A's favorite blog posts on learning by Jennifer Gonzalez:
Animal safari ar
Encourage students bringing wild animals to school with animal Safari AR - 3D Learning
Blooket
Welcome to the World of Blooket: a new take on trivia and review games! The way it works is that a teacher/host picks a question set and a unique game mode. Then, we generate a code that players can use to join the game on their own devices. After the game starts, players will answer questions to help them win.
Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle lets you pick a video, whether it be yours or one from YouTube, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding. Know if students are watching the videos, how many times per section and if they're understanding the content. Enable self-paced learning with interactive lessons, just add your voice and questions within the video.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture allows you to meet the people, visit the places and learn about the events that shaped our world. Discover collections curated by experts from the most famous museums. Be moved by stories depicted in thousands of photos, videos, manuscripts and artworks on every type of screen and in virtual reality. Google Arts & Culture also offers an iOS app, too!
Google Earth
Make and take tours with Google Earth's projects. Demonstrate learning and make it personal!
Google Expeditions
Google Expeditions is a virtual reality teaching tool that lets you lead or join immersive virtual trips all over the world — get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks, even visit outer space!
Books
Apple's Books app not only delivers your electronic book, but did you know you can also add notes and create flashcards? Don't forget to take advantage of its great features.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform used in classrooms, offices and social settings. Teachers can create their own quizzes, polls, and/or surveys using Kahoot! or they can search the database to favorite others.
Nearpod
Nearpod allows teachers to save prep time by easily importing existing lessons (pdfs, jpegs, ppts) and adding interactive features such as Virtual Field Trips, 3D Objects, Quizzes, Polls, Open Ended Questions + more! A great asyncronous option!
Pearltrees
PearlTrees offers the ability to research beautifully. Save web pages, photos, files, notes, etc. and organize them into meaningful collections. Download the iOS app for PearlTrees here.
PLickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Tailor instruction with instant feedback. Use Plickers for quick checks for understanding to know whether your students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills.
Pro Profs
Pro Profs is not an application, but a website that allows teachers to create formative assessments with instant feedback. Never think of creating a quiz on paper again once you use ProProfs.
Quivervision
QuiverVision combines physical coloring with state of the art augmented reality technology to bring you and your children an extraordinary experience.
With a mix of free and paid content (certain page packs require an in-app purchase to activate the 3D experience) every coloring page can be brought to life in its uniquely colored way, giving the artist an immediate and special sense of ownership and pride! Not only is the app incredibly fun, but it is also a great tool for developing skills and knowledge on various topics.
Quizizz
Quizizz offers free self-paced quizzes to review, assess, and engage. Complete these tasks in class or at the comfort of your own home. Better yet, launch a quizizz lesson!
Quizlet
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. Try out the new diagram feature! Or better yet, make things a game and launch a quizlet.live game.
Have Quizlet Teacher? Check out the full playlist of features here, but some top options would be:
Upload class notes or documents to automatically generate outlines, flashcards, or even sample essay questions with Magic Notes
Play Quizlet.live - a competitive, collaborative flashcard game
Find free textbook solutions that you can trust (with step-by-step explanations)
Generate quick summaries with enhanced AI
Thinglink
Thinglink allows its users to create images, videos, and 360 degree content in minutes. Watch out! You must have a paid subscription in order to create interactive videos.
Socrative
Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. No matter where or how you teach, Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens. Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning. Download the Socrative apps here!