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-GeoGebra, not just for geometry

-Prezi, to create presentations.

-Pixton, to create storyboard comic book.

-Symbaloo, a visual bookmarking to create one or more web pages.

-Dropbox , a cloud storage service to get to all of your files from anywhere, on any device, and share them with anyone.

-Minecraft: It’s a game about breaking and placing blocks in a virtual world. Here there is an experience with minecraft: an house first drawn & built in Lego, then realized with this tool. ()

Interactive Play Platform: such as

- MotionMagix™: It is a revolutionary next generation interactive play platform that specifically addresses children learning and plays with endless possibilities! MotionMagixTM is revolutionary not only because of the technology inside but also because it is the most practical, robust and fun gesture platform for kids. MotionMagixTM has proved to be a healthy way of blending mental and physical activity unlike traditional methods. It improves collaboration, participation and cognitive skills in children. 

-Interactive Floors and Interactive Walls can convert any space into an unforgettable, involved, learning-rich, fun-filled experience. Interactive Floors and Interactive Walls created with MotionMagixTM can convert any space into an unforgettable fun-filled experience. Low attention span of kids requires use of specialized systems and interactive content for their total engagement. 

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14 Free Educational Technology Applications for Kids

1. Best Browser for Kids - free  The #1 rated safe iPad browser with parental controls. You can decide on the level of blocking. Perfect for families and schools that are looking for a safe, fast, reliable browser, with no in-app advertising! You can also support our cause by donating in our in-app purchases. Donations are not mandatory and are hidden from kids behind parental control preferences - which are controlled by you with a password.

2. Digital Passport for Kids - free  Played by over 300,000 kids in schools across the US, Digital Passport is now available on your personal device. The games and videos inside teach kids from 7-11 the essentials for staying safe online not only on laptops and computers but on mobile devices too. On Digital Passport, kids will find their favorite kinds of games and activities like platform games, tools for creating digital mashups, and other fast-paced gobble 'em up games, all geared toward teaching them important lessons about digital life.

3. Disconnect Kids - free  Disconnect Kids is a fun and unique educational app that teaches parents and children about privacy on the internet. Disconnect Kids also actively blocks requests for data about your web-browsing and in-app activity. It’s the first iOS app that stops this personal data from ever leaving your device.

4. Edmodo – free  Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for teachers and students to engage and collaborate for free, anytime, anywhere.

5. Engadget Distro - free  Engadget Distro brings the best articles from the Engadget site to your tablet in a rich, magazine-like format. Every week a new edition is hand-crafted by the Engadget team featuring the best reviews and features curated from the website along with a weekly editorial to bring you up to speed on any news you might have missed. Once you have downloaded the application, we encourage you to set Distro offline, grab a comfy seat, and enjoy all the great stuff you might not have had time to enjoy during the week. Immerse yourself in the world of gadget news.

6. Image Searcher – free   Image Searcher is a Google Image searching tool for iPad. Simply type in any keywords you want and you will see the thumbnails of images. You can view the original images, save them to your Photo Albums, email them to your friends, or open the original web pages.

7. LEGO Creationary - free  You love those little LEGO® bricks. Creationary puts a fun new spin on your creations. Build and guess with Creationary and the New Creationary Assistant – fun for the whole family!

8. Lego Instructions - free  LEGO® Instructions is a fan-built application for those who is fond of creating with their Lego pieces. It’s the only app in the Store which presents building instructions in large step-by-step pictures to show parents and kids how to make these items. This app is a handy tool for those who lost or somehow doesn't have their building instruction for building LEGO items. The instructions are clear and easy to follow – almost like the real instructions from the box.

9. Little Bird - free  Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure, is a book for children produced by AVG for parents to use with their young Pre-School children. The book is designed to help parents initiate conversations about Internet safety in an age-appropriate manner. We hope it will be useful to you in helping your child begin to develop lifelong patterns of safe and secure online activity. The Internet will be a mainstay of your child’s life. Like the majority of us, your child will learn, play, and do their homework using their computers, iPods®, gaming consoles, and mobile phones while connected to the web. We will be with you each step of the way, providing great technology and resources to help educate and keep them safe. Please enjoy this complimentary copy of Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure, and feel free to share it with others. At AVG we are committed to helping this generation of kids learn, play, and interact safely online.

10. Logo Draw - free  Logo Draw uses aspects of the Logo Programming Language to introduce users to the fundamental concepts of software programming, computer graphics, geometry, and logical thinking. 

