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Free sources, like Jamendo, can give your students' videos more kick.

Reading for K-6 kids is divided into activities by age group.

Requires a paid subscription after the free trial, currently $59/year. Designed for native speakers.

This might be part of a project for middle-high-school-adult students. Beware of all the ads on this page, however. The step-by-step directions to use GIFYT look very easy.

"Creating cartoon avatar of yourself is fun and interesting. You can convert your photos into cartoon effects using free online tools which you can use on your online profiles like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and any other place you want." This article suggests almost a dozen online applications to make cartoons out of photos. Find a useful tool for your students to use in digital storytelling.

"his is a truly amazing iPad app which replaces a whole TV crew and studio. Capture your video and audio use like adjusting the sound levels, an in-build teleprompter and green screen effects to make spectacular footage. Edit your video directly in the app and add images, websites and Twitter feed as cutaways sections of the screen."

"The Digital 5 A Day provides a simple framework that reflects the concerns of parents/ carers as well as children's behaviours and needs. It can also act as a base for family agreements about internet and digital device use throughout both the holidays and term time." Includes a fun video by a jr-high student about ways he fulfilled the Digital 5 A Day plan personally. Cute kid.

Some interesting ideas for setting up a studio in the classroom at very low cost. Use for student projects and special effects in student videos.

Great article for both those getting started with video and those who have used it often. ALso contains lots of good links to further exploration.

About 50 ways to show how video can be used in the classroom for learning/teaching language skills, culture, assessment, etc. Also divided by European standards proficiency levels and by age/school class.

A kind of Instagram/blog board that lets you use photos, video, and voice recordings, sharing with others.

The National Education Network Gallery has thousands of copyright free image assets appropriate for students to use in presentations and projects. You can search by topic, and you can embed the gallery directly on your Website.

Pixabay was recently updated to make it easier than ever to find quality public domain images. Now when you visit the search page on Pixabay you can filter your search according to image type (photo, drawing, vector), image orientation (landscape or portrait), and image category (subject matter). Still, it's a time-consuming process. T/H to R.Byrne

"Use these strategies to help middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read." T/h J Coiro

This is one of those amazing Internet contraptions that make one realize how digitized learning can really differ drastically from paper/pencil learning. This site allows you to translate any word in a website, so you can read any digital text, then practice the words you have selected in flashcards. The free version allows only 10 words/day (about what one could reasonably learn), but the premium version is only $5/month for unlimited words. Neat idea. I imagine teachers could put their texts on a website and have students work away at them.

This gif maker works well with YouTube. Gifs created can be uploaded to a Google document, website or blog for viewing.

Taking visual reading notes is not just for so-called "visual" learners. Everyone can benefit by visualizing what they are reading and making notes as they read. Review of notes later is also key to success in remembering what is read.

This is an advanced set of lessons by R. Stannard on how to manipulate the Prezi interface; begins with how to change your pathways, and how to create your own design starting with the blank screen template.

This website, provided by the International Reading Association, offers hundreds of articles on a range of topics in reading education. To find articles that match your particular interests, simply search or browse the author, title, and subject indexes.

"Applications for Education TwistedWave could be a good audio track creation and editing tool for students and teachers that are using Chromebooks. The integration with Google Drive makes it easy for students to save their works and share their recordings with their teachers. "

Great ideas for tools and their uses, categorized by media aspects, e.g., blogging and writing, photos, audio, PLNs, presentations, research databases, search, etc., with an intro to get you started. The list then continues with other, less frequently used tools, such as digital portfolios, Google drawings, notetaking tools, apps, etc.