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Great ideas on how to incorporate 'Flipped' tech tools into your classroom. The use of video, assignments, posts, and much more. Explains the uses of YouTube to WebCams.

A great site for visual thinking, organizing, and generating ideas. A resourceful tool for student to student and teacher to student communication.

AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real time audience participation and classroom feedback.

Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync. Useful collaboration note taking tools and ability to save articles and clippings from Internet for critically analyzing sources.

Short Description: Evernote is an IOS/Android compatible app that promotes collaboration as well as productivity. It allows for its users to take notes in various unique formats, ranging from text, sketching, photos, journaling, graphs, audio, video and my personal favorite: sticky notes that you can actually write on! These notes automatically can sync to every device the user is logged into, and can be shared for real time collaboration within a classroom - perfect for group projects and note sharing. And if a student forgot to write something down, they can take a picture of the board and have the photo scanned into their notes on the app. Examples for Uses: Project collaboration Teacher note sharing amongst all student devices Real time in class collaboration on documents and slides Readings can be instantly shared and annotated via App Students can pick note taking format that best suits their learning needs

I used to use evernote and then moved away from it. It has come a long way and I may want to go back to using it again. Thanks for bringing my attention back to this.

Mind-mapping is a great process, and this publisher offers several of the best tools I've come across. But one downside: unless you can find someone else to pay for it, it's $40 (gulp).