11. Maily - free   Maily is the safe messaging platform for kids aged 3+ to connect with family and friends. It is fun, easy and safe. Do you have kids aged 3+? Maily has been designed to supervise them. Create your account and add your kids right after. Connect & send messages with your nieces, cousins or other kid friends. For both grownups and kids, Maily provides a colorful and creative messaging platform. You can also add and invite contacts. The more contacts you add, the more fun Maily becomes.

12. Rover (web browser with Flash) – free Rover is an educational app and the only education browser for your iPad designed for teachers and students of all ages. Rover is targeted towards enhancing the K-12 education experience, bringing the best online learning content to your iPad- including access to content ordinarily available on the Apple tablet. We have partnered with major education brands to make sure you have access to leading educational content on the iPad. Transform your classroom into a fun, easy to use, and exciting learning lab! We have specifically designed Rover based on feedback from teachers, IT directors and administrators from schools across the country.

13. SketchBook MobileX - free  Autodesk SketchBook Mobile Express is a professional paint and drawing application designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. SketchBook Mobile Express offers a set of sketching tools and delivers them through a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Use it to digitally capture your ideas or produce artwork on-the-go. With the same paint engine as the renowned SketchBook Pro software, SketchBook Mobile Express delivers sophisticated brushes and fluid pencils.

14. TinyTap - Moments into Games - free  Turn your moments into games! TinyTap is the first user-generated app market that lets anyone create fun educational games from pictures and creative ideas! TinyTap is a free game creation platform that lets parents, teachers and kids create, share and sell personalized educational games! Creating a game is very simple. All you need to do is add photos or images, record questions, trace the answers and you’re ready to play!

21 Free Counting iPad Apps for Kids

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1. 10 Frame Fill - free"10 Frame Fill" provides children practice with recognizing additive "10 Families" (e.g., 1 and 9, 2 and 8, etc.). Set the 10 Frame to fill in sequence or randomly. Use contrasting color chips to fill the 10 frame as you determine the answer.

2. 123 Numbers Free - free123 Numbers & Counting is a fun and intuitive educational app for kids to learn numbers and counting.

3. Animals Counting Writing Game Free Lite HD - freeLearn Number counting, writing, and listening skills.

4. Counting 123 - learn to count challenge for kids - freeYour ultimate counting teacher!!! Watch your children as they play & quickly learn how to count and recognize numbers in this fun and simple children’s game.

5. Dominoes Easy Match - freeDesigned and tested by educators and parents of young children, Dominoes Easy Match is an engaging and simple way to learn about numbers one through nine.

6. Farmers Market - fun educational activities for kids, featuring Fruits, Vegetables, Colors, and Numbers HD by TabTale - freeA rich and colorful upbeat children’s game which introduces Numbers, Colors, Fruits and Vegetables in a fun and educational process. Your children will be counting & eating veggies in no time.

7. Jumping Grasshopper - Learn to Count - freeWatch your children as they quickly learn how to count numbers in this fun and brilliant children’s game. Your children will be counting in no time.

8. Kids Numbers and Math Lite - freeHelp your preschool and early elementary school children learn their numbers and master basic arithmetic skills with Kids Numbers and Math.

9. Line 'em Up - freeDesigned to promote kindergarteners' mastery of number order. This app replicates a simple classroom activity in which children place number tiles, 1-32, in order from least to greatest.

10. Math Is Fun - I Like Numbers Kids Book - freeThe "I Like" children's picture books are a magical way to enjoy stories with your child. Not only are the stories and pictures fun... they also help your child learn about the world they live in. It is a magical learning experience for kids of all ages from 0 to 6.

11. Montessori Approach to Math - Hundred Board Lite, A - freeThis app is a fun and educational exercise found in the Montessori classroom to help children with their counting from 1 to 100.

12. Motion Math Zoom - freeGive your child a chance to play with numbers - they'll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.

13. Number Rack, by the Math Learning Center - freeThe Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.

14. Number Sense - freeHave fun with Mathomatix: Number Sense – for kindergarteners! Number Sense is based on National and California educational standards.

15. Preschool - Counting - freeIf your kid is just starting to count, this app is perfect for you. This app is ideal for a preschool/Montessori to use in their classrooms.

16. Quizard Lite - freeQuizard Lite is a smart flashcard application that allows you to create sets of up to 20 flashcards for your own use or download them from Quizlet, Flashcard Exchange, Course Hero, or Study Stack on the web.

17. Sam Phibian - freeSam Phibian combines attractive graphics, fun game play, and just the right amount of absurdity to create an interactive experience that makes counting practice engaging for young (and old!) learners.

18. Splosh - freeSplosh is a vibrant and engaging interactive story app from Punflay for high-energy preschoolers and beginners. The app seeks to reinforce fundamental number concepts through play and story.

