Canva is a digital and print design tool.
Affordances: It has hundreds of templates and add-in graphics. Design is easy and end products look professional. There are templates for a wide variety of graphic designs and you can design your own as well. Canva Pro offers Ai design features.
Constraints: If you want to use your own photos, you will have to pay to upgrade storage. The cost for Canva Pro is approximately $12 per month.

Citation Machine is a citation generator, grammar and plagiarism checker.
Affordances: Easy to generate citations in common citation formats for bibliographies and in-text citations. Citations can be saved and downloaded.
Constraints: Full access to features with paid subscription of approximately $10 per month.

Deep Image Ai is a photography manipulation and Ai image generation app on the internet.
Affordances: Deep-image allows photos to be made larger and corrected by Ai. The platform is very good at generating avatars based on photos.
Constraints: The Ai response to prompts is hit and miss. For instance a photo of a female was interpreted as a male when a non-gendered prompt was given. There is a cost per photo that goes down as you purchase more credits. Pricing starts at $0.09 per image for 100 credits or $9.

Easy Generator is a subscription service targeted to corporate in-house training needs. This site offers Ai-generated course development and design.
Affordances: Course content can be contributed by teams or individuals, then refined, summarized and made easily readable with Ai help.
Constraints: The site is not designed for secondary school-teachers and, at almost $100/month, would be cost prohibitive for them. With the availability of Magic School, this product is not recommended to meet secondary school course development needs.

Mural is a collaborative visualization app with mind mapping, scheduling, and planning templates.
Affordances: Subscribers can make unlimited murals. Teams may work together in real time on murals. Many good templates to work with. Manipulation of graphics and labels is reasonably easy. When using the tool collaboratively, there is an option with the subscription to access private rooms.
Constraints: The free version only allows three murals. A subscription is approximately $10 per month per user.

Newsela provides reading materials suited to all types of curricula and lexile-level adjustments to reading selections.
This site gives every student scaffolded access to texts with automatically-generated or customizable pre- and post-assessment options. Lexile-level vocabulary lists support reading comprehension. A teacher dashboard allows tracking of time-on-task and scores on assessments, as well as, student annotations. Assignments are shareable between school-level teachers with an institutional license for $6,000 per year. The free "lite" version provides access to four articles per month. This is an excellent tool, even at the free level, to assist teachers in differentiating reading assignments with course-related texts.

Online QR Generator is a QR code creation, design, and analytics tracking tool.
Affordances: QR codes can be generated swiftly. Logo designs can be created to brand your QR code. Analytics on QR code usage are also available. The annual plan allows unlimited QR code generation.
Constraints: The service costs approximately $20 per month payable annually.

Screencastify is a screen video recorder Chrome extension.
Affordances: The free version allows 10 videos of up to 30 minutes each. Unlimited video creation at $7 subscription level. Extension is very easy to use. Screen and webcam can be recorded at the same time.
Constraints: Subscription of $7 per month provides access for one user and up to 25 GB of storage. Editing is limited with free version.

Speechify is a flexible text-to-speech reading tool, Ai voice generator, and voice to text transcription tool.
Affordances: It can read webpages, pdf files, and uploaded files. Extensions for a variety of devices are available. Voices are pleasant to listen to. Controls allow speeding up or slowing down reading pace. A handing floating control allows quick reading of web content.
Constraints: There is a cost of approximately $12 per month for the service.