Creating Digital Products

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Image Creation

❤ Canva - Design posters, images, presentations, flyers, social media profiles and headers. Library of images which includes free and payment required images.

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About CanvaEasily create beautiful designs + documents. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.

Buncee - Image creation, presentations, digital storytelling

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❤ Adobe Spark - Post

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Adobe Spark - Transform your ideas into stunning visual storiesAdobe Spark is a free online and mobile graphic design app. Easily create beautiful images, videos, and web pages that make you stand out on social.

BeFunky Image Editor

Photo Editor | BeFunky: Free Online Photo Editing and Collage MakerBeFunky Photo Editor lets you apply photo effects, edit photos and create photo collages with collage maker.

Google Drawings and Slides for Image Creation

Visual Literacy with Google Apps

Googlink: Creating Interactive Posters with Google Drawings Google Drawings is often overshadowed by the other Google Drive tools such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. However, it is an excell...

Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings activityIf you are like me (Laura), you are constantly searching for a new, fresh activity to help connect your students with your content. Time is always a factor though, so I look for things I can immedi…

Image Design & Creation Apps for Chrome Browser Extensions

ColorZilla - Use the eyedropper to match colors in images to backgrounds and font colors

ColorZillaAdvanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies

Create your personal bitmoji avatar to add to email signatures, presentations, social media and more.

BitmojiUse your personal emoji in your favorite sites!

Awesome Screenshot - Use to crop and annotate images for presentations.

Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video RecorderScreencast, record screen as video. Screen capture for full page, annotate, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads.

Google AutoDraw

AutoDrawFast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

FREE Images for use in Student and Teacher Projects

❤ Pixabay

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Google Docs Add-On for Pixabay

Fuzzimo - Visual arts website that includes free images, fonts, textures, and more. Graphic designs are copyrighted but you may use them for projects, presentations, websites, etc.

Unsplash

Beautiful Free Images | UnsplashBeautiful high quality free images and photos you can download and use for any project. No attribution required.

Unsplash and More Image Ideas

Free photos, icons, magic and more with Google Slides add-onsImagine, for a second, that Google Slides is a Shop Vac. (You know, one of those short, wide wet/dry vacuum cleaners with a hose.) Go with me on this … You can use that vacuum cleaner to do a…

Pics 4 Learning - Curated collection appropriate for elementary level students.

Pics4LearningThousands of copyright free and copyright friendly images and photos for teachers and students.

Photos for Class

Noun Project - Infographic Images

Icons by Noun Project - Google Slides add-onGet access to over 1 million high-quality icons from Noun Project. For icons from Beyoncé to Venn diagrams, we got you covered.

Recommend that you always search an image database to insure your students are searching in the appropriate age level resources.

15 Awesome Open Source Image Resources for Every Visual ProjectCheck out these cool open source image resources that are sure to give your students' projects a unique creative visual boost.

Photos for Class

Search to download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!

Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flickr and Pixabay SafeSearch and our proprietary filters - Read More
Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms - Read More
Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's / Pixabay's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use

More Google Drawings & Slides Ideas

How to Create an eBook with Google Slides | Shake Up Learning Pinterest Google Slides Did you know that Google Slides can be used for much more than just presentations? Google Slides is one of the most flexible learning tools in the Google Apps suite. In fact, I used Google Slides to create my eBook: The Teacher’s Guide to Google Classroom! That’s right! Google Slides made the …

Visual Presentation: Google Slides & Images

Teaching Tip Thursday: Digital Menu for Student Creation Digital Menu Template for Student Creation! ***Update: Links have been fixed for the Template*** I used menu's all the time when ...

Use Google Slides to Design Images for Adobe Spark video and other screencast applications.

Google Slides and Adobe Spark Video Design Hints

Safe for School Meme Generator Google Drawings Template!Grab a copy of this safe for school meme generator template made in google drawings!

Have Students Create Educational "Motivational Posters" with Google Drawings We are all familiar with motivational posters . They typically have a black background, one large image at the top, then a word or short ...

Multimedia Projects & Lesson Ideas

Toontastic App for iOS, Android - Free app to create animated cartoons with choices preset backgrounds, characters, and music. Narrate your story with the final product being a short video that can be downloaded.

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ToontasticToontastic 3D is a creative storytelling app that empowers kids to draw, animate, narrate, and record their own cartoons on their tablet, phone or Chromebook.

Tootastic Animation Example for 3 part Storytelling

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Holly Clark lists 10 ideas for student projects that are simple to implement using Adobe Spark:

Adobe Spark: Ignite a Learning Fire in Your ClassroomMy new word for technology integration is simplicity. If a tool is not simple, then I can’t concentrate as much on the learning because I end up spending too much time trying to understand the app …

More Adobe Spark resources:

Getting Creative with Adobe Spark - 3 Tools in OneA blog about education, learning, teaching, and edtech.

