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A simple site for making project checklists for your students' projects. In my opinion, this is an under-utilized aspect of the 4teachers.org website.

Users at every skill level can create bite-sized teaching morsels they can share online, again and again, with this delectable app. STUDENTS: Help each other with homework and work together on projects. TEACHERS: Tutor kids while away from school, or record a few tips to send home with them. MENTORS: Tutor youngsters from afar, without buying desktop recording software. KIDS: Share doodles and ideas with friends. Some of the most innovative teachers helped create ScreenChomp with learning and idea-sharing in mind. Here's what some of them had to say: Eric Marcos - Lincoln Elementary Math Teacher "With just an iPad and the ScreenChomp app, everyone can create on-the-go tutorials, mathcasts, or any sort of screencast. It makes screencasting a portable option - no wonky hardware necessary." Randy Micallef - 8th Grade Math Teacher "ScreenChomp will help students review ideas, and it will help me have more consistent interactions with each student. I'll also have a way to re-assess and re-test a student's understanding of specific concepts, and keep a record of those interactions through captures."

"..... took less than five minutes to make an impressive, share-worthy video. .... a great option for the holidays or any special occasion .... when you'd want to share photos with loved ones." MacWorld Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto's free app! Parties, holidays, trips and family events - you've got a ton of photos on your phone just waiting to be turned into something incredible.

Cinch is a free and easy way to create and share audio, text and photo updates using your iPhone. Cinch enables you to capture and report on your experiences in a way that plain text can't. Using a simple interface, you can make and automatically broadcast your cinches

A super simple web page creator that even a kindergartner could use to create a real web page. There are privacy controls, and no registration is required.

Kidblog.org is built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most out of the blogging process. Kidblog meets the need for a safe and simple blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all publishing activity within the classroom blogging community. If you've tried (perhaps with limited success) other blogging platforms like Blogger, Edublogs, or Wordpress.com, you'll notice the Kidblog difference immediately!

Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice. Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included.

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.

New features only available in this omBook include professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched.  By combining the original text and artwork of Dr. Seuss with features that entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages. Three ways to read this omBook (Oceanhouse Media digital book): ★ "Read to Me" - listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read ★ "Read it Myself" - read the book in its traditional form ★ "Auto Play" - plays like a movie, automatically reading and turning pages. Great for younger children!