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Which ed-tech products and services do our readers like best? Here are their top 40 choices for the 2013-14 school year. This past spring, we asked readers to give us their top picks for school hardware, software, websites, and services. Nearly 700 readers responded via one of our three websites: eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com.

Scholastic is a great resource for teachers, and their website for Interactive White boards is very informational. This resource contains interactive lessons, graphic organizers, proofreading lessons, writing lessons, strategies, ideas, a shop, and so much more!

Presentation tip #1: Be a great presenter with Prezi presentation software.

At The Stacks, students can post book reviews, get reading recommendations, play games based on the latest series, watch " Meet the Author" videos, and more. It's like Facebook for reading and it's safe for school, too. Use Book Wizard to level your classroom library, find resources for the books you teach, and create reading lists with the click of a button.

Looking for an amazing, fun, free, and easy to use online storyboard creator? See why students, screenwriters, and businesses love Storyboard That.

Free Online Math Games. Cool Math Games for Kids of All Ages. Now includes iPad Math Games also works on Kindle and Android - HTML5 Games at HoodaMath.com.

Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

Youngzine is an online News Magazine for school age children. It provides an educational, entertaining, yet safe way for kids (and adults) to get the latest news from around the world.

This has been in Beta for a while but they have a pretty good free version available. This allows for online question response and instant feedback like a set of classroom clickers some of us use. It works well and is free so check it out.

Like a Polleverywhere.com but better! Allows for quizzes, exit slips and more.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

Excite, encourage and engage kids to read! Check out BiblioNasium, where young readers connect & share book lists and good reads with friends, teachers & parents. Look up the reading level difficulty of thousands of books and find the right fit books. A powerful teacher tool and valued parent resource.

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Free for up to 16 pages!

FlipSnack is everything you need to easily publish captivating online magazines, transforming your pdfs into online flipbooks. It works and looks great across all digital platforms, engaging your customers with interactive experiences and making it easy to sell directly from the pages of your digital publication.Files conversion now 10X faster than ever!

Great way to create rubrics for your students!

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.

Presentation tip #1: Be a great presenter with Prezi presentation software.

I used this in my old school. It was a struggling title one school. This program helped tremendously.

I need to plan the tech into the year beforehand, so it is part of the lesson already. Collecting.

Looks at each grade. This may be a good addition to my newsletter.

Seminole County School leaders plan to waive the use of the Florida Standards Assessments test for students next year, and instead will be using other nationally valid tests, such as the PSAT and SAT.

A website to search for great power point type presentations that others have already made an uploaded. You can also upload your own to share online with as many people you want without them being able to edit them!

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