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Speech to text software - good for students with physical or cognitive difficulties.

FlipSnack Edu is an online teaching software for schools, a safe network for teachers and students. Great tool for flip teaching and flipped classrooms.

Autodesk SketchBook is the digital painting, drawing, and sketching software used for coloring, comic and manga art, industrial design, and concept design. SketchBook includes the digital Copic Color Library, hundreds of custombrushes, perspective tools, and symmetry tools. Discover the natural feel of digital drawing in SketchBook with a free 15-day trial on Windows and Mac, no credit card required.

I'm really liking this tool that allows me to create easy tutorials using screen shots.

Online Presentation Tools - SlideRocket provides presentation software that helps you create & share presentations.

This site allows for users to upload find, share, and create amazingly visually informative and creative infographics for free without the use of expensive software or design know-how. It can also act as a portfolio for your designs.

User and kid-friendly animation software that allows for original animations to be created easily and lets users combine their work with a host of premade props.

This slide share touches on what social learning is.  It suggests that people learn a great deal of information on their own and in their own manners--sometimes just by talking to others.  It focuses on the need for a tool or web software that promotes social and informal learning but still takes into account data privacy and security.   

This was life changing when I learned of this in an earlier class! I had previously used my classroom software to compose videos of applications or lessons that I was trying to show my students. Jings are short, five minutes maximum, but they are easy. They capture exactly what you want on the screen!

An excellent resource for creating venn diagrams.

This is a pretty neat tool for teachers. Might save some time and effort.

Another great resource for presentation software. It's got a fairly easy learning curve. I think it would be a great way for students to demonstrate learning.

Describes how to make presentation software work for students and why if used correctly can enhance their learning process

While searching for CoP's for Macintosh Computers and Adobe Software for educators, I came across this site and felt that this CoP presented by Slide Share would be a good resource for CoPs through the use of slides, since I see this tool being used in Moodle.

I really enjoyed this slideshow. It definitely takes away from the monotony of reading PDF articles. The slides provide enough information for users to understand CoP.