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We noticed users have used HSTRY to tell other stories - from travel logs to a blossoming romance. Businesses have also adopted the tool and have created product roadmaps, onboarded clients and shared their team strategies. A change in product philosophy could therefore help a broad swath of teachers, their students and learners of all kinds. We've been working hard over the last couple of months to introduce you to our new identity: Sutori. Sutori is the easiest and best way to create and share your story. In a few clicks you can add any type of media to your story and create with your friends and colleagues in real-time. All stories can be shared and embedded onto any website or blog.

100's of thoughtful features to make creately diagramming quick and natural, its a joy to use. One click styling, pretty shapes, curvy connectors and more helps you create beautiful diagrams.

"FlipQuiz was created to provide educators with a quick way to create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. Traditionally, these are created (tediously) using posterboard, chalkboards, or dry-erase markers on an overhead slide. The review questions are usually even written on a separate sheet of paper. With FlipQuiz, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. Combined with a well-designed board, students are more likely to be interested and stay engaged with an otherwise disjunct test review process."

"the following series of fill-in-the-blank prompts can be used by teachers to create lessons, students to create projects-or teachers to collaborate with students to create lessons-or projects."

"Piktochart is a great web app that allows students to create products that other students will actually WANT to read. It lets students combine visuals, text and interactive web elements into a dynamic, eye-catching presentation. It's free (of course!). It's powerful. It has tons of options. And the products created by it can be shared in many formats. So why not jump in and give it a shot? Here are 20 ways Piktochart can be incorporated into the classroom."

"Explainer videos rule. And now, creating them is a piece of cake! Simpleshow has created explainer videos for corporate customers for years. With mysimpleshow, we have used all our experience and developed a simple online tool that empowers anyone to make professional videos."

An alternative to PowerPoint with one-of-a-kind animation effects. PowToon will create the world's most minimalist, user friendly and intuitive presentation software that allows someone with no technical or design skills to create engaging professional "look and feel" animated presentations.

"Your favourite places: Share potential housing locations, holiday plans, or simply map your favourite coffee shops, bars & restaurants. Edit with friends: Easily share your map with friends so they can edit with you; simply give them the URL over email or instant messenger. Read-only maps: Add an optional password to your map to limit editing to those you want to. To create a totally private map, simply create a map with an unguessable name."

"Narakeet is video presentation maker with voice over. Use it to convert PPT to video easily, create a slideshow with music or turn lecture slides into videos. Make videos from PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote. Create full HD videos for YouTube from slides. Use our templates to quickly make videos for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Automatically add subtitles and closed captions to videos. No registration or account needed to get started, no watermark added to videos."

"It starts with an image. Define the image through multimedia.  Present ideas.  Pack it full of content. Create links to amazing sites. Explore, share and create with ThingLink in the classroom!"

Timeglider is a data-driven interactive timeline application. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out - much as you would with a mapping app - to view centuries at a time or just hours. You can create create event spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, Timeglider lets you collaborate and share easily. Excellent option for informational text creation and distribution.

"One more educational use for Google Drawings is to create an interactive multimedia poster. This is very much like creating a Thinglink. Let's call it a Googlink."

"Students created a professional development resource relating to a technology tool of their choosing. Alternatively, students could also create a professional development resource that uses multiple tools to address a specific skill covered in the course. The product was organized so the various tools worked together toward a common goal rather than be just a collection of tools."

Toontastic 3D is a playful storytelling app that scaffolds the creative writing process and empowers kids to create their own animated cartoons. While Toontastic was not specifically designed for schools, we have heard from a lot of educators over the years that they love how the app sparks their students' imaginations and uses the Story Arc to help frame their writing. Their students use the app for creating everything from book reports to news broadcasts and foreign language skills.

Options for using captioning or interpreters for hearing impaired students. "  Deaf/HOH students       Using YouTube translatable captions & Picture in Picture of interpreter signing Translatable captions: I (Tim F) need to create a video showing the whole process of doing this but basically all you have to do to create translatable captions for YouTube is upload a script to a video that you own and YouTube will "magically" sync up the two and then make the captions available in 51 languages). Picture in picture: I used Camtasia Studio to easily add the video with the interpreter signing."

"The Maker Movement, a technological and creative learning revolution underway around the globe, has exciting and vast implications for the world of education. New tools and technology, such as 3D printing, robotics, microprocessors, wearable computing, e-textiles, "smart" materials, and programming languages are being invented at an unprecedented pace. The Maker Movement creates affordable or even free versions of these inventions, while sharing tools and ideas online to create a vibrant, collaborative community of global problem-solvers. Fortunately for teachers, the Maker Movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. By embracing the lessons of the Maker Movement, educators can revamp the best student-centered teaching practices to engage learners of all ages."

Quick Rubric is the wonderful new (beta) site for creating rubrics from the creators of Storyboard That. This is far and away the easiest site for creating a beautiful rubric where a user can add a row or a column with a tap of an arrow button. Everything inside of the rubric is customizable (i.e., from the heading to customizing points) and a user can save or print out as many rubrics as they need.

"Draftback is a Chrome extension that indexes the revision history of a document then allows you to watch a video of the doc being created.  You can watch as a document goes from a blank page to the final version that was submitted for a grade.  This is helpful on two fronts: 1. Clicking the document graph and statistics will show you exactly how much time each student spent creating the file.  This makes it very easy to see who participated in a group assignment. 2. Think a student plagiarized something?  You can watch to see if large portions of text were pasted onto the document from an outside source.  This is a great way to keep the student's honest."

Drag-and-Drop Lesson Creation. Creating lessons on Deck.Toys is fun for you too! Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides. Differentiate the Right Way. Self-exploration at your students' own pace allows ample practice for mastery of key concepts. Just tap to create unique pathways! Full Control Over Your Lesson Delivery. Activate Teacher Sync and every student will be synced to your current slide. Get real-time feedback from students with Response apps such as Text, Draw, Quick Poll and Placemarker. Track Students' Progress in Real-Time. While students are having fun exploring your lesson, you may track how well each student is doing directly from the map. You may also generate a comprehensive classroom report with the Report app.

Certify'em lets you harness the power of Google Forms by turning them into online, certification exams. With easy to use controls and minimal setup, you can now send customizable PDF certificates to anyone who passes your online exam! Certify'em comes with several professionally designed certificate templates, and allows you to specify your own as well (created in Google Slides). Everyone who passes your exam will receive their own personalized copy as a PDF email attachment with a unique serial number. And you'll be able to keep track of who has passed, and who hasn't, using the spreadsheet of records that Certify'em automatically creates and maintains!