Technology Toolbox
Turnitin.com-This site is available to all teachers to use with students. It allows students to submit work electronically and checks for plagiarism. Teachers can grade electronically by uploading/creating rubrics, developing comment banks, etc. Students have access to the rubric and comments. It also has a calendar and discussion feature.
Kahoot-A fun tool to utilized for learning that makes it a game. Students can use their phones or Ipads to download the app and join in the fun. Tons of resources for the classroom or create your own.
Newsela-A wonderful tool to utilize as a reading and vocabulary strategy. It allows you to assign an article to your class and create an assignment based on the article that could include vocab, review questions, and a quiz.
Common Lit-This program is an amazing resource for reading practice and supporting materials. In allows you to select material at the appropriate reading level for your students and additional materials along with each passage in the form of questions and responses. For ESL students the language can even be changed on many of the resources.
Socrative-An app or online program that allows teachers to create games for review, quizzes, exit tickets, etc. It also allows teachers to import quizzes by sharing with other socrative users. It grades the work for you and gives you immediate results.
Quizlet- Many teachers use it to help students study vocab or concepts. Studens may access on their phones, ipads, or other devises. It also offers ACT/SAT prep opportunities that have already been created by other teachers and can be utilized as a study tool. Quizlets can be found for all subject matters for the test and vocabulary found within the tests.
Flipgrid-a website that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display.
NewseumED.org-Offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life. Learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources and put current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes and programs.
Classcraft-a new, game-based approach to teaching. It's designed to encourage participation, good behavior, and 21st-century skills like collaboration. Here is a short video link explanation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybCSYAzMxc
Pear Deck--A Google Slides add-on that is very similar to a slide show, like PowerPoint or Google Slides.But instead of just static, informational sides, you can make interactive slides that let every student participate in your questions or prompts, right from their own devices. When you present your Deck, you will get a unique code for students to use to join your presentation from their phone or computer.
Quiziz-allows teachers to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students. Similar to Kahoot, but allows students to see the questions on their devices
Flippity-a series of web apps that can easily turn a google spreadsheet into a set of online Flashcards or Quiz Show. There are cards for helping a teacher create random groups, or mix and match activities. Creates quiz show games, random name picker, brackets, so many cool aspects to help engage students.
Google Classroom-is a free application to help teachers and students to communicate and can be used to organize and manage assignments, to go paperless, for collaboration between students and between teachers, and so on.
Padlet-is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more. Great tool for students to use a brainstorm format, discussion, etc.
IMovie-an Apple program that allows students to create movies or movie trailers from video and/or photos.
Shadow Puppet Edu-an Apple app which allows students and teachers to make engaging presentations and slideshows out of photos, videos, sound clips and voice overs. ... They can also be shared via a number of services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more, or emailed personally to teachers or other students.