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As a student, one of the best lessons I have learned is time management, and Studious is the app targeted at helping students master this life skill! This app is an intuitive and innovative answer to the 'basic' homework planner: Studious helps students organize their homework and exams on a normal calendar, but will also remind students of when assignments and projects are due in addition to when an exam date is approaching - all while setting up the best times in the student's schedule to start studying!

ClassDojo is a safe and simple communication app that builds a classroom community for teachers, parents and students. aesthetically pleasing and user friendly, ClassDojo allows for teachers to track student behavior (in which students can work as a team to earn points overall and even earn points on a personal basis) as well as keep track of seating.

Make any video your lesson. Edit a video by cropping it, adding your voice or embedding questions. Then, track your students with powerful hassle-free analytics.

EDpuzzle is a great tool for creating interactive video lessons for the classroom. Teachers can use video content already published online, or upload their own content. This is a great tool for use in a flipped classroom.

Edpuzzle is an easy and effective way that not only integrates interactive learning through powerpoints, but can deliver videos in the classroom in a fresh manner. Video is no longer a passive experience, because with either the Edpuzzle website or app, videos come to life with audio-notes and questions: directed at the class!

The title says it all - great resource for any current events project!

StudyBlue is a digital flashcard system that allows you to not o my make your own flash cards, but share them with your classmates. Teachers can get in on the action by creating groups to share cards amongst students

Slack Is an app that's main goal is to better teacher collaboration and communication. Similiar to twitter, Slack used mentions and hashtags to organize and catagorize conversations or threads around groups or themes.

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).

_Description:_ Tracker allows you to extract motion data from a video, so by simply taking a video of a classroom demonstration, students can clearly visualize concepts like acceleration, parabolic motion, periodic/pendulum motion, and momentum conversation in collisions. Tacker makes it much easier to communicate counter-intuitive concepts by enabling students to slow down and quantify the motion of objects in videos. _Examples of uses:_ * Demonstrating constant acceleration due to gravity * Confirming conservation of momentum in elastic collisions * Showing that projectile motion is parabolic

Great collaborative tool to brainstorm, generate and organize student's ideas

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.

MURAL is a large, shared canvas for mapping content and ideas of all kinds. It's like a giant white board that can be zoomed in and out to see the big picture as well as the details. Electronic "sticky notes" hold individual ideas that can be rearranged, organized, and related to one another. You can add many kinds of web content, and team members can add ideas and content and then build on each other's by finding relationships and patterns. It has a number of educational applications, in science and other subjects: - Realistic labs, where lab groups define the hypothesis and methodology, and agree on the interpretation and presentation of results. - Any kind of group projects where students work together toward a common end product.

As far as I can tell, I expect that this is free for secondary ed uses.

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.

Free online service for immediate feedback on homework Developed at WPI

Short Description: WaybackMachine is an Internet archiving tool or "digital library" which may be freely accessed and searched by anyone. The archives includes Internet web pages, in addition to the digital forms of books/texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs. Examples of Uses: Educators can use WaybackMachine to demonstrate the permanence of Internet activity to their students. Particularly with social media postings, educators can show their students that websites are archived and accessible in earlier versions, providing some insight and clarity to the "Delete" or "Remove" buttons that students believe are so reliable. In doing so, students can understand how difficult and impossible it is in most situations to erase their digital footprint.

myshadow.org provides a good introduction to digital footprints/shadows, offering some tools that can be used to control one's footprint and a substantial knowledge-base of how-to's and information on subscriber agreements.

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