Some of Mrs. Trimble's Favorites!

AASL Best
Best Digital Tools for T&L

Common Sense Media
Best Student-Collaboration Tools

Hipster Google
Google Tools You Probably Never Heard Of 

​Comic  Creators
Chatter Pix It
Make Beliefs Comix
Read Write Think (requires Adobe Flash)
Witty Comics
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File Converters
Zamzar - couldn't do without it
Maniac  Tools - audio converter
Miro - download videos (requires software download)

Infographics
Canva
Easel.ly
Infogr.am
Piktochart
Daily Infographic
Visual Complexity

Mindmapping
Bubbl.us
Popplet

Photo Editors
Picmonkey
Pixlr

Screencasting
Loom
Screencastify
Screencast-o-matic
WeVideo 

Social Online Bookmarking
Pinterest
PortaPortal (FREE)
Symbaloo
SiteJot
Wakelet

Storytelling
Cube Creator
Mixbook
StoryBird
Storyjumper
Toontastic - Google 3D Storytelling App

Story Publishing
Booksie
Teen Ink
Underlined (formally Figment)

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Video Creators
Animoto
​Powtoon
​Toontastic (Android and iOS)
Voki (FREE) Avatar
WeVideo (sending videos to Playposit works just like EdPuzzle)
Xtranormal Avatar movie

​Article:  11 Best Online Video Makers

Video on Demand
INFOhio's Digital Video Collection
PBS
TED  Talks
​Veritasium
 
Word Clouds
Image Chef
​Tagxedo
Tagul   Word
Word It Out
Wordle
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Other
Essay Map
Plagiarism Tool
Printing Press make brochures and newspapers

Other Useful Tools

Bitly
Helps you shorten, share, and track your links

Blabberize (FREE)
Make images talk

Blackle
Changes Google search from white to black background.

Center for Game Science 
Amazing games for STEM education

FloorPlanner
The easiest way to create floor plans

facts4me.com
Online encyclopedia for kids.  Great graphics.  Kid-friendly text.  Subscription Fee ​

Glogster
Online interactive posters - use educational 

Netvibes
A free cloud-computing tool for building information dashboards.  Aggregator used to feed all information into one location. 

Padlet 
Anonymous response system -  similar to posting sticky notes on your wall.  Great for shy kids.

Quia
Create your own educational games, quizzes, surveys, websites, etc.

Quizlet
Create flashcards