Cube Creator is a excellent new site by Read Write & Think. This is designed to help students w/ their writing by giving them templates (ie, cubes) for different types of stories. Once these cubes are created they can then be printed out and formed into actual cubes or shared via email. A cube can either be created from scratch or chosen by theme (bio, mystery, story).
Explania is a wonderful site for finding animated educational videos on a wide variety. There are over 5000 videos to choose from (ie, tutorials) as well as the ability to embed them on a site/blog.
The Grading Game is a wonderful iOS app that I just found out about from the equally wonderful site, Edshelf. This is a fun and sometimes hilarious game for finding typing and grammar mistakes. It's a very unique and easy to use game where people race against time to find all the mistakes. Also, it is a good way to reinforce grammar and helps students strengthen their skills.
Brainstormer is a free iOS app that I found out about from the new blog, iPad Apps 4 School. This is a fun app that is ideal for brainstorming by spinning a wheel. This wheel will has 3 categories such as: theme, setting, and location, and is ideal for generating writing prompts.
Miracle of Life is an excellent iPad app in English/Spanish for learning about the human growth cycle. This is ideal for Health teachers or parents that are teaching that "difficult" subject to students/kids. This is done in a very easy to to follow beautiful interface while students learn about the 3 phases of human growth: fertilization, gestation, and growth.
SendHub is a wonderful site/app for sending text messages to students/parents/groups in a safe secure way. SendHub creates a unique # for users to use to collaborate w/ students and parents. This is an ideal way to send class updates, notifications, and more to keep parents and students in the loop. Also, this is a nice tool to use for districts that use BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for mobile learning.
Digital Raiders is a company that has a variety of online, Google Play, and iOS games that are ideal for education. Two of those being Math Apocalypse and Space Words Defense.
