Instruction Tools

BookWidgets is an online resources that allows you to choose from a broad range of activity types, and add your own text, images, questions and imagination. Your “widget” can be shared privately with a simple link, or embedded in any learning management system, and works on any device. BookWidgets is great for blended learning, flipped classrooms, as well as more traditional classrooms. Our analytics can track learner activity, so teachers can easily review and grade student work.

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Bubbl.us is a free online resource to assist students in generating ideas, arguments, or stories by allowing them to create mind maps of their thinking.

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Educreations transforms your device into a recordable whiteboard. It records your voice, handwriting and allows users to add photos, documents, webpages, maps, and more to produce their own personal video lessons that teachers and students can share online.

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Evernote is a note-taking app that allows users to easily take notes and organize them so that they are easy to access and search. With a variety of features, such as adding images, copying in and annotating webpages, and much more, Evernote makes taking notes on any topic with any media easy.

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Google Keep is a note taking application created by Google. If you have a Google account this service is linked to that account, just like Google Docs, Sites, or Slides. Google Keep allows you to take notes and save them wherever you are. You can take notes on your laptop computer and that add to those notes on your smartphone later as long as you have the app downloaded to your smartphone. You can share these notes with your friends, family, or classmates as long as they have a Google account.

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HP Reveal (formerly Arasma) is an augmented reality application that allows students to interact with the physical world by creating auras that support content.

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LiveBinders is a digital 3 ring binder into which you can put virtually anything: webpages, PDFs, documents, images, videos, or even items from your Google Drive. Materials and information is organized by "tabs" and "sub-tabs" to make navigation simple. Binders can be organized into "shelves" and can be shared individually or as an entire shelf. In this way, LiveBinders can be used as a source of exchange for learning and understanding, allowing for collaboration and sharing of materials and ideas.

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Nearpod is a free resource for teachers to get students involved in the classroom. Teachers create or download interactive multimedia presentations, share their lessons with students, monitor student participation, and create a variety of assessments to keep students engaged and easily grade their progress.

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Padlet is an online virtual bulletin board or "wall" where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links, and pictures in a secure place. It is a great platform for making and sharing digital content on a fun and visually pleasing display. Easily add posts with one click, copy-paste, or drag and drop. Padlet creators can moderate posts, remove posts, and manage their board at all times.

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Quick Response (QR) codes is a type of matrix or two-dimensional barcode. QR codes have become popular ways to communicate information in classroom. Teachers create QR codes using QR code generators to pass information to student links to websites, videos, podcasts. The QR code is displayed and scanned (read) on mobile phones to quickly communicate information to students.

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Screencast-O-Matic is an easy to use, fast screen recorder platform that can capture any area of your screen with the option to provide narration and soundtracks. Teachers can record lectures, tutorials on resources and tools, and instructions for class activities, assignments, and projects. Students can also use this tool to share their work to their peers or teachers.

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Vocaroo is a quick and easy way for teachers and students to record their voices and share with others. The platform allows for users to email, share on social media, or create QR codes of their voice recordings.

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