With the speech-to-text tool, Dragon by Nuance, I cut the time spent on leaving feedback dramatically.

Here are a few of our favorite web tools to engage your students VoiceThread -- Featured in the video above, VoiceThread allows teachers to create a Welcome Board, where students can easily answer questions by typing or speaking a message. Have them introduce themselves on a classroom VoiceThread, and they'll be talking up a storm.

For quick sharing of content, including pictures, text and music, there's no better free tool than Animoto. Students can register for Animoto for free and add their own pictures and videos or those provided by Animoto.

We have featured the amazing, free education blogging site, Kidblog, in a series of videos this month. Although each video is certainly helpful on its own, this Slidebook, a new Slide Rocket tool, makes teaching and learning Kidblog easy.

Encourage your students to share content on Kidblog

How-to video: Group texting with Celly Brief synopsis: Celly is an amazing group text messaging application that allows administrators to set up secure "cells" for group text discussions. Benefits: Allows teachers to empower students to learn, using the technology they want to use -- their mobile devices and text messaging.

Teachers, students can create online magazine with Scoop.it The magazine creation web site, Scoop.it, allows teachers and students to easily become curators of information on a variety of topics. Name your topic, decide where you want Scoop.it to look for content -- Twitter, Google+, YouTube and others -- and Scoop.it does the rest.