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Canva - Photo Editor & Design
Create snazzy designs in seconds with flexible, cloud-based tool
Bottom line: A flexible, accessible way to get kids -- especially design novices -- creating digitally in your classroom if you have stable internet and time to get students set up to be successful.
Grades: 4–12
Price: Free
The Noun Project
Think in pictures with vibrant visual language everyone can understand
Bottom line: It's a neat, well-executed concept with lots of possibilities for learning, imagining, and creating.
Grades: 4–12
Price: Free To download icons without attribution, monthly rates range from $10 (personal) to $500 (agency).
Smore
Create online flyers, learn a little about marketing with design tool
Bottom line: A fast way to fashion attractive flyers, but students will need outside help to learn about PR and marketing and effective, concise writing.
Grades: 5–12
Price: Free, Paid Basic, very limited version, is free. Personal, business, and corporate plans available for monthly fees. Educator plan is $79/year.
Microsoft Sway
Cool scroll effects, flexible features boost visual storytelling tool
Bottom line: A great tool for design and presentation, if great visuals and easy sharing trump having the active viewing features present in other tools.
Grades: 6–12
Price: Free
Easelly
Think critically, share creatively with infographic-creation tool
Bottom line: Even though the basic themes and images are limited, when prepared well, this tool can help students connect with content in a meaningful way.
Grades: 7–12
Price: Free
Infogr.am
Snazzy, easy infographic maker visually pleasing but lacks design help
Bottom line: The site is a great asset for classroom presentations and analyzing data, but educators need to provide guidance to ensure students learn while using it.
Grades: 7–12
Price: Free, Paid Free version supports 10 projects and public sharing only. Pro version, available for $25/month or $228/year, supports up to 100 projects and allows for private projects, as well as premium theming and a large library of images.
Lucidpress
Collaborative publishing and design tool has lots of options, templates
Bottom line: An easy-to-use mash-up of InDesign and Google Drive, Lucidpress fills a niche for publication creation and collaboration.
Grades: 7–12
Price: Free to try, Paid
Piktochart
Add oomph to info with sleek infographic tool
Bottom line: Tech-savvy kids will immediately take to this well-designed, reasonably easy-to-use tool.
Grades: 7–12
Price: Free, Paid There's a free version. The paid version for educators is $39.99 per year and allows access to all templates. It also adds 400MB of storage for custom photos, a variety of options to download projects, private projects, and removes the Piktochart watermark. There's also a classroom account that supports up to 30 accounts for $120 for four months.
Venngage
Create impressive infographics with ease
Bottom line: Surprisingly simple way for students to think critically and communicate ideas in an appealing, visual format, but could be a bit more edu-friendly with extra educator/student supports.
Grades: 7–12
Price: Free to try, Paid $29/month gives educators 35 accounts for students and teachers, class sharing, and premium features for all users.
The yearly subscription costs $99 and gives educators 35 accounts for students and teachers, class sharing, and premium features for all users.
Adobe Spark
Super-flexible design tool for crafting fab images, videos, and sites
Bottom line: This free, one-stop shop for creating sleek graphics, web stories, and animated videos is incredibly easy to use and challenges students to think critically about visual presentation.
Grades: 6–12
Price: Free
Grafio 3 - Diagrams & ideas
Flexible app transforms sketches into pro-level designs and diagrams
Bottom line: A terrific choice for creating simple diagrams or presentations on iOS.
Grades: 9–12
Price: $7.99
