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Use social media for quick Formative Assessments.

Zoho Survey lets you mix and match 21 response formats in your surveys. It provides you with ready made templates and themes to use with your surveys Multiple question types are available and hence you can ask your audience exactly what you want. Add logic to your surveys by skipping or adding questions. Depending on the survey taker's previous responses, you can always make the surveys shorter and more relevant. Share survey links across social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus and watch the responses roll in. Zoho Survey automatically generates links and HTML/embed codes, so you can display your surveys on your website or blog. Analyze your survey results through reports that include a detailed summary of responses and visual representations with numerous charts. With Zoho Survey's app for the iPad, you can create surveys while on the go.

List of vocabulary words with CCSS references

Create photo slideshows, share via email or social media, embed in blog.

Richard Byrne videos that show practical ed tech tips.

The Learning Accelerator created this guide to help educators understand how to approach measurement of their own blended learning initiatives, so that the results are useful to them and their own local needs, while also contributing to a more general body of knowledge about blended learning that can be useful to others.

"Vibby is a new service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website."

"The web's best educational videos, curated by teachers for teachers. EduCrate is a media curation tool for teachers to create, share, and explore collections ("crates") of educational videos from multiple sources."

Embed a layer of questions, quizzes, and rich media annotations into any reading assignment Track mastery of literacy skills and Common Core standards in real-time

Graphite is a free service from Common Sense Media that makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom use.

"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!"

"Curate & Publish Content in Minutes. Turn web links into visually appealing newsletters, web pages and website embeds." Very cool and easy way to share web resources with a class. In a couple of clicks you make a web resource that can be emailed as a newsletter, embedded on a website, or shared as a webpage.

A during reading strategy that is used to help students break down text. Students use post-it notes to mark things they understand and things they do not understand in the textbook.  They use these post-its to fill in a graphic organizer.  When finished reading students share information they've learned as well as information confusing to them.

Find a video to hook a class into your lesson.