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DOGO News has fun articles for kids on current events, science, sports, and more!

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ThingLink is a phenomenal tool that takes storytelling to a whole new level: an image or video becomes the canvas for students to create interactive media.

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Book Track is an awesome, free tool that enhances both reading and writing by incorporating music. Students can create soundtracks for plays, poems, stories, or even their own creative writing, and share their creations with the world.

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VideoNot.es is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. In other words, students can be viewing a video on half their screen while simultaneously taking notes on the other half.

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provides daily news articles for students. Articles are selected by professional journalists working in collaboration with teachers and students. As a Smithsonian resource, it has a plethora of science and history focused articles

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Genius is a tool for annotating text online. Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts from songs to literature to historical documents. Users can annotate any text with their own text commentary, images, and GIFs, and they can explore all other users' 
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Genius is the world's biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.

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Improve classroom management and encourage collaborative work.

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Not surprisingly, GroupMaker focuses on allowing teachers to create groups. Getting started takes a bit of time, as teachers must manually add each class and all of the students. However, once everyone has been added, the rest of the process goes quickly and smoothly. Want to create groups with three members each? Select that option and students get grouped automatically. You can also account for gender or other factors you include in student profiles. Want to move a student to a new group? Simply drag and drop. Want to create different groups for different activities? Create and label groups for each one.

Once students are grouped, turn on some of the other features. For example, attendance mode allows you to mark absent students to better manage groups and make sure students have others to work with. Turning on the timer and displaying groups on a whiteboard or screen helps guide groups as they complete a timed task. Activating the sound meter helps groups keep their noise at an appropriate level and encourages them to stay on task.

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Not surprisingly, GroupMaker focuses on allowing teachers to create groups. Getting started takes a bit of time, as teachers must manually add each class and all of the students. However, once everyone has been added, the rest of the process goes quickly and smoothly. Want to create groups with three members each?

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Make feedback count, save time assessing digital work on Google Drive.

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Piktochart is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics

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Piktochart is a no-brainer to use. People have told me to try another infographics design platform that is very world-renowned, but I tried it before, and I was not too fond of it. I think it goes back to the great design of Piktochart.

Deborah Tan-Pink

Senior Communications Manager at Revolut

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Visual & Video Maker Trusted By 11 Million Users - Piktochart

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Piktochart is a no-brainer to use. People have told me to try another infographics design platform that is very world-renowned, but I tried it before, and I was not too fond of it. I think it goes back to the great design of Piktochart.

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by TeachThought Staff
This post was sponsored by CK-12, a non-profit foundation that creates and aggregates high quality curated STEM content.
What are the best apps for your classroom? The best little bits of software to use tomorrow, in your school, to make your classroom go?

This is, strangely, not a frequent topic for us. We are more interested in helping you push your classroom towards something unrecognizable-something that reflects the extraordinary change the world has seen but many public schools have somehow resisted. Something that centers students, helps them learn what's worth understanding, and then equips them-and you-to make that learning happen.

But what if that's not your bag? What if you have a classroom and standards and tests and pressure and walkthroughs and parents and IEPs and 504s and classroom management issues and bandwidth problems and Draconian district filtering and that's just the way it is? What then?

This is the reality that, if statistics don't mislead, most of you face on a daily basis. The good news is, there is a lot you can do in a traditional, top-down, "high-pressure" school or classroom. The apps below represent 52 (which conveniently works out to about one per week if you want to try them that way) of the best apps for your classroom. There are apps that help teachers gather data, scan exams, contact parents, promote research, keep notes, share documents, or even flip your classroom in 2015.

Let us know in the comments any that were what-were-they-thinking-missing-that-one? examples.
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Accessible, intriguing web-based experiences for grades 9-12. Explore this Great Websites for High School Top Picks list of 22 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.

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AASL Top 25 websites for teaching and learning in the following areas:<br>

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A free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need for software. You can easily embed the recording into slide shows, presentations, or websites.

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Canva is an online tool for creating infographics, comics, and other visuals.  It includes handy step by step tutorials to help you get started!

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Create a class blog that tells the world (or a more limited audience) about your classroom activities. Blogger is an easy to use platform that allows you and your students to add posts, articles, pictures or videos. With mobile apps for the software, you and your students can tell your stories from just about anywhere.

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Storyboard That is a very easy tool that allows students to seamlessly create a storyboards by adding images, clip art, text, record narration, etc product can then be downloaded as a PDF, shared via a link, exported into a PPT, or embedded into a site or blog.

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A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents that students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets and laptops.

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Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers and information can be culled for reports.

