Video Tutorials

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• Answer Garden {quick, BYOD way to poll students}
• How-to
• Blendspace {online way to create a lesson with lots of media components}
• A Tour
• Create a lesson
• CamelCamelCamel {set up price alerts for Amazon items}
• How-to
• Dropbox {free storage in the cloud}
• Sign up 
• Create folders and upload files
• Download, delete, rename, move, and copy 
• Shared folders
• eBates {save money shopping online}
• How-to
• Honey {save money shopping online}
• How-to
• IFTTT {automates your life}
• How-to example about setting price alerts to save money while shopping 
• Instant Classroom {make seating charts, group students randomly, & pick students randomly}
• How-to
• Pinterest {visual website for "pinning" -- essentially, bookmarking -- websites and images}
• How-to
• Symbaloo {visually organize web bookmarks}
• Overview 
• Using Symbaloo 
• Add webmixes and tiles 
• Share a webmix 
• Upload an image to a tile 
• Create a custom icon for a tile
• Thinglink {creative interactive images}
• The basics
• How to create and upload your own picture
• Twitter's Website 
• Take a tour of the website and find out how to tweet and reply
• Hashtags

• Creating a QR code {on an iOS device}
• Educreations {record lessons on a whiteboard and share with students} 
• Explain Everything {the more sophisticated, much cooler older sibling of Educreations}
• Instagram {photo/video-sharing social network}
• iOS Keyboard Shortcuts in Action {time-saver!} View the blog post about how to activate your own iOS keyboard shortcuts here
• Popplet {iOS mind-mapping app}
• Shadow Puppet Edu {add music and voice over pictures, and turn it into a video clip}
• Remind -- formerly Remind 101 {text parents/students without sharing your contact info}
• Silent Light {classroom timer and decibel meter for behavior management}
• Twitter iPad app {a tour of the app and a review of Twitter's features}