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The popular Chrome app Read & Write for Google is now available as a free iPad app and as a free Android app.

- Real-time collaboration on a virtual whiteboard with infinite pages - Real-time communication through voice conferencing and text chat - Permanent storage of all classrooms for later access - Support for image uploading - Access to basic drawing tools and colors

"Versal is a new way for anyone to create and publish interactive online courses - no coding required. The site provides a simple to use editor to add content, which it then publishes and hosts for you. For free. Versal uses a system of modules it calls gadgets to easily incorporate videos, surveys, quizzes, diagrams, and other tools to make your course more engaging. Gadgets are mini JavaScript apps that you drag-and-drop into into a course. The basics include text, video and images, but the real magic happens with customizable and interactive simulations, diagrams, timelines, flash cards and more."

On Classmill you can create public or private (invitation-only) courses. Courses are built as a series of modules. In each module you can include videos, text, images, links, and file attachments. You can also embed games and interactive simulations into each module. A discussion forum is automatically added to each module in your course. If you make your course private you will have to email invitations to your students.

"Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats. Select your favorite categories from the menu on the left, or browse the list of recently added books below."

Google Tour Builder allows users to tell stories using Google maps, images, videos, and text. It is a fantastic tool for students to use to show what they know about different topics. Maybe students are summarizing the chapters of a book and each placemark represents a different chapter. Or perhaps students create a tour to share summaries of current events happening around the world.

Ever wanted to add subscripts or superscripts to a google form?  Here is a solution, although it is an annoying solution it does work you just need to copy and past the numbers from this google forum.

Create a fake chat between two historical or fictional characters using this class tool.

Need to edit a PDF? Import to google drive.

A great way to get students reading/writing across the curriculum.

Commonlit is an organization that is building sets of thematic discussion questions to use in conjunction with upper elementary school and middle school students.