19. Teaching Number Lines - freeLittle Monkey Apps Number Lines helps to introduce the concept of number lines to young students through the use of cute little frogs that make steps and leaps.

20. Ten Monsters Come to Call - freeOne monster is trouble. Two monsters is double! In this exciting counting game for young children, ten adorable monsters come to call to help children learn their numbers and counting from one to ten.

21. You Can Count on Blue Dog - freeThis IPad app is a fun way for children to learn counting while enjoying the fabulous Blue Dog artwork of George Rodrigue. Each page displays a different piece of George's original art with countable objects.

15 Free Science iPad Apps for Kids

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1. AirMicroPad (for use with the wireless microscope ProScope Mobile) - freeThis application is for wireless microscope "AirMicro" and also "ProScope Mobile". It can display and preserve a picture captured with "AirMicro" and "ProScope Mobile" as well.

2. Arctic Express - free“Arctic Express” – is a 3d presentation of a tanker, that unique in its class. Easy to navigate, interesting to discover. Watch the gallery with real photos of the ship, find out the way it floats, study its main features, fly around, see the model of the ship in the way you want.

3. BrainPOP Featured Movie - freeBring learning to your fingertips with the BrainPOP Featured Movie app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Watch a different animated movie every day, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz – free!

4. BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week - free

5. Bring learning to your fingertips with the BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Get a different animated movie every week and check out related quizzes and educational activities - free! BrainPOP Jr. site subscribers can log in and access all BrainPOP Jr. content directly from the app.

6. Complexity Science - freeA beautifully illustrated interactive introduction to complexity science—a whole new way of understanding our world. Each characteristic of complexity science is presented in an engaging and non-technical way.

7. Curiosity Machine - freeThe Curiosity Machine is a collection of exciting (and sometimes very challenging) experiments and projects designed to encourage curiosity, creativity and persistence!

8. Khan Archiver: KhanAcademy Educational Videos on the Go - freeThe Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

9. Pearson Education Third Grade Science - freeWith Scott Foresman Science on the iPad, you’ll spend less time planning for science and more time actually doing science.

10. Ready Set STAAR Test Practice App - freeReady Set STAAR is an interactive resource that provides sample science test questions as practice for the Texas STAAR Science exam. Questions are grouped by grade level 3, 4, or 5, and are provided in both English and Spanish.

11. Science Bear - freeScience Bear will help you review the basic concepts from middle school physical science with over 200 questions and links to dozens of videos. Test your knowledge on motion, forces, density, solids, liquids, gases, astronomy, atoms, periodic table, chemistry, and more!

12. Science Glossary - freeA glossary of scientific terms and short biographies that support our science education website, . All definitions link to related terms and to free, detailed science learning modules.

13. Science Learning Hub - freeExplore this free SciTV education app and discover New Zealand's innovative science and technology through video clips and images featured on the NZ Science Learning Hub (.nz) where you will find more learning resources, interactives, people profiles and stories

14. Science360 for iPad - freeThe National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions.

15. VideoScience - freeA growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.

Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers And Students

1. ACMI Generator

ACMI Generator is a creative studio space where you can explore the moving image, be inspired, create your own moving image works, and share your creations with the Generator community. Gain a deeper understanding of the context of these inspiring stories through their education themes section. Try the Storyboard Generator and either choose a script or build your own storyboard and share it.

2. Bubblr

Bubblr is a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr, just taking a sequence of pictures where you can add bubbles and create a story.

3. Capzles

All of your media and stories together like never before. Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs, and documents.

4. Comic Master

Comic Master allows you to create your own short graphic novel! With Comic Master you can decide how you want the page or your graphic novel to look, add backgrounds, choose characters and props to appear in your scenes, add dialogue and captions, and much more.

5. MakeBeliefsComix

At MakeBeliefsComix you can create your own comic strip with an easy and fun way. Choose a character and emotion, add talk or thought balloons, and start your character communicating. You can add other characters, colored backgrounds, objects, and panel prompts to keep your viewers interested. When you are done, you can print or email your comic.

6. MapSkip

The purpose of MapSkip is to create a weave of stories about the places in our lives. Create a free account and mark up places in Google Maps with your own stories and photos. You can also browse other users’ stories, rate them, and discuss them. The best part? MapSkip is free of ads!

7. PicLits

PicLits is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

8. Slidestory

Slidestory allows you to combine picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption. Isn’t this a very exciting way to make presentations and share them?

