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A collaborative tool for making online music and podcasts

"Using Paperpile add-on enables you to easily insert citations with a single click. You can  conduct a search for a journal article while working on your document, insert the citation and get the reference cited for you. Paperpile is also ideal for collaborative co-authoring  and can even work with dozens of co-authors. About the privacy issue here is what Paperpile has to say about it:"

Edmodo is a web-based platform that provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. It is like Facebook but in a safe and controlled environment appropriate for school.

Create fun and interactive courses Bring your expertise to life and publish beautiful and interactive semester length courses, overnight homework assignments, or in-class lessons. Even let students take the lead through collaborative student-led projects. watch the video

A collaborative blog where teachers share their best ideas. Visit Pedagoo to get or give great ideas!

"Dotstorming takes the process of dot voting online to allow groups of people to collaborate on a topic."

"If you made mix tapes in the 80's, the concept of Dragontape will be familiar to you. Dragontaape makes it easy to string together a series of YouTube videos and or sections of YouTube videos. Create your mix tape of videos just launch the Dragontape editor, enter a search term for videos, then drag videos on to the Dragontape timeline. You enter searches and drag videos as many times as you like. To trim video timings and string videos together just match them up on the timeline editor. Dragontape allows you to collaborate with others on a mix."

Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation." Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or "facets." Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical use and scholarly exploration, revealing patterns that exist in the subjective experience of reading a text.

"Capsure lets you share personal moments in private with family and friends with photos, audio and video. As social media becomes more cross-generational, we begin to filter ourselves more often. Instead of sharing one moment with everyone, share different moments with special groups by inviting them to join digital boards. Boards could be for collaborating on family history, a special place, person or topic - you choose!"

Exhaustive list of random team generators and name pickers

Triventy uses a concept that will be familiar to anyone who has tried Kahoot or Quizizz. To play a Triventy quiz game the teacher projects the game questions at the front of the room and students answer the questions on their mobile devices or laptops. Points are awarded for answering correctly. Bonus points are awarded for answering quickly. Students join the quiz game by going to Triv.in and entering the game pin assigned to your game.

Check out this cool google presentation. It has 32 ways to use google apps in education. It goes beyond just using it with your students in the classroom by giving you tips on how to become more efficient while utilizing google docs in lesson planning, collaboration, and much more.

Brainstorm, organize, prioritize and act on the best ideas, in the same room or around the world, on a realtime sticky note whiteboard.

Upload a video, invite people to participate, discuss.

A web-based mind mapping tool that allows students to work on maps together and save them to dropbox or GDrive.