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Earlier this year I published some reviews and videos about a few new mind mapping tools. As the new school year begins I think it's time that I add those new tools my list of mind mapping creation tools for students and teachers. Here's my updated list of mind mapping and flowchart creation tools.

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Britannica ImageQuest offers students, teachers, and schools access to a huge media library encompassing over 3 million rights-cleared images that can be used  to support teaching and to enhance students learning and engagement.

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ClipDrop is a great Augmented Reality app that allows you to transform the physical world into the virtual space. Using ClipDrop you will be able to easily capture any visual from your physical surroundings and paste it right into your digital documents. Drawing on AI technology,

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Weava is an excellent tool that allows you to annotate websites and PDFs. Students can easily highlight sections in PDFs and websites and add notes to contextualize and enhance their learning.

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In a digitally focused world where we are constantly bombarded with all kinds of distractions, focus becomes a rare currency.  In fact, the loss of sustained focus is not due merely to digital distractions but also to the inner nature of the web technologies we are dealing with on a daily basis. For instance, social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, to mention a few, are designed to host and share content that is consumed in very short chunks of time.

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Last week Google sent out a notice reminding domain administrators that the end of the classic version of Google Sites is near. That prompted me to publish directions for transition from the classic version of Google Sites to the current version. I also shared a set of tutorials for building your first website with the current version of Google Sites. 

 

Once you've made the switch to the current version of Google Sites, you might want to go beyond the basics to add some interesting features to your site to make it a one-stop shop for all of your students' and parents' needs. Here are some things you can do to enhance your Google Site with additional features. 

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If you are a tab collector like me and like to have several tabs open simultaneously on your Chrome this little hack will definitely be of great help. I used to (and still do) rely on the services of the popular Chrome extension OneTab to organize and declutter my tabs. 

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High quality powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations. Download our free slide designs and impress your audience.

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is a collection of some good web tools to help you create digital quizzes. You can use them to design interactive quizzes, questionnaire, forms, polls and many more. 

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Creating multimedia projects like videos, podcasts, and audio slideshows is a great way for students to develop a variety of skills. Some of those skills are technical skills while others are soft skills that they can carry over into all aspects of academic life.

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If you are looking for a free file transfer tool to help you send large files WeTransfer is a good option to try out. WeTransfer allows you to send up to 2 GB for free. There are two ways to send in big files: either through a generated link or through email transfer. Sending a file through generated link allows you to share a unique download link with anyone.

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A reader recently emailed me looking for advice on how to create narrated video based on slides made in Canva. She didn't want to record her own voiceover audio. My suggestion was to try using Narakeet to have the slides converted into a narrated video. 

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Kami is an excellent PDF and document annotating tool. It offers a wide variety of features that enable students and teachers to engage in interactive and collaborative learning experiences. Students can easily edit and annotate documents, PDFs, images, ebooks, worksheets and many more.

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Brainstormer is a new online brainstorming tool that is easy to use and helps solve the "what do we do now?" problem that often arises at the end of group brainstorming sessions. Brainstormer solves that problem by letting members of the brainstorming session vote for their favorite ideas. 

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Like many of my students, I'm often guilty of writing in a rush. Doing that leads to three bad habits that appear in my writing. The first is omitting words that should be in a sentence. The second is repeating words in a sentence when I try to revise a sentence midstream. And the third bad habit is using the same phrases and sentence structures too frequently. To change my habits I'm trying to slow down. I've also enlisted the help of a neat Chrome extension called Wordtune. 

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I tell you that to say I've seen a lot of mind mapping tools. Of those, the best ones are usually the simplest ones. Forky is a new mind mapping tool that fits into the category of simple but effective. 

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MindMeister is one of our favourite tools for creating mind maps on Google Drive. It provides users with an intuitive brainstorming platform where they can discuss projects, sketch out plans, and collaborate in real-time.

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  Tweet I recently wrote a guide for my library's blog on the best sites for high quality, free, and public domain images. I've recreated part of it below. These sites are hugely useful for marketing purposes, as you can use them in websites, posters, slides, on social media (but NOT insta! That nee

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