Interesting for the Classroom

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SignUpGenius is a FREE online tool for creating and managing group sign up lists and forms. Create public or private sign up sheets to schedule your sports team, school, business, or church group!

Shorten URLs for Twitter and other social media.

Free Online Image Editor create your own animated gifs resize crop avatars and images. Photo tool for your favorite pictures.

Create iPhone, Android or iPad Apps and mobile websites for free. No coding required. iBuildApp has been used to create over 450,000 apps. Get started NOW!

Easily curate engaging magazines. Effectively feed your web presence.

A safe, free way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents.

Google Chart Tools: QR Codes | Google ZXing | Google ZXing QR Code Generator

Forms and Collaboration

Snapguide is the easiest way to make and share great looking guides. Create your own guides with our mobile platform and discover guides on the go.

Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy!

ClassBadges is a free online tool where teachers can award badges to students for accomplishments or academic mastery. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. Badges can easily be aligned to academic goals or associated with existing school awards.

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner

Infographics are interesting-a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards-including the Common Core standards-requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency.

Richard Byrne's Blog - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html#.Ut-0h6X0CuU

Here is my favorite and most popular post of the year, my Top 100 Sites/Apps of the year! Continuing with the trend from last year, readers are going to find more and more apps on the list and fewer sites, as the flux in mobile learning and BYOD (bring your own devices) continues to rise.

iPad News, Reviews, Apps, Accessories, and Tips

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A bunch of tools tagged by type.

Earlier today in my NCTIES workshop about creating media with mobile apps we talked about having students create comics to tell a story. Two of the apps that we looked at for that purpose were Animation Desk and ABCYa Animate.

Silvana Meneghini and I work as Academic Technology Coordinators at Graded, the American School of São Paulo. " A flashlight in the fog of technology integration ", initially the title of a conference workshop proposal, quickly developed into the desire of creating a framework to guide and coach teachers based on Ruben Puentedura's SAMR model.

The Educational Technology - ICT in Education website is aimed at teachers, users, leaders and managers of educational ICT. Published by Terry Freedman, a UK-based independent educational consultant.

There are teachers around the world who want to use technology in their classrooms, but they're just not sure where to start. That's why eleven prominent bloggers, teachers, and school administrators got together to create this free ebook.

Sometimes a visual guide comes along and it just makes total sense. That's how I felt about Allan Carrington's clever ' Padagogy Wheel' which we featured on Edudemic last week. Check out the previous version then view the one below to see the differences.