Top Ed Tech Tools to Try In 2019
FlipGrid
What exactly is FlipGrid, and why would I want to use it??
It’s an app where someone, usually a teacher, poses a question or prompt, and students respond to it with short videos. Once they’ve finished their video, they can leave responses to other students’ videos.
Symbaloo
Symbaloo brings the right content to the right person!
- Save, organize and share all your digital resources in a personalized and safe online environment.
- Make your online life easier by keeping all your favorite websites organized in a visually-appealing, personalized environment.
- Save your links in tiles that you can customize with different colors, icons or images. Organize all of your favorite websites, videos, documents, articles and more - all in one place!
InsertLearning
InsertLearning, formerly called DocentEDU, is an extension you add to your Chrome browser or Firefox. Once it’s there, turning any web page into a lesson can be done in minutes. You start with a web page of any kind, then highlight text, add notes, and embed your own questions—either multiple-choice or open-ended—that students answer right on the page. You can also embed other content like YouTube videos, ThingLink images, flashcards from Quizlet, mind maps from Coggle, even videos you record straight from your webcam.
AutoDraw
Newseum
Produced by Newseum, a news museum located in Washington, D.C., NewseumED houses an incredible online collection of primary sources, news artifacts, and lessons that help teachers teach media literacy, civics, and all aspects of the First Amendment, giving you and your students an up-close look at history.
The site gives you several ways to search for content—by state, century, theme, topics, type of resource, and so on. Once you find something you’d like your students to use—a map, a newspaper, a quiz—you can share it with them using a URL that lasts for two weeks but can be renewed an unlimited number of times.
Lino
Lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas.
You can access lino from your home, office, or even on the road and post a sticky note online whenever you need!