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These folks make hand crafted tools in Latvia and share their process here.  Makes me want to go out and buy a forge.   What if students created films about process?  What if students created something by hand and documented the creation of it?  What can this get us thinking about problem solving? Project based learning? Entrepreneurship?

A fantastic short film about solving life's real problems: where will my monsters live?

I have students use this to create conversations about new concepts or vocabulary.

A filmmaker's current life in one minute.  Great potential for a project here -- capture your own life in a minute, create a minute in the life of a character, relate a book in a minute -- terrific possibilities

Create a drawing collaboratively and share it.  Also embed it as well.  Great for brainstorming.

TED is chock full of amazing content from the world of thinking, making, creating, innovating, etc.   Most folks know about it by now, so why include it?  TED-Ed for one, but for two, it is transformative for enabling customized delivery of the content with piles of UDL features.  It's just awesome.

Use any internet device to ask the students questions of various kinds. It also lets you create self graded quizzes.

Amazing easy and free podcasting tool.  Make radio shows complete with the ability to add your own music, broadcast live and add sound effects.

This is an AMAZING browser extension tool for research and reference.  Creates APA, MLA, Chicago style citations for online sources and prompts for the same for print sources do.  Take notes, highlight only what you need, and even drag and drop notes into an order.  Make annotations and even get in text formatted citations to export to Word or Google Docs.  Incredible.  This will simply and change your research project.

Use templates, browse educational games or make one from scratch.