Canvas (Grades 6-8) Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Canvas organizes and stores all your course materials in one centralized and secure location in a way that is easy for your students to locate and self-serve. Canvas assignments help you create rich learning opportunities that integrate media. Canvas provides a virtual space for students to work on collaborative documents and discussions, which are saved in real-time.
Google Classroom (Grades 3-5) LMS
Classroom allows you to create, organize, and store, all your lessons in one place. It's makes it easy for you to create rich multimedia lessons for students, assign that work, have students hand-in their work, and provide meaningful feedback to students. Teachers can also engage students in conversation or formative assessment quizzes.
Seesaw (Grades K-2) LMS
Seesaw empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school. Students capture learning with photos and videos of their work, or by adding digital creations. Everything gets organized in one place and is accessible to teachers from any device. Student work can be shared with classmates, parents, or published to a class blog. Seesaw gives students a real audience for their work and offers parents a personalized window into their child's learning.
Google Sites
New Google Sites Is An Easy-to-Use but Powerful Website Creator. Google Sites uses drag and drop technology to help you easily create a site. Sites can add and format text and media (videos, images...). Get started creating your own classroom site to share important information with students and parents.
Zoom
At its most basic level, video conferencing in education connects remote students to teachers. Video Conferencing with students is an excellent way to connect "in person" to bolster their Social Emotional well being. Teachers are using it as part of a larger blended learning model where students are learning synchronously and asynchronously. On a more exciting level, it also leads students on virtual tours, brings far-away experts on camera for interviews and allows your students to try out their fledgling foreign language skills on their peers from other countries. Explore Best Practices and Zoom Settings.
Google Meet
At its most basic level, video conferencing in education connects remote students to teachers. Video Conferencing with students is an excellent way to connect "in person" to bolster their Social Emotional well being. Teachers are using it as part of a larger blended learning model where students are learning synchronously and asynchronously. On a more exciting level, it also leads students on virtual tours, brings far-away experts on camera for interviews and allows your students to try out their fledgling foreign language skills on their peers from other countries.
Google Slides
Why Use Google Slides? Collaboration, the ability to easily share and simultaneously edit, is a great feature with Google Slides. The ability to access any Google Drive document from any browser makes it easy to create and share a multimedia presentation on the Web. You can even publish your slides as a webpage.
Peardeck (Add on For Google Slides)
Use Pear Deck For Interactive Slides. Pear Deck allows you to create visual, interactive, and engaging slides for your students. Get instant feedback from your students. Check for understanding with this formative assessment tool. Integrate your interactive slides with your LMS.
Google Forms
Google Forms are a powerful data collection tool. Forms make it easy to collect and analyze responses from students. Easily share student responses (Whole Group) with your class. Check individual responses for understanding or misconceptions. Teachers use Forms in many different ways.
Jamboard
Students can work in groups using Jamboard, collaborating in real-time with drawings, images, and text. With Jamboard, you can Write and draw, Insert images, Type Text, Drag, resize and re- orient, and Pull in files from Google Drive.
Google Drawings
Create Images For Teaching And Learning. Google Drawings is an easy to use tool that allows you to make graphic designs and publications. Allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other diagrams. Projects are easily shared with teacher. It can be used at home and school -- and synced between the two locations.
Actively Learn (Add Interactive Content to Written Resources)
Obtain access to a large library of pre-made texts and lessons. Choose a Text (Google Doc, Website....) and add interactive features to engage your students with the text. Students can annotate text by adding notes (for themselves or to share).
Insert Learning (Add Interactive Content to Written Resources)
Obtain access to a large library of pre-made texts and lessons. Choose a Text (Google Doc, Website....) and add interactive features to engage your students with the text. Students can annotate text by adding notes (for themselves or to share).
EdPuzzle (Add Interactive Content to Video Resources)
EdPuzzle makes it easy for teachers to embedded questions into their videos providing a great way for kids to learn how to gather information from video resources. EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher evaluates their understanding throughout the lesson. EdPuzzle allows teachers to scaffold the process of watching and gathering information from videos especially for our students who are struggling with reading decoding and comprehension.
Listenwise (Add Interactive Content to Audio Resources)
Engaging Podcasts for Student Listening Comprehension. Access to an extensive podcast library including ELA, Social Studies and Science lessons. Curate your own story collection of high-quality podcasts. Include interactive transcripts. Provide Listening comprehension quizzes.
Screencastify
Getting Started With Screencastify. Screencastify makes it easy to record video of your screen or with your webcam. It's a chrome extension so it only works with the Chrome Web browser. There is a simple to use cropping tool as well. Finally, your created videos are automatically saved to your Google Drive. The permissions are automatically set to anyone with the link can view. Screencastify includes a copy link button to make it easy to share your video.
Wevideo
WeVideo is a Cloud-Based Video Editor that students normally use for video editing. They can bring in images, videos, audio, and text to their videos. Did you know that WeVideo also allows students to record their screen? It does. Try it out
FlipGrid
Students and teachers normally use flipgrid to have students create a quick video to share their thinking. Did you know that Flipgrid also allows students to record their screen? It does. Try it out.
