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Resources for integrating Google Apps & Chromebooks in the digital classroom
Chrome Web Store - Get Chrome apps here!
App Hub- Community-based resources for using apps in the classroom.
Google For Education - A large source of tools, apps, and sites, some of which are highlighted in this list.
Tes - Create interactive lessons that you can post to your Google Classroom.
Kahoot - Popular for making (and using pre-made) quizzes. Quizzes can be added to Classroom; single student or competitive team modes.
Google’s Digital Literacy Resources
Example of a lesson on making a guide to an area
Virtual field trips from museums
Google My Maps - Give geographical context to lessons & much more
Example of a map from the “Explore” section
Some ideas for integrating into lessons
Expeditions - Explore the world without leaving the classroom.
Tour Creator - works with Google Street View to make interactive tours of historical sites, landmarks, or anywhere.
Google Arts and Culture - Interactive articles on arts, culture, inventions, and more.
Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler - Alice’s blog is by a teacher, for teachers, and has an enormous amount of content related to using Google in the classroom.
More Online Learning Resources
Animoto - Make 30 second videos for free.
Audioboom - Make audio recordings.
Blabberize - Choose a photo or upload from your webcam. Record or upload your audio. Your mouth will move in time to the speech.
Blendspace - Online presentations on a canvas.
Bookemon - Create E-Books.
Bubbl.us - Create colorful brainstorms and mind maps online. Embed your mind map in your website. Email and print your mind map. Save your mind map as an image.
FindHow - Find how to do things. This site gives you access to trusted, reliable How-To content on the Internet.
Fodey - Make newspaper clippings and other fun images.
Glogster EDU - Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create mulitmedia pages. Embed into any webpage.
Image Chef - Website that assists in customizing images.
Infoplease - General searches plus almanacs, biographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedia, spelling.
Kid Blog - Set up a classroom blog. Each student has his own blog and can view others class members. You can control what is and is not posted.
LiveBinders - Organize your resources and presentations in a digital binder stored online.
Make Beliefs Comix - Online resource to make comic strips.
My StoryMaker - Control characters and objects, creates sentences for you. Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. If you share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right.
Padlet (formerly Wallwisher) - Make an online bulletin board for students to post ideas and information.
Powtoon - Make animated videos and presentations.
Prezi - Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond a simple slide show.
Roxio PhotoShow - Turn your photos into a musical PhotoShow in just minutes.
Screencast-O-Matic - Make screencasts.
Screenr - Make screencasts.
Slidebean - Make simple presentations.
Socrative - Web based student response system.
Storybird - Write a story based on a set of illustrations.
Symbaloo - Visual bookmarking tool
TeacherTube - Videos produced and/or uploaded by educators for the purpose of education.
Vocaroo - Make audio recordings.
Voki - Make talking avatars.
Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools - A collection of web based tools for your classroom.
Wordle - Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Zunal Webquest Maker - Web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes. 100 Templates to choose from.