BTSD Tablet Initiative
What's new? December, 2014
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Tiger Tech Corner
Spotlight On...
The Holiday Season and the New Year!
It's a time of giving and receiving gifts, spending time with loved ones and for some reflection! We hope that you enjoy this time, whatever you plan to do. Rest up, get ready, because 2015 is going to be AMAZING!
Here's a little Pep Talk to get you ready!
Does it seem as though your students seem a little disconnected from one another?
BTSD Approved Apps List
BTSD Authorized APPS/Programs to Download
60in60 Top 60 Tools Cheat Sheet 2014
By Brandon Lutz
($$ indicates a cost)
1. Flocabulary http://www.flocabulary.com/
a. Vocabulary with Rap ($$)
2. Starfall http://www.starfall.com/
a. Elementary Teachers – phonics website, learning how to read., interactive
3. GeoGuesser https://geoguessr.com/
a. SS Pick anywhere in the world. Guess where it is and get points
4. Cue Prompter http://www.cueprompter.com/
a. Teleprompter for your classroom
5. PHET http://phet.colorado.edu/
a. Science simulations and interactive runs in Java – Build there own atoms
6. Wolframalpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/
a. Anything data, math, words, anything data graph, run body mass index
7. Shmoop http://www.shmoop.com/http://phet.colorado.edu/
a. Like a cliff notes there is a free side and a pay side, can use for flipped classrooms
8. Layar – https://www.layar.com/
a. Scan, makes it come alive.
b. Free account for teachers, designed for business
9. Easybib http://easybib.com/
a. Site your sources, read the information and fill in the missing information you can
create an account for your work cited.
10. Powtoon http://www.powtoon.com/ http://www.pearltrees.com/
a. Create interactive videos
11. Class Dojo http://www.classdojo.com/
a. Classroom management tool.12. Adobe Voices http://getvoice.adobe.com/
a. iPAD app, download the app, create a stories, setup page, pictures are available,
students can create their own audio, share it.
b. Can’t share it by copying by it
13. Blabberize http://blabberize.com/
a. Make the picture talk
14. Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
a. BADGING NOW
b. STANDARD MASTERY
c. PREASSESSMENT AND ASSIGN STUDENTS WHERE THEY CAN GO.
15. Puppet Pals HD https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id342076546?mt=8
a. iPAD APP
b. Create a story
16. Spelling City http://www.spellingcity.com/
a. Vocabulary
b. Lists for books already there
c. Spelling test, say it or hear it in the sentence
d. Quick and easy
17. Jelly Cam http://www.ticklypictures.com/shop/jellycam
a. FREE download for Mac or PC
b. Still photography
c.
18. Photosynth http://photosynth.net/
a. Panaramac
b. 599$ ball to take pictures: http
19. Study Ladder http://www.studyladder.com/
a. With a IWB or not
b. Resources for the IWB by subject
c.
20. Free Rice http://freerice.com/
a. Not just vocabulary, it has math, science, test prep, different levels,
21. FlipGrid http://flipgrid.com/
a. Teacher create a class and you can give questions to the class and the students
need to answer the questions in video.
b. 60$ a year
22. Brain Rush http://www.brainrush.com/
a. Standard based mastery
b. Make like quizlets and then it will give you mastery
c. Can create a class
d. Cards
e. And Hotspotsf. Created resources already there.
23. Titan Pad http://titanpad.com
a. Create an easy public document
b. Can export it to a PDF or website
c. Timeslide to determine who wrote
d. Collaboration tool
24. Backpack Practice https://www.backpackpractice.com
a. Like free rice
b. Answer with your voice
25. One Note – http://office.microsoft.com/enus/onenote/
a. Now free on any platform
26. Tag My Doc http://www.tagmydoc.com/
a. Take your word document and give a QR code
b. Can still change the document (only 3 times free)
c. Analyitics
27. Duo Lingo http://www.duolingo.com/
a. Learn a language
28. Google Translate http://translate.google.com/
a. Translate your document
29. Todays Meet https://todaysmeet.com/
a. Create a backchannel for when students are watching a video
b. Don’t need to log in
c. Transcript service to print off
30. Toontastic http://launchpadtoys.com/toontastic
a. iPAD APP – story telling
b. Print off resources
c. Free and paid APP
31. Socrative http://socrative.com/
a. Formative assessment
b. Student response
c. Room number is
d. Any device android or ios
e. There is a space race (to opt out of the test)
32. Educreations http://www.educreations.com/
a. Screencasting
b. There is content already available
33. Mentimeter https://www.mentimeter.com
a. Quick and easy way to do
b. Live results www.vot.rs
34. Video Download Helper
https://addons.mozilla.org/enUS/firefox/addon/videodownloadhelper & Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/
a. Firefox add on – download .mp4 onto your computer then you have it and don’t
need to be concerned about the internet.
b. Download a section of a DVD
35. iBooks Author http://www.apple.com/ibooksauthor
a. textbook author for puplishing
b. media
c. create a keynote
d. responses
e. Can’t take to another platform
36. Weebly http://www.weebly.com/
a. Create a website
b. Nice template
c. Free or Pay
37. Incredibox http://www.incredibox.com/
a. Possibly in a music class
38. Boom Writer http://www.boomwriter.com/
a. Grades 4 and up
b. Read, write, and compete, publish
c. Writing prompt
d. Doesn’t give names of the writers
39. List.ly http://list.ly/
a. Social book marks
40. Ge.tt http://ge.tt/
a. Upload a document and everyone can share a document
41. Dropitt.me http://dropitto.me/
a. Add on to dropbox,
b. Choose a password
c. Less than 75 mg
d. Collect work from your students
42. Drop Box https://www.dropbox.com or https://www.box.com/
a. Back up to dropbox
b. 50 G
43. Prezi http://prezi.com/
a. Cool interactive
44. Evernote http://evernote.com/
a. Notebook
b. To do lists
c. Free
45. Skitch http://evernote.com/skitch/
a. Enphasise pictures46. Multiurl http://multiurl.com/
a. All the links you want to share with students
b. Random links
c. Can do groups but it will be random
47. QR Stuff http://www.qrstuff.com/
a. Creating QR codes
48. Symbaloo http://www.symbaloo.com/
a. Social bookmarking site
b. Homepage links
49. Jing Project http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html or http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
a. Record
b. Can download or upload up to screencast
c. Can embed into your website
50. Gooru http://www.goorulearning.org/
a. Anything education
b. Interactive videos
c. Student and/or teacher accounts
51. Storybird http://storybird.com/
a. Allows you to create a book
b. Illustration are already there
c. Parent can purchase the book
52. Aireserver http://www.airserver.com/
a. Android or ios – project on your screen
b. 11.99$
53. Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com/
a. LMS
b. Badging
c. Student can upload and teacher can annotate and return
d. Intergrates with
e. Discussion thread is not good.
54. **Remind https://www.remind.com
a. No longer remind 101
b.
55. Triptico http://www.triptico.co.uk/
a. Free or Pay
b. Download on your computer
c. Student grouper
56. **Nearpod http://www.nearpod.com/
a. Presentation software and can go to any device.
b. Great 11
c. Paid and free side
57. Padlet http://padlet.com/a. Site that allows you to create a wall and student post on it
b. Can be list view
58. Jeopardy Labs https://jeopardylabs.com
a. Click and create – done
b. Keep both links
59. Tackk www.tackk.com
60. Smore https://www.smore.com/
a. Allow you to create a website
b. Free or Pay
c. Advertize
d. Analytics
Bonus
61. BitsBoard – http://bitsboard.com/
62. Doodle http://doodle.com/
63. Hand Brake http://handbrake.fr/