Iorad
Iorad is an Interactive Screencasting tool. Create interactive tutorials that demonstrate with step by step directions. At the end of each step, the screencast stops and asks the student to follow the prompt by clicking on various parts of the screen to follow your prompts. The screencast will not proceed unless your student clicks on the proper area to complete that step. This makes the end product a lot more interactive for the user; this will potentially make the learning stick better. Free for teachers during school closings with limited free features afterward.
Zoom
You can record your video conference so others can go back and re-watch it. Be aware of student privacy and use this sparingly.
Jamboard
Students can work in groups using Jamboard, collaborating in real-time with drawings, images, and text. With Jamboard, you can Write and draw, Insert images, Type Text, Drag, resize and re- orient, and Pull in files from Google Drive.
Google Drawings
Create Images For Teaching And Learning. Google Drawings is an easy to use tool that allows you to make graphic designs and publications. Allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other diagrams. Projects are easily shared with teacher. It can be used at home and school -- and synced between the two locations.
Peardeck (Add on For Google Slides)
Use Pear Deck For Interactive Slides. Pear Deck allows you to create visual, interactive, and engaging slides for your students. Get instant feedback from your students. Check for understanding with this formative assessment tool. Integrate your interactive slides with your LMS.
Zoom Polling
Students will express their thinking as they make predictions about the content or reason for learning in an upcoming unit. They express their ideas in a poll that is shared with the class, gleaned for information that can be used to adapt the upcoming lessons/unit.
Coggle
Concept Mapping Provide students with an image, writing or video to introduce a new unit of study. Have students use a concept map to make a flowchart of the information. This is a great way to explore students' understanding of how the events are connected. Teachers can adjust their upcoming lessons to build on students’ prior knowledge and tackle any misconceptions.
Padlet
Students check out four images or short videos on a topic. They go to affinity based breakout rooms to discuss a specific subtopic for an upcoming unit. They take a few minutes to write what they already know. Then, they engage in a short discussion on the topic. One member of the group creates a short response on Padlet where they state the topic and summarize what everyone agrees is correct, the discrepancies, and ideas that were agreed were definitely wrong.
Mentimeter Word Cloud
Three Things Word Association The teacher introduces the new unit to students and asks them to write the first three words that come to mind into a collective word cloud generator. The teacher can learn a lot about student interests and excitement for a topic and catch misunderstandings that arise.
Google Forms
Google Forms are a powerful data collection tool. Forms make it easy to collect and analyze responses from students. Easily share student responses (Whole Group) with your class. Check individual responses for understanding or misconceptions. Teachers use Forms in many different ways.
Jamboard
Students can work in groups using Jamboard, collaborating in real-time with drawings, images, and text. With Jamboard, you can Write and draw, Insert images, Type Text, Drag, resize and re- orient, and Pull in files from Google Drive.
Kahoot or Gimkit
Games are a really fun way to check for comprehension and see if our students are making the connections we think they should be making. Teachers can use the information they glean from these games to understand what they need to teach next.
WeVideo, Flipgrid or Screencastify Submit
With Video Check-ins students can create their own 30-second video to explain their thinking and make their learning visible. Students use Wevideo to create videos or screencasts to showcase their learning and make connections. Teachers can watch these quick videos to understand what their students know and their connections to prior knowledge or they can capture misunderstandings. We can use this insight to understand what we need to teach next.
Insert Learning and Actively Learn
Annotated Readings are great tools for students to annotate their readings. Students can highlight important parts of the text. They can use colorful highlights to organize information, add notes to define words or explain their thinking and make connections to prior learning, and add additional resources that their peers can learn from. We can use this insight to understand what we need to teach next.
Insert Learning, Actively Learn, Edpuzzle and Listenwise
Comprehension Checks - When teachers embed questions into student readings, video, or audio it provides a student an opportunity to stop and reflect on what they have learned and give teachers powerful insights into students' understanding. Teachers can use this information to adjust their lessons to meet their students where they are at.
Voicethread
Bean Critique - Students use the Bean Critique to evaluate the best model. Students know the criteria for showcasing what learned because they helped develop the rubric. They apply their thinking using the Bean Critique method to vote on the best examples. In Voicethread, students would just leave a comment (Bean Equivalent) on the benchmark of their choice. The teacher can review these with students and use them as benchmarks for further learning.
Voice Recorder
There are times when we want to keep it simple and avoid all the distractions. Voice recordings help students focus on clear oral communication and encourages them to organize their thinking, clearly communicate in detail so their “fans” can envision, and determine which order to tell their story in. Use Voicerecorder for a one time voice recording or create a portfolio of recordings with a student podcast. Teachers can listen to these podcasts to gain an understanding of our students’ learning and use this information to adjust their teaching.
Google Sites
Students reflect in writing and embed video and images to make their learning visible in their learning portfolio. Reflecting on the videos will be the key to understanding their learning and seeing patterns. Students can use these portfolios to present their learning to their Peers, Teachers, and parents so that we can gain an understanding of our students’ learning and use this information to adjust their teaching.