9. Smilebox

Smilebox lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks, and photo albums right on your computer. To get started, download and install the Smilebox application. Then simply select the photos you want to use, choose a template, add comments and music, and voila, you’ve made a Smilebox! With more than 1000 customizable templates to choose from, you’ll find inspiration around every corner.

10. Storybird

Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories. Note that while making, sharing, and reading stories on Storybird is free, printing them or downloading them have various fees that are clearly explained with each option.

11. ZooBurst

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D popup books. ZooBurst books “live” online and can be experienced on your desktop or laptop computer, or on your iPad via the free ZooBurst mobile app. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. The basic, free, account allows you to create 10 books of 10 pages each.

7 Free Apps For Digital Storytelling

1. Adobe Slate

Named App Store Editors’ Choice, Adobe Slate lets you turn your next newsletter, report, invitation, or travel adventure into a gorgeous visual story that delights readers on any device. Simply tap to select a unique look; beautiful fonts, color, and magazine-style design are automatically incorporated. Fluid movement and elegant motion are applied instantly. Create your Slate story and share the link anywhere.

2. Puppet Pals

Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. This app is as fun as your own creativity!

3. ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard: ShowMe allows you to record voice over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use; no matter how young or old.

4. Sock Puppets

Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

5. Toontastic

Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app and kids can't stop creating!

6. WeVideo

Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software, available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, and Chromebook. In this cloud-based collaborative video creation platform, you can save your work to your hard drive, upload to the cloud, and pick up where you left off on another computer. Note that free accounts are limited to 5 minutes of published video time and 2GB of cloud storage.

7. 30hands Starter

A very easy and exciting way to tell a story, explain a concept, or flip a classroom. Create a multimedia presentation in minutes and publish it as a video to share. This tool was designed to be simple and fast, so it takes backseat to learning and expression. In a single class period, students can complete a video activity. Mapping these activities to a longer project helps students make PBL projects authentic and fun. Whether you are in Kindergarten or College, 30hands Storyteller helps you learn better by following UDL principles and getting you to think and create iteratively.

13 Free Sticky Notes Tools for Teachers and Students

1. Corkboard

Remember and share what's important to you. Collaborate with others on a single Corkboard. Post and access on your computer or on-the-go. Organize your postings into Corkboards. Share what you post on your Facebook wall and get notified of new comments on your postings.

2. Hott Notes

Free sticky notes reminders for your desktop. A simple, easy-to-use sticky notes software for Windows.

3. Linoit

Sticky and Photo sharing for you. A free sticky and canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser.

4. Listings

Online sticky notes. Take notes from your browser. Share and collaborate with others in real-time. Reach your notes from anywhere. Super fast, free and ridiculously easy.

5. Notepad2

A fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

6. Padlet

Padlet gives you a blank page (a wall) and you put anything you want on it, anywhere. Perhaps the easiest site for children to use. Pose questions, get their answers, and give them feedback - all on the same page.

7. Scrumblr

Scrumblr is a web-based simulation of a physical agile sprint board that supports real-time collaboration.

8. Simple Sticky Notes

What is Simple Sticky Notes? It's a simple, easy-to-use, absolutely free, fast and efficient note taking software.

9. Spaaze

Spaaze (pronounced "space") offers it's users so called boards. Each board is an infinite space which resembles a virtual cork. On these boards, items can be put. Currently Spaaze offers 7 different items: Labels, Notes, Bookmarks, Images, Files, Videos and HTML. These items can be edited in place, moved via drag and drop and positioned freely on the board. Therefore it's possible to arrange a bunch of items any way you like, which makes it possible to use it for many different use cases.

10. Stickies

Stickies is a PC utility. Just like a real sticky piece of paper: Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots. Stickies appearance can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. Stickies can be resized and store text or images. Stickies can snap to each other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up. Stickies can be attached to a web site, document or folder so they only show when it's on screen, and much more...

11. Stickr

With Stickr you can create streams, subscribe to your friends’ feeds, form and join groups, follow people you like, leave private comments. Stickr feed can be embedded to your homepage or blog, your account can be associated with accounts on other social networking sites.

12. StickyPad

StickyPad is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that lets you place sticky notes on your desktop. You can type notes to yourself, set meeting and appointment reminders, keep track of a to-do list, and anything else you would do with paper notes.

13. Stixy

Stixy helps users organize their world on flexible, shareable Web-based bulletin boards called Stixyboards. Unlike most personal productivity or project management software, Stixy doesn’t dictate how users should organize their information. Users can create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to them.

Free Text To Speech Tools For Educators 

1. Announcify

Listen to your web. After Announcify conquered Android phones, it's now here to announcify your life at Google Chrome. Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you're too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax.

