So how can educators find the perfect balance between traditional and digital approaches to better focus their student's attention? How can they gain back control in a classroom full of devices? It...

Vocaroo is an easy way to create and download voice recordings and when its smashed with Google Drive it can become one power tool!!! When using Vocaroo as a voice recorder I prefer to download the sound files into Google Drive. Vocaroo allows the user to download voice recording as MP3, Ogg, FLAC, or WAV files.

Long gone are the days of running to the VCR with a blank video tape to record a clip from a television program. There are now much easier ways to bring compelling content into your classroom and ClassHook is a tool that helps teachers accomplish that goal.

Are you using a blended learning program in your classroom? Lexia Reading Core5 is a research-based program for students in PreK through fifth grade that is friendly for schools with lots of different types of technology. It provides norm-referenced data for teachers to help make instructional decisions for individual students.

Nearpod is an amazing tool for teachers that helps you create engaging, interactive lessons for your classroom. As an elementary school teacher in a one-to-one iPad classroom I used Nearpod all the time with my students. Now that I'm out of the classroom, I use Nearpod to facilitate professional development and model best practices for lesson design for teachers.

Alternative assignments for students.

Discusses the benefits of a flipped classroom for students with disabilities and the ease with which their accommodations and modifications can be met.

Collaborative and Interactive Whiteboard - this has been offered as an app for a long time but just recently became available for use on Chromebooks.

In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.

We've updated our list of digital education tools and apps for formative assessment success and there are now 55 tools on the list. Take advantage of these great teacher tools and share what tools you use in the classroom for student feedback.

This article examines the potential of synchronous communication in online education by analyzing the newest tools and platforms that facilitate real-time group communication, and the pedagogy associated with implementing synchronous communication tools into asynchronous learning environments.

Introduces Spiral, a website where you can create a class for your students and get them engaged in a wide variety of collaborative learning activities. It offers a number of tools to help you conduct quick formative assessments, design interactive presentations, annotate public videos, create video quizzes and video lesson plans, etc.

This resource contains a collection of educational technology websites divided into categories.

Some great ideas for student-created videos.

8 sites for video creation.

Know Recorder is a free app for creating whiteboard-style videos on iPads and Android tablets. The free app will let you record yourself speaking while drawing on your tablet.

As the educational landscape slowly turns to a completely digital and paperless classroom, we are often asking ourselves about the best methods and technologies that are available to collect and curate both teacher and student created content.

When Kristine Riley looks back on how she used to teach her students, she sees order and control. Her third, fourth and fifth grade gifted-and-talented classes had been structured and orderly, and students sat in designated seats. She had assigned the same tasks to every student and had hoped for roughly the same answers from all of them.

A collection of some of the best web tools teachers can use to create video quizzes. These are tools you can use to design quizzes based on selected video content.

A handy visual that features some our favourite web tools for creating and sharing digital quizzes. You can use them to design a wide variety of quizzes including gameshow-style, PlayBuzz and Buzzfeed style, jeopardy games style, and game-based quizzes.