Mr Kennedy - Online Resources

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media is a non-profit company that provides materials for teachers, parents and guardians to help children navigate the web and our complex digital world. A great resource for helping kids to grasp what seems like common sense. Lesson Plans, Videos and more.

Teachers-Pay-Teachers

TPT is a site of teacher generated materials for teachers. If there is a cost, that profit is given to the teacher creator. I'll be submitting materials soon.

Deering Team Drive

Deering's Team drive is full of images and video to access for building school media and publications. Please contribute if you can. Sorry, it's for PPS Employees Only. If you're a PTO Member or a Coach, Club or Advisor and not a PPS Employee, email me and I can grant access.

Learning Ally is a Chromebook, PC, Mac, phone or tablet software that reads print books to you and allows lots of accessibility tools. PHS subscribes and the options are huge.

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ELA Tools

The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator

This site generates a prompt and the kids pick the time from 5m - 1 hour. Once they begin, if they stop; GAME OVER. Really pushes kids! Works with Grammarly & Exports to files! Ready Set Go!

Writing Igniter

Looking for a fast prompt generator. The Writing Igniter will allow you to click a button an get a prompt. No more thinking up prompts!

Story Wars

Story Wars allows student to collaborate online with multiple authors, compete in duels and push themselves as a writer. You can walk away from a book or add to a book. Earn points and compete.

Tellagami

Tellagami allows students to create an animated character that will speak written text for up to 30 seconds. This character allows students to be creative with text, back grounds and much more.

Great application for drawing online. Use cheap stylus and kids can create everything they need for a presentation.

KAMI

Kami is an online document annotation and markup tool. You can highlight, underline, and strikethrough text in PDF and other document formats. You can also add text boxes, shapes, and images. Kami works with Google Drive and Google Classroom. With Kami, you can easily collaborate on documents in the classroom while avoiding the hassles of printing documents.

KAMI VIDEO TUTORIALS

BLENDSPACE

This site allows you to create a grid of assignments. The students complete grids and they're check-off each task in the grid. It's a great tool to place a lot of individual pieces in one place with a visual.

PBS Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips, developed by the Boston University School of Education, enable teachers to successfully integrate PBS KIDS online games into your classroom curricula to enhance children’s early math and literacy development. The Teaching Tips provide step-by-step lessons for using educational media to enhance standards-based teaching and learning.

Prezi made a splash some 10 years ago with making presentations more engaging with movement. Now, they've added the addition of video overlay!

Pear Deck is a fantastic way to get kids to engage in your presentation. You can add questions and 2-way engagement with your audience. It is a paid account, but worth it.

Insert Learning

Insert instructional content into any web page. ... Easily scaffold text with questions and media that help all of your students be more successful learners. You can create a sample, but otherwise it's a paid account. I believe it's $40 a year.

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