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Table of Contents

For Curation and Aggregation ........................................................................................................ 2

For Bookmarking............................................................................................................................. 4
For Blogging .................................................................................................................................... 6
For Assessment................................................................................................................................ 8
For Collaboration and Communication ........................................................................................ 10
For Gamification ............................................................................................................................ 12
For Assignments and Course Management .................................................................................. 15
For Productivity.............................................................................................................................. 17
For Storage...................................................................................................................................... 19
More Instructional Tools ............................................................................................................... 21

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100 Popular Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

and Educators to Explore
This one is an amazing list of some of the best web 2.0 tools for teachers and educators to
explore to make their life a lot easier.

The list includes great instructional tools that might help you change your style of
instruction, as well as web 2.0 tools categorized under tools for Curation and Aggregation,
Bookmarking, Assessment, Collaboration and Communication, Assignments and Course
Management, Gamification, Productivity, Blogging, Storage and other key pain points of
teachers and educators. Check it out!

For Curation and Aggregation

1) Feedly

Feedly is a newsreader for creative minds a fast and stylish way to read and share
the content of your favorite sites. You can easily add all the blogs or other resources
you wish to follow and check on regular basis and access all from just one window
feedly.

2) BagTheWeb

BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a bag to
collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.

3) Pearltrees

Pearltrees allows users to organize their digital content into a tree-like diagram that
is neat and easily navigable.

4) Scoop.it

Another digital curating tools that let you create boards where you can share the
interesting things you find online.

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5) Pinterest

Given its expanding popularity as a visual bookmarking platform. Pinterest is a tool

that allows you to visually pin content and materials online.

6) NetNewsWire

Add blogs that you want to follow, pull in content and even get alerts on what all is
new.

7) paper.li

Publish Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into your own online newspaper.

8) Listly

- Collaboratively create, curate and share lists of online resources.

- Embed lists anywhere on the web.
- Search lists easily to discover content.
- Monitor social actions related to list items, including likes, dislikes, and shares.

9) FlipBoard

Flip through articles in a format similar to reading a magazine. Another great benefit
to Flipboard is the ability to follow hashtags and individual Twitter accounts. When
working with teachers who are new to social media, this is a great entry point.

10) LiveBinders

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web. It lets you organize your resources in
an online binder.

You can also check CurationSoft, Trapit, Diigo or eLearning Tags.

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For Bookmarking

1) Pocket
This one is my favorite tool for managing all those later read-ons.The tool works
on any device. Simply add the links to your pocket that are saved in that pocket
account. It automatically syncs to your devices so you can view it at any time on any
of your device. Even without Internet connection.

2) SessionBuddy
Browsing the web can lead to numerous open tabs and windows. This extension can
help you to manage all those numerous tabs. It is a Google Chrome extension that
keeps tabs on what browser windows and tabs you have open. If something
disastrous happens, you can easily go back and reopen previous browsing sessions.

3) icloud Bookmark
Apples iCloud bookmark is a tool that lets its users sync smoothly between all of
their Apple devices including iPhone, iPad and Mac. It also allows Apple users to sync
their saved bookmarks seamlessly between all of the registered devices. With the
iCloud Bookmarkss extension, now your saved bookmarks will be seamlessly
integrated over all of your registered Apple devices.

4) Diigo
This extension accompanies the Diigo social bookmarking service. Clicking this
button instantly allows you to bookmark, highlight, and annotate web pages. All
notes automatically are then saved to your Diigo account that can be accessed from
any browser or device. Another handy feature is the ability to quickly annotate a
screen capture and then save it to your Drive account.

5) Xmarks
Xmarks is a reliable tool for syncing your bookmarks across different web browsers.
With support for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari, this
tool offers comprehensive bookmarking syncing across all of these web browsers.
Install the respective web browser extension and hit the Xmarks icon in the taskbar

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to sync all your passwords and Bookmarks to your Xmarks account and across all of
your other browsers in use.

6) Unmark
Designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks rather than just
hoard them. The simple key features keeps the focus on your task and reminders
keep you in line. You can directly save favorite tweet links.

7) Evernote Web Clipper

A browser extension that works with Google Chrome, Internet explorer, Firefox and
opera. The tool helps you to store and share notes easily. You can take notes as text,
articles, bookmarks or even the entire web page. The extension is lightweight and
easy to use.

Evernote Web Clipper has a rich set of annotating tools.

