide your students into groups, and create circles for each group. A group member can see when others are online and initiate chats and meetings. Students can also video chat with each other using Hang Outs

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140 character messages. This can be a wonderful, concise way to capture what is going on in your classroom. Teachers can now use social media to connect their students to real-world problems. An equally powerful component is when students connect globally to current events.

Magnetic ABC

It's the iPad edition of the old fashioned magnetic board suitable for kids of all ages! It comes with a rich set of colored pieces that can be placed freely on the board: letters, numbers, symbols, funny figures and themed sets. It aids in teaching students their alphabets/numbers, a learning tool in teaching one how to spell or represent numbers!

Seesaw

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. FEATURES: Easily Capture Student Learning in Any Form ∙ Students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links to show what they know.

Google+

(now known as Google Currents)

Currents is designed to connect your organization around shared interests, helping you collaborate with team members. Trade insights with communities, poll your organization, share posts, and more.

Doodle

Doodle is an online scheduling tool that can be used quickly and easily to find a date and time to meet with multiple people. First you suggest dates and times for your event participants to choose from, then Doodle creates a polling calendar that can be sent to participants for feedback.

Google Sheets

Google Sheets can be used to collect and manipulate data and then visually represent that data using charts and graphs. Student formative assessment data can be analyzed to better inform instruction.