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Tech Tools We Can't Live Without!
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Videolicious
Blog Post & Video Example - Physics
High Tech Verbs
Thinglink
Thinglink makes pictures interactive with text, images, videos and links and will work on any device. (WEB and APP)
French Revolution
Graphing Linear Inequalities
Algebra Problem
500+ ThinkLink Educational Examples
Google Docs for Learning
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy & Web 2.0 Tools
Virtual Manipulatives for the iPad
My Texas
Sewing Machine
School Map
Keyboarding Activities
The Balance Sheet
College Tour and Information
Favorite Chrome Extensions
Google Drive
Tornado
Apollo 11
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
MixbookEDU
Ordering Food in Spanish for Dummies
World War I
Famous Americans
Geometry Scrapbook
Student Interactves from Read Write Think
Read Write Think Student Interactives
The Read Write Think website includes over 50 student interactives to be used on computers. Many of the interactives are also available as apps.
Student Interactives - online literacy learning tools
Cube Creator - helps students to learn the skill of summarizing
Trading Cards - create trading cards for any number of categoriesTimeline - create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line
FlipQuiz
Flipquiz is a Jeopardy-style game that is great for reviewing information. Divide your class into two teams and start playing! Flipquiz is ideal for interactive whiteboards, but it will work with a computer and a projector.
Let's test our knowledge on the Fine Arts!
Animoto for Education
Vocabulary
Meet Mr. Clark
Civil Rights Examples
Let's Play Bingo!
Let's Play Bingo!
Open bingobaker.com/play/109406 on your device.
Click the Free space.
Click the answers to the problems as they are called out.
Shout Bingo if you win!
Adobe Spark (Slate)
Adobe Spark (Slate) - Turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous story. Your Slate web story gets its own URL and can be shared via text message, email, posted on social media accounts or embedded on blogs or personal websites. Also available as an IOS app.
Student Example
SymbalooEDU
SymbalooEDU is a PLE (Personal Learning Environment) where teachers can visually organize and share the web with students and other educators.
There's an App for that!
Examples:
Symbalooedu Tutorial Webmix
Kindergarten Webmix
High School Language Arts Webmix
Apps for Autism
Black History Month
Reading & Technology
Virtual Field Trips
European History
Grammar/Spelling
Chemistry
Algebra
Music Ed
Physical Ed/Health
Middle School Art
Giving Students Choices
Giving Students Choices
Today's technology tools can provide teachers with the ability to give their students choices when assigning projects. Every student may not have the same apps as their classmates, so instead of requiring the students to use a particular app or website, why not give them a choice? You will find that student engagement and creativity will increase when students are given the freedom to use different tools to deliver content.
Here are three examples of a project about President John F. Kennedy. The examples contain the same content, however, the information is presented in a different format in each project.
Tutorials:
Examples of assignments that give students choices:
Tic Tac Techo
Choice Board
Articles:
Liven Up Your Lessons by Giving Students Choices
Empowering Students: Add Choice to Assignments
Student Choice and Engagement - Ohio Research CenterTips and Tricks
YouTube videos without ads and clutter
- Copy the URL (web address) of the YouTube video.
- Open Safeshare.tv and paste the URL into blank and click Generate Safe Link.
- The new link contains the YouTube video without ads.
*Viewpure.com is another site that allows you to remove the ads from YouTube videos. You can also search for videos from the home page.
Creating a Shortened URL - tinyurl.com
- Copy the URL (address) of the website you want to direct the students to.
- Open tinyurl.com.
- Paste the URL into the Enter a long URL to make tiny: field.
- You can click Make TinyURL field and the site will create a shortened URL for you or you can make a custom URL by adding your own title in the Custom Alias field.
- Click Make TinyURL. If you are making a custom alias and the alias you chose has already been taken, the site will inform you that your alias is not available.
Note – Bitly.com and Goo.gl will also allow you to create a shortened URL.
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