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Animaker Class
Design and present animated infographics and video with versatile site
Bottom line: A great media creation tool that could be used all year long for everything from posters to videos, but teachers will need to make learning goals clear.
Grades: 3–12
Price: Free, Paid The free plan covers 25 students and two teachers and includes 6 DIY tools, 200 MB of storage, and limited groups, tasks, and video length. The premium version supports longer videos and downloads, has HD video quality, more props, dedicated support, and more.
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
