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The heart of the site is a collection of data visualizations. You may want to begin by browsing through these collections-if you'd rather explore than read directions, take a look!  On Many Eyes you can: 1. View and discuss visualizations  2. View and discuss data sets  3. Create visualizations from existing data sets If you register, you can also:   4. Rate data sets and visualizations  5. Upload your own data  6. Create and participate in topic centers  7. Select items to watch  8. Track your contributions, watchlist, and topic centers  9. See comments that others have written to you

The atomic method of creating a PowerPoint and a link to "Really Bad Powerpoint".

PowToon is the Do-It-Yourself animated presentation tool that supercharges your presentations and videos! Save massive amounts of time and money by creating Powtoons that bring the WOW!-factor to product demos, business presentations, social media clips, and much more.

Data is fun again! Infogr.am is an easy to use online service that lets you create, share, discover infographics and online charts.

The easiest way to capture information and create useful documents.

Create free Infographics online.  *Currently in Beta* Drag & Drop pre-designed themes and vector assets onto your canvas for easy creation and customization of rich infographics.

Mentimeter is e an easy-to-use web-based tool that enables you to create questions, collect answers and show the result in real time. FREE and can be used with any device.

Mentimeter is e an easy-to-use web-based tool that enables you to create questions, collect answers and show the result in real time. FREE and can be used with any device.

Quickly capture what's on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or snap a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is instantly available on all your devices - desktop and mobile. With Google Keep you can: * Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos * Have voice notes transcribed automatically * Use homescreen widgets to capture thoughts quickly * Color-code your notes to help find them later * Swipe to archive things you no longer need * Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes * Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://drive.google.com/keep

Writing will always be important, but weaving text, images, sound, and presentation together can give students more and different ways to express themselves. Easy-to-use online tools allow students the opportunity to create multimedia projects that demonstrate knowledge and develop useful skills. Check out these new three tools on the scene:

"gClassFolders is a free, Google-Spreadsheet-based add-on for Google Apps for EDU that CREATES class folders for students and teachers to simplify and streamline their experience of using Google's world class productivity and collaboration tools in the classroom."

Features No sign-in screen recording Public or private links Record whole or part of screen Redo parts of recording Unlimited team members Create video outlines …see more!

Touch & Discover Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more. Share and discover deeper stories through images.

Weebly for Education is Perfect for You and Your Students Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Our drag & drop website editor is stunningly simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control.

Sharendipity is a Web-based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging and interactive Web applications. Go. Build something wonderful today. --Free creation tools inside the browser --Integrate third-party web services --No programming required --Deploy your apps anywhere on the web

One of the most valuable #edtech lessons that I ever learned came from Hall Davidson, who suggests that teachers interested in incorporating digital storytelling projects into their classrooms create digital kits that students can use as starting points for their efforts.

"Make Games! No programming required Create beautiful games with Construct 2, the HTML5 game maker. Download the Free Edition and discover your creative potential. Unlock your inner game maker!"

"School teachers and administrators can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos and videos their school has added. All comments and related videos are disabled, and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos. YouTube also has created a page for teachers, YouTube.com/Teachers, to help them learn to use the site as a powerful educational tool."

"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."

"Apple's "trifold" announcement last week was exciting: textbooks coming to iBooks; iBooks Author software to create your own books; and a dedicated iTunes U app, which "bundles" courses in a manageable, multimedia package. If you haven't watched the Apple Keynote, I highly recommend it, but I want to guide you to my favorite part. It comes in around the 56:25 time on the video where Eddy Cue announces that K12 Institutions can now sign up to deliver content in iTunes U. This is phenomenal news, and I believe, will have the potential to transform education more than the textbook announcement."

The GoogleDocs Form is an efficient way for teachers to collect small pieces of information because it automatically displays the information in a spreadsheet. Teachers can add formulas to those spreadsheets to create multiple-choice quizzes that grade themselves. Since a form can be linked or embedded into a website, wiki or blog, students do not need email accounts to take a quiz.