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"Have you ever tried to convey the feeling of walking through your favorite park? Or have you wanted to create an interactive tour of a memorable journey? Well, starting today, it's now possible for you to build your own Street View experiences to do just that. Using a new feature in our Views community, you can easily connect your photo spheres to create 360º virtual tours of the places you love, then share them with the world on Google Maps."

Looks like an awesome tool to create infographics.

"Classmint helps to score well in exams and life through research-proven scientific techniques like Cornell Notes, Flashcards, Active Recall and timely repetition of study notes. Classmint lets anyone create interactive, audible, annotatable and beautiful study notes that can be folded like paper. It also maintains automated study list to aid in timely repetition."

"Despite what Apple and Microsoft would like for us to believe, there isn't always "an app for that." Sometimes, it takes multiple tools to complete a process, and this idea becomes abundantly clear when working with mobile devices."

Meograph is a free, easy multimedia storytelling tool. Students can quickly combine videos, audio, pictures, text, maps, timelines, and links to create what the developers call "four-dimensional storytelling." No registration is required and an education version is available.  You have to play around with it to get the concept before introducing it to students.

"Create the Games of Your Imagination."

Google Forms is one of the potent services Google provides for free for its users. Using Google Forms, you can very easily and without the need for any advanced technology knowledge create all kinds of forms to use with your students from contact forms to quizzes and polls. Since its inception a few years ago, Google Forms has undergone some major updates and the last one in this regard is enabling users to embed pictures and images into forms.

"In a move that underscores OverDrive's plans to support a robust selection of streaming video for libraries, the company on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lee C. Milstein to the newly created position of chief strategy officer. Milstein was most recently head of the news content partnership team for Google's YouTube division, and previously held positions at leading tech and media companies including AOL and DivX. "

"APPY 25TH BIRTHDAY GIF! BOOTLEGS COLLABORATED WITH THE 'MOVING THE STILL' EXHIBITION PARTNERS TO CREATE CONTENT AROUND THEIR DIGITAL PROGRAM & INSTALLATION CELEBRATING THE GIF. WE DOCUMENTED THE GALLERY SHOW AT ART BASEL MIAMI, CONDUCTED ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS WITH CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS TO EXPLORE THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL MEDIUM AND THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE WAS A CHARMING SHORT FILM WE DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED WITH DIRECTOR SEAN PECKNOLD TO CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF THE BELOVED GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT."

"MIT App Inventor is an innovative beginner's introduction to programming and app creation that transforms the complex language of text-based coding into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks. The simple graphical interface grants even an inexperienced novice the ability to create a basic, fully functional app within an hour or less."