8) Delicious Bookmarks
This is the oldest bookmarking service on the web right now. This social
bookmarking service offers extensions for all major browsers and also a web
interface that lets users share, save the link or up vote the links shared to the
network. Once you register to it, you can easily manage your saved Bookmarks
through their web interface. By clicking on the Delicious icon on your web browser,
you can give the Bookmark an apt title, suitable tags, comment description, make it
public/private or even share them directly to your Facebook or Twitter profile.

9) Dewey Bookmarks
Dewey Bookmarks is an add-on for Google Chrome that helps you to better visualize
and manage your bookmarks. The extension gathers all of your Google Chrome
Bookmarks and features them in a strikingly beautiful card-based layout on the web.
Your bookmarks could be easily accessed and edited. You can add new Tags to it, to
make it easier to access them at a later point of time.

10) Instapaper
Save all of the interesting links that you come across while browsing. Instapaper
syncs the articles and videos you save so that theyre waiting for you on all your

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devices. You can read anything you save, anywhere and anytime you want, even
offline! With this tool you can even highlight and comment on any text in the article.

Apart from these you can also check, Google Bookmarks, Corkboard.it and GimmeBar.

For Blogging

1) Content Idea Generator

Simply write the subject you want to write about and as the title suggests this tool
will generate some tips for you that you can use to write your blog.

2) Trello
Trello turns each idea into a card that you can spec out with notes and move from
list to list with a simple drag-and-drop.

3) WordPress SEO Plugin

WordPress is extremely well coded which is why many call it SEO friendly. But the
real SEO benefit comes from WordPress plugins. This plugin is by far the most
complete SEO solution for WordPress. Use it to add custom post title, meta
description, and meta keyword for our posts, pages, and taxonomies (tag, category,
etc.) When writing the meta information, WordPress SEO plugin shows you a Google
search result snippet preview, so you can see exactly how your content will look
when someone search for it in Google.

4) Grammarly
Name one person who never made a grammar mistake?

Amazing tool to check before you finally post your content. Paste your text on
Google docs and ensure your grammar mistakes. You can use the paid version to
directly work along with it in Word. Any error is underlined in red and can be
corrected from the options given by this auto checker.

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5) Desk
Its a Mac app for writers. Specially if you love the feature to save the draft into
iCloud Drive, and you can edit it from your iPhone or iPad. Desk integrates with all
the major blogging platform such as WordPress, BlogSpot, Tumblr, Typepad to name
a few.

6) Photopin
The tool makes it very simple to search creative commons photos, shows you a
preview of the photo and then provides you with the option to download the image
in multiple sizes. One of the key feature is that you get the attribution link in HTML
so that you can add it to the HTML editor of your blogging software.

7) Skitch
Sometimes less is more.

Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so
that your ideas become reality faster.

8) Meme Generator
Create amazing memes to add a little laugh to your blog. Browse the most popular
memes on the Internet, create your own meme or caption your favorite character

9) authorPoint
authorPoint is an online tool that allows you to integrate both audio and video files
into your presentations. It is billed as the easiest way to create multimedia content
that can be used across various platforms.

10) Hemingway Editor

Hemingway is a writing assistance tool. It keeps an eye on ones phrasing and
sentence structure, and suggests fixes. Typical fixes include shorter sentences, active
instead of passive voice, and fewer adverbs. The app is also coupled with a built-in
spellchecker for several English dialects.

Other than these: eduBlogs, Wordpress, Wikispaces

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For Assessment

1) Zaption
It offers awesome ways to teachers for assessing students. In order to create quiz in
Zaption, you need to create tour. Tour is a blend of videos, text and images in an
arranged way. You can pull videos from National Geographic, YouTube, PBS, and
Vimeo. Watch video and add question in the form of MCQ, check box and open
response questions. Students watch the video as well as see the questions appear in
the context.

2) Quick Key
Quick Key is a smartphone app for teachers that quickly grades SAT-style bubble
answer sheets, uploads the results to teachers' electronic books, and runs analytics
on the data.

3) blubbr
It is a quiz creation service with which teachers can create Trivs or quizzes from
YouTube videos easily. Quizzes can be about anything hence there is no bar to the
grade you teach. Teachers can search videos on the desired topic on Blubbr itself and
make Trivs to add fun and engagement in their classrooms. The structure of the
quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip than answer a multiple choice question about
the clip. Also user can sort their Trivs based on the Trivs created, played, and saved
as drafts. For collaboration, users can share their trivs on social networking platforms
like Facebook or Twitter. Can be accessed by anyone, as it is a web based platform
and does not require any particular OS.

