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What Technology Does What: The Ultimate#edtech Chart for Teachers
by TeachThought Staff retrieved April 22, 2015 from http://www.teachthought.com/technology/education-technology-edtech-chart-for-teachers/

 "This is what we hope will be an ongoing collection of the most effective ways to use technology in the classroom. We’d like to see it crowdsourced, so we may convert it to a public document/wiki-type file at some point. We’ll also try to add to it ourselves as technology suggests itself that we haven’t considered (or just plain forgot about). We’ll also try to add more links, categorize more neatly, etc."

A simple way for teachers to keep students up to date.

Web 2.0 Tutorials 
Brief tutorials on Web 2.0 tools:  Blogger, Bloglines, Flickr, pbwiki, youTube, favebook, del.icio.us.frappr! StumbleUpon, FeedBurner, diigo

 Blogging in The Classroom: How to Get Started

Best of 2014: Free Downloads, Cool Time-Savers, and More\
Start the new year off with everything you need to create amazing e-learning. We’ve compiled the best how-tos, examples, and downloads from 2014 right here.
So dive in for great tips, techniques, and freebies in all of our Best of 2014 lists. And if you think we forgot something, share your favorites in the comments.
https://community.articulate.com/series/best-of-2014-free-downloads-cool-time-savers-and-more

Over 101 Productivity Tools (Free & Premium) To Get Things Done

tech. marketing. mashups. Mohan, Mahesh, October 16, 2014. 

"You might already know that using a set of internet tools is one of the best ways to increase your productivity. It’s different for different people, and it keeps on changing as we find better alternative to the current ones.  Here’s a comprehensive list of some of the best productivity tools and apps — categorized & subcategorized. "

         Handbooks

Let’s start with the ‘fantastic ten’ as the following apps and tools are the most essential tools for (almost) everyone. And apparently, they’re my favorite productivity tools too.

  1. Gmail / Outlook.com — I love Gmail and Outlook.com — with a little bias on Gmail (thanks to its powerful labels, filters, search, and other features) and also it’s my email hub. Here’s a comparison of Gmail vs. Outlook.com vs. Yahoo Mail.
  2. Evernote (Freemium) — Evernote is my perfect blogging companion as it’s an awesome tool to collect and organize stuff as I browse the web. Here’s a list of over 30 Evernote tips and tricks.
  3. Todoist (Freemium) — Todoist is the best task manager app. Period.
  4. Feedly (Freemium) — Feedly is the best RSS reader to organize, read and share your daily news. And it’s too awesome that I don’t want Google to bring back their Google Reader. And yeah, it’s very much mobile too.
  5. Pocket (Freemium) — With over 10 million users Pocket is easily one of the most popular productivity tool. You can use Pocket to easily save articles, videos and more for later. All of your content goes to one place, so you can view it anytime, on any device — even without an Internet connection.
  6. Sunrise (for Windows, OS X, iOS & Android) — Sunrise is a free calendar app made for Google Calendar, iCloud and Exchange. It shows a consolidated view of all your events — from Google Calendar, Facebook, iCloud, Exchange.
  7. Microsoft OneNote — OneNote is a note-taker, to-do list manager, and much more. I personally use OneNote as a planner and to capture & archive ideas. I love its ability to organize content by tabs and pages and subpages.
  8. Google Chrome — No, I don’t actually want to treat Google Chrome as a web browser. It’s much more! Seriously. It’s Google (with their different cloud services) who showed us the power of a web browser.
  9. Dropbox (Freemium) — Dropbox offers only 2 GB of free storage but still it’s the coolest cloud storage service. I love its simplicity and intuitive interface.
  10. Office 365 (Premium) — If you love Microsoft Office then you’re going to love Office 365. With one subscription, we can use Office on 5 PCs or Macs and 5 mobile devices (that is, you can share your subscription with 5 users) and you (only the primary user) also get 60 Skype world minutes per month. And… all users will get 1 TB of OneDrive free storage.
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Task Manager
To help you better manage your daily tasks and to set reminders.
  1. Any.do — Any.do is a free app that will help you manage your daily tasks, anywhere you go.
  2. Remember The Milk — Remember The Milk is the popular to-do list that’s everywhere you are: from your phone, to the web, to your Google apps, and more. Used by millions worldwide.

