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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.

cool video - free to join TEDEd lessons

This link gets you a few more options than the regular sign up method.

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.

WikiBrains is a growing community of creative people from all walks of life who embrace associative thinking to get inspired and out of the box. You may associate "Freud" to "Psychology", then someone across the globe links it to "Libido", another one to "Subconscious", and another one to "Dreams" and so on ad infinitum with ever-expanding branches and related content. It is a social, fun and smart space where ideas roam free and multiply. Welcome to WikiBrains: The Worlds Largest Brainstorm.

"Kik describes itself as, 'the fastest, simplest, most personal smartphone messenger out there.' It is an app that can be downloaded onto a smart phone, an iPod, or iPad and users can text others for free. This is one of its allures! At the time of writing 19 million had joined Kik Messenger. It is fun, effective, cheap so what are the dangers?"

"Are you a Google Drive / Google Docs fan? Do you take notes, compose papers, construct spreadsheets, and build presentations in real-time on the web while collaborating with others? I'm not necessarily promoting Google Drive; just merely pointing out a few of the powerful ways the free tool can help you save time and keep you better organized."

Great "how to" resources for many different instructional technology tools. Easy to use and free.

Supervise devices: · Organize supervised devices into custom groups · Automatically apply common configurations to supervised devices · Quickly reapply a configuration to a supervised device and remove the previous user's data · Import apps into Apple Configurator and sync them to supervised devices · Define and apply common or sequential names to all devices · Restrict supervised devices from syncing with other computers Assign devices: · Add users and groups manually or auto populate via Open Directory or Active Directory · Check out a device to a user and restore the user's settings and data on that device · Check in a device from a user and and back up the data for later use, possibly on a different device · Apply custom text, wallpaper, or the user's picture to a device's Lock screen · Import and export documents between your Mac and Apple Configurator · Sync documents between assigned devices and Apple Configurator

Collaborative Sharing

"VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. "