4) Doctopus
Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share,
and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive.

5) Gradecam
GradeCam is a tool that will allow teachers to instantly grade assessments using a
document camera or any device with a camera built in. Imagine walking around your
classroom at the end of an assessment and scanning students answer sheets with

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your iPad, Surface, phone, etc. and having each and every grade instantly! Its user-
friendly interface and time saving technology are sure to make your time grading
tests much more enjoyable!

6) Exit Ticket
An exit ticket is a device that students use to communicate with their teacher as to
how their learning is going for them and this online tool is an engaging student
response system delivering instant feedback and performance metrics to teachers
and students, allowing immediate intervention and reteaching with a tap of a finger,
while tracking the student's progress. Students can view instant assessment scores
and overall performance over time, all aligned to Common Core. The system
supports BYOD or 1:1 teaching techniques. ExitTicket revolves around teachers
creating and assigning Tickets, which are just series of questions. First, teachers
choose which type of ticket they want to create that can be in the form of poll,
practice exit, quiz or exam, and then they add the name and update the
characteristics (time allotted, assignment date, etc.) for that particular ticket.
Teachers can also align tickets to learning targets or specific standards. Then they
add the specific questions, choosing from multiple choice, free-response or
true/false. Once completed, teachers can send out that ticket, and students can
immediately begin answering the questions. Teachers can track student and class
performance in real-time.

This amazing tool can be accessed over web, iOS or Android.

7) Testmoz
Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really
simple interface and detailed reports.

8) iClicker
It is a powerful formative assessment tool and intuitive student response system
that allows for dynamic student-teacher interaction.

Here is how it works: Instructors ask questions through any presentation application;
students answer questions with a remote or smart device; instructor display results
in real-time and record responses.

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A great tool to aid your teaching and know the level of concept understanding
among students.

9) QuestBase
QuestBase gives you the freedom to ask. Whether you need to create quizzes, tests,
assessments, exams or get feedback from surveys and polls, QuestBase helps you
save time. Millions of questions (and counting) published and printed with
QuestBase! Free of charge.

10) Gnowledge
This site is designed for creating and taking tests/exercises. The features include
sharing tests and results with social network, tracking progress, rating a test, and
searching a test by subject or grade level.

For Collaboration and Communication

1) Celly
Mobile-first crowd funding platform for schools and learning organizations. If you are
looking out new ways to reach out to parents and students, try this platform of tools
for effective school communication.

2) Yammer
Its an enterprise social network service developed to serve as an internal
communication system for organizations and companies (sort of a much more
private version of Facebook). Any organization can use Yammer for free, and many
educational institutions have jumped on the Yammer train. Not surprisingly, its
functionality in fostering collaboration and discussion has made Yammer popular
one in EdTech.

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3) Vyew
The platform aims to provide users with powerful collaboration tools. Vyew allows
users to meet online, share content anytime and upload files documents images and
other resources.

4) TitanPad
With this tool you can instantly create a collaborative document. And the best part is
that you dont have to create any account before getting started. To get started just
click create public pad, enter your name and start typing. O invite people to
collaborate just share the URL assigned to your TitanPad and for the royalty of
contribution every person collaborating is given a unique color to highlight the text
they add.

5) Chatzy
Chatzy is an online platform that allows users to create private chat rooms for group
discussions. The chats are fluid and private. a great tool for putting a new twist on
class brainstorming sessions, and a save/print feature allows users to print a
transcript for later use. Privacy is a non-issue, since each new chat room is assigned
an individual URL accessible only to invitees. If you want to fully engage students in
class discussion, Chatzy is a great tool for getting (and keeping) their attention.

6) Remind
Mobile app that connects teachers, students and the parents for seamless
communication.

7) ClassDojo
ClassDojos is to reinvent classrooms by bringing teachers, students and parents
closer together. Teachers use ClassDojo as a communication platform to encourage
students, and get parents engaged too.

8) Wiggio
Collaborate on group projects as the tool provides a toolkit to keep track of
meetings, share documents, and easily contact group members.

