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Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Record or upload audio files. Share and link to friends onTwitter and Facebook. Create podcasts. Embed widgets on web pages. Use for storytelling.

Editing video in your browser, share, mix, and pubish. Still, video, and music. Collaborative video editing. Free. Slide show with music.

Find, create and embed interactive timelines. Dipity is a free digital timeline website with a mission to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

Copyto is a new unique way to bookmark sites by allowing teachers and students to simply select parts of sites they want to have backed up. Like a mix between Diigo or Delicious and Evernote, this site is a great way to clip out pieces of websites, articles, research papers, and more, in order to save it for use later on or to share it out with collegeaues or students. There is also a browser plug-in and a mobile site to access all the links and content on the go. This has a slick interface and easy to use tool.

Blurb has a new iPhone app that lets you build slide shows that include audio and video. Hosted online storage. Could it lead to book publishing? Free and $1.99 premium. Twitter/FB sharing.

Good discussion for the next Ed Tech Crew

New functionality for working in Google docs on mobile devices.

Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others by providing the shorten url to a friend.

Wonder if this is from the same stable as minutes.io?

"Google Plus or Google+ or G+ has now been out and about for roughly a week, and I was fortunate enough to get to play with it quite early on. I know that lots of people haven't as yet, so this is an overview post so that when you DO, you'll have some idea of what you're looking at. (Please note: I don't have any invites to give out and I've tried several different ways to share access already. If/when I do, I'll be sure to let people know via my Twitter feed.)"

Create interactive ebooks and release them as apps for iOS and Android devices with one-click publishing. Create and share your stories.

How about getting the students to create their own story books?

AirPlay is a very simple method for promoting sharing and collaboration in your classroom ... and it's an option that comes at a relatively affordable cost.

"We thought it would be fun to poll our Google+ Community and see what extensions make your lives easier and put together a friendly guide.  We received TONS of responses and are thrilled to share them with you all. In each section below, you will find a link to the extension in case you'd like to check it out and review's from your fellow Google+ Community members.  For a teaser, we'll let you know that the extension that was most popular out of all the responses comes from the Security/Privacy category.  Any guesses?  It is Last Pass which helps in storing all those pesky passwords!"

Google are "launching a new campaign and website, Start with Code, to inspire our inventors of the future to arm themselves with coding skills today. It's full of resources for parents, teachers, and students, to help people take their first coding steps. And we'll add to it over time as we partner with more organisations in Australia who share our belief in Australia's bright tech future."

"For UNESCO, adopting an Open Access Policy means to make thousands of its publications freely available to the public. Furthermore, Open Access is also a way to provide the public with an insight into the work of the Organization so that everyone is able to discover and share what UNESCO is doing."

This issue addresses the impact of the digital world on teaching and learning by sharing particular examples and critical discussions from a wide range of learning contexts."

"PirateBox is a DIY anonymous offline file-sharing and communications system built with free software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware."

"Do you want to know if your favorite sports team is popular on Twitter? Or if your kickstarter proposal is written for success? With a few simple clicks, etcML can make these kinds of classifications and many others. You can train our machine learning algorithms for your own tasks and share your classifier with others!"

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Simple to use. Go to the site to access the expanding library of jigsaw puzzles created by others. You can search for puzzles based on a theme, by puzzle difficulty (easy is 60 pieces or less and challenging puzzles have 240 plus pieces). In the puzzle work space, you can zoom in or out to give yourself more room to work. The 'full screen' mode removes other distractions and helps to focus on the challenge at hand. The site requires the Flash plug-in to make the puzzles interactive. If you create an account (it's free) you can upload your own images to make your own jigsaw puzzles to share. This will also remove ads from the puzzle pages. The tool does not require an email address to register.