Calendar - your calendar online

  1. Sunrise (for Windows, OS X, iOS & Android) — Sunrise is a free calendar app made for Google Calendar, iCloud and Exchange.
  1. Any.do Cal — Any.do is an award winning task list, featuring innovative planning tools.
  1. Google Calendar — With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place.
  1. Outlook.com Calendar — It’s a beautiful calendar that has a clean and modern look.
  1. Doodle (Freemium) — Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, meetings, appointments, etc. Costs $39/year for the premium version.
Note Taker

Try the following note-taker apps as everybody needs at least one note-taker app that syncs all notes with your other devices.

  1. Microsoft OneNote — It’s one of the best and most powerful app to capture your notes, ideas and to-do lists — all in one place. It’s free and is available on all your devices — Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Web.
  1. Evernote (Freemium) —  Lets you take notes, sync files across your devices, save web pages, capture inspiration, and share your ideas with friends and colleagues.
  1. Evernote Skitch — Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
  1. Google Keep — Quickly create, access and organize notes, lists and photos with Google Keep. All your notes are automatically stored in Google Drive.
  1. Box Notes — Create documents, take notes and share ideas in real-time with anyone.
Archive your thoughts online.
  1. LiveJournal (Freemium) — LiveJournal is a community publishing platform, willfully blurring the lines between blogging and social networking. Costs $25/year for the premium version.
Word Processor
List of some of the best word processors — online 
  1. Microsoft Word Online (Free) — Collaborate for free with an online version of Microsoft Word. Share documents with others and work together at the same time.
  1. Google Docs (Free) — Create, edit, and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere.
  1. Pages for iCloud (Free) — Lets you create and share documents in your browser.
  1. Draft — Write better with Draft. Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.
Bookmarking
Bookmark stuff as you browse the web.
  1. Diigo (Freemium) — Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community. Pricing starts at $5/year.
  1. Pinboard (Premium) — Pinboard is a personal archive for things you find online. You save bookmarks to the site and can find and search them later from any computer. You can also set the site up to automatically import your links and tweets from a number of other services. Costs a one-time $10.51.
  1. Kippt (Freemium) — With Kippt you can save links, read articles, watch videos, share notes and much more. Your collections can be private or public, or shared with the people you work with. Costs $5/month for the premium version.
  1. Saved.io — Saved.io is the fastest way to save links in the cloud. Just type saved.io/ in front of any URL to save a bookmark to the cloud.
  1. Delicious — Delicious is a free and easy tool to save, organize and discover interesting links on the web.
Email
Supercharge your emailing experience by using the following tools.
  1. Postbox (Premium – for OS X & Windows) — It’s a great alternative to Outlook or Thunderbird — with better Gmail integration, Dropbox support, social connection, conversation views, tagging, etc. Costs a one-time $9.95 (with 30 day free trial).
  1. Mailbox (Free – for OS X, iOS, & Android) — It’s the best email app for iOS and Android. Period. Also try, Boxer, Mail Pilot, CloudMagic.
  1. Boomerang (Freemium) — Boomerang adds scheduled sending, and with integrated email reminders it helps you reach Inbox Zero. Pricing starts at $4.99/month for the premium version.
  1. Rapportive (Free – for Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox) — Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your Gmail inbox.
  1. AwayFind (Premium) — Notifies you of messages that matter — via mobile, SMS, or voice. Pricing starts at $5/month for the premium version.
  1. Mailstrom (Premium) — Remove hundreds (or even thousands) of messages from your inbox all at once. Costs $4.95/month with a free trial. Also try, NudgeMail.
  1. Unroll.me — See a list of all your subscription emails and unsubscribe with one click.
You know the secret of great stuff. Don’t you?
It’s all about teamwork! 
  1. Trello — Drop the lengthy email threads, out-of-date spreadsheets, no-longer-so-sticky notes, and clunky software for managing your projects and get Trello, the easy, free, and visual way to organize your important stuff. Trello adapts to your project, team, and workflow. Also try, Mural.ly (Premium).
  1. WorkFlowy — WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that makes life easier. It can help you organize personal to-dos, collaborate on large team projects, take notes, write research papers, keep a journal, plan a wedding, and much more.
  1. KanbanFlow (Freemium) — KanbanFlow is a project management tool allowing real-time collaboration between team members. Costs $5/month for the premium version. Also try, Kanban Tool.
Project Management
No, not just a project management software. It’s much more!
  1. Zoho (Freemium) — Zoho’s project management and collaboration software keeps track of everything right from simple tasks to complex projects — all in one place. Pricing starts at $20/month for the premium version.
  1. CatchApp (Freemium) — Catch up with everything your team is working on. See what’s going on, gain insights and take action. Pricing starts at $4.99/month for the premium version.
Collaboration
Collaborate and work together to do it.
  1. Pie (Free) — On Pie, chats are always on-topic, so you and your coworkers can focus on what’s important.
  1. HipChat (Freemium) — HipChat is hosted group chat and video chat built for teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and screen sharing. Pricing starts at $2 per month per user for the premium version.
Automation
You know you can automate a lot of repetitive (or even random) tasks that you do on a daily basis and it can really save a lot of time.
  1. IFTTT — Connect all your web 2.0 apps (including social networks and productivity apps) and put the internet to work for you. For example, you can turn your Gmail into an RSS reader, orautomate WordPress tasks, and much more. Also try, Zapier.
  1. Postach — Collect and share content from your favourite apps — Evernote, Dropbox, and Pocket.
  1. Sitedrop — Sitedrop is a visual way to collaborate using Dropbox.
  1. Google Alerts — Monitor the web for interesting new content as-it-happens.
Time Management
Your time is as precious as anyone else’s. So get the most out of it.
  1. SelfControl (Free – for OS X) — SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet.
  1. Focus (Free – for OS X) — Focus is a tiny app that sits in your menu bar. It allows you to quickly and easily block out any website or service you want.
  1. Time Out (Free – for OS X) — The human body isn’t built to sit in one position for endless hours, gripping a mouse or typing on the keyboard. Time Out will gently remind you to take a break on a regular basis.
Productivity Suite
No, it’s not all about Microsoft Word or Excel.
  1. Office 365 (Premium) — Office 365 Home is a subscription service built to help you and your household get things done from virtually anywhere and on all your devices. Costs $9.99/month or $99.99/year with 1-month free trial. Also try, Office desktop, Office 365 Business, & Office Mobile (Free).
  1. Google Apps (Premium) — Get email, cloud storage, collaboration tools and other business apps with Google Apps for Work. Pricing starts at $5 per month per user with a 30-day free trial.
  1. Office Online (Free) — Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online and share them with others and work together at the same time.
  1.  — Extend your Office experience with mobile apps to stay productive.
  1. Apple iWork (Premium) — iWork is a productivity suite that lets you create and share Pages documents, Numbers spreadsheets and Keynote presentations on OS X or iOS. Costs a one-time $9.99 per app for iOS and $19.99 per app for Mac. Also try, iWork for iCloud.
  1. Zoho — Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration.
Cloud Storage
Store everything in the cloud and access your files from anywhere.

