1. Tech Tools Designed to Change Your Classroom. Tanner Reed

2. Collaborative Classroom A free collaborative education program. Discussion Platform based on curriculum. Create study groups, facilitate and transform your class.

3. Prezi Prezi is another tool we are somewhat familiar with Prezi is a cloud based presentation software Zoom capabilities to show relevant concepts Visually stimulating to the audience A good alternative to PowerPoint

4. Evernote A way to capture and index information from the web Students can take notes Utilize videos Save webpages Collaborate on projects It is a 21 st Century notebook!

5. Glogster Online interactive poster/collage maker Combine texts, music, and pictures to create Alternative to the struggles and stress of creativity in the classroom

6. Socrative A free student response system used with electronic devices Teachers can take polls and give quizzes Play space races or use as an exit ticket Results can be exported into excel to make grading easy!

7. WillYou.Typewith.me Easy way for students to collaborate on documents Online resource similar to Google.docs

8. Storybird Collaborative story tool Students can create collaborative stories Stories can be shared or printed Students can pair writings with images or poetry/songs to bring life to them.

9. Jaycut Free online video editing tool Alternative to iMovie Alter and edit videos to look professional Useful for those going into media

10. Wordle Fun online tool to create colorful word clouds Easy way to highlight key points Make a lecture stand out or POP!

11. Tiki Toki Web based timeline tool Create interactive multimedia Combine text and videos Great for projects or discussion

12. My thoughts… The article was very informative and gave good insight into some of the tools students have access to today. Our goals as future educators are designing the best and most stable environment, to do this we need to know what is out there.

13. Reference The article was posted in 2011. By Caitlin Tucker Posted to Blended Learning One of the most popular downloaded articles in the past 4 years.