Big Huge Labs - Website that still keeps providing a way for students to be creative.

Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, and a lot more! Buy custom printed calendars, posters, and gifts.bighugelabs.com/

DoInk for Green Screen productions and animations. iOS for iPad and iPhone

HomeDoInk provides Creation Apps (Green Screen, Animation and Drawing) for learning & expression on the iPad and iPhone.

Student created poster projects.

Free Classroom Accounts for SchoolsLet your students exercise their creativity in the PosterMyWall design application. Create projects. Students don't need accounts. No Ads. Always free.

Websites

WEEBLY

WIX

Free Website Builder | Create a Free Website | Wix.comCreate a free website exactly the way you want. With Wix, you get the whole package - sophisticated website builder, complete customization, reliable web hosting, domains, promotional tools, and the best SEO. Over 100 million people choose Wix to create their stunning websites. Find out more here.

❤ GOOGLE SITES - New Version

Sylvania Schools, Sylvania, Ohio

Presentations

Book Creator

NEW - Allows student collaboration and sharing one project.

Book Creator - the simple way to create beautiful ebooks - Book Creator appBook Creator is a simple tool to create ebooks on iPad, Chromebooks and on the web. Create a book and publish it to Apple's iBooks Store, or share it online with our built-in ePub reader. You can also share your book as a PDF and print it.

50 ways to use Book Creator in your classroom - Book Creator appA free ebook for teachers looking for ideas, inspiration and tips for using Book Creator with their students.

Google Slides

Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations - SlidesCarnivalProfessional & high quality Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes. Completely customizable and free for personal or commercial uses

Free Google Slides TemplatesDeliver an effective presentation and captivate your audience using free Google Slides templates and backgrounds.

9 Awesome Add-ons to Supercharge Google SlidesGoogle Slides is already a powerful tool for student creation and collaboration. You can see a wide range of educational uses on my Google ...

❤ Adobe Spark Video & Presentations

Free Mobile and Online Video Editing Software | Adobe Spark VideoAdobe Spark Video is a free online video making software. Easily create beautiful slideshows, presentations, ads, and stories using your own photos, videos, and music.

Prezi

Storybird Studio: Creative tools for educatorsFree creative writing tools used by teachers and students in 400,000+ K-12 classrooms worldwide. Works with any curriculum or device.

Microsoft Office 365

Sway: Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling app for creating interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Its built-in design engine helps you create professional designs in minutes. With Sway, your images, text, videos, and other multimedia all flow together in a way that enhances your story. Sway makes sure your creations look great on any screen.

Audio and Podcasting

Anchor - Web-based audio recording. Includes the ability to upload your podcasts directly to iTunes, and more. Check out the tutorial on Richard Bryne's Practical Ed Tech blog.

Anchor - The easiest way to make a podcastAnchor is the easiest way to hear, share, and create audio worthy of your ears. Broadcast voice, mix in music from Spotify and Apple Music, and take call-ins from your listeners. All from your phone.

Practical Ed Tech by Richard Byrne

How to Create a Podcast in Six Minutes or LessIf you have ever wanted to start a podcast but got deterred by complexity of publishing it, Anchor.fm is the tool that you need. Anchor.fm recently launched a new web-based audio recording and publ…

Audacity - PC Downloaded software - Free

Garageband - Mac, iOS - Downloaded software - Free

GarageBand for MacGarageBand for Mac has everything you need to learn, play, record, mix, and share incredible music, even if you’ve never played a note.

Music for Creating podcasts, videos, and more.

Music and Sound Effects that Meet Copyright Issues. Purchase music volumes once, a small yearly subscription to store them in the cloud.

Free Sound Clips - Sound Bible

8 Free Resources to Soundtrack Your Video Without Getting SuedLearn about audio copyright and where you can find creative commons music for video.

Video Editors & Recorders

WeVideo - Web based, works on Chromebooks. Free but limited.

Open Shot Video Editor - Download to Windows or MAC computers. (Open source video editor)

iMovie - iOS platforms on Mac computers, iPhones, or iPad

iMovieiMovie for iOS and iMovie for macOS make it easy to turn your photos and video clips into stunning movies or trailers and share them with the world.

Screencast-o-matic

Used to make screenshots for tutorials. Make images for step-by-step directions. Highlight and annotate as you make detailed instructions. Works on PC's and Chromebook Chrome browsers.

AASL Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2017

Flipgrid Appsmash Choice Board showing options for video creation via Twitter.

AASL Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2017

Screencastify to record using Chrome browser for free. 10 minutes in length, save to Google Drive.

How to Create Screencast GIFs | Shake Up LearningOne of the most common questions I receive is how I make my screencast GIFs, so today I'm offering a post that will show you how I create them. I use screencast GIFs to show how-to steps on my blog and in my presentations.

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