New Tech Tools
Easy tools to use in your classroom everyday!
Adobe Voice
Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming – just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact. This is a free app and can be saved in many formats including simply to your camera roll.
Canva
Canva makes design simple for everyone. Fun and easy way to interact with images. Students can input in an image and write over top of the image. These images can then be turned into an interactive slide show/ movie style presentation.
Thinglink
Use ThingLink to create interactive news photography, maps, posters, family albums, and infographics! You can keep track of how people interact with your content as it spreads across the web.
Create an interactive image to send students on a pathway to learn. Add multiple different links into an image to have students learn more about different aspects of an image.
More fun tech tools to take a look at!
Adobe Slate
Slate stories always look amazing!
Put a unique twist on anything you want to communicate — a book report, weekly customer newsletter or your latest travel adventure. Slate automatically adapts to any device, creating a delightful read on tablets, phones or computers.
Google Classroom
Classroom helps teachers save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students.
Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. Classroom helps students organize their work in Google Drive, complete and turn it in, and communicate directly with their teachers and peers.Learn 2 Earn
Motivate reading and writing to develop lifelong learners. A way to have students log their reading, write about their reading, and see how they are competing with other students in their class.
Alone we are smart... Together we are BRILLIANT. ~Steven Anderson, Educator
Megan Watson
Let me know if you want help incorporating any of these technologies in your classrooms!
Email: watsonme@mentorschools.org
Location: Garfield Elementary School, Mentor, OH, United States
Phone: 440-255-6609
Twitter: @meganwatsonIC