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Allows a teacher to create a private discussion board. The teacher post a topic and students can then reply to the topic. Great for a simple discussion board.

Interesting article discussing issues parents and administration have around teachers using social media in school with students. A discussion around this topic needs to be held nationwide and in every school district.

WOW! Innovative Educator! Support for social media/cell phones in the classroom. Offers online chat to educate educators on current tech topics

This blog is written by Lisa Nielsen. It has won awards for its outside the box approach to delivering material. Many of her posts deal with how to effectively use technology in the classroom. Especially social media. Teachers can use it in the classroom by either networking through her blog and finding content alike teachers or by simply gathering the concepts Nielsen discusses.

This blog is written by Lisa Nielsen. It has won awards for its outside the box approach to delivering material. Many of her posts deal with how to effectively use technology in the classroom. Especially social media. Teachers can use it in the classroom by either networking through her blog and finding content alike teachers or by simply gathering the concepts Nielsen discusses.

Blog discussing how to incorporate new apps, giving feedback to students and much. Toolbox for educators!

Blog discussing how to incorporate new apps, giving feedback to students and much. Toolbox for educators!

This is a new organizing tool that I was recently introduced to through reading a fellow cohorter's blog. I LOVE IT! A great way for you, your students, and your PLN to organize your reading lists or even the books you want to read.

GoodReads is a social networking site used to share book recommendations.  Users can write reviews, look at recommendations, and share in group discussions about certain books.  

Similar to Twitter, but without ads. Create a cell for a class, have discussions over content, take notes, share information and more.

This seems like a great resource Abby. I've been trying to find Twitter replacements, since our district blocks Twitter and most other social media sites. Do you have experience using this? I'd love to know more.

Although my district does not block Twitter, I see this as a great tool for lower elementary kids.

An interactive way to assess students through ipads, iphones, androids and more!

This looks like a great tool to use in my classroom. It would be a quick way to assess students on a topic before moving on. This tool is clearly geared towards teachers. It can help them to quickly grade quizzes that are easy but tedious to correct such as true/false and multiple choice. I would like to play around with this a bit more and see if there are discussion opportunities with it. My students use Poll Everywhere to have discussions or answer polls, but the results are posted for everyone to see. I like that the tools grades the quizzes and posts the results to a spreadsheet format. That would be such an efficient way to grade. This is much more user friendly than other automatically graded quizzes like Flubaroo. Thanks for sharing!

A few teachers in my building use secretive and have shared it in professional development sessions. It looks very easy to use and seems like something students would be very easily engaged with. Great resource for teachers to use with students. It would be just as easy for students to design questions and present as a quiz or dipstick check for understanding after a presentation or some other in class assignment. My school uses Promethean boards so we have this same capability built into that technology with the Active Votes or Active Expressions. I can also see this being something you could do with the poll feature on Edmodo. I think there are more and more resources out there in this style. I agree with Kayla that this is MUCH easier to use than Flubaroo, even though that is a very useful tool as well.

This site allows people to collaborate and create stickies to help share and remember ideas.

This would be great for formative assessment. You create a wall on which students can post "sticky notes" to add to discussion, answer a question, ask questions, etc.

This allows teachers to hold a forum. Students can reply with audio or text to a question. They can even draw on the existing image to make a point. Others in the group can then respond in turn.

As you could tell from our class using it, I think this would be great for small group discussions versus the whole class. I could see this being used efficiently for a group presentation that the students would create and then have another group comment on the voice thread for pointers on what to consider, etc. This resource is definitely both uses depending on how you set it up whether it is a teacher forum or a student led forum.

Great site to use for collaborative projects. So many ways to share and communicate.

show videos with questions built in. 

I laugh at the idea of somebody disagreeing with this resource. I am totally going to use this! I like to incorporate online discussion during movies that I should in my science classroom. One issue I have run into is how to get the conversation to flow and stay on topic. Problem solved! This is definitely a mix of teacher and student usability depending on how you define those 2 types of usage, but I think creation on the part of a student could take place with thi resource as well. Great find!