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Allows you to create and share conversations on documents, diagrams, videos pictures or almost anything. This facilitates collaborative students discussion and work.

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design discussions
no-schedule meetings
professional development
collaborate with clients
sales and marketing

replace text-only discussions
interactive lectures
support UDL principles
no-schedule office hours
professional development

student presentations
conversational practice
professional development
rich assessment
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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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Own your own identity across devices and sessions—you can still pick a name, but you're always you!

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Goodbye

TodaysMeet has shut down. Thank you for 10 wonderful years.

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TodaysMeet has shut down. Thank you for 10 wonderful years.

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Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.

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Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud.

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lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas.

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lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas. lino is a completely free service that runs on all popular web browsers.

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Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source.

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A tool for online brainstorming or pollling, educators can use this real time tool to see student feedback on questions.

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Bring tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations, and 3D. These augmented reality experiences are called Auras.

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Tired of making (or watching) the same old PowerPoint presentations? Zeetings gives you new tools to interact with your audience and track their engagement.

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Nonfiction articles by theme.

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tweentribune.com
Non-fiction articles by Lexile and Standard

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Though the Girl Scouts of the USA initially declared itself a space for all girls, the reality was different for girls of color

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As a memorization tool, Quizlet lets registered users create "sets" of terms customized for their own needs

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Grade students' paper assignments using a mobile camera and instantly know what your students know.

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Helps you learn new words, play games that improve your vocabulary, and explore language.

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Remind (formerly Remind101) is a safe, free way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents.

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Educate, Engage and enjoy with all our voki products! VOKI. It's Free. Create fun and unique Voki characters that speak in many languages

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Create multimedia presentations with interactive features such as quizzes, videos, polls, drawing tools, and more.

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Add youtube videos anywhere with DocentEDU. Just paste a link to the video and DocentEDU will automatically load the video for you and your students.

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Comprehensive standards-based content, professional development, formative assessment, and community engagement

www.discoveryeducation.com

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Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, PowerPoints, videos, and more!

www.chompchomp.com/

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Teachers manage classes, send assignments to their students and get analytics on the performance of their students. Students build their knowledge through 'mastery' of topics, modules and courses, earning rewards and having fun as they go.
https://school.quipper.com/index.html

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Edmodo is an educational technology company offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to K-12 schools and teachers.

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Presentation software that helps you create and share presentations.

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Organize your resources in an online 3-ring binder.

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A cloud based presentation tool that allows you to create dazzling presentations.

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A podcast publishing tool.

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An online learning community where anyone can learn and teach any topic. Lets you easily create and share video lessons.

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An interactive toolbox that allows teachers and students to communicate in real time.

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Create free game based assessments for any subject, and students use their cell phones or computers to play.

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Henceforth, there is no need to use a browser or a download manager to retrieve streaming videos. aTube Catcher is a free software allowing to download online videos, take a screenshot, convert video and burn a CD or DVD.

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Classic literature in gangster language. NOTE: Teachers claim that these videos are spot on for teaching the literature. However, please view them first, as some of them may contain inappropriate language.

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You can download YouTube videos to your desktop for later use in areas with firewalls. Access the video that you would like to show at home. Type "ss" in front of the URL.

ex: www.ssyoutube.com. A pop-up will direct you to download the video to your desktop in mp4 format. Save the video on your computer's desktop to access later.

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Mobile device app that turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into an optical scanner for grading paper multiple choice assessments.

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Songs, videos and activities for online learning.

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A fun way to practice and master grammar and writing skills.

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Make professional animated videos online.

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Homework help, teacher resources, and online test prep.

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Free interactive video tools and ready-to-use video lessons to engage learners.

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A software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video.
http://www.powtoon.com/

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A powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.

https://www.plickers.com/

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Create and use video to differentiate and engage students with a flipped and blended interactive video learning platform.

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An innovative learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content.

https://www.schoology.com/home.php

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Thanks to Microsoft Immersive Reader functionality within Schoology Learning, students and parents can leverage read-aloud and translations capabilities to be more connected thank ever to instruction.

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Create classroom pages, add and organize content block, change layouts, and publish whenever you're ready.

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Record your voice and iPad® screen to create dynamic video lessons that students and colleagues can access any time, as needed.
http://www.knowmia.com/

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Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.

https://newsela.com/

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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ThinkCERCA lesson plans help teachers differentiate instruction while building close reading, writing, and critical thinking skills among students.

https://learn.thinkcerca.com/teacher/lesson_library

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Website of science and social studies texts and text dependent questions. Organized by grade (K-6) and topic.

www.readworks.org/

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America's reading comprehension crisis.