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This post also includes examples of student work using the recommended iPad apps.

Record audio to embed on your blog. Good for students.

Help students with reading.

"Using Prezi, you can create a visual classroom without succumbing to death by PowerPoint. Its interactive features, zooming display, and creative options will enable your visual lessons to engage students without distracting them from lesson objectives. With all those bells and whistles, Prezi might sound complicated, but it's actually quite simple to use. Read on, and I'll show you how to use this innovative tool."

Lumen Learning "is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER." This is a good resource for those who are contemplating teaching any of the following courses yet want to spare their students the cost of a textbook: Business Writing, Composition 1, or Composition 2.

Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to transforming the way learners access the world through words. The founding team members combine powerful technological know-how with real-world experience earned in the classroom, the newsroom, and the boardroom. Launched in June 2013, Newsela publishes high-interest news articles daily at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using Newsela's proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. Common Core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight into their students' reading strengths and weaknesses. Newsela develops nonfiction fluency and critical-thinking skills necessary to master the Common Core standards for informational text.

Best Practice: don't set "available until" date for Turnitin Assignments in Cavnas. Students won't have access to the Turnitin bar for an assignment after its "available until" date passes.

This is a quick and easy (and FREE) resource for generating QR codes. Add QR codes to handouts (e.g., syllabus, assignments, etc.), flyers, posters, etc. to direct student to website content.

Lake Land College Video Demonstration How to Submit a Turnitin Assignment in Canvas