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Search for pictures on Flckr and then bring them into your presentation and add little tags or bubble captions. Students could use this to create their own illustrated stories. Share and Publish in a variety of ways, including printing and blogging.

Dvolver is a simple online cartoon movie maker (formerly Dfilm). Students select a background scene and add a type of scene, characters, costumes, music, etc., and write dialogue. The program then runs the scenario as an animated movie. Note: Some character costuming will be offensive to conservative students.

Collect ideas and vote. Your students can write pro and con sides to an idea or question you suggest. 20 collaborators allowed, but students could work in pairs or groups to formulate their opinions. Tricider could also be used for teams working on a project. A social voting tool.

"Create free timelines. Follow interesting stories, get updates and notifications with "Today in history". myHistro is an interactive diary and a story-flow generator for bloggers." This seems an addition to ways to use timelines/mind-mappers/blogs that would be worth exploring.

"Please select one of the Harvard referencing styles above and then type in the requested information to have your Harvard reference automatically generated for you. "Once generated you can simply copy and paste it in to your work. Now you'll never need to worry about malformed Harvard references again!" Se;ect upir tu[e pf reference first and you will have some good examples, not just for Harvard.

"Creating infographics is a skill much needed in the 21st century classroom. They can serve a wide variety of learning objectives and they are not really hard to make. They are very useful in the sense that they can be used for illustrative purposes. For instance, teachers can use graphs, diagrams , and colorful templates to present information in such a way that catches students attention."

I hate lists, but this is a good one and is categorized by subject. Not specifically for ESL/EFL.

"Online platforms like Khan Academy are already starting to flip classrooms across the country so that students can learn at their own pace. But some think it might not be too long before technology pushes schools to personalize education in even more structural ways, so that students are no longer grouped by age, but by competency." The concept makes so much sense: why force students to go through seat-time if they can demonstrate they know stuff way beyond their assigned grade level? And why do all subjects have to be the same grade level at the same time?

This is a handy way to get darker/lighter shades of the same color for your webpages. Results are visual and rendered in Hex values (e.g., #A3FFC2). The w3schools.com site has many excellent tutorials to learn HTML, PHP, CSS, etc.

The movie editor Loopster combines a number of the things that iMovie or Movie Maker do, but all online, and it's free.

How teachers can flip their classroom, and have kids make the videos to teacher other kids, in this case, math. If you are thinking of trying "flipping," you must watch this creative set of examples (in several languages) of kids solving problems.

A project to cultivate 21st century fluencies needed by the "digital citizen": creativity, solutions for real life problems, analyzing and evaluation information, using multiple media, ability to work in collaborations. Interesting article at http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/11/16/21st-century-fluencies/. Focusing on young learners.

Imagine the non-fiction you are reading is a movie playing in your mind - an animé. Each cell in a comic strip translates into a different action or idea in the text. Teacher demonstrates how this technique works in pods of 3 young adult students.

A very handy app for adding titles/captions directly on a photo, either plain text or in color, rotated, fancy font, etc. Thi is iPhone and iPad, but check out what might be available for other smart mobile devices. Use for vocabulary self-quizzes shared on social media or among classmates, and for project-based learning.

These are inventive ideas for working with EFL/ESL adult learners.

Link to a ninth grade class book used to help ELLs dvelop writing and thinking skills. Great ideas for your own wiki- or paper-based project.

Some of these are totally worthless for classroom uses, but some are liable to make Twitter more organized and more social for your students to use for projects. As with other lists of tools, you need to explore, pick, and select.

This site would be useful for international teachers as well as U.S. teachers who work with the Common Core standards. .Each standard is listed with sample activities that students can do to show proficiency in each standard. Content-based.