2. Balabolka

All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka (which means “chatterer” in Russian!). The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG, or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF, and RTF files, customize font and background color, control reading from the system tray, or by the global hotkeys.

3. DSpeech

DSpeech is a text to speech program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specifically designed to quickly and directly provide the functions and improved practical usefulness that are requested by this kind of program. In the meantime, the evasiveness and resource consumption is minimal.

4. NaturalReaders

It can convert any written text such as Microsoft Word, webpages, PDF files, and emails into spoken words. It allows you to change speaker and speed, and it is available on both Windows and Mac versions.

5. PediaPhon

Learning during jogging and driving! eLearning and mLearning with MP3 players and mobile phones! A podcast and a winamp playlist will be generated too. MP3 files, play lists, and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia. Let your computer read out the Wikipedia for you!

6. PowerTalk

PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic TTS programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

7. QR voice

QR voice encodes a given text message into QR code (a two-dimensional barcode which has encoded any kind of data) that once scanned by a QR scanner smartphone application reproduces the message with a synthesized voice. It allows users to converts text to speech, generates QR Code for speech URL, and simplifies share text to speech files.

8. Select and Speak

Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages; it has recently added Arabic, Korean, and Greek text to speech to the Select and Speak Chrome app. You can also request additional languages by contacting them!

9. SpeakIt!

SpeakIt! provides native support for speech on Windows (using SAPI 5), Mac OS X, and Chrome OS, using speech synthesis capabilities provided by the operating system. On all platforms, the user can install extensions that register themselves as alternative speech engines.

10. SpokenText

SpokenText lets you easily convert text into speech. Record (English, French, Spanish, or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. Download your recordings as mp3 or m4b (audio book) files (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content on your computer or mobile phone.

11. Text2Speech

Just enter your text, select one of the voices, and download the resulting mp3 file to your computer. This service allows you to use the speech files for free for any purpose, including commercial uses.

12. Voki

Voki lets you create customized avatars, add voice to your Voki avatars, post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile, and take advantage of Voki’s learning resources. There are also some interesting paid versions such as Voki Classroom, Voki Presenter, and Classroom & Presenter Bundle.

13. VozMe

VozMe is an online text to speech program that lets you type-in any English, Spanish, Italian, Hindi, or Portuguese text and then play it as an audio stream.

14. WordTalk

A free Windows text to speech plugin for Microsoft Word, WordTalk will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter.

14 Free Testing and Quizzing Tools for Teachers

1. ClassMarker

ClassMarker's secure, professional web-based testing service is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly - saving hours of paperwork!

2. ClassTools

Create free games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

3. Easy Test Maker

EasyTestMaker is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

4. Hot Potatoes

You can choose from the following six types of questions to create your interactive quiz: crossword, multiple-choice, short-answer, gap-fill, matching/ordering and jumbled-sentence.

5. ProProfs Quiz School

Create Online Tests & Quizzes Easily. Over 100,000 quizzes created. Over 1 million quiz takers.

6. Quandary

Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it.

7. Quedoc

Our quiz software not only plays quizzes, interactive lessons and revision aids; it also helps you create your own learning content and work cooperatively with others in the process of authoring.

8. Quiz Revolution

Make Free Facebook Quizzes and Free Online Quizzes. Interactive Multimedia Quizzes That Can Be Embedded On Any Site.

9. Yacapaca

If you are a teacher you can use 15,000 quizzes in every subject or you can create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more.

10. FunnelBrain

FunnelBrain gives you and your friends a new way to learn. You can form study teams, play games, take quizzes, and show off your intellectual prowess. It's fun, it's free and you'll do better in class.

11. Jeopardy

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake.

12. Edgames

Use games to enhance your classroom teaching! On this site you will find more than just one or two games, we have categories of games for all types of classrooms.

13. QuizSlides

The easy way to create stylish, interactive online test!

14. What2Learn

The fun and effective way to learn. Play some of our thousands of revision games and quizzes or make your own. Whether you are revising for examinations and tests such as GCSE and SATs, or simply looking for a powerful and engaging way to develop literacy and understanding, register today and start the learning fun.

30 Free Photo and Image Editing Tools for Teachers

1. Aviary

A better photo editing solution for web and mobile.

2. Cacoo

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge.

3. Chart Chooser

We've rebuilt our favorite tool for improving Excel and PowerPoint with HTML5 goodness. Use the filters above to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your own data.

4. ChartGizmo

With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.

5. ChartTool

Charts and graphs are a great tool because they communicate information visually. On you can design and share your own graphs online and for free.