Voice Recorder
Record Your Voice with Online Voice Recorder. Voice Recorder is a convenient and simple online tool that can be used right in your browser. No sing-in necessary. Voice Recorder automatically detects silent fragments at the beginning and the end of your recording and deletes them for your convenience. After the recording is complete, you can crop it to the section you actually need. When you click save, the file downloads as a .mp3 to your desktop. You can use your audio file anywhere including Google Slides, Book Creator...
Audio in Google Slides
Students and teachers can add sound files to Google Slides.
WeVideo
Easy enough for students in Grades 3-8 to use. Powerful enough for our students and teachers to create great visual presentations. Teachers can make powerful videos to teach their students and students can create a video to show what they learned. Video editing is very engaging for students. They can bring in images, videos, audio, and text to their videos.
FlipGrid
Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together! When learners reflect upon, discuss and showcase what they are thinking, learning, making, reading, solving, experiencing, playing … it’s always better together! It’s simple, fun and takes only a few minutes! Learners pause and flip their camera while recording, add uploaded photos and videos, trim unlimited clips and include a whiteboard, video styles, text, emoji, inking and more to superpower their stories! Share individual learner videos with family members or curate MixTape collections of videos for families to follow.
Screencastify Submit
Teachers - Create Assignments For Your Students. Choose if the link should start a screen or webcam recording. Include the link in a Canvas, Google Classroom, or Seesaw assignment (or anywhere else). Teachers can Integrate Screencastify Submit into the Lesson Plans. Students - record their responses and hand them in. Students can record their video responses or add voice to their visual presentations (screencasting. Students can submit their Video through your Learning Management System (LMS). Teachers- easily view their student responsesThrough Screencastify Submit or With Your LMS.
Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle makes it easy for teachers to embedded questions into their videos providing a great way for kids to learn how to gather information from video resources. EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher evaluates their understanding throughout the lesson. Edpuzzle allows teachers to scaffold the process of watching and gathering information from videos especially for our students who are struggling with reading decoding and comprehension.
Voicethread
Are you looking for an educational tool that can improve your classes' small group discussions? Are you looking for a way to get your struggling/reluctant readers and writers more engaged and involved in discussions? The audio and visual features in VoiceThread make for better discussion starters to continue online or in class. Your students who struggle to communicate with reading and writing can spend more of their time listening and speaking to contribute great ideas, build their confidence and take pride in their contributions to the classes' learning.
Google Slides
Why Use Google Slides? Collaboration, the ability to easily share and simultaneously edit, is a great feature with Google Slides. The ability to access any Google Drive document from any browser makes it easy to create and share a multimedia presentation on the Web. You can even publish your slides as a webpage.
Voicethread
Are you looking for an educational tool that can improve your classes' small group discussions? Are you looking for a way to get your struggling/reluctant readers and writers more engaged and involved in discussions? The audio and visual features in VoiceThread make for better discussion starters to continue online or in class. Your students who struggle to communicate with reading and writing can spend more of their time listening and speaking to contribute great ideas, build their confidence and take pride in their contributions to the classes' learning.
WeVideo
Easy enough for students in Grades 3-8 to use. Powerful enough for our students and teachers to create great visual presentations. Teachers can make powerful videos to teach their students and students can create a video to show what they learned. Video editing is very engaging for students. They can bring in images, videos, audio, and text to their videos.
FlipGrid
Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together! When learners reflect upon, discuss and showcase what they are thinking, learning, making, reading, solving, experiencing, playing … it’s always better together! It’s simple, fun and takes only a few minutes! Learners pause and flip their camera while recording, add uploaded photos and videos, trim unlimited clips and include a whiteboard, video styles, text, emoji, inking and more to superpower their stories! Share individual learner videos with family members or curate MixTape collections of videos for families to follow.
Google Slides
Why Use Google Slides? Collaboration, the ability to easily share and simultaneously edit, is a great feature with Google Slides. The ability to access any Google Drive document from any browser makes it easy to create and share a multimedia presentation on the Web. You can even publish your slides as a webpage.
Book Creator
Bookcreator makes it very easy to create powerful interactive, media-rich presentations with embedded video, audio recordings, annotated images, and text. Empowering students to create and share their work. Plus, book creation gets students using critical-thinking and organization skills as they brainstorm, plan, and make creative decisions about their books. App-Smashing: It's easy to bring in content from other sites and share content to those other sites
Jamboard
Students can work in groups using Jamboard, collaborating in real-time with drawings, images, and text. With Jamboard, you can Write and draw, Insert images, Type Text, Drag, resize and re- orient, and Pull in files from Google Drive.
Whiteboard.fi
An online whiteboard is a learning space where both teachers and students can write and interact with students in real time via the internet. Set up a whiteboard for your class quickly and easily. No registration or log-in needed. Whiteboard.fi is an instant formative assessment tool for your classroom, providing you with live feedback and immediate overview over your students. It's cross-platform so it works on all devices.