Tech Tools for Engagement |
Instructional Tools |
Backchannel | Web Tools: TodaysMeet, Tozzl, Backchannel Chat, Chatzy |
Collaboration | Web Tools: Dot Storming, NearPod, Padlet, Lino, ClassFlow, Twiddla, VoiceThread, Edmodo, Seesaw, ePals, turnitin, GooseChase, AwwApp, OneNote, Buncee, Flipgrid, WeVideo, PearDeck Apple App: Skitch, SWAY, Slack, Voxer |
Web Organizers | Web Tools: Symbaloo, diigo, Delicious |
Capture Tools | Web Tools: PlayPosit, EdPuzzle, Educreations, Screencast-O-Matic, EZVid, Windows Snip, Jing, SafeShare.TV, SmallPDF, Office Lens, iorad Chrome Apps/Ext: Screencastify, Turn Off the Lights, Awesome Screenshot, Full Page Screen Capture, Nimbus, PrintFriendly, Loom Mac Users: QuickTime Player, iMovie (built in), Doceri, Windows: Snipping Tool |
Storytelling | Web Tools: Buncee, My Storybook, Story Jumper, Little Bird Tales, StoryBird, Voki, Storyboard That, Adobe Spark, Aurasma, Hemingway App, Thirty Hands, Quozio, Piclits, MySimpleShow, MakeBeliefsComix, inklewriter, Piktochart, Powtoon Storylineonline Biteable, 30 Hands, Animated Story Maker, CoSpaces , PicLit, SWAY, Quiver Vision (AR), Book Creator, Wixie, Storify, Adobe Spark Apple App: Chatterpix, Princess Fairy Tale Maker, Super Hero Comic Maker, Toontastic , Draw & Tell, Shadow Puppet Edu MakeBeliefsComix , Adobe Spark Chrome Apps: VoiceThread, Glogster EDU, Little Bird Tales, Powtoons, Announcify |
Word Clouds | Generators: AnswerGarden, Wordle, WordItOut, Wordsift, ABCya, Tagxedo, Mentimeter, WordArt, |
Safe Search Engines | Web Tools: Kiddle, KidRex, DuckDuckGo, Google Scholar, Kidsclick, safeshare.tv, ViewPure |
Writing Tools | Web Tools: Plumbago (sketchnote/visual note taking), Studyblue, The Most Dangerous Writing App, Inklewriter, Twine Weebly for Education, grammarly, Lucid Chart, WPP, popplet, NoRedInk |
Math Tools | Web Tools: Desmos (graphing calculator), symbolab, Geogebra, IXL, Prodigy, Khan Academy, Study Buddy, Kutasoftware, Socratic.org, Photomath Chrome: Equatio |
Engineering, Coding, and Design | Web Tools: CoSpaces, Code.org (Hour of Code), Tynker, Tinkercad, Code Combat, Box Island, Blockly, KODU Game Lab, Ear Sketch Scratch.mit.edu Lightbot, Google C S First, Try Engineering, Teach Engineering, Engineering Classroom Resources, Engineering is Elementary, Design Squad, Engineering-Go For It, Code Academy, CodeHS, OzoBlockly; BrainPOP, Pivot Animator (Download, but free), robotvirtualworlds |
Music Tools | Web Tools: Chrome Music Lab, Dallas Symphony Orchestra,San Francisco Symphony, Audacity (digital recording/editing software), SmartMusic, Auralia yousician (music ed program for individualized private instruction), Noteflight (Similar to Gdocs), musictheory.net, dancingline App (makes interactive, animated, 3D listening maps.) lyricstraining.com (website good for ELLs or studying foreign language with popular music & cloze activities at varying levels of difficulty), List of Chromebook Resources for Music (too many to list individually) Incredibox, Soundtrap, flat.io iOS Apps: Musical.ly |
Art Tools | Web Tools: Artsonia, Google Arts and Culture, |
Typing Tools | Web Tools: Typing.com, BBC Dance Mat Typing, FreeTyping, Typing Club, Type to Learn, 10fastfingers, Typing Agent, Nitro Type |
Digital Content |
Open Education Resources (OER) / Digital Content | Open Content: OER Commons, Engage NY, OpenStax (HS), Gooru, Edmodo Spotlight, Learning Registry, Curriki, ISLE, CK-12, Other OER Providers, stem4teachers.org, OpenUp Resources, OpenEd, smartexchange, Google Lit Trips, GeoGuessr (take a trip and challenge your class), Google Arts and Culture, Zygote (Body), Constitute, PBS Learning Media Apple App: ChemPro (chemistry tutor), Interactive Simulations |
Explore Locations | Web Tools: 360 Cities, Google Earth, https://geoguessr.com, NASA Mars, TourBuilder (students create global journey, enter story in a language, upload video/voice, linked to google earth), GapMinder, Dollar Street (using photos as data); Google Lit Trips; Google Expeditions, Weekly Map, Google My Maps (create interactive maps), Thinglink |