6. CoSketch

CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

7. Creately

100's of thoughtful features to make creatively diagramming quick and natural, its a joy to use.

8. Creative

Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.

9. diagram.ly

Draw Diagrams Online, free. draw.io is an online diagramming application and github project. It features the full range of visual configuration you expect, as well as web application features such as a full range of export options, a large collection of icons, real-time collaboration and embedded widget sharing.

10. DoppelMe

With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web. It's free and there are no Flash, ActiveX controls, downloads or toolbars needed - just your browser and a few mouse clicks. That's it!

11. Flash PAINT

This is an online full paint application. Draw online with paint tool. Save on your disk your drawings and send your drawing to the public gallery.

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is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flow charts service. It's Flowcharting made easy.

13.

Instantly create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Just upload pictures or grab them from your Flickr.

14. Glogster

Looking for a new way to express yourself? Mash up music, photos, videos, & more to express what you care about. Your ideas, your emotions, your Glogster. Glogster costs 10 seconds to sign up. That’s it! Everything on Glogster is free & always will be.

15. GoAnimate

Make Amazing Animated Videos! Use our Video Maker to create videos for free.

16. Google SketchUp

Intuitive and fun to use. Re-imagine your living space. Model buildings for Google Earth. Use SketchUp for free.

17. Inkscape

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

18.

Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance.

19. PencilPencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

20. PhotoPeach

Our idea is to help you tell better stories online using photos. With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further.

21. PicMarkr

Free Watermark. Add Custom Watermark with PicMarkr! PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.

22. Pixlr

Welcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world...

23. Reshade

Here you can resize images maintaining quality, edges and texture. This means Reshade reduces or eliminates most of the usual side-effects of photo enlargement.

24. Rich Chart Live

Create for free enjoyable and captivating Flash Charts from your web browser.

25. Roxio PhotoShow

Make Free Photo Slideshow. It's so easy that just about anyone can tell an engaging, one-of-a-kind PhotoShow story in just minutes!

26. Slidestory

Combine sharing pictures and narration and what do you get? Slidestory! Slidestory is a new, exciting and FREE way to make presentations and share them on the Internet.

27. Splashup

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.

28. SUMO Paint

Web's best image app, hands down! Our editor is full of unique features that let you unleash your creativity.

29. Toondoo

World's fastest way to create cartoons!

30. Voki

Voki is a FREE service that lets you create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources.

34 Site to Download Free Music for Online Courses

1. Archive’s audio and MP3 library

This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

2. ArtistServer

Free independent music, 11,000 mp3 downloads by more than 10,000 artists.

3. Audiofarm

It´s the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music, audio recordings, people and friends from around the world.

4. Audionautix

All music in this online collection created by Jason Shaw.  Released under Creative Commons license 3.0 You are free to use the music (even for commercial purposes) as long as you credit “Music from - ”OR provide a link to this website from yours. Music must be part of some other created works. No further permission is required.

5. BeatPick

Creative Commons licenses allow the use of music for free for non-commercial projects, provided that users credit your name in association with their multimedia projects. Thus, we provide music for free for scholastic and socially involved projects, while we require that governmental funded ones pay a licensing fee. For personal use, we encourage our users to buy the albums/EPs from our site. To obtain the download of the required files, all projects must provide us with their name, e-mail and project description, allowing us to control that they are indeed entitle to such uses.

6. Brainy Betty

Free Sound Clips and Music for Presentations!

7. Bump Foot

Bump Foot is a non-profit netlabel in Japan. There are two main branches. Bump side : techno and house, or based on them. Foot side : ambient, IDM, or etc... other than bump side.You are free: to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and to Remix - to adapt the work.

8. CASH Music

CASH Music is a non-profit organization that hosts digital tools for musicians and labels to share their music. The digital tool allows for uploads and downloads of songs and sharing is made easy.

9. ccMixter

Looking for music for a video, school project, game you’re developing, podcast or just for listening in your cubicle or mobile music device? Find exactly the music you’re looking for - podsafe, liberally licensed - using Mixter Music Discovery tool.

10. CCTrax

All showcased music is available under one of the six Creative Commons licenses. They authorize free music download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.

11. DanoSongs

Hi, I'm Dan-O and I post my original music as free MP3 downloads here on . You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It's also legal to use the music royalty free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow or website.

12. FMA

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.  The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.  Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

13. Freeplay Music Library

Freeplay's first product, the Freeplay Music Library, is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or via our Portable Hard Drive.