85.   Dropbox — 2 GB free storage with no file size limit.
  1. Microsoft OneDrive — 15 GB free storage with 2 GB file size limit.
  1. Google Drive — 15 GB free storage with 1 TB file size limit.
  1. Amazon Cloud Drive — 5 GB free storage with 2 GB file size limit.
  1. Box — 10 GB free storage with 250 MB file size limit.
  1. Mega — 50 GB free storage with no file size limit.
  1. iCloud Drive — With 5 GB free storage.

Presentation
Create beautiful presentations online (or offline) and share it with anyone.

  1. SlideShare — SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations and other professional content. It allows users to easily upload and share presentations, infographics, documents, videos, PDFs, and webinars. Also try, Speaker Deck.
  1. Microsoft PowerPoint (Premium – Windows & OS X) — Collaborate for free with an online version of Microsoft PowerPoint. Share presentations with others and work together at the same time. Costs a one-time — $139.99 for Student version, $219.99 for Home version, and $399.99 for Professional version. Also try PowerPoint Online. 
  1. Apple Keynote (Premium – OS X & iOS) — Keynote makes it simple to create and deliver beautiful presentations. You can work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices. And it even works effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint. Costs a one-time $9.99 for the iOS App and $19.99 for the Mac App. Also try, Keynote for iCloud (Free).
  1. SlideRocket — With a full set of professional design tools SlideRocket helps you create breathtaking presentations. Supports themes & layouts, shapes, charts, tables, pictures, audio, HD video, and flash to tell your story without compromise. It also offers you the ability to measure results and provides detailed insights into the effectiveness of each and every online presentation you create. Also try, Prezi, Haiku Deck, &Present.me.
  1. Swipe — Swipe is the easiest way to create beautiful presentations on the web. Use any device to present, and share to anyone on any device — live. So when you change the slide, everyone sees it change too. And it’s completely free! Also try,Lucidpress & Lucidchart.
  1. Reel — Get your design ideas online and start reeling in the feedback. The app lets you cast your ideas, poll your friends, and reel in the feedback.
  1. Animoto (Freemium) — Turn ordinary photos and video clips into HD videos with Animoto’s online video maker. Pricing starts at $4.99/month for the premium version.
Online Meeting
For Internet calls, messaging, video conferencing, or remote control.

