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A guide to using Evernote which is an online note taking service that keeps your note synchronised acrossed all your devices. This guide helps you get started.  You can include text, audio, imagaes and also save web pages and articles and more.

Mind Map fun

Kids can create word clouds that highlight commonly used words in a text. 

generates vocab lists from text

Hemingway helps you analyze your writing.  Copy and paste text into the app and then an analysis will appear. The app will tell you if your sentences are hard to read, point out overuse of adverbs and passive tense. Great app to use with students.

Could be a very useful site to assist in any classes where students may have difficulties understanding text

Inanimate Alice is a digital novel about a young girl who grows up to be a video game designer.  Requires the reader to drive the action forward at their own pace and uses multimedia including text, images, music, sound effects puzzles and games to enhance the narrative.

Another Freebie that could be a fun application in the classroom

Interesting multimedia ESL/literacy activities, might try this with a few of mine!

I can imagine some very creative ways of using this tool in classes from year 7 to 12.

if you love fonts as much as I do - check out this app.