14. FreeSFX

Download free sound effects.Stuart Duffield has been creating audio professionally for 18 years. Having worked predominately in the Games Industry, he has produced a wide range of audio for various worldwide clients and numerous high profile projects. Based in the UK, Stuart has a history of synthesising, recording, designing, processing and editing audio of all types. Having worked in-house for a number of major Game Developers, Stuart currently works on a freelance / contract basis. This involves audio design, music composition and voice production in various forms - for Games, Animation, TV and Film.

15. Freesound

Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

16. iBeat

Free Beats – Download beats, loops, breaks and samples Free beats, loops, and breaks - iBeat – pushing beats, loops and breaks since 2007. Free under Creative Commons licensing.

17. Incompetech

Incompetech hosts a wide variety of royalty free music. You can browse their selection by genre or feel. "Feel" would include things like: Action, Relaxed, Intense or Humorous; you can select a combination of ‘Feels’ and it will check its database for selection matches. Clips can be played on the website and instantly downloaded as well.

18. Jamendo

370,000 tracks. Free music for all. Enjoy unlimited music, it's completely free and legal.

19. JewelBeat

Free Background Music. Easily search thru over 4,000 free background music and sound effects simply by using keywords. No need to download to preview - just type in keywords, listen immediately then download what you need! Start searching for free background music.

20. Josh Woodward

Yes, you can freely download, share and use all 180+ of Josh Woodward songs.

21. Kompoz

Kompoz is an online community that prides in collaboration between artists from all over the world. Artists post their clips on the website where anyone can download it and use it for their own productions. They can also add their own instruments or creative mix to the original clip and upload it on the website again.

22. LifeSounds

LifeSounds works on the integration of music throughout the curriculum. Their desire is to build each individuals’ ability to strengthen their emotional intelligence and to encourage understanding between people.

23. Musopen

Set music FREE. Musopen () is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

24. Orphan Songs

The Orphan Songs website is running by Carl-Otto Johansson. Most of the music here is free to download and use. (Creative Commons).

25. PacDV

This is a small database of free audio clips organized by mood or emotion such as: Warm, Loving, Serious or Lonely.

26. Partners in Rhyme

Royalty free music libraries for you to download and start using right away in your commercial projects. These high quality music tracks will make your projects more effective and sound more professional.

27. Public Domain 4U

Great Historical Music Recordings, Free to Download, Play, and Share. Our musical heritage is our culture. The Past should be appreciated, not neglected. These artists are so unique, they should never be forgotten. This site is designed for your musical edification. This site can not grant any commercial uses of this material.

28. Purple Planet

Free Collection of Royalty Free Music available for download, composed and performed by Geoff Harvey and Chris Martyn Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects e.g. YouTube (see 'Using Our Music' for more info) in exchange for a link to our site. Donations are welcome!

29. Restorm

This is  a platform to sell music to the public. Also, you can download some of their free selection of music just by creating an account.

30. Royalty Free Music Library

Royalty Free Music Library is proud to offer one of the largest offerings of online broadcast-quality royalty free music anywhere on the web. Download royalty free music from 3 of the top royalty free catalogs online:

1. Royalty Free Music Revolution - The definitive royalty free music catalog with over 1000 songs from some of the top composers in the industry.

2. Radical Music Library - Royalty free music with cutting edge productions and "indie" attitude. Created by professional composers with a long list of film and television credits.

3. Mojo Music Library - An offering of top- notch royalty free music with broader coverage on each CD for those who need a bit wider coverage for their budget.

31. SampleSwap

Creative Commons Licensed Electronic Music for Commercial and Non-Commercial Royalty-Free use(Free professional-quality MP3s for DJ'ing, film scores, radio, TV, video games, podcasting, etc.). These pre-cleared songs were uploaded by artists at under a variety of Creative Commons licenses. Please be sure to read the licensing information for each track carefully before using any of this music.

32. Sonnyboo

40 completely free pieces of music. For each and every single song below, all you have to do is credit the songwriter - Peter John Ross () and the music is your to use for free.

33. SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a website where artists share their new tracks to the world. There is a section under Creative Commons license where you can download other people’s tracks. You can stream the available clips and it takes just a simple click to get the MP3 file without any registration.

34. Stock Music Boutique

Stock Music Boutique library offers high quality royalty-free production music. All tracks have full music clearance ready for instant buy out. Find a track you like and use it forever at no extra cost.

List of Free Tools to Create Infographics for your Learners

Top 5 Advice for creating learning Infographics

1. Incorporate many imagery into your infographics

2. Replace words with images

3. Use color to highlight key learning information

4. Use many "visual words"

5. Use 3D images for key concepts

Free Educational Technology: 23 Microsoft Free Teaching Tools for Educators

Teaching Tools that you can use to improve students' learning.

