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Share your infographic with the world. Make high resolution prints or share it online. Link, embed, email or share it on social media. The possibilities are endless with this awesome Infographic creator.

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Work can happen any time, anywhere. GoToMeeting with HD video conferencing is a simple yet powerful way to collaborate in real time.

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.

On this website you can create and publish an e-book. The books are small picture book style books. The graphics included are fun whimsical style graphics, but you can also add your own pictures or graphics. I saw one book created by a teacher called The Rubric Teacher. The teacher created the book as a cute reminder that the students needed to follow the rubric when working on a project. This is a great way of emphasizing something that often gets ignored in a fun way the students will remember.

This is an online eBook creator. It is free if you want to share or embed the book on a website. You can also pay if you want the book to be printed for a hard copy.

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 30 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life. This can be used with classes to post their work and upload their vlogs or published pieces.

This article covers several tips to keep presentations lively and engaging.

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

This is an article written by a novelist and game writer. She argues that games, or digital literature, are effective storytelling devices and gives a lot of good example of games that are bridging the gap between narrative and game mediums.

This project has students examining statistics using blogs. For this project, the teacher gave her class data from a survey given to students from the year prior. The classes goal was to tell a story of the prior years class using statistics. Students had to find tools online to create visual representations of their data. They used their class blog as a hub for exchanging good resources and ideas. When they finished creating their visuals and summarizing the data, they finalized their work in a personal blog entry. Then students shared their blog posts and were given time to read and comment on other students interpretations. This a great project because it gives students an opportunity to write about math which doesn't happen as often as it should. It also gives students insight into all the different ways a set of data can be perceived. I like extending this idea of blogging to being a hub where students finalize and reflect on all of their projects during the year. As an English teacher, I value writing. I really value and chance I can to incorporate writing into my math class.

This project has students recreating scenes from older text using social media. Here, students were given different scenes from the play Romeo and Juliet. Students had to retell the scene using different social media platforms. This involved them creating accounts for the characters in their scene and reenacting it through the digital medium. When they were finished with their project they needed to tweet out the results to the class. Then they could view other peoples projects and comment on what they had done. This project gives students a way to think about older situations and reimagine them. It requires them to understand the important pieces of their scene and express them in a contemporary way. The feedback element through Twitter provides an audience for their work where they can get praise and feedback. This project would likely take a longer amount of time if social media accounts had not already been made, but it would be a great culminating activity. Freshman at my school read this play and I could see myself using this project.

This is a great project where students get to demonstrate what they know about Quadrilaterals. For this assignment, students selected a quadrilateral to make an Instagram account for. They are to create an account that contained correct information about the shape and use an appropriate username. They also had to include at least 5 pictures of their shape. All of the posts used the class hashtag so they could easily be sorted on Instagram. When people finished their account page they had to go to other pages and check their peers quality of work. Questions, comments, and concerns were addressed by the students in the form of comments and likes. This particular example made use of a lot of poster paper and physical models. It would be easy to go all digital with this project and have students take or find pictures of their shape in the real world. This gives students another way to express what they know and interact with their peers.

This resource explains copy right and fair use rules regarding images on the web. It discusses the problems associated with using copyrighted work and talks about the Creative Commons. This is a great reference for educators and students to use in an effort to avoid copyright infringement.

This resource is a how-to guide for teachers trying to use Google Docs to promote collaboration in their classroom. The ability to have several users working on one page at a time makes Google Docs one of the most powerful collaboration tools available. A guide on getting started is also provided with useful suggestions.

Free screen recorder extension for Chrome. Capture, edit and share screencasts. No software download required. Works on Mac, Windows and Chromebooks.

Instagram is a social media service that lets users share photos and videos. This app can be used as a way for students to share ideas and work with each other through the use of hashtags. Students can also share their images with the Instagram community and receive additional feedback. This app also doubles as a video and image editing software.

Gould Burgess teaches in a "flipped classroom," so her students complete their "lower-level thinking" for homework, and engage in "higher-level thinking," like the marble and catapult lab, in the classroom. After watching the podcasts at home, students come to class ready to work on more advanced exercises that build on what they learned from the lectures. Check out some great tools and examples from the NEA website!!