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coggle.it is an online, collaborative mind-mapping application, ideal for students who think "visually", as in the langue of flowcharts and diagrams. coggle.it allows users to graphically map out concepts and their connections, and to easily remap and rearrange those ideas as the project evolves. Fellow collaborators can comment or make changes.

Use google classroom to help communicate with students and parents!

Paste is a new piece of presentation software designed to make the creation of simple, elegant presentations as easy as possible. It supports drag-and-drop from almost any source, and its automatic formatting creates good looking slides with minimal to no tweaking necessary. If you like flashy transitions and tons of formatting options, this probably isn't the software for you. Paste's strengths lie in its minimalism and the speed/ease with which you can create slides. Paste also allows for online group collaboration, commenting, and editing. For the artists out there who enjoy creating their own clipart, Paste also integrates seamlessly with Paper, a simple but powerful drawing app by the same developers.

Short Description: Seesaw is an educational tool that allows teachers to maintain a digital portfolio of student work, as well as deliver differentiated assignments to specific students. Additionally, the teachers can provide feedback on submitted work and students can submit their work/assignments with text or video comments (typically reflections). The tool also comes with the feature of enabling the sharing of these portfolios with parents of the students. With teacher monitoring and approval, parents can gain access to their child's work to track academic progress, view the teacher's feedback, and contribute commentary of their own to the submissions. Examples of Uses: Teachers can use Seesaw to collect digital files throughout the school year as opposed to a pile of papers. In this sense, Seesaw is effective for both organization and communication. By sharing a student's digital portfolio with the parents, this serves as an effective way to preemptively prevent the need for parent-teacher conferences. Through Seesaw, parents are able to monitor what has been submitted and can also view what the teacher has evaluated or commented upon. In doing so, they can easily determine where their child needs improvement or support. This knowledge and method of communication can lend itself to early solutions before a deficient or underachieving academic situation develops.