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Pixiclip is an online canvas that lets you communicate using a webcam or a mic. Just click record and you're ready to go. Pixiclip is your message in motion!

"Kami, formerly Notable PDF, is the streamlined, easy-to-use solution to my PDF hopes and dreams! With Kami, students can view and annotate PDF documents from within the Chrome Web Browser, so it is a perfect tool for Chromebook and laptop users.  Once annotated, the files are stored in Google Drive, which makes integration with Google Apps for Education and Google Classroom possible, too."

"VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called "Ants"."

"Google recently added a pretty awesome feature in Google Slides that now allows users to create slide decks using videos stored in their Google Drives."

"I've found that the best feedback is the kind that can be applied right away. Why wait when we can get help right now with whatever we're cognitively wrestling with? Especially today, where technology is ubiquitous and communication is instant, we can do so much better than tardy feedback."

"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.

"Certainly one of our goals as educators is for students to write more. However, that does not necessarily mean to write more words. Quite the opposite, there are actually several benefits that come from having our student write fewer words. By that what I mean is having students distill their ideas down to just the most important, relevant, clear, and concise words. By putting limits on the number of words or characters our students can use, this forces students to: Summarize key points Select what is most important Choose words that best convey meaning Restate concepts Avoid unnecessary filler and fluff"

"I was approached by a teacher who had never redesigned her lessons to take advantage of edtech's potential to transform learning. She was still stuck in the $1,000 pencil phase of using new tools to do traditional work. When I showed examples of how teachers around the country were challenging students to design and find solutions to their own problems, she immediately saw the benefit of shifting her thinking. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. The bad news is, she was afraid of appearing vulnerable in front of her students if something went wrong." It is okay to not know everything about technology. Many times your students know more than you do...and that is okay!

Benefits of using Google Docs for students in education.

Free photo editor that is easy to use. Similar to Picnik.

Website that can help you flip lessons. Can use YouTube and Ted.com videos to create lessons.

According to the Standards, teachers must teach and students must learn using relevant technology that students will need to succeed beyond high school. 10 Tech Tools That Can Help!

Website students can use to create eye-catching infographics.

An option to use if the files you are receiving from your students are too big for Moodle. Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection. DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough.

Transfer files quickly from one computer to another through this website. Need to have a Dropbox account to use the Dropittome.com website.

Do you miss Google WonderWheel? Here is an alternative. Choose a broad topic, and with the use of this website, narrow the scope and focus of your topic.

Use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!

Mobento is a video learning platform. We think education is under-served by video technology. High quality videos are hard to find while lots of dross is pretty easy to stumble into. And searching for the pearls amid the clutter is time consuming. In short: we think the world where video meets education "could try harder"… as your old school report used to say. Mobento can help by organizing content better, being brutal in quality control, and being top of the class in innovation.

Use this site to find royalty-free (non-copyrighted) media.

"I am using this opportunity, given all the press on flipped classroom, to discuss a model of teaching and learning based on experiential education.  It is a model in which authentic, often hands-on, experiences and student interests drive the learning process, and the videos, as they are being proposed in the flipped classroom discourse, support the learning rather than being central or at the core of learning."