This app is around $200 and is specifically deigned for younger students with autism. It allows them to communicate through images rather than speech and has had very positive feedback from parents and educators alike, who say the students want to say more but find it hard to.

This is a great app for students who are struggling with writing as a form of communication. The app is designed to be easy for younger audiences to record audio. The files can be uploaded or played back on the device.

Another page from the EPA website, this database provides educators and learners a like with more information on environmental topics. Want to learn more about air pollution? or you want to see evidence and data? This is the place to start your search. A great resource for students to research environmental topics themselves.

This is a great resource created by the EPA to help educators teach their students about the environment. It provides lesson plans and resources, as well as videos, games and even project ideas that students will love. Great page for anyone teaching about human impact on the environment.

This website allows ELL/ESL Learners to copy and paste text from online articles into the tool which then turns each word into a clickable button for instant translation. Helpful for students who just get stuck on a few words or do not understand the context of certain words.

2Lingual is a ELL/ESL Learner friendly search tool powered by Google. It allows learners to search for articles in both English and a language of their choice from a drop-down list of many languages.

Blogger makes blogging accessible and easy. It also connects bloggers with a community of other bloggers across many areas. I have used Blogger in my personal/professional life for many years. It has been slowly improving over that time and the new blogs are capable of a lot.

iNaturalist is a social networking app for naturalists. It harnesses the power of crowd sourcing by enabling any person, with a mobile phone and access to the internet, the opportunity to participate in citizen science. Users create 'observations' by posting images of the local flora and fauna. If the observations include geolocation/time data and the specimens, are confirmed by two other users, then it becomes research grade. This means it could be used in real studies being conducted by scientists, such as herpetologists and botanists. The app is great for identifying wildlife and connecting students with experts.

Voicethread is a great way for students to add narration to their presentation slides. Simply upload graphics and images to the slides then record narration over it. Great for presentations you wish to share with others and students can receive feedback from the Voicethread community.

Padlet is an online bulletin board software that is handy for teachers who want to go paperless in their classrooms. Simply create a Project Wall using Padlet and add all the necessary information the students need that you would usually print as hand-outs. Because its a digital platform, any changes you make to the Padlet will instantly take effect. No need to reprint documents, just share the link. Students can also use Padlet to add their own notes for discussions.

This educational youtube channel was created by two educator brothers. One creates videos in which he teaches the humanities and arts while the other creates videos for science. The videos are fun and engaging for younger students around the 5th grade mark.

Use this Chrome add-on to block the majority of pop-up ads during online use. This add-on even blocks youtube commercials and its great for classroom use in general.

Everything from creating templates to publishing files as websites, the Tips page for Google Slides is full of helpful tips.

This browser based polling system can be embedded inside a Google Slide with the PollEv.com Chrome Add-on. Students can use almost any device with access to the internet to answer questions during a presentation. The data is projected immediately on the Google Slide as students answer.

A kid friendly research website complete with its own encyclopedia, atlas and educational games designed to help with homework. The website is written by professional educators for young learners and provides a safe space online for students to visit outside of school hours.

The new version of Promethean software has been designed to cater to a changing classroom with more diverse connectivity using BYOD and so on.

This short ten minute Tedx Talk by a teenager covers topics of homeschooling and the pursuit of happiness through education. My favorite part is that Logan spends one day a week outside for the entire day as part of his education.

Inside California Education is a public television series that explores the challenges, issues and stories of public education. -tagline from website. The series recently featured the School in the Park program, of which I am an employee. Here is the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KV6CUPbEA