Assessment Tools |
Formative
Assessment | Web Tools: Kahoot, Google Forms, Quiz Socket, Socrative, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere, GoSoapBox, Popplet, Quizizz, Plickers, Nearpod, activelylearn, quizlet, Classkick, ZipGrade, QuickKey, Padlet, Recap, Pear Deck, Quizstar, Formative, Flippity, thatquiz, Schoology, kutasoftware.com, ibrainstorm, goformative, edcit, Edulastic Deck.toys, DuckSoup Chrome Apps: Quizlet, EdPuzzle (fabulous, easy to grade), EduCannon, Flubaroo Goobric DocentEDU, Digital Readworks, Doctopus, EquatIO, Rubistar (rubric creator) iOS Apps: Pick Me ($1.99 in app store) |
Efficiency and Management |
URL Shorteners | Web Tools: bit.ly, Goo.gl, tinyURL, ow.ly, LIST, Google Tone, OneTab Symbaloo, YellKey, shoutkey Chrome Extension: Crafty Text, bit.do |
Timers | Web Tools: Timer-Tab, Classroom Timers, Online StopWatch, TickTockTimer, Google Timer, 30/30, Egg Timer, YouTube |
QR Code Makers | Web Tools: ClassTools, QRsnipp, QR Stuff, The QR Generator, QRVoice, Vocaroo Chrome Apps: QR Code Monkey, ScanQR, QR Code Generator by Unitag Google Tone Chrome Extension: Google Shortener |
Classroom Management | Web Tools: Bouncy Balls (class volume control),Too Noisy Pro (Volume), Automated Missing Work Slips (Instructions), Kagan Timer, GoNoodle, Class Dojo, Classroom Screen, Showbie, incredibox iOS App: Classroom |
Communication Tools |
Stock Images (Royalty Free) | Web Tools: The Stocks, The Noun Project, All the Free Stock, NASA, Pexels, Designers Pics, Splashbase, Startup Stock Photos, Jay Mantiri, Unsplash, Photos For Class, Pond5 Historic Media, CC Search, Pixabay, Open Clip Art, PhotoPi, Diverse Images via All4Ed, Autodraw, Emojipedia, MorgueFile |
Video Capture Tools | Web Tools: Google Hangouts, Skype, Join.Me, Screencast-O-Matic, Green Screen by Do Ink EdPuzzle, Live Events - YouTube, 123Apps, Fusfoo, Clip Converter, SafeShareTV, KeepVid, SaveFrom, TubeChop, HiHaHo, Screencastify, Doceri, WeVideo, Flipgrid, HippoVideo, Adobe Spark, Classhook SafeShare.tv Apple App: Clips App, Reverse Vid Mobile Video Editing: Adobe Premiere Clip, |
Presentations / Communication | Web Tools: Smore, Adobe Spark, MuseumBox, PosterMyWall, Glogster, Canva, Prezi, Thinglink, Pixlr, ThirtyHands, DocentEDU, Newsela, Sway; Hootsuite, Bloomz, Remind, Noisli, Puppet Edu, Immersive Reader, ClassDojo, Common Lit, Google Sites, Nearpod, Classtag, Visme, ReadWriteThink, Piktochart, Smugmug (share photos/videos) Chrome Ext: OneTab, Tab Resize, Color Picker, Floorplanner, Emaze, Talking Web, Beeline reader, Audacity, Pandora Chrome Extension, Blogs: Blogger, EduBlogs, KidBlogs, Showbie, Weebly for Education |
Calendaring | Web Tools: Calendly, Google Calendar, You Can Book Me, Teamup |
Classroom Design | Tools: Classroom Architect, Virtual Room Designer, Scholastic’s Class Setup, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Google Drawings, Floorplanner |
Photo Editing / Graphics | Web Tools: BeFunky, PicMonkey, Pic Collage, Toolwiz Photos, SumoPaint, Canva, Gimp, Red Stamp iOS Apps: Chatterpix Pixlr, Adobe Mobile Apps, Pixlr, Photo Collage, Flipbook! |
Other |
Miscellaneous | Web Tools: Noisli, Instructables, QuiverVision (coloring packs turn into 3D images), Bitmoji (create avatar to add to presentations), Emojpedia, Google Keep (organizational note taking, to do list), Atmosphir (gaming for education), Microsoft Office for Ed (Free), Library of Congress ebooks and microfilms; PDFCANDY- conversion of PDFs to any other document and vice versa; HPReveal/Aurasma to create/view AR content (iOS & Android), Prism (crowdsourcing interpretation for reading strategies) |
Digital Citizenship Content / Resources |
Digital Citizenship #DigCit | Web Tools: BrainPop, Netsmartz, TeachInCeTRL, Common Sense Education, Creative Commons, NearPod, FBI Cyber Safety, Khan Academy, Checkology, Newseum, Be Internet Awesome |
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