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The creative visual learning platform that every educator and student deserves. I used this tool when I taught in Maryland for students to have interactive computer time, when they were completing state projects.

This site hosts a social network, explicitly for teachers, students, and parents, to facilitate education. It provides teachers and students with the opportunity to expand their learning communities into cyberspace, and most remarkably, actively include parents.

WHAT IS FREE - The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations. This is like a one-stop shop for digital content, it offers over 400,000 selections that span the K-12 curriculum.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members. This resource is likely designed for elementary school students, however there are games available for any age or subject. Poor spelling skills are quite common among all walks of life and spellingcity offers a fun way for anyone to practice their spelling and vocabulary skills. For teachers spellingcity offers the capability to access spelling and vocabulary lists other teachers have uploaded to the site so professional sharing is encouraged.

Play games, watch videos, learn about animals, and places, and get fun facts on the National Geographic Kids website. -- There are also resources for younger students. I've found that the younger students are very curious about the "real". National Geographic is a resource that can be trusted.

For more than 20 years, Boardmaker has been the go-to solution for providing symbol-based learning materials to students with special needs. Boardmaker Online is a complete system for delivering personalized instruction and therapy while also measuring student progress. Already a Boardmaker Community* or Boardmaker Online Member? Log In ›

I use this for many students that need visual prompts to encourage pre reading and overall language comprehension skills. There is a free 60 day trial that allow unlimited downloads during that time.

Celly lets you instantly group people and topics into cells. Cells function as chatrooms where people communicate instantly via text-based messaging. Cells can include messages from the web or other social networks to capture your interests. This resource allows for all phone numbers to be kept private during communication. Celly offers a handy tool to communicate with parents, students, and groups of any kind. A teacher or leader of any kind can mass text a group of people and receive individual responses while remaining anonymous. This tool is great for sending schedules, reminders and even in class polls.

IXL is the Web's most comprehensive K-12 practice site. Widely used by schools and families, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 4,000 math and English topics. An adaptive learning system features games and awards, inspiring students to achieve.

Great resources, especially to share with parents! However, I'm trying to figure out how much they can do for free before needing to pay for a subscription.

It takes just seconds to publish your article and share it with the world Pen.io is a simple resource for creating a personal website. Groups of students or even family members can keep in contact with one another easily through text, pictures and videos.

Interesting that you don't create an account! This could make it easier for some projects or could create some new challenges. I want to check this one out. It could have great potential.

Finally ... a resource directly related to coaching and flipped learning! Super Duper!

It is great that you found resources that tied a classroom initiative to coaching. I enjoyed reading the author's observations. Coaching is teaching after all! Thanks for sharing.

Allows you to search books of interest. As books or magazines are found, they are linked to other books/magazines (stacks) that others have found.

Thanks! I'm just starting to explore this. I found several magazines and newsletters of interest to me. Now I'm considering applications for the classroom? Could this be a place to post newsletters for parents?

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Super Duper StoryMaker FREE on the App Store. Download Super Duper StoryMaker FREE and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

This is a great app (free version is available as well as pay for app) that allows students to creat their own story. I use this resource to create an expressive language opportunity for many of my students.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Flashcards+ on the App Store. Download Flashcards+ and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

The flashcard app is a great study tool and saves paper too! My own children introduced me to this one.

Isn't it fun when kids introduce us to great new tools!

One of the first, and best, and briefest TEDTalks, ever! The TAKE-AWAY? Just because we've done "it" this way forever, does not mean that there is not room for improvement ... Enjoy!

You may enjoy this additional TEDTalk by the founder & president of The University of the People, the first online, tuition-free, and internationally accredited institution of higher learning. #OnlineClassNumber5

I love Wikispaces for online, interactive learning.

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