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Classkick is a free app that students work on and get help instantly from their teacher and peers. Students work on assignments with their Chromebooks, laptops, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and peers instantly. ... Best of all, students can help each other anonymously.

"Teachers know their students best. CommonLit is not a scripted curriculum - we provide high-quality materials, selected by teachers, to help professionals teach at the highest level. CommonLit is compatible with any curriculum or standards. Our goal is to challenge students to think deeply and answer important questions. We help teachers meet reading standards in every state. Engaged students learn more, do better on standardized tests, and become life-long readers. We help teachers get kids excited about the themes that run through life and literature."

Formative assessment is an essential part of teaching because it helps guide instruction. Checking for understanding of important concepts helps the teacher decide to move on or to continue instruction to ensure that crucial information is not lacking. Because it does inform instruction, formative assessment should be incorporated on a regular, if not daily, basis.

"visuals help people understand. They help compel them to feel emotion, and give them a visual anchor to recall ideas. That means they work, so we've collected a list of visual teaching tools and resources below for your perusal."

Grovo is an online education and training platform that helps people find and use sites, and helps sites reach and educate users. Before Grovo, there was no single, centralized location for Internet education and training. Grovo produces free and Premium Business video tutorials that cover the Web's most popular and useful sites as well as essential cloud services in social media, productivity, and online marketing. Applications include Facebook Profile, Advertising, and Pages, Google Analytics and Apps, Twitter, Yelp, Basecamp, and LinkedIn.

"Technology is way too often given a bad rap by administrators and educators as a distraction or a hazard for students.  When technology is integrated intentionally with foresight and with intention of addressing specific growth-oriented goals, it increases the potential to help students learn, develop, and grow in unique ways.  It can be used to help address the needs as described by Maslow."

"ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It's brought to you by the team behind Zotero, the powerful open-source research tool recommended by thousands of universities worldwide, so you can trust it to help you seamlessly add sources and produce perfect bibliographies."

"Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can: Intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension Effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary Help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons Help improve learning outcomes"

"Here is a handy guide for students published by EasyBib. The guide takes students through a variety of websites, pointing out signs relating to their reliability.  By looking closely at information relating to a site's author, date of publication, citations and links, as well as publisher information, students can get a better grasp of what makes a website a credible source. "

"The great part of integrating technology in the classroom is that it gives students a voice...sometimes a voice without having to be audibly heard."

A LiveBinder full of Google tools, help, & integration suggestions.

Watching educational videos is a great way to learn because it allows kids to build a visual picture or model in their mind. The visual dimension not only helps them understand concepts better, but also stimulates curiosity and encourages self-learning. NeoK12 also features Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching.

Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. Our first product combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when. Authoring is structured into a few simple prompts on an intuitive interface. Viewers get a new form of media that they can watch in two minutes or explore for an hour. Sharing is easy: the two most viral types of media are videos and infographics ... Meograph is both.

Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students.

"Cross-curricular and critical thinking are rather different educational concepts. But when they work together, they can truly help reshape teaching practice."

Since our founding, The Learning Accelerator's belief has been that blended learning is an innovation with the potential to transform the education of millions of students in American K-12 schools. By using technology to help teachers and students more deeply understand and respond to individual needs, we think schools can better reach their goals: effective, equitable, and engaging learning for every student.

"Nimbus Screenshot can capture the whole browser window or a selected section of it. Or maybe you want to simply draw a picture or sketch a mockup? Nimbus Screen Capture can help with that!" Link to Chrome Web Store to add extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nimbus-screenshot-and-scr/bpconcjcammlapcogcnnelfmaeghhagj

"When using Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (a revised take on Bloom's devised by educator Andrew Churches), it helps to have a list of verbs to know what actions define each stage of the taxonomy. This is useful for lesson planning, rubric making, and any other teacher-oriented task requiring planning and assessment strategies. The Bloom's Digital Taxonomy verbs in this handy infographic apply specifically to each stage of the taxonomy. They progress from LOTS (lower-order thinking skills) to the HOTS (higher-order thinking skills)."

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.