1. Learning Suite by Microsoft

Over 20 of Microsoft's most popular education tools and teacher resources - all in one place!

2. Flashcards by Microsoft

Build memory and recognition skills with a modern twist on the classic learning tool.

3. Office 365 for Education

Free email, shared documents, storage and more! Office 365 offers all the tools you and your students need to succeed.

4. Photosynth

Help students learn through interactive 3D experiences.

5. Microsoft Mathematics 4.0

Visualize math concepts to promote better understanding.

6. Kinect for Windows SDK

Transform ordinary classroom experiences into extraordinary immersive education.

7. Math Worksheet Generator

Create great math worksheets in seconds!

8. Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide

The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age.

9. Kodu

Teach programming, problem-solving and collaboration in a creative 'hands-on' environment.

10. Interactive Classroom

Use classroom polls to improve student learning.

11. Microsoft SkyDrive

Easily manage, store and securely share thousands of classroom documents all in one place.

12. Chemistry Add-in for Word

The simple, easy way to include chemistry information in your Word documents.

13. Mouse Mischief

A fun way to keep your students' attention and increase participation in the classroom.

14. Songsmith

Help your students 'find their spark' in the classroom with music.

15. Accessibility Guide for Educators

Empower all students with accessible technology.

16. Office Add-in for Moodle

Manage your courses with Moodle and Office documents all in one place.

17. Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote

Create, calculate, solve and import mathematical equations in Word and OneNote.

18. WorldWide Telescope

Explore outer space from your classroom.

19. Project Tuva

Make physics fun with a new twist on classic lectures.

20. Ribbon Hero 2

Learning Office is a game – really!

21. Small Basic

The fun and easy way to learn programming.

22. Bing: The Getting Started Guide for Educators

Quickly find what you need in a visual, organized way.

23. Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum

Prepare your students for the digital future.

List of Free Android Apps for children with Special Needs

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1. AAC speech communicator

2. Alexicom AAC for Android

3. ATEC

4. Autism Ed

5. Autism MindAwakener

6. Autism-Spectrum Self-Diagnosis

7. AutismXpress

8. Behavior Status

9. EasyKidTokens

10. Facing Up All Smiles

11. Gabby Tabs – AAC for Kids

12. Handroid Widget

13. iToucan Talk (Autism)

14. JABTalk

15. LangLearner Speaker

16. LearnFruit

17. Life Skills Winner

18. MessageTTS

19. MyVoice Communication Aid

20. Reward Chart / Lite

21. Sono Flex / Lite

22. SpEd Edition-eCOVE Software

23. TapToTalk

24. TASUC Schedule / Lite

25. The Habit Factor Goals Habits

26. Touch and Go - Speak

27. Touch-n-Say

28. Understanding Body Language

29. Visual Auditory Timer

30. Visual Countdown Timer

31. VizZle Player

32. Vocal Slides

33. ZacZoo/DTT/Autism / ZacZoo2 / Lite

List of Free iPad Apps for children with Special Needs:

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General Special Needs

1. ABA Receptive identification - By Class

2. ABA Receptive identification

3. Dance Pet Piano HD Lite

4. Let's Build a Bedroom

5. Model Me Going Places 2

6. My Little Suitcase

7. MyHomework

8. PCS Memory

9. See.Touch.Learn

10. Singing Fingers HD

11. Snow Wonder by Moms with Apps

12. Stories about Me

13. Story Wheel

14. Tiny Talkers Starter Edition

Autism

1. ABA Flash Cards & Games

2. Autism Emotion

3. Autism iHelp

4. AutismXpress

5. Emotionary by Me.Mu

6. FindMe(Autism)

7. NLConcepts Autism

8. Odd Face Out

9. Sunny Day, A

10. Talking Picture Board

11. Touch and Learn

12. What's the Expression for iOS

Basic Skills

1. ABA Flash Cards - Alphabet

2. ABA Flash Cards - Animals

3. ABA Flash Cards - Food

4. ABA Problem Solving - What Does Not Belong?

5. ABA Problem Solving Game - What Rhymes?

6. ABA Problem Solving Game - Which Go Together?

7. ABA Sight Words

8. Flash Cards for Kids - First Food Words

9. iHowTo-Book

10. Injini: Child Development Game Suite Lite

11. iTouchLearn Words for Preschool & Special Needs Kids Free: Spelling, Reading, and Letters

12. Same Meaning Magic (Synonyms)

13. Touch and Learn - ABC Alphabet and 123 Numbers

14. Touch the Sound

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