Recent list of top EdTech Tools

Just saw this list of EdTech by Topics and was amazed at how many of these I use or have used with my students (in bold):

1. Presentations (Prezi, Haiku Deck)
2. Multi-Media Posters (Glogster)
3. Blogs (Kidblog)
4. Mind Maps (Popplet, Slatebox)
5. Online Response System (Kahoot)
6. Comics (Bitstrips, Comic Master, Comic Life)
7. Writing (Storybird)
8. Photo Editing (PicMonkey)
9. Surveys (Survey Monkey)
10. Electronic Badges (Classbadges)
11. Classroom Management (ClassDojo)
12. Multi-Media Wall (Padlet)
13. Online Whiteboard (Mural.ly)
14. Collaboration/Social Network (Edmodo)
15. Animated Video (GoAnimate, Powtoon, Dvolver)
16. Google Drive
17. Microsoft Office 2010
18. Microsoft Office 2013
19. Infographics (Piktochart)
20. Websites (Weebly, Wix)

Teachers take the initiative

I kept hearing about iPads and how useful they might be in the classroom. So I convinced Roseann  and Karri  to take an iPad class with me at the ESD in 2001. I set up an ad-hoc network from my portable whereby I could send a wi-fi signal from my personal hotspot to the iPads in their portables. Thereafter, many in our building got iPads and we started our own in-building user group, an iPUG.