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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.

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.

"Thematic is a simple service designed for creating and sharing picture stories. Thematic allows you to display up to twenty pictures organized around a theme of your choosing. You can add a line or two of text to each image in your story."

"If solving story problems brings back grade school anxiety, you are certainly not alone. Many students struggle with word problems. Such problems are more challenging because they require skills higher on Bloom's Taxonomy, including evaluating, analyzing, and creating. We may feel comfortable (relatively speaking) with math when simply given an expression to evaluate, but it can be quite a bit more difficult to decide what is important, determine relationships, see what is missing, and construct a plan to solve a problem. A while back I did a blog post on "Highlight Tool", an add-on for Google Docs that allows you to assign meaning to colors with which you can highlight text in your document. In that example I primarily applied the tool to language arts situations." This is not just limited to mathematics. Have students use the Highlighter during active reading time in all courses.

"Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more. Share and discover deeper stories through images."

How It Works Plan: Add background, images, text, lines and shapes. Split the content of your story between pages or simply import your power point presentation into the whiteboard Record: When your slides are ready, press the RECORD button. Whatever you sketch add and talk will be recorded as an animation. Press pause at any time. Once you've done, press the save button. Share: Watch your video lesson on the preview. Like the results? Save it and add the lesson name. Share your video with your colleagues and students using social networks or via email.

Browse our free collection of news articles, poems, short stories, and historical documents for grades 5-12. Assign text-dependent questions to hold students accountable for high-level reading and writing. Analyze student performance and compare class reports on key reading and writing skills."

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.

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

"Make history with us: Interview an elder for the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Choose someone to interview. Pick great questions. Find a quiet place to record. Listen closely. When you're finished, share your interview with the world. Help create an archive of the wisdom of humanity. Browse the library; hear the stories of people all around the world."

"Telling great stories has never been so simple. So easy that it seems like magic. Fast and Simple You don't need to have programming or design skills. Hundreds of available templates. Incredible Results: Shine bright with spectacular designs and achieve the Wow effect you're looking for. Effective: Interactive visual experiences that improve communication. Full of life: Animated and interactive creations integrated with the richness of the Internet. Know your impact: Monitor how your creations are being used in real time. The power of information. Versatile: All your communication needs in a single tool."

"Learning and teaching is a lot more fun through visuals. Research and present material with the same tool! Share quickly assembled videos with your class!"

"A while back, I was asked, "What engages students?" Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own eighth graders. The responses I received from all 220 of them seemed to fall under 10 categories, representing reoccurring themes that appeared again and again. So, from the mouths of babes, here are my students' answers to the question: "What engages students?""

"Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage."

"Hundreds of external applications work with Google Classroom. These integrations save teachers and students time, and make it seamless to share information between Classroom and their favorite apps."

Every event in history, from the big bang until today represented in an interactive timeline