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"Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we've compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom."

"If you're anything like me, you spend a lot of time scouring the Internet to find useful online teaching resources like web 2.0 tools. That's how you came across this list of 101 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About, no doubt! Best Teacher ResourcesWhen I find something great (hint, hint!), I make sure to pin it on Pinterest, "like" it on Facebook and save it to my favorite social bookmarking site so that I can come back to it later. I was looking at my treasure trove of resources the other day it occurred to me: Why don't I share this list of awesome web 2.0 tools with my fellow educators?! So, I went through and picked out my 101 favorite tools for teachers and made this list."

"20 Ways to Use Comics In Your Classroom Through Josh Allen's Tech Fridge blog I recently learned about this slideshow created S. Hendy who writes Digital Tools for Teachers. The slideshow, Tap Into the World of Comics, presents a series of comic creation tools followed by twenty suggestions for using comics in your classroom. "

"eb-based tools continue to proliferate, giving teachers more to add to their arsenal, but it can be hard to determine which resources are worth spending time exploring. At the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference this year, Adam Bellow, founder of EduClipper, and Steve Dembo, Online Community Manager for Discovery Education offered a quick run through of some favorite apps. The two educators are early adopters of ed-tech classroom strategies and have a lot of experience with tech integration."

"Creating timelines is another important digital skill to be added to the the 33 digital skills we have compiled before. Students should be able to easily create their own learning timelines and share them with each other.This can have a huge positive impact on their overall learning process. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has sifted through some of the best free timeline making tools and come up with the list below. Just to refresh your mind, a timeline is " a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself and usually events labelled on points where they would have happened.' ( from Wikipedia )."

this is one of a growing number of online publishing tools, this one is very pretty, and does have a free option

"AR Tools are Being Used Today by Creative Educators in Fun, Innovative Ways, but few Know About it (yet). Educators are always looking for new ways to enhance learning and expand the horizons of students in an engaging and interactive way. Gone are the days when class plans were based around exercises from a text book. The world around us is changing rapidly and even preschool age children are becoming more proficient with different types of handheld devices like tablets."

"As you can see below, everything you need to integrate technology into your work is there for you and organized into different categories. I did this work today because a lot of great stuff is buried inside this blog and it would take you forever to sift through it to find it . This way , I think, you will have a user friendly navigation to access anything you want. Make sure you book mark this page because the categories below will be expanding over time so don't miss my future postings. Enjoy "