9) Twiddla

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Twiddla is a web-based service that helps people meet virtually and collaborate in
real time by providing tools to create mark-ups of live Web sites, uploaded images
and documents, or a blank canvas. In addition to an advanced chat feature, Twiddla
offers an opportunity for collaborators to speak with one another via
PhoneFromHere.com. It's available 24-7 and the only requirement is a computer
with an Internet connection and a web browser. You don't even have to sign up to
start using the service.

10) Cacoo
Cacoo is an online flowchart generator that includes real-time collaboration. This
means multiple individuals can access and edit the diagram at the exact same time.
Cacoo also has a chat feature within the flowchart software so each user can chat
and exchange ideas while editing the charts. Memo fields let you keep track of ideas
and exchanges, or note who has been involved with the collaboration.

Other than the above you can also check Collaborize Classroom, Google Hangout, Skype,
Google Docs & more.

For Gamification

1) Zondle
Zondle is a web platform built for teachers to teach small kids by using Game Based
Learning environment and using the concept of personalized learning as the
platform supports individual student progress tracking and therefore the teacher can
focus on how to interact with the students and what are the weak areas. The
platform is built with its focus on GBL so all the teaching, assignment and other
activities are carried out through games and the content is delivered in form of
questions and quizzes.

Create, play and share games to support teaching and learning - any subject, any
level, any language, anywhere.

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2) Minecraft
A video game community that was first started in 2009 and attracted gamers of all
age group. It offers fully customizable and flexible gaming experience to all its users.
At Minecraft, you can do whatever you wish, from building structures or cities to
killing monsters with powerful armor and weapons. With large number of modes
available on Minecraft, users can play exactly what they desire for.

With so many options available at Minecraft, teachers have been using Minecraft as
a learning tool in the classroom as well as for overall curriculum.

3) Economic Games
Economics-games.com is a free educational games site for teaching microeconomics,
industrial organization and game theory.

Choose the game you want to run, enter the number of players and that's it: You just
have to communicate their logins to your students and have them connect to the
site with their phones, tablets or laptops. You can then observe and debrief the
game through your interface.

4) World Of Warcraft
Gameplay revolves around social activities, such as groups of players cooperating on
a quest or forming large "raid" groups to tackle the toughest game bosses. Websites
and forums have sprung up around WoW, where players trade strategies, share
stories and debate the finer points of gameplay. The game is a big hit in The United
States.

5) Play Brighter
A game-based educational platform with subject based questions for teachers to
teach and test students knowledge. While creating a mission educator can choose
from game and search question on any topic associated with that game, search
keyword and mission. With question set, teacher can easily add and assign question,
key stage (Level of the question), and subject to any of their class and mission. Also
with add a school, users can easily add multiple schools to their account for better
management and workflow.

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6) Quizizz
A fun multiplayer classroom activity that allows all your students to practice
together. Teachers can select public quizzes that are present on the platform or
simply create a new one. Share the game code with all those students you want to
add and get started.

7) Class Craft
Classcrafts mission is to transform the learning experience by using game mechanics
to engage students and provide teachers with well-designed tools to do so.
Transform any class into a role-playing game that fosters stronger student
collaboration and encourages better behavior.

8) Knowre
An online adaptive math learning platform which aims to help students succeed in
math by assessing, personalizing and engaging students with game-like features,
attractive graphics and social learning.

9) 3D Game Lab
GameLab is a Gamified content creation and student tracking platform where
teachers can design and share quests and badges to create personalized learning for
their students. Students level up through the curriculum, choose quests they want
to play, and earn experience points, badges, and awards. Class is literally turned into
a game, providing the opportunity for true mastery learning.

10) Fun Brain

An online platform created for kids aged preschool through grade 8. The platform
offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading and
literacy. Students can access free educational games, online books and comics.

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For Assignments and Course Management

1) Chalkup
Available for iOS, the new app brings the platforms assignment, grading, messaging,
and notification features to iPad and iPhone.

Teachers will find new options for grading via rubric a system allowing for robust,
substantive feedback with only a few taps in the updated platforms, while students
will enjoy advanced submission options, including photo submission for assignments.

2) Engrade
A learning platform where teachers can manage their daily work and improve
students performance. It allows instructors to track and grade assignments and
provides a powerful suite of classroom tools to help with things such as attendance,
grade book, calendars, seating charts, behavior tracking and many more.

3) Open Class
OpenClass is a dynamic learning environment that helps educators bring social
learning and experiences to their students. Its open to everyone, easy to use, and
totally free.

4) Schoology
Use Schoology to manage your lessons, gradebooks, engage your students, share
content, and connect with other educators.

