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Great site (National Archives) for creating your own interactive learning activity with primary source documents.

A free study site for English as a Second Language (ESL) students with games, quizzes, puzzles, MP3 files with transcripts, listening practice, pronunciation practive, etc.

This site allows teachers and students to create flyers and newsletters. It can be used for projects. For example, students could create a "digital poster" using Smore.

Allows to read a QR Code with you WebCam using HTML5 WebRTC API.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.

A. Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together. This is very similar to Kahoot but runs on individual computers, rather than being projected to the whole class.

This is a concept mapping tool which can be used for the teacher or the students to organize ideas in math into a tree like concept map.

Audacity allows students to record their voice or other sounds and be able to upload them for presentations or other assignments.

This video was really helpful. The only thing that has changed is Desmos is not available as an add-on to Google Drive. I had to go to the Desmos webpage but everything else worked well. This will come in handy as I create more project-based lessons.

The World's easist way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them.

The World's easiest way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them. Downloaded photos are already attributed, saving time and effort.

This is a planning and organizing tool that can be used by a group. It synchs up with Google calendar and all members of the group can list tasks, add dates and check off completed items. I have had students use this with success when doing group marketing projects.

This year, Microsoft has made Office available for the iPad, iPhone, a preview available for Android, and even dropped the price to free. Meanwhile, the incumbent, Google Drive and its associated apps, have been building out features. Today, we compare the two on mobile.

Author's Note: This article has been edited to correct inaccuracies in Google Docs functionality in Firefox, and Google Apps support.] Game on. Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software, but Google is virtually synonymous with the Web.

We have two Google add-ons available in English: This add-on is available for all SurveyMonkey plan types, including the free BASIC plan. To import your Google Form into a survey: Get the free SurveyMonkey for Google Forms add-on. Open your Google Form. Click Add-ons from the toolbar. Open the SurveyMonkey add-on.

Video showing how to use Zapier, a workflow app to connect Survey Monkey to Google Docs.

IVONA TTS is a great way for struggling readers to get a little boost in their reading. Students can copy and paste words into the text box and hear it come to life.

English Language Learners can find pictures by category, then see and hear English words

I like this one! Have you seen the Visual Thesaurus? It's also very cool and useful for both ELL and native English language learners: http://www.visualthesaurus.com

Susan, thanks for the reference; I like that one, too!

Seriously a VERY EASY to use video creation software. A bit pricey $8 a month but that includes student accounts. Really helps guide students through some multimedia principles. Used By: over 7 million members around the world Amazing videos and presentations created with PowToon! Communicate with colleagues and clients in an unexpected and refreshing way by using PowToon's Ready-Made Templates for plenty of business situations. It's as easy as making a PowerPoint presentation and as impactful as a viral video.

This Ted Talk can be used as an emerging trend not only in consumer choice but also technology use.

This website is a fantastic free screen recording site. You can record your screen and audio up to about 15 minutes for free. It allows you to upload your recording to You-Tube or save it as a WMV. I used this when sharing multimedia use in the classroom.