  1. Join.me (Freemium) — Instant screen sharing with powerful meeting tools and unlimited audio. Pricing starts at $13 per month per user for the premium version.
  1. Skype — With Skype, you can call, message, group video call, share screens and share whatever you want for free. You can also mobiles and landlines worldwide at low rates. Free Skype Recorder http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Call-Recorder-for-Skype.htm#.VOLO_00tHF4   Also try, Google Hangouts.
  1. TeamViewer — Remote control any PC or Mac over the internet within seconds or use TeamViewer for online meetings.
  1. Microsoft Lync (Part Of Microsoft Office Suite) — Lync is a platform for unified communications including online meetings, instant messaging, audio and video calls, availability info, and sharing capabilities. Lync standalone version pricing starts at $2 per month per user.
Personal Finance
Don’t you want to keep track of your finances?
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” — Benjamin Franklin
  1. Mint (Free) — Get a handle on your finances the free and fast way. Mint does all the work of organizing and categorizing your spending for you. See where every dime goes and make money decisions you feel good about.
  1. Microsoft Money (Free) — It’s still my favorite personal finance management software.
Ask Online
If you’re unable to find something online or is looking for an expert opinion then you can ask at the following Question and Answer websites.

  1. AskReddit — An amazing place to get advice, suggestion and help. Also try, Hacker News.
  1. Stack Exchange — Stack Exchange is a network of 129 communities that are created and run by experts and enthusiasts like you who are passionate about a specific topic.
  1. Yahoo Answers — Yahoo Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website by Yahoo.
Outsource
Just in case if you want to outsource a task to someone else then look no further.

  1. Fiverr — It’s the world’s largest marketplace for services, starting at $5. People who love what they do help you get everything done at an unbeatable value. Also try, Fiverr Alternatives
  1. Elance — It’s a freelance marketplace that gives access to over 2 million skilled freelancers from around the world. Also try, oDesk, Freelancer.
Random Tools
…to boost your productivity further. 

  1. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (for Windows) — Allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.
  1. Fingertips (for Windows) — Fingertips is a tiny (but powerful) application for Windows that makes it easy to start applications, open documents, surf to your favorite websites or add information to Microsoft Outlook. It also helps you to type faster by providing acronyms for commonly typed phrases throughout Windows.
  1. PhraseExpress (for Windows & Android) — Allows you to create many different types of macros to automate various tasks on your computer.
  1. Down For Everyone Or Just Me — Stop reloading that web page again and again. Instead check if it’s down or up.
  1. LastPass (Freemium) — Remembers all your passwords so that you can focus on the more important things in life. Costs $12/year for the premium version. Also try, 1Password
  1. Pomodoro Technique — Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that helps you to transform time into a valuable ally by helping you accomplish what you want to do and charting continuous improvement in the way you do it.
  1. Awesome Screenshot — Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.
  1. SoundGecko (Freemium) — Turn your favorites websites, blogs and documents into audio. Pricing starts at $2.95/month.
  1. InstaCalc — It’s the awesomest calculator that I’ve ever used.
Other Info about Tools


Prezi: http://prezi.com/
"Create astonishing presentations, live and on the Web."
Quia: http://www.quia.com/web
Create web-based instructional activities and assessments.
Tagcrowd: http://www.tagcrowd.com/
"Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency."

 join.me - Instant screen sharing with powerful meeting tools and unlimited audio. 
Join.me:  https://www.join.me
Simple online meeting and collaboration tool that anyone can use to connect people to their devices, data and apps every day; unlimited audio using VoIP and dedicated conference lines in over 40 countries. Unlimited minutes and unlimited meetings; basic Instant screen sharing with VoIP – Free

 Voicethread: https://voicethread.com
"With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install."
Padlet: http://www.padlet.com/
An online notice board maker. "Words that stick."

 Vibby is a new service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website.  https://www.vibby.com/

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