5) LearnBoost
LearnBoost provides you with all the software you need to manage your classroom
and school. It offers an online gradebook, lesson planning tools and many more.

6) Plan Book Edu

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Plan Book Edu helps you with your lesson planning and makes your plans available
anywhere you go. It also lets you attach files, Common Core Standards, print, export
to Word or PDF, and share with your colleagues.

7) Drawp for School

It lets teachers distribute and collect work as easily as with paper worksheets while
automatically storing them in the private Drawp cloud. Teachers and students can
increase engagement with any assignment by adding voice stickers, art, photos, and
text. Teachers can also give audio or visual feedback and monitor student
collaboration. This app can be a great asset to a general education classroom and it
could be incorporated into a variety of subjects.

8) DocentEdu
DocentEDU was created by teachers to solve the problem they always faced that was
creating quality online assignments required too many steps and was still difficult to
make sure that students understand the information. It is a browser extension that
lets teachers add questions, discussions, videos, and more to almost any website
creating interactive and engaging learning sessions.

9) Showbie
Showbie makes it easy to assign, collect and review student work in tablet
classrooms. Teachers can distribute assignments, instructions and resources to your
students in a few taps. As your students submit work, Showbie keeps everything
organized in a single, convenient location.

Add annotations, voice notes and text notes directly onto your students work in
Showbie.

10) Teachers.io
This platform helps you copy lessons, assignment and tests between classes and
semester. Also it helps you plan class schedule with great ease.

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For Productivity

1) BounceApp
Its an awesome tool to work on. Work on any screenshot easily. user can simply
generate a screenshot of any working webpage. Create a space for users to click and
drag on any part of the webpage and write a comment about it.

Generate a stable URL for users to access the comments any time theyd like.

2) The Differentiator
A great tool that allows you to turn your simple lesson ideas into full blown Blooms
Taxonomy based lesson planner that accommodate all learning styles and processes
in seconds. A little confusing in the beginning but worth all the time you will spend
learning to use it.

3) DropCanvas
A great tool to share all your files. Just drag and drop the files on the canvas. Share
directly with your students or colleagues.

4) Weebly
A great tool not just to be used for classroom activities but can also help you with
other areas. This tool enables the user to create amazing personal websites, blogs
and even online stores. You can create your own PLN easily with this tool.

5) TubeChop
This tool allows you to chop YouTube videos and share. You can easily chop the
fragment you find interesting or relevant as per your need and share with your class.

6) Watchkin
This platform Clean up the video page of your YouTube site so you only have to see
the video, and not all the surrounding text and images, comments and ads. The idea
is to make a safe environment for classes to watch videos. It provides a more
responsible viewing experience by removing all the unnecessary clutter.

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7) WeVideo
An amazing cloud based video editor that enables user to edit videos. Once your
footage is in the editor, the editing experience is simple and pleasant. WeVideo
offers a timeline you can drag clips onto. It is easy to trim clips as needed and add
transitions, and there's a rich library of soundtracks you can use. Fading audio in and
out takes just a couple of clicks, and the whole system felt responsive and would be
familiar to anyone with experience with desktop video applications.

One advantage of WeVideo's cloud-based nature is collaboration: You can invite

friends to upload footage to your project, and even create different edits based on
the same footage. This collaborative workflow is one of the service's main selling
points.

8) infogr.am
Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow
other users and discover amazing data stories!

9) LightShot
There are plenty of times during the day that you would want to take a screenshot
and quickly share it with a friend or save it. Lightshot enables that easily. The
extension ads a button to the toolbar, which defines an area in the browser and take
a screenshot.

Once the screenshot is taken, choose to save it, copy it to the clipboard, or upload it
and copy the link to share. You can also edit it online if you want to add annotations.

10) PrintFriendly PDF

Using this extension within Chrome not only creates printer-friendly versions of
online resources, but also generates images and PDF files to share with others.
Especially when working in mobile classrooms where students need to annotate
digital texts, Print Friendly saves time and streamlines the process of providing
digital content to students.

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** LastPass is highly recommended tool for you to manage all your social web accounts in
the easiest and secure way.

For Storage

1) Dropbox
Dropbox is a popular online storage application that keeps your data anywhere and
allows you to share them easily to friends, colleagues and family who also have a
Dropbox account. Just invite them to get them started on their own Dropbox
account.

