Innovation Resources
Things to try. Things to read. More to come.
Useful Links
Web Based Programs
Apps
Phonto
Phonto allows you to add text to pictures
Incredible Numbers
Incredible Numbers allows you to unlock the hidden beauty of numbers and see how their subtle patterns form the fabric of our codes, our music and our entire world.
Algodoo
Algodoo uses 2D simulations to create scenes and allow users to experiment with physics concepts through the building of interactive inventions or games.
Adobe Voice
Adobe Voice allows you to easily create videos
Buncee for Edu
Create digital stories with Buncee
Glogster
Create sharable interactive posters with Glogster
You can use the app or the online version
Lego Movie Maker
Create Stop Motion Videos with Lego Movie Maker
Pixel Press Floors
Create original video games with Pixel Press Floors
ibiome
Explore wetland habitats by building bio domes through ibiome
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage sites making them freely available to students and teachers. You can download the app or use the online program.
Ripped Apart: A Civil War Mystery
Ripped Apart is developed by the Smithsonian and uses an inquiry-based approach to teach students about the Civil War.It incorporates primary documents and photographs. Users must solve puzzles to unlock clues and add notes to their journal.
Seesaw
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students (as young as 5!) to independently create, capture, and store artifacts of learning. Seesaw allows educators to collect and Organize digital and physical work in one place. Download the app or use the online program.
Flipgrid
Create grids of questions or topics using text or video and share your questions with whomever you like. Your audience then responds with recorded videos. Flipgrid boosts community and collaboration in classrooms, corporations, and at conferences around the world. Use the app or the online program.
BLOGS
- Alfie Kohn
- Steven W. Anderson Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom
- George Couros The Principal of Change
- Bryan Alexander Educator, Futurist, Speaker, Writer
- Tammy Worcester Tang Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
- Michael Karlin The Ed Tech Round Up
- Getting Smart This site has many authors writing on many topics
- Andrew T Schwab There Is No Box
- Richard Byrne FreeTech4Teachers