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Useful sites for educators
You can use these applications/sites in just a few minutes!!
We are inundated with NEW and MORE, I know, but sometimes taking a few minutes to learn a new application or about a new tool can SAVE us hours! Try one or two of these tools and see how they can actually work for you!!!
GREAT TOOLS!!!
A GREAT quiz making tool!
Kahoot is a response tool for students, that motivates students with a game like platform. Easily create custom games/quizzes for your kids to play, individually, in groups or as a class activity. Kids love it and so will you. There are also public, games you can use, as is, or customize.
Click here for link to a great PDF guide to using Kahoot!
Use the video tutorial below to see how it works!!
MSDSC Kahoot Step 2 Quiz Your Class!
Add video narration to your presentations!!
Now you can make and send a video presentation directly from your Google Drive. Narrate your slide, give directions, and speak directly to your students. Studies suggest students attend more readily to a presentation by their own teacher.
Use this tool to flip your classroom!
Your students will FLIP!!
What is Movenote?
Readability--Recommended by PEGGI LEES
Web based text can be visually confusing and complex. Students are doing a lot of web reading--this add on to the Google Drive can really help simplify the page they are reading. After installing the Readability add on, articles are simplified for reading or printing. The big, red comfy couch will appear on your task bar at the top of your chrome browser.
Readability — Read comfortably anytime, anywhere.
Use Videonot.es with your Google Drive to take notes on videos
Students can watch videos in their Goggle Drives and take synchronized notes!! All of the notes you type are automatically synchronized with the video. Later, just click on a line for the video to jump to the relevant part. Check for student's understanding by clicking on their notes to see if they are accurate!
Simply add Videonot.es to your Google Drive. Watch the video below for help!
VideoNot.es Demo
Great games/activities for Math
A great resource for math games. A great example is a Prime Factorization tool. Very easy to use and excellent skill exposure!
Facts practice made EASY!
Xtramath is a tool developed by a nonprofit organization dedicated to math achievement for all. Their goal is to develop effective, efficient, adaptive and intrinsically rewarding supplemental math activities and make them available for free.
Easy to use and register your students for practice in all of the four operations. The progress and study is generated by the program. You are able to track student progress all for free!
THE BEST WEBSITE!
If you follow anyone online, it should be Richard Byrne. He is an absolute genius!! His site is well organized and ALL of the resources he recommends are FREE. He also includes a suggestion or two about how to use the tool in the classroom. I get a tremendous number of my resources from his recommendations!
This is the flyer service I used for this newsletter!
Smore is an online Flyer service. Easily create visually engaging flyer, you can add links, audio, video and more. It can be free or for a fee, depending on your needs. Share easily with a link or email the flyer. You can also make printed copies!