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So often, people think of presentation slides as just that: a visual aid for delivering a presentation in front of an audience. But these slide apps (like Google Slides and PowerPoint in Office 365) really are powerful tools for delivering interactive user experiences. They can also create visually stimulating products to deliver a message and valuable content. By thinking outside the box with Google Slides, PowerPoint and other similar tools, teachers can create unique learning experiences for students. Or students can create them to share with other students.

Just imagine your favourite genre was created in the world it describes… What would it look like? What would it be made out of, and who or what created it? What ingredients would make up the ink, paper, and binding? Each fiction genre contains a variety of elements that could create a unique book… See what we came up with below and let us know if you have any more ideas!

"Creating eye-catching, timely book displays that young people discover what they want to read is a time-honored tradition for school and youth librarians. With students all over the country learning from home, many librarians are creating digital displays and using online tools and platforms to showcase their books and other resources."

"Much like reading comics can get a reluctant reader interested in a story, creating comics can be a great way to get reluctant writers to put pencil to paper (or digital ink to digital paper). Over the years I've had history students create comics to tell stories from the Lewis & Clark expedition, to illustrate letters written by American Civil War soldiers, to create modernized dialogues between historical people, and to try their hands at crafting political cartoons. "

WebQuests are probably the most talked-about and widely used Web-based activities in today's classrooms. What are WebQuests? What accounts for their popularity? And how can you use-and create-WebQuests in your own classroom? Education World explores those questions and more. - SebQuests are probably the most talked-about and widely used Web-based activities in today's classrooms. What are WebQuests? What accounts for their popularity? And how can you use-and create-WebQuests in your own classroom? Education World explores those questions and more.

FlipSnack Edu takes classes to a whole new level and makes learning fun, being an ideal tool for teachers and students to collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues. Create a private network for your class, where you can safely share assignments, curriculums, reading materials and various projects as flipping books. Great resource for flip teaching and e-learning.

FlipSnack Edu takes classes to a whole new level and makes learning fun, being an ideal tool for teachers and students to collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues. Create a private network for your class, where you can safely share assignments, curriculums, reading materials and various projects as flipping books. Great resource for flip teaching and e-learning.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet, like the one we used for the Timeline above. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality.

Jacqui Child's blog about incorporating makerspace activities into library lessons: - I'm a teacher librarian in a junior girls' school and I saw how within our library an area could be created to encourage creativity using the numerous amount of technology we have in our library.

I then delved into reading many articles and books about Makerspaces. I'm a teacher librarian in a junior girls' school and I saw how within our library an area could be created to encourage creativity using the numerous amount of technology we have in our library.

Create and share visual ideas online - vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!

Productive classroom discussions-those that enable students to invent, create, imagine, take risks, and dig for deeper meanings-can only take place in a climate in which students feel safe to offer their ideas. Teachers can create such a climate by being mindful of the essential conditions of interactive teaching.

"Empowering students to make positive decisions online is critical to their development. To support this I display the 5 P's for a Positive Digital Footprint image I created in my class, referring to this regularly during the school year. Displaying this image is a great first step to drive discussion and support the digital citizenship program in our schools. To further students understanding of these 5 key messages I created the following board game focusing on each of these areas with practical examples related to the world our students live in."

StoryCorps' mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. We do this to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone's story matters. At the same time, we are creating an invaluable archive for future generations.From the everyday to the extraordinary, personal interviews get kids listening. Teachers of most any grade level or subject area could use the interviews on StoryCorps as a community-building activity at the start of the year. For example, play one of the interviews on a common theme like friendship, romance, or family, and then use it as a discussion or writing prompt. Although stories are predominantly sourced from America, other countries and cities are represented.

QuestGarden is an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest. An account allows you to modify and create new quests. A revamp of older site.

"we have the capacity to create our future, and our actions - and particularly our actions as educators - inform the type of future we are heading towards. It is not enough to view digital literacies as forms of technical competence, and to embrace protectionist models of digital citizenship which emphasise frameworks focused only on personal responsibility."

"Moving to hybrid classrooms creates an even greater challenge for building community. In hybrid classrooms, some students never see each other in person, and some students never see their teachers in person. Project-based learning provides a powerful vehicle for creating a shared learning space, one that makes it clear that all students' voices are needed and welcome in the classroom."

"Following the model of Great Reads from Great Places students could use a tool like Padlet or Google's My Maps to create interactive maps featuring their favorite books aligned to states, provinces, cities, or countries. Here's a demo of how to create a multimedia map with Padlet. "

"StoryMap JS is a free tool that students can use to create a story map in a manner similar to Google's My Maps or the old Google Tour Builder. It is much easier for new users to master.  StoryMap JS enables students to tell stories through a series of slides that appear on a map. Each slide is matched to locations that you choose on your map. Each slide in your story can include images, text, and hyperlinks. "

"People no longer have to come to a library to get information," she says, "so the library has to get people coming in for different reasons. Students need somewhere to socialize, create things and collaborate." Joan Ackroyd outlines how she turned around a traditional secondary library to meet the needs of 21 century learners

"People no longer have to come to a library to get information," she says, "so the library has to get people coming in for different reasons. Students need somewhere to socialize, create things and collaborate." Joan Ackroyd outlines how she turned around a traditional secondary library to meet the needs of 21 century learners

A comprehensive site that provides a rationale for creating book trailers with students, outlines the process, provides support documents, examples, considers different tools, has links to CC images and sound and includes tips and assessment rubric.