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Cube Creator. Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned.

Cube Creator

The interactive Cube Creator offers four options: Bio Cube: This option allows students to develop an outline of a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read; it can also be used before students write their own autobiography. Introducing Toontastic 3D: a playful storytelling app for kids. Blocks: Easily Create 3D Objects in VR. Brings Awesomeness to Your Presentations. Public Domain ~ Free Media for Creative Projects.

Online photo editor. 20 Cool Creativity Apps for Tech-Minded Teachers. Tech-savvy teachers incorporate apps into their teaching practices with ease, and creativity apps are a favorite for students who want to do something special for a class project.

20 Cool Creativity Apps for Tech-Minded Teachers

Here’s a list of 20 different creativity apps for the tech-minded educator to utilize in a range of creative classroom learning adventures. We often speak about Creativity Fluency and its role in shaping holistic modern learners. It refers to using artistic proficiency to add meaning to something through design, art, and storytelling. It is about using innovative design to add value to the function of a product through the form.

The process of Creativity Fluency is defined by the 5Is: Identify, Inspire, Interpolate, Imagine, and Inspect. Design School — Teaching Materials. EDpuzzle. 26 Free (or Free-to-Try) Content Curation Tools. Content is still king, but it isn't always practical or cost effective for marketers to produce brand-new, meaty, thought-leadership level content pieces on a regular basis.

26 Free (or Free-to-Try) Content Curation Tools

That's where curating content can come in handy. Content curation offers a nearly limitless method of fueling your inbound marketing efforts. Creating sign language books in Book Creator. This example shows how powerful Book Creator can be as a tool for breaking boundaries.

Creating sign language books in Book Creator

Lisa Johnson is the CEO and founder of TechChef4u, an Apple Distinguished Educator, and a mother of two mobile natives. Lisa also serves the Eanes ISD school district in Austin, Texas as an Educational Technologist supporting their K12 1:1 iPad initiative. Gone are the days of limited tools for students to demonstrate understanding. Creating and publishing a collaborative ebook. Librarian Karin Hallett takes us through the step-by-step process her students went through to create history ebooks.

Creating and publishing a collaborative ebook

Karin Schreier Hallett has been a librarian for 15 years, most recently as School Librarian and Instructional Coach at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville, Florida. Lino - Sticky and Photo Sharing for you. Glogster: Multimedia Posters. Class Blogs. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Content Curation Tools. What is Content Curation?

Content Curation Tools

As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class?