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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. Wikipedia Founded: February 14, 2005, San Mateo, CA CEO: Susan Wojcicki Headquarters: San Bruno, CA Acquisition date: November 13, 2006 Parent organization: Google Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim

Learning can now occur anytime, with anyone, with a wide variety of technology, and in a variety of locations. This new learning landscape directly challenges the notion of "classroom" and suggests that new learning spaces are required to meet the needs of today's learners and the learning opportunities before them.

ASKING STUDENTS TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN PATH AND JUSTIFY IT

​Each day of the school year I present my students with an estimation challenge. I love helping students improve both their number sense and problem solving skills. I'd like to share the estimation challenges with you and your students. Happy Estimating! Enjoy, Andrew Stadel

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. This site is an engaging and creative way to allow students to publish their work.

You can now stand out from the crowd and engage your followers with eye-catching Posts. Oh, and did we say it's free?

Adobe Voice is a free iOS app that lets you make an impact with an amazing animated video. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. I spent last week at the LOC in a teacher institute learning how to maximize their digital collections of primary sources to support my social studies class.

LOC "offers classroom materials and professional development tools to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching." (from homepage)

Written tutorials, videos, and support to help you make the most of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint (and other Microsoft Office products).

Find openly-licensed images that you can use and remix in your own work. Searches multiple archives/repositories at once.

"Get the most out of G Suite in your workplace with training guides, tips, customer examples, and other resources."

The David Rumsey Map Collection is a great resource for historical maps, and the Georeferencer feature is a cool way to overlay historic maps over a modern map and adjust the opacity to compare the two.

UsabilityFirst provides a helpful list of the various types of accessibility aids.

Anyone who has a disability and uses a Mac, wants to buy one, or who teaches or assists others with disabilities who use a Mac can benefit from Apple's list of Accessibility features.

This was a very interesting read, which highlights several issues related to copyright...some things I had not even considered with consideration to online digital tools.

For those who haven't explored it yet, Google Earth's Voyager feature is a great resource for geography and mapping activities to integrate into lessons. (Launch in the Chrome browser).