ED-venture #4: TECH month continues with APPS!

Welcome back to your #EdTech source for great websites, Apps, PD, Social media, and FREE resources. That is right, as a subscriber to our newsletter, we want you to enjoy some cool free stuff! Last month, we featured Symbaloo and after a quick Tweet, Symbaloo responded! They decided to give YOU access to a free #BacktoSchool package full of #EdTech freebies for you and your students. 

The banner above isn't linked, but if you are interested and want more details and the promo code to get these freebies, scroll down to the bottom of the newsletter!

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Just a Reminder, and for our NEW subscribers: For the person who interacts the most with the first 4 newsletters this month (opens, clicks, forwards, comments), we will send you a FREE paperback copy of our newest book A is for Action: The ABC’s of Taking Action! To preview the first 9 pages of this book, click HERE and press “Download Sample”. We will announce the winner in our 5th newsletter, which should come your way on September 30th.

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TECH Month continues....with APPS!

It's difficult for us to recommend the best Apps for everyone, as you all have different needs, so we thought we would share a few APP "hubs" where you can find some great lists. Explore APPitic, or use the quicklinks below to go straight to what you want:

Apps by Subject area
Apps for Preschool
Apps for Special Needs
Apps for CBL (Challenge-based Learning)
Apps for the Flipped Classroom
Apps for Bloom's Taxonomy
Apps for Multiple Intelligences
Apps for Physical Education

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APPlist Builder tool: If you want to create your own personalized APP lists to share with parents, fellow educators, friends, family, or use with your students for specific subjects, skills or for homework, check out this new tool. If you end up making a cool list that you would like to share, please shoot it our way!

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AppsGoneFree: Download this free app, and check it daily for a small list of Apps that typically sell for $1.99, $2.99, $4.99 or more, but get them FREE!

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50 Must-Download Apps For Lifelong Learners

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iPads for Education: Offers great APPS, organized by Category.

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APPList: This tool allows you to share a list of all your iPhone- and iPad-Applications with your friends, your colleagues and your family. Nothing more, nothing less. Here is Jeff's List from a few months ago. Please don't judge ;)

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ARTICLE: Why the “Explain Everything” APP is a must-have.

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Use Socrative as a student response system in any class (how kids are doing, polls, multiple choice) - check out the video.

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Digital Citizenship APPS

If you are interested in this topic, perhaps you want to recommend it to us for a future newsletter.

eSafe Kids App - $0.99

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Garfield's Online Safety App - Free

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Netiquette for Kids App - Free

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See you next week for TECH Professional Development
(Our personal favorite of this month’s newsletters)!

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As promised, more information on some #EdTech Back to School freebies!

What's in the package? 

SymbalooEDU is giving you 6 months free upgrade to SymbalooEDU Premium Account and a Basic Certification to show you how to use all the features Symbaloo has to offer.  

Edbacker is bringing you Crowd-funding Certification to give you all the tools and information you need to create an engaging and successful crowd-funding campaign for projects and programs that you want to bring to your classroom. 

Discovery Education - Program that provides rich opportunities to inspire students, and the premier national environmental sustainability competition for students in grades K-12.  Through project based learning, students learn about science and conservation while creating solutions that impact their planet. 

Mackin - A free MackinVIA account to receive close to 40 ebooks for 3 different grade segments and has a value of $1,200. 

Capstone Interactive Library - Free trial of Capstone Interactive library with access to more than 3,000 Capstone Interactive eBooks with professionally recorded audio. Free trial of PebbleGo database for reader research of K-3 filled with articles, videos, and games. Your students can have fun while learning. 

Gynzy - Unlimited access to 200 interactive tools for your whiteboard until January 1st of next year. Gynzy includes tools that are great for the start of the school year, like Class Arrangement and an Interactive Map of the United States for you to keep.


***IMPORTANT: This offer is valid until September 27. Click HERE to take advantage of this deal now.


Here is the promo code to enter: STARTsymbalooEDU2013