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iPad app for digital storytelling "A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks, snap pictures and link them to your story elements. "

Great lists from presentations of tools and how to integrate them

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Easy share you screen with this tool. Works with ipads, android devices and more.

Free! THINKING WORLDS is a drag-and-drop 3D scene builder and visual programming editor that allows non-coders to build immersive gaming experiences and simulations. It appears more suited for creating virtual training exercises in large organizations, but with a free developer license it should provide a sufficient challenge for the ultra-techie educator. Beware. This is more of a summer project than weekend quick pick -- just imagine the learning curve if there were Scratch controls for every movement in Sim City. But if you're up to the task, there's still time to join this recently started MOOC on gameification. After all, a tool is only as good as the outcomes it makes possible.

Free! METRYX is a formative assessment tool that allows teachers to "track, analyze, and differentiate" students across any number of customizable skill sets. Teachers can import class rosters and any number of skill sets via a CSV file, and then individually track students across each skill set as they perform various classroom activities. The granularity of these activities is completely at the discretion of the teacher, though Metryx appears especially useful for project-based learning, skills demonstration, and other activities where multiple-choice assessment data can't fully convey student progress. 

Usability.gov is the primary government source for information on usability and user-centered design. It provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful.

Great tool for annotation on any webpage. Great idea for taking notes for research projects, explanations, and more.

Empressr The rich media presentation tool Tell your story anyway you like. Add photos, music, video, and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant.

web based presentation tool

Great blog with "interesing ways" to integrate all kinds of digital tools

Google Earth Engine brings together the world's satellite imagery - trillions of scientific measurements dating back almost 40 years - and makes it available online with tools for scientists, independent researchers, and nations to mine this massive warehouse of data to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.

Want your own search engine instead of one with the Google name on it? This tool will create it and then allow you to search using it.

Learn more about human anatomy with the Zygote Body simulation from Google Labs. Tools allow you to see muscles, bones, organs, and more.

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

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. The website is free, but registration is required. This is a good resource for students to use in planning their sites or apps.

"Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics. It is also highly effective in developing team-work and self-confidence. This web site is designed to help K-12 and other educators in developing or improving courses that use robotics as a tool for teaching STEM topics or as a topic in itself. The materials on this site include down-loadable lesson plans and links to other useful resources, such as teacher training workshops, public robotic contests, and other educational robotics web sites."

"STEM Robotics 101 is both a turn-key curriculum for novice Robotics teachers and a collaboration tool for veteran Robotics teachers. This introductory STEM Robotics master curriculum uses the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Education Base Set and NXT-G software to teach a full STEM Robotics course. This master curriculum is divided into Units, several of which contain lessons built around the "NXT Video Trainer 2.0" product from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy. (This product is now available free online from CMU's CS2N Courses site). These self-paced learning-to-program videos are supplemented with lessons on robotics technologies, explicit math and science concepts, and the Engineering Process, in order to round out a complete STEM curriculum."