My favorite tools to use in schools. Learn a tool and use it well. Your students will thank you with a big smile.

Create beautiful presentations like this one! :-)

https://www.haikudeck.com/

Rock a lesson with NearPod. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that you create and customize yourself. Or use hundereds of already created lessons, free and paid options. Nearpod is free with upgrade options as well.

http://www.nearpod.com/

How many words do they know? Find out out by building your students vocabulary with Word Dynamo daily. Takes only a couple of minutes. Use in large groups or students can create individual accounts.

http://dynamo.dictionary.com/

Real-time questioning. Instant results. Level of understanding. Socrative is one of my favorite tools to do all that and more. Engage students and access them in the most inspiring way that they'll beg for more. Available on desktops, tablets, laptops, and smartphones.

http://socrative.com/

Educators can apply for a free educator account with more features. Add your own photos and video clips to create video easily and quickly. Choose music from their collection and create on the go.: web, mobile or tablet.

Animoto - https://animoto.com/

EdPuzzle allows you to take a video, customize it by editing, cropping, recording audio and adding questions to make an engaging presentation or lesson.

https://edpuzzle.com

Check out this simple one from me:
https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/m/545a82722526dd0e0bfbacff/545a88ee2670605...

Teach anything from anywhere...anytime. Engage students with video by capturing your ideas and sharing instantly. Save time in class, enable self-pacing and find out just what your students know and don't know.

https://www.educreations.com/

30,000 video lessons at your disposal. Create your own vibrant presentations and lessons and publish them on the app's website too. Knowmia, now acquired by Tech Smith serves as a free lesson planning and recording tool for instructors.

http://www.knowmia.com/

Classroom review game for Educators. Find pre-made boards or create your own game-show style boards for test reviews in the classroom.

http://flipquiz.me/

Make your images interactive with images and videos for web, social, advertising and edcuational channels using Thinglink

Examples:
https://www.thinglink.com/featured

Capture a second everyday cause seconds count too.

http://1secondeveryday.com/

Download the $3 app here - it's totally worth it:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-second-everyday/id587823548?mt=8

Padlet, formally known as Wallwisher, is a virtual wall for people to add their thoughts. You can add files such as documents, images, videos and text.

Check out this teachers wikispace to help you learn more: http://ctreichler.wikispaces.com/Padlet

Go to Padlet now to start using this amazing tool.
http://padlet.com/

Collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.

https://www.plickers.com/

Collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.

https://www.plickers.com/

Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard screencasting tool available for iOS, Android and Windows. Import and insert any document, picture or video. Move and animate ideas in motion. Record and play. Draw and Annotate anything. Zoom and pan with no limits. Export and share.

http://www.morriscooke.com/applications-ios/explain-everything-2

Students can independently create, capture and store their learning in a private learning journal. Parents are notified once the teacher approves student upload. Works with 1:1 classrooms or just one single device.

http://web.seesaw.me/

Diigo is a multi-tool for knowledge management. Build your personal library or view mine at:

https://www.diigo.com/user/arikaj

Inspire writing with ideas, publish easily with posts, connect to an audience with groups. Hundreds of ideas. Use online or try out the app for free or get the full, paid app for 3 bucks.

http://www.writeabout.com/

http://www.writeaboutapp.com/

With 30 Hands, teachers can organize materials, integrate open content, capture lectures on video and interact collaboratively anywhere and any device. Students can
create blogs, wikis and presentations too.

For more information, check out their site at:
http://www.30hands.net/

Grab the free app at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/30hands/id605013231?ls=1

Real-time intervention, powerful differentiation, drive instruction and more.

Personalized intervention and differentiation
for every student, every class.

http://exitticket.org/

Basic and Premium Teacher accounts available.

Kahoot is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy.

https://getkahoot.com/

The best feature of Stick Around is that you can create your very own puzzles in just three steps.

http://learninginhand.com/stickaround/

XtraMath is a web program that teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts which are critical to success in mathematics.

https://xtramath.org/

Todays Meet is a backchannel that is great for classroom discussions. Discussions aren't limited to one classroom wither. As long as the person has a link, they can joing in on the discussion. Embrace backchannels while empowering your learners.

https://todaysmeet.com/

Quite possibly the easiest way to Twitter Chat in real-time with awesome features such as recording and replaying twitter chats.

Would be awesome for Professional Development!

http://nurph.com/

Create pages for any and every thing.

Simple creation with capability of Edmodo login that sparks creativity and collaboration with private settings all FOR FREE.

https://tackk.com

Check out this informative page for students on how to Google. https://tackk.com/how-to-google

FREE Student response system.

http://www.infuselearning.com/

Grab some green fabric or any kind of green backdrop and let your kids imagination go for a spin with DoInk. It's a creative and fun way to make animations and videos on the ipad. Tell a story!

http://www.doink.com/

With Blendspace, all you need is a few minutes to create a lesson. Choose a topic, search, and add sources. Or add your own. It's that simple. Look at the video below and get started now with Blendspace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ_Mg3lSoew&t=51

Chrome extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blendspace-edcanvas/agbdildaaolba...