With Open Culture you can:

• Find thousands of media based on subject topic
• Have access to lectures from world renowned professors
• Listen to classic audiobooks read by famous actors
• Explore K-12 resources curated by grade and subject

OER Commons:

• Has tens of thousands of resources for every subject
• Contains collections of materials for easy sorting
• Includes a Hub feature you or your students can use to collect resources and share them with others.
• Allows search for Hubs that other students and educators can utilize

Zoom: With Zoom you can:

• Join a meeting
• Start a meeting and invite up to 50 others
• Share your screen/See others too
• Allow others to 'take control' and visa versa
• Have many on the screen at one time collaborating
• Mark up your screen/others can too
• Download a local CPU version to achieve sessions

Tip#17 Lightshot (3-07-2018)

Lightshot is a quick and easy way to take a screenshot. You can make small edits to the image, upload it online, share it on social media, and search for similar images on Google. It can be used on Mac or PC and is also available in the Chrome store.

Lightshot can:

• quickly captures images of your screen
• allow you to edit your screenshots to provide more information, clarity, or commentary
• share your ideas online and across different social media platforms

TIP#15-Flipgrid (2-21-2018)

Flipgrid is a free video discussion platform. Teachers create a grid, and then they post a topic for discussion and students respond with short, 90 second videos. Students do not need a Flipgrid account to respond, and they can access it on Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, and mobile devices. It's easy to get a conversation started!

Flipgrid Can:

• be used to spark discussions inside and outside of the classroom
• increase student engagement and participation
• build community and school pride
• be used as a formative assessment and reflection tool
• create a space for professional learning communities to share ideas

TIP#13-Google Translate (2-7-2018) ***Browser or Mobile APP***

This tip is simple, but really effective. Google Translate might seem like a tool only used for one thing...translating on language to another, but it can actually be twisted into a powerful resource for both students and teachers. Instead of worrying about translating text from one language to another, use Google Translate to listen to a chunk of text from any source. There is also a smart phone app of this too!

Browser Applications of Google Translate:

• Use Google Translate to help struggling readers
• Grab an article from the web you want to have read to you.
• Grab a short story or poem with less than 5000 words and listen as it is read to you.
• Paste your essay in Google Translate and listen to your essay as a also check it visually...double the senses.
• Paste text in GT that you are trying to memorize or study...have GT read it to you...a digital study buddy

Mobile Applications for Google Translate:

• Text reader in your pocket for on-the-go help
• Use the device's camera to capture or digitalize words to have read to you.
• Works great to capture text from a worksheet...to make it digital.
• Using the camera, use the function to swipe on a word in order to have it read it to you in order to learn how to pronounce a word properly.

TIP#11-Answer Garden (1-24-2018)

AnswerGarden is a web-based tool that allows you to gather feedback from a group. One of the best features of AnswerGarden is that there is no registration required, and the students do not need to create an account. Once a question is posed, the group can respond and a word cloud is generated. Teachers/facilitators can use it for quick formative assessments, and students can collaborate and practice critical thinking skills as they analyze the answers generated.

AnswerGarden Can:

• be used to activate prior knowledge before a lesson
• serve as an "exit card" to determine the level of understanding following a lesson
• conduct a poll
• assist with brainstorming
• encourage collaboration

FAQ on AnswerGarden

TIP#9-Kahoot (1-10-2018)

Kahoot is a fun way to increase student learning and collect data to inform instructional decisions that teachers make every day in their classroom. The tool allows teachers to create questions in multiple choice format. Then, teachers create a game to test their knowledge. The games are played with any device the student has and data can be downloaded to figure out how each of the students did. The game element also adds excitement to the activity. Kahoot is great for a quick quiz or exit ticket to determine where students are in their learning.

Kahoot Can :

• Add fun to quizzes and exit tickets by adding a game element to activities
• Collect data to help teachers make informative decisions about instruction
• Allow teachers to search for community created quizzes to enhance student learning
• Support learning at home by giving students access to quizzes online

TIP#7-Kami (12-13-2017)

Kami is an extension that you can add to your Chrome browser that will allow you to read or annotate articles. It is great to highlight too. The free version is all you need. Once you adjust your PDF, you can export it with the newly 'Marked Up' version. You can also export directly to your Google Drive for ease of use and/or sharing.

Possible Applications: (personal + School)

• Saving Passwords, Screenshots,
• Saving Images for easy access
• Collaborating is small ways
• To do lists W/Reminders
• Saving 'Canned Text' for sending emails
• Needed Materials List for a Project for class
• Scanned Cards (library, Grocery, etc)