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EdSurge has categorized about 1500 products so far, using 5 main categories (Curriculum Products,Teacher Needs,School Operations,Post Secondary, and "Everything Else") and dozens of subcategories to provide an easy to use interface to learn about "ed tech" tools and services. The structure behind EdTech Index makes it easy for educators to learn about products in a just a couple of clicks.

edtech tool flow chart

Awesomely organized!

"Interactive Multimedia Quizzes That Can Be Embedded On Any Site."

"Sharendipity is a web based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging and interactive web applications. "

Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.

VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document.

If only we could actually use YouTube for learning activities!

Life Feast written by Ana Marie Menezes is an excellent blog for teachers interested in using technology in elementary and middle school ELL/EFL lessons. Check out this post about using VOKI with EFL students for a sense of what you'll get by following Life Feast.

From August 21, 2012

Oh well, we can keep dreaming and drooling, right??

suggested by Korene 2/28/12

Make moviemaking part of your lesson! Teachers are reinventing their lectures with Xtranormal, and students are more engaged in learning than ever. If you can type, you can make movies™… Xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century. Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.

Expand your curriculum with our timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels. Find current resources that align with standards, promote higher-order thinking, and support the development of writing skills. Monitor student research and writing, evaluate student performance, and create bilingual online lessons, classroom calendars, and quizzes in less time than traditional methods.