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What It Is: Pixabay is a database of Over 340,000 free photos, vectors and art illustrations

What Makes It Special: In an age when digital images can make or break your design deliverables Pixabay is giving you an easy way to search a boat load of free high quality images. Yep...Free, all of the images at Pixabay are free for you to use without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.

Why You Should Use It: You are looking for a one stop shop for cool and crisp images for presentations, marketing, or web design.

What It Is: ExamTime is a free study tool that provides concept mapping as well as quiz and flashcard creation.

What Makes It Special: There are plenty of good concept mapping tools out there - this one is easy to use, visually appealing, and lets you link concept map nodes to other concept maps, notes, quizzes, and flashcards.  

Why You Should Use It: You are looking for an easy to use yet robust free concept mapping tool that lets you share, embed, and collaborate to connect, organize and add structure to your learning.

How do I use it: Taking notes and outlining articles - Inductive Learning Concept Map

What It Is: Visme helps you visualy communicate your ideas with presentations, infographics, and banner adds. 

What Makes It Special: The infographic component of Visme makes it easy to create professional looking infographics that  communicate your ideas and data visually.

Why You Should Use It: Because you have ideas and data you want to communicate to an audience visually, but you don't know anything about graphic design or Adobe Illustrator. Conference posters. Marketing. Limitless application for visualizing data, processes, and ideas.

What It Is: NounProject is a large collection of sleek downloadable icons.  

What Makes It Special: Great looking professional icons that are free with attribution.

Why You Should Use It: Because you aren't a graphic designer but you want sharp looking icons in your presentations.

What It Is: Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool for iOS, Android, and Web. 

What Makes It Special: Presenter syncs to and controls student device.

Why You Should Use It: Offers a plethora of fun assessment activities. 

What It Is: Vine is an iPhone app that creates short, looping videos.

What Makes It Special: Great community with a huge # of tagged, shareable videos.

Why You Should Use It: Check out this great research about reaction gifs and online identity. 

What It Is: The TinEye website and Chrome plug-in performs reverse image searchers.

What Makes It Special: Honestly, this is a brand new concept to me so no room for comparison.

Why You Should Use It: No more worries about image citation violations.

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What It Is: HelloSign is an iOS and web-based e-signature service.

What Makes It Special: Works with Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, & Skydrive.

What It Is: Need to combine multiple PDF's into one file? Try web-based PDFMerge.

What Makes It Special: No sign up needed/very user-friendly interface.

What It Is: Udacity offers free, online university level courses.

What Makes It Special: Problem based learning and student/instructor collaboration.

What It Is: Web-based SimplyNoise produces blessed white noise for the acoustically sensitive.

What Makes It Special: White, pink, and brown noise options.

What It Is: iOS app Corkulous is a virtual, remixable cork board.

What Makes It Special: Many tool options including notes, photos, and contacts.

What It Is: The LogMeIn app allows you to remotely access your desktop computer from an iPad.

What Makes It Special: Use applications and open your files from anywhere.

What It Is: Turn your iOS device into a tocuhpad or keyboard with Splashtop Touchpad.

What Makes It Special: Award winning technology.

What It Is: Pinterest is a web-based virtual pin board tumblr clone.

What Makes It Special: Awesomely beautiful visual layout.

What It Is: Apple's iBooks 2 app. contains one major upgrade: textbooks!

What Makes It Special: Textbooks are multimedia, interactive, and multi-touch.

What It Is: Photo Pin is a great little web-based image search.

What Makes It Special: Clearly separates creative commons vs. proprietary images.