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Newsela publishes daily news articles at 5 reading levels from grades 3–12 to drive gains in literacy. Explore a library of high-quality, engaging nonfiction that you need to meet the new, rigorous standards. Newsela’s constantly expanding archive helps students develop a love of reading while they expand their understanding of the world. Reach every student in your classroom at the right level. Newsela adapts to the reading level of your students while empowering them to adjust the complexity of the text. Students are empowered to build background knowledge through multiple re-readings and learn to apply strategies like highlighting and annotation to digital text. All articles and quizzes are available free to registered students.

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school.

Here is a quick overview/introduction to seesaw

Smore makes it easy to design beautiful and effective online flyers and newsletters. Smore has over 1 Million users creating over 100,000 flyers and newsletters each month. 

Combine handwriting, photos and typing to bring your projects to life. Add as much detail as you like with a variety of colors and fonts. Zoom in on the specifics, or focus on the big picture. Now you are ready to share great ideas with Google Drive, AirDrop, Email and Dropbox.

Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. Teachers can compile credible sources (saving lots of time) beforehand and allow students to search among teacher recommended RSS feeds. 

Build your personal library in the cloud, with links, pages, notes, pictures etc, never to be lost, and ready to be accessed anywhere. Of course, those digital highlights, sticky notes and screenshots you added while going around the web automatically go into your library.

AMAZINGLY SIMPLE GRAPHIC DESIGN 
Create beautiful designs with Canva. Choose from more than one million layouts, stock photographs and illustrations. Search for the best graphics, photos, and fonts then use Canva’s simple drag and drop tool to create a design. 

Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier. Introducing the first multi-device collaboration tool from Universal Mind. From iPad to iPad with just a flick of the finger, iBrainstorm has set the bar and has redefined the very nature of collaboration.

Intelligent solution for document management on all devices, starting from capturing information precisely to storing, sharing, annotating and managing documents for different purposes. It makes the contents easily-accessed, organized and the collaboration efficient.

The ShowMe iPad app lets you create lessons using a whiteboard. The app is free and there is no limit what you can teach! Our community has created millions of ShowMes, from chemistry to history to football strategy - and more knowledge is being shared everyday.

Create a fun learning game in minutes called ‘kahoots’, made from a series of multiple choice questions. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement!

Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.

Record your voice and iPad® screen to create dynamic video tutorials that students and colleagues can access any time, as needed. Import documents and pictures from your Photo Library, Dropbox and Google Drive. Display a custom map. Insert any webpage. Snap a photo or search the web for the perfect image, right within the app. In addition to sharing your videos with other Educreations users, you can also send videos over email, post to YouTube, Edmodo and Twitter, embed on your website, or save to your Camera Roll, Dropbox or Google Drive.

Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. It was created by high school sophomore  Andrew Sutherland in 2005 and now contains over 400 million study sets. All of the material is user-generated

VoiceThread is a cloud application, so there is no software to install. The only system requirement is an up-to-date version of Adobe Flash. VoiceThread will work in any modern web browser and on almost any internet connection. Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Over 50 different types of media can be used in a VoiceThread. Comment on VoiceThread slides using one of five powerful commenting options: microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. Keep a VoiceThread private, share it with specific people, or open it up to the entire world. Learn more about sharing VoiceThreads.

In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.

Remind is a communication tool that helps teachers connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device.

Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners.

Pose a question to your audience using the app. THe Audience answeres in real time using mobile phones/devices, Twitter, or web browsers. You will be able to see live responces on the web or in your presentation. A variety of polling question formats available.

TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success.

Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no registration, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.