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Welcome to Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and annotation.

Students, teachers, and business professionals use Notability daily to take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, mark-up photos, record lectures, provide audio feedback and more. It is uniquely designed for each device to provide the best note taking experience at school, at home, and at work. And with iCloud, your notes are always up to date.

Create your teacher page. Share your profile, information on your class, and class schedule. Pass out assignments. Collect student work. Grade and review homework. Save time by making changes once and eliminate duplicated efforts! eBackpack provides secure homework drop boxes and allows you to distribute handouts and assess student work easily. Take control over your classroom.

Turn online videos into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding.

EDpuzzle is very similar to Zaption, though many who have implemented in the classroom have found EDpuzzle easier to use. Teachers choose the video to assign, create questions at set points in the video, and assign the video lesson to a class. Students, when watching the video, are not allowed to continue with the video until they have answered the question posed.

Vialogues (Video + Dialogue) allows teachers to upload videos and assign these videos for student review. Unlike YouTube and other players, Vialogues allows students to participate in a time-stamped dialogue while watching the video - posing questions and responding to the queries of classmates throughout the video.

Build a lesson around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk, or YouTube video.

Educanon enables teachers to create engaging lessons with online videos and check student understanding in real-time with embedded assessments. The product was designed to help teachers make interactive lessons for students and help them the flip their classroom.

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Designed with 1:1 or BYOD classrooms in mind, Nearpod allows teachers to create digital lesson plans, share it with students during class, and track individual progress. Lessons are comprised of teacher-created slides that can include text, video, images, websites, questions, quizzes, polls, and assignments. Students are able to follow the lesson on their own devices at their own pace or teachers can lead a synchronized session where students can follow the lesson in real-time.

ThingLink is an interactive media platform that empowers educators to create more engaging content by adding rich media links to photos and videos. Use ThingLink to create interactive news photography, maps, posters, family albums, infographics in minutes!

A picture is really worth a thousand words. As a fundamentally visual medium comics provide scaffolding for students, bringing together visual and text based learning. Students can create a one-page comic illustrating a concept or a more complex multipage storyline in Comic Life. Incorporating photos and drawings to their narratives is a fun way for students to cement narrative arcs, demonstrate understanding and be creative!

Piktochart is an online tool for creating infographics. Combining charts, graphs, text, and graphics, users can easily assemble and present information using the drag-and-drop interface.

Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to easily express their thoughts on a common topic. It works like an online sheet of paper where students can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the "shared page" while interacting with other students in the class.

Enhance classrooms. Enable discussions. Empower students. TodaysMeet gives everyone a voice. Teachers can create chat-like rooms and encourage students to discuss concepts within them. Educators will need to post a question or topic, monitor, and potentially facilitate conversations to ensure students stay on task and learn from the discussion.

Remind (formerly Remind101) offers teachers a free, safe and simple way to instantly text students & parents. Teachers, coaches, or administrators can send reminders, assignments, homework, assessments, or motivational messages directly to students' & parents' phones.

Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing.

Often called the Pinterest of online learning, Learnist has a large library of user-generated multimedia lessons called "learnboards." The new Learnist app is a front for this library, allowing you to browse these boards on your mobile device. You can find boards on almost any topic, including technology, arts, crafts, history, cooking and more. Once you start thumbing through boards, you easily can lose an hour of your time.

COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for your classrooms. Written by teachers and for teachers, this free resource includes suggested text pairings.

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Genius lets you add line by line annoatations to any page on the internet.

The mission of Hypothesis is to bring a new layer to the web. Use Hypothesis to discuss, collaborate, organize your research, or take personal notes.

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Kahoot! is a game-based classroom response system and educational platform that leaves your students begging for more. With a refreshingly new take on introducing a subject and formative assessment - through quizzing, collaboration and presentation of content - Kahoot! initiates peer-led discussions, with students left on the edge of their seats.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge current levels of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.

Intervene in the moments that matter most. Transform your content in seconds and go paperless. Create online assessments, classwork, and homework.

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Record your voice and iPad® screen to create dynamic video lessons that students and colleagues can access any time, as needed. Post your videos to Educreations and share them with anyone. You can even share videos via email, Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo or YouTube, or download and store them in Dropbox or Google Drive. All of your videos are stored safely in the cloud and are accessible everywhere you need them. You control who can see what.

Explain Everything is a unique interactive screencasting whiteboard app being used by over 2 million students, teachers, leaders, and learners around the world. Engage and get inspired. Demonstrate your knowledge and share ideas in an intuitive and natural way. Add and transform objects, draw on the stage, and describe your ideas and actions.

ShowMe is an interactive whiteboard that can record a screencast on the iPad. It will import photos or graphics from iPhoto, has simple drawing tools, an eraser, and voice recording. Having a tool that incorporates graphics with voice recordings provides a wonderful opportunity for students to translate material they have read.

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Students capture learning with photos and videos of physical work, or by adding digital creations. Everything is uploaded and kept organized for teachers.

Teachers can invite families to Seesaw so parents get an immediate, personalized window into their child's learning.

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Teachers can quickly and easily search for content within Castle Learning to create their own assignments, or access pre-built, “ready-to-go” assignments and assessments. Instant grading, detailed assessment reports, and instructional feedback are benefits that save time and improve academic success.

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Are College Lectures Unfair?

Sketchnoting has grounding in neuroscience research about how to improve memory.

A treasure trove of research and ideas on flipping a classroom.

This opinion piece provides a thoughtful counterargument to the previously posted article, Are College Lectures Unfair?

In this post NYT writers hope to both expand our definition of what annotation can be and inspire us to experiment with new ways of doing it — in class and out.

In Room for Debate, The Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. Reader comments are moderated Monday through Friday.