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A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

Create your own website in a snap! Weebly guides you through all the basics of creating a website. It comes with visually appealing templates and drag and drop ease to create pages, add text or images, or share links. Students can create websites too for many classroom applications. Weebly is easy and free with premium options for users that want additional features and are willing to purchase an upgraded membership.

turns your Flickr photos into visually stimulating presentations. Choose one of the 10 slideshows templates available and enjoy!

Infographics is something I've introduced into my classroom this past year. We've all seen them. Similar to Smore, it allows students to present learning in a visual format.

An easy way to share infographics and data. It is professional looking and interactive

QR code generator. Has some options other than plain B/W. Pretty cool!

I like QR Stuff so much I have even paid for its use. I like that they keep track of your history in a paid subscription. I've used QR Stuff to create vocabulary scavenger hunts, to make a poster of sites to share with other teachers and post a video of the scavenger hunt to share. I've even made my own audio book recordings through QR Stuff. I see this resource as one to be used by students and teachers. The site has so many options for teachers to create codes for their classrooms. Students can link documents to digital portfolios, QR Creators are popular, but I haven't found another one that offers as many choices in codes and personalization features as QR Stuff. Ben you should look into Aurasma, an augmented reality app that adds a 3D component. And Socrative can be used for formative assessments.

QR codes are great for students, teachers and community members. I would guess many students and adults are familiar with them and if they don't know how to use them, know someone who is. Renee and Ben, I know some teachers use QR codes as a link to their Aurasma pages. I like this site because it offers more than the first-generation QR code generators. I can see many uses - I'd love to try one of the t-shirt or visual AR codes. I'm a fan of Tagxedo, which reminds of of the visual AR codes shown on the website.

I know many schools have used this but it is all archived online for use. Students can learn about current events and then share what they learn with others.

Kenton - We used to be a channel.one school, but stopped viewing it last year. I love the current news - but hated all of the commercials. Can you view online without all of the commercials? This site reminds me of newela.com. It is a wonderful site for reading current non-fiction articles and is also related to common core standards. I like that you can select the reading level for students on the article. You can create classes and assign readings and it has quizzes, too. I haven't used any of those features. I just used the articles for read-alouds and they were high interest. I can see Channel One working well for history, but also for English. We need to teach students to be critical viewers as well as critical readers. Let's face it - a lot of information they will receive (for elections, ads of products to buy, etc.) will be visual. They need to know how to interpret information in this medium, too.

Kenton - I agree that this seems like it would be a good tool for students and educators. I think that students could watch the short videos and do reports on what kinds of things are happening in around the world. I think educators could use it to stay more informed as well. I had not heard of this resource before I saw your posting. Do they post new videos weekly? Also, how do they come up with their topics? Do people submit ideas of different topics they would like to hear more about?

PowToon offers a great way to make PowerPoint presentations more engaging offering new graphics and a slick interface that's easy for users to dabble with.

This is a way to make presentations without the boring slides that seem to be the norm. This is visually pleasing in the learning environment.

Great storytelling/presentation tool/platform with some fresh content and animations.

Create and share information webs on your blogs and websites.

Find or create timelines to share, embed and collaborate. Add images, audio, video, links and social media in your timelines.

Create interactive infographics & online charts. Add photos, video and more to share or embed on your website or blog.

Wiki that has videos made by students concerning different math topics.

Wow. This is great! I'm going to try this out this fall! I can use this right away.

I really like the fact these videos were made by students. Maybe if I am ambitious enough, I could have my students make videos to post on here!

This website allows you to make a "word cloud" of important words to make things such as thank yous, a way to intro a topic, a way to introduce a new book, and more.

This is a type of presentation service that would be great for digital story telling. It is more exciting than your traditional powerpoint and provides a more visual way for students to present ideas.

Prezi is an excellent presentation tool for both students AND teachers. Many other storytelling aids exist (and there's always PowerPoint), but all the ones I've seen are simply copycats of Prezi. Hand's down, Prezi is the gold standard in Web 2.0 presentationmaking.

My students love viewing content through prezi rather than ppt! I need to expand it to student use next year.