Below you will find drop down boxes for resources that can help you plan and teach lessons. Click on the drop down boxes to reveal applications/support for each area. The applications are approved by RHAM and meet the criteria for the Connecticut Student Data Privacy law.
Use this document to help you as a quick link guide to our application support pages! Check back often as more resources are added!
Google Workspace - Use Google tools such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings to create assignments, guides, and more.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express - Create beautiful web pages, short videos, social graphics, flyers, and more!
Bing Maps - A great mapping tool that allows you to take screenshots of streets, cities, landscapes and more without signing in.
Book Creator - Make interactive stories, digital portfolios, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, and much more!
Edpuzzle - Make any video your lesson!
Emaze - Create and share amazing presentations automatically.
Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.
Padlet - Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.
Storyboard That - A powerful tool for creating graphic novels, comics, posters, and more!
Scholastic Magazine Access - Instructions explaining how Teachers and Students can access digital copies of our Scholastic magazine subscriptions.
Audible eBook Library Instructions - Access our digital library of eBooks from any device!
Flipster Digital Magazines - Providing readers with access to best-selling digital magazines from top publishers including National Geographic, Condé Nast, Meredith, Bloomberg L.P., and more.
Edpuzzle - Students watch interactive videos and answer questions and can rewatch videos as many times as they need in order to help them understand the content.
Pear Deck - An easy to use formative assessment tool that works over Google Slides.
Plickers - A modern version of clickers. Formative assessment has never been faster. Ask for a card set for your class!
Socrative - A fun on-the-fly formative assessment tool.
PuzzleMaker - Create word searches, crossword puzzles, and other fun practice and assessment tools. From Discovery Education.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express - Create beautiful web pages, short videos, social graphics, flyers, and more!
Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.
Flipgrid - Create videos and edit them with titles and more!
iMovie - If you have access to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer, you can edit video and add elements such as titles and transitions.
Screencastify - Make screencasts, recorded webinars, and more using this tool. Post the videos you create to Google Classroom to act as a flipped classroom environment. Model, show examples, record lectures, and more all digitally.
WeVideo - Create and edit videos and share to Google Classroom.
BBC Sound Effect Database - Sound effects with copyright for personal, educational, and research use.
GarageBand - If you have access to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer, you can create beats, music, or podcasts.
Soundtrap - Create beats, music, and podcasts!
Personalized learning helps to increase student engagement, individualize instruction, and gather critical formative assessment data. Use these applications and tools to personalize your instruction for students.
UDL - Use the Universal Design for Learning checkpoints and guidelines to help optimize your teaching and to reach the interests and the strengths of all students while maintaining rigor in your classes.
Edpuzzle - Students watch interactive videos and answer questions and can rewatch videos as many times as they need in order to help them understand the content.
Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.
Khan Academy - Students can learn at their own pace in order to fill in learning gaps and then accelerate their learning.
Nearpod - Make your exisitng lessons interactive effortlessly.
Use the Universal Design for Learning checkpoints and guidelines to help optimize your teaching and to reach the interests and the strengths of all students while maintaining rigor in your classes. Check out our page with more information on universal design for learning.
Use this link to view various research tools.
Use this link to view our various citation tools.
Please see our copyright page for information on how to use images, videos, and music in your projects and assignments.
Check out the high school and middle school media center catalogs. Use this document to help you access and use the media center catalog.
Make sure students check out our student resources page!