Technology Tuesday
8/26/2014
FREE IOS APPS FOR ENGAGING STUDENTS
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Google Drive iOS Apps
Google Drive, Docs, Spreadsheets and the newly launched Slides app is a full productivity suite for both online and offline content creation. These apps focus on creating, collaborating and sharing with ease. Creating a new document is easy enough. Sharing it is just as easy. Collaboration is one thing Google has always done decently well and both Google Docs and Google Sheets are great examples of this. If you're editing a document while someone else is in it, you can see what they're doing in real time.
Go grab all the Google iOS apps and start creating!
See tutorials below on how to get started.
TOOLS ON THE WEB
Remind
https://www.remind.com/ or use the iPhone/iPad app
Remind (formally Remind 101) is a service for sending text messages to groups of students and their parents safely. The service is an opt-in service which means that students and parents have to enter a confirmation code to state that they do want to be contacted by you through the service. Remind could be a good tool to use to keep students and parents informed of important information about your classes. You could use it to send reminders about assignments, use it to send encouragement, or use it to send praise for a job well done on an assignment.
Kahoot.it
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Kahoot.it
Front Row
Differentiated math tool with over 15,000 K-8 activities aligned with Common Core standards. This service is FREE to educators. Sign up for a teacher account and get started. Not only will the app provide math practice problems, it will guide the students by using videos with tutorials and real life situations.
GoNoodle
GoNoodle is a free brain break resource that help kids (Grades K-6) be more focused, energized and delightfully productive! Rather than hunting for brain breaks all over the web, GoNoodle does it for you, and many of the games align to core-subjects like math, spelling and vocabulary. Once you click play, you will find a variety of fun and exciting brain breaks to choose such as exercising, Zumba, and Common Core aligned games. There's a short brain break activity for every part of the day. Calm the classroom or energize your students depending on the time of day. It might even work to your advantage when you are needing some deep breathing exercises.
Do you have Tech Tools to share?
Michael Fowlkes
Arab City Schools
Email: mfowlkes@arabcityschools.org
Website: www.arabcityschools.org
Location: 511 Arabian Drive Northeast, Arab, AL, United States
Phone: 256-931-9321
Twitter: @arabcitytc