Reminder to students and staff: Sometimes using new technology can be frustrating or scary. Be an empowered learner and seek out YouTube videos to find answers or just try pushing buttons and see what happens (it will be OK).
Any resource that can gets students interacting with one another will help make them feel like part of a learning community. Consider any of these resources to increase ways for students to share ideas and work together.
Use: With classroom pose questions (under "create" and "question") that have students write responses, see classmates, and give feedback to others.
Use: Have students collaborate and share with other students in or out of the district.
Use: Students can work in teams or collaboratively order to work together on shared topics.
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Use: Interact and share brainstorms, idea webs, sticky notes and more.
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Use: Have students give verbal and audio feedback to one another. Or they can add their own voice notes to work. Transcribes into more than 20 world languages.
Use: Interactive board where students can post images, videos, pictures, and text responses to ideas. Students can also disagree, agree, or favorite classmates responses.
Use: With the free plan, teachers can see all of the student's individual whiteboard brainstorming at once. Teachers see the students progress in real time, while students only see their whiteboard and the teacher's. Great formative assessment tool!
Have students explore their inner creativity! Have them showcase ideas and learning in a variety of ways.
Use: Create graphics, web pages, videos with music, text and images and put them together in a creative way.
Use: Make fiction or nonfiction stories with custom drawings and pictures, or stock images. Can sign in with Google.
Use: Create a multitude of graphics by using templates or custom designs. Make SURE to sign up for the free educator account. This upgrades you and students for free access to ALL Canva's features.
Use: All Chromebooks have built in screen recorders and screenshot tools! Easy way for kids to show their thinking.
Use: Do the guided lessons and learn how to build in 3D!
Use: Best Chromebook compatible video creation tool. Has simple and advanced features. Syncs with Google accounts and finished products get exported to Drive.
These resources work well for teachers that need to share a specific message or idea with students. But don't forget you can flip learning easily and ask students to create their own "teaching" materials.
Use: Individual and multi-student review and practice activities and games.
Use: Interactive lessons and practice activities created by teachers.
Use: Use video to teach. Add in custom voice overs, questions, and thinking points.
Use: Teachers build formative tasks that let students get feedback and see progress in real time.
Use: Take any existing document, including scanned PDFs, and write, draw, type, annotate, and comment.
Use: Best used to create short (think 2 minutes or less) voice overs while talking through what is on the screen. Syncs and saves to Google Drive.
Use: Creates more interactive worksheet experience.
These resources provide materials and texts for students. They are free and easy to access.
Use: Wide range of text levels, subjects, and contents to engage students at all levels. Features include ability to create classes, use leveled texts and integrate content area literature.
Use: Leveled text, content area texts. Ability to integrate with Google Classroom, assign tasks and monitor student progress.
Use: Grade level specific lessons, videos and tutorials for students. Search by content area or topic. Check out this free workshop offered by the Khan Academy and Adobe.
Use: Wide range of text levels, subjects, and contents to engage students at all levels.
Use: Grade level specific digital editions of Time for Kids. Topics include current events and financial literacy. Includes worksheets, lessons and other tools.
All Chromebooks have a multitude of features than can make learning easier or more personalized.
Use: Voice diction and typing text with voice are the two most popular accessibility tools, but there are so many more!