Download and install Dropbox to your computer. You will find a Dropbox folder in
your computer. Drag any data into the Dropbox folder, and your data will be
uploaded automatically to the Dropbox server. It offers 2GB of free space.

2) Google drive
The most commonly used tool. This is a must have tool for every teacher. You can
use it to upload, save, create, view, share, collaborate and edit documents using a
Google account. It is also useful for group projects where students work together on
an assignment. Offers 15 GB cloud storage.

3) OneDrive
OneDrive offers 7GB free password-protected online storage, with a limit of 2GB on
individual files via OneDrive desktop app.

4) Box
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering
unlimited storage and other administrative controls.

With hands on box you can do all your regular tasks and rely on box for your security
concerns.

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5) Crash Plan
CrashPlan lets you backup your important data and folders to multiple destinations
automatically without costing you anything. It easily backs up your data to
computers over a network or on the Internet.

6) Comodo Backup
This tool offers 5GB free online storage space for you to backup your files. You can
easily access the files from anywhere, and sync between computers.

7) ADrive
ADrive offers its users up to 50GB of free cloud storage and backup for all file types
for the personal Basic plan. You can also store, backup, share, and edit your
documents online.

8) BuddyBackup
BuddyBackup is a free online backup tool, which allows you to back up your data
over the Internet into your buddies computers. It encrypts your data before sending
them to make sure your buddies cant read your files. When you need to retrieve
them, just restore the files from your buddies computers.

9) Syncplicity
Syncplicity backs up and syncs your important data with all your computers and
mobile devices on cloud. The Syncplicity personal edition offers 2GB free storage and
instant file backup for up to two computers.

10) MemoPal
This tool offers 3GB free online storage to backup your important data on cloud. Just
download and install it on your computer. It will automatically sync selected folders
and files with a remote archive.

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More Instructional Tools

1) Biteable
Biteable is a web-based tool that allows you to create beautiful explainer videos that
you can easily add to your classroom to share with your students and make your
lessons more interesting and engaging. Explainer videos are short animated clips
that make use of a wide variety of visuals and multimedia materials to communicate
a message in a concise and comprehensible way.

2) Little Bird Tales

Its a nice site intended for little kids that can be used to create digital stories. User
can upload images, draw images or record from their webcams. Stories can be
written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their
computers.

3) AwwApp
This tool will actually make you go Aww by letting you use your computer, tablet
or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with
world.

4) ThingLink
ThingLink is an interactive media platform that empowers publishers, educators,
brands, and bloggers to create more engaging content by adding rich media links to
photos and videos. ThingLink has become the most popular cross-platform solution
and creative community for interactive media.

5) flipsnack
FlipSnack is a flipbook software that lets you convert PDF documents into Flash page
flip digital publications that you can embed into your website.

6) Quizdini
Make education fun again! Quizdini is an easy Web 2.0 tool that helps teachers teach
and students learn. Create engaging multiple-choice quizzes that will help your

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students preview, review, and just plain learn more in a way that is fun, fast and
completely customized.

7) Movavi
With Movavi, user can easily capture any screen activity, enhance video quality or
alter the video by deleting any fragment they wish to. Apart from video capturing
the software can capture sound from any source be it headphones, microphones or
even MIDI devices. Know more about the tool here.

8) Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is an amazing tool for conducting polls using texting and Twitter. It
can be used with cellphone, tablets, smartphone and laptops. Poll Everywhere is free
for 40 people or less and has paid plans for K-12 semester.

9) Think Binder
It is an excellent web tool for creating study and discussion groups. It allows students
to collaborate on their homework, ask questions and interact in real time, upload
videos and share notes and files all in a secured group. The tool also supports text
and video chat and provides a collaborative whiteboard to help students work on
their problems.

10) NoRedInk
NoRedInk is a free website that lets kids practice their grammar and punctuation
skills using pop-culture terms they choose themselves. You can assess students on
up to 20 different skills at a time and view student progress in areas such as
Apostrophes, Possessive Pronouns, and Commonly Confused Words. When students
log in, they can see which assignments and quizzes they've been assigned.

You may find the following of interest:

1. Teachers Have A Lot to Do: Key Apps to Keep Things Organized

2. 7 Simple Tools for New Teachers to Learn
3. Fantastic Comprehensive List of Assessment Tools for Teachers
4. Tools for Students to Learn in Engaged Online Communities
5. Amazing Tools to Help Your Students Showcase their Learning

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