Digital Learning Support Tools

Focus Me

• Helps you stay focused, take short breaks and limit distractions

• Timer and Website Blocker

• FREE Google Chrome extension

Graphic Organizers

• Helps you organize your thoughts

• 25 templates

• Edit in Google Drawings

• Save to Google Drive

• Make Your Own

• FREE website from Ditch That Text Book

KAMI

• Helps you take notes & understand what you read

• Annotate PDF's

• FREE Google Chrome extension

• How to annotate with the tools

• Using the Menu items

• Kami Demo

Immersive Reader for Websites

• Helps you understand what you are reading

• Text-to-Speech

• Text attributes

• Backgrounds

• Translation

• Line Reader

• Syllables

• Parts of Speech

• Picture Dictionary

• FREE Google Chrome extension

Spelling City

• Helps you improve spelling & vocabulary which impacts reading

• Boost success in spelling, vocabulary & reading

• Add terms based on your student's classwork

• FREE web site

Typing.com

• Helps you improve your typing skills

• FREE web site

• Sign up with Google creds

• MADESE Expectations:

(90%+ accuracy) and

gr5 x 5 = 25 wpm

gr6 x 5 = 30 wpm

gr7 x 5 = 35 wpm

gr8 x 5 = 40 wpm

Typetastic k-2

• Helps you improve your typing skills

• FREE web site

Typetastic 3-4

• Helps you improve your typing skills

• FREE web site

• MADESE Expectations:

(90%+ accuracy) and

gr3 x 5 = 15 wpm

gr4 x 5 = 20 wpm

Flash Card Factory:

Pear Deck

(for Teachers)

• Helps students learn vocabulary

• Create a word list

• Pair students to create visual and written definitions

• Vote on them as a class

• Save the card deck (print, etc)

The Easy Essay

• Helps you organize your writing

• Automate the 5 Paragraph Essay

• Answer questions that become your essay

• FREE website

Google Keep

• Helps you stay organized

• Organize To Do Lists and Homework

• Gather notes from the Web & move them to a Google Doc

• FREE Google Keep extension

Voice Typing

• Helps you put your thoughts in writing

• Built-in Google Docs

• Tools...Voice Typing

• Commands List

• FREE in Google Docs

ChromeBook Accessibility

• Makes accessing content on your computer easier

• Built-in Features

• ChromeVox

• Select to Speak

• Dictation

• Voice Typing

• High Contrast & Full Screen Magnification

• FREE on your Chromebook

Hemingway Editor

• Helps you improve your writing through format, grammar and structure suggestions

• Desktop App 3.0 PAY $19.99

  • Mac OS 10.9 & up

  • Windows 7 & up

• Reading level

• Word count & other stats

• Format text

• Export text to other word processors

Read & Write Chromebook Extension

• Helps you understand what you are reading and write more clearly

• Android, Windows, Mac, iPad

• FREE 30-day Trial includes

  • Text to Speech

  • Translate

  • Text & Picture Dictionary

  • Speech to Text

  • Word Prediction

Language Tool

• Makes checking your Grammar easier

• Up to 10,000 characters per text

• Basic punctuation, grammar & style checking

• FREE Chrome Extension

• PAY to upgrade for extended features ($4.92 monthly)