Produce & Publish
Description:
Create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes with Adobe Spark
How teachers can use this tool:
- Speech and language play
- Sight word proficiency
- Narrative prompts
- Rhyming game
- Playing with shapes and colors
- Second language acquisition
- Story starters
- Creative/Collaborative Storytelling
- and more
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Teacher created
- All Ages
Description:
All your favorite blogs in one place. Add the blogs you want to follow and you'll get all of their new posts in a feed on Bloglovin! And yes, you can add any blog.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Teachers can use blogs to publish assignments, resources, and keep students and even parents up to date on class events, due dates, and content being covered.
- Teachers can also use blogs to help students’ master content and improve their writing skills.
- Students can use blogs to publish their writing and educate others on a particular topic.
- Students can also create blogs for the chess club or the yearbook club, the football team or the upcoming prom.
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 3 and up
Description:
Game making app-allowing students to "draw" levels and characters using blocks on a grid, like a pixel art editor. These designs can be saved to a library and shared with other kids in a common classroom space or with the larger Bloxels community.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Students can collaborate with other students on their game design.
- students can share their games privately within the class for other students to play
Platform
- App
- Chrome
Price
Grades/Ages
- Grades 1-7
Description:
Create and publish digital books and multimedia
How teachers can use this tool:
- interactive great tool to view the 50 different ways teachers can use book creator
- https://read.bookcreator.com/aWAhdfUWXPQR1UPW7fJOHnfObsb2/_or2hLPmR3WlS34sPH_WKQ
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
- Paid
Grades/Ages
- All Ages
Description:
Easily create beautiful designs + documents. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Practice design thinking
- Design your own lesson plan
- Discover other educators' lesson plans
- Help students create learning portfolios
- Create lecture slides and presentations
- Info-graphics
Platform
- Websire
Price
- Free with in website purchases
Grades/Ages
- 6th grade and up
Description:
Photo-editing app that allows students to make photographs talk.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Create short book reviews for the library.
- Have your students research and speak as a historical figure. Use a photograph of their person, or have them draw a portrait to photograph.
- Teaching about animals and habitats? Students can make their drawings or sculptures talk to share learning.
- For a poetry unit, students can illustrate a character to photograph and "read" their poem.
- Teachers can also get in on the ChatterPix fun and use it to create lesson hooks. For example, teaching a unit on Mozart? Create a talking photograph of Mozart to introduce the unit.
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades K-7
Description:
lets anyone turn everyday texts into short songs and/or music videos. Users type any text message they want, then choose a type of music/vocal track to set it to
How teachers can use this tool:
- It's a fun way to introduce a topic
- Question or idea to the class.
- Create a short reaction reflection, comment, feedback or highlight of the lesson or topic.
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All grades
Description:
The Educreations iPad app makes it simple for students and teachers to create a multi-page presentation or lesson that can easily be shared with other students, teachers, or parents. You begin creating a whiteboard-style slide by adding images from the choices in the drop-down menu, or by writing (choose a color and finger-write or type using the on-screen keypad). You can move around to resize images and text, as well as draw directly on the images, and there's no limit to the number of slides in a presentation. There's also an option to record audio over the slides, as well as some simple video editing tools. Users can save, categorize by subject, and share their presentations.
How teachers can use this tool:
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- 2nd and up
Description:
creating multimedia presentations
How teachers can use this tool:
Platform
- App
- Chrome webstore
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 3-12
Description:
Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. Grids can be shared with classes, small groups, or any collection of users interested in a common strand of questions. Each grid can hold an unlimited number of topics and each topic can hold an unlimited number of responses.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Further classroom conversations by assigning questions as homework assignments and then continue the conversation in class the next day.
- Ask students to weigh in on a critical current event for a social studies or civics class; use it in a math class to ask students to describe the process they used to solve a complex problem.
- You might also use Flipgrid as an opportunity for students to post reviews of books, movies, or television shows.
- Consider using a "grid" as a way to collect a range of students' responses on a single topic:
Platform
- Website
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 3-12
Description:
audio arts experiences, GarageBand’s your tool. Play virtual instruments to compose original music, learn multitrack recording and audio engineering, and share and collaborate creations with ease.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Audio Recording: Create an audio recording using the Audio Recorder Touch Instrument.
- Create New Live Loops Song: Choose a Live Loops template in the Template browser to create a new song.
- Create New Tracks Song: Choose a Touch Instrument in the Sound browser to create a new song.
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 3-12
Description:
is a conversation generator used by over 5 Million people around the Globe! It lets you create fake chat conversations with anyone you want. With multiple themes to choose from you can make your fake conversation look super realistic.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Gapped dialogues
- Conversation starters
- Dialogue rebuild
- Reported Speech
- Famous conversations
- Finding errors
- Writing prompt
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All Ages
iMovie
Description:
Movie editor will satisfy beginner and intermediate creators
How teachers can use this tool:
- Create engaging presentations
- Create how to videos
- Create video reports
- Provide out of school experiences
- Classroom projects
- Digital Storytelling
- Create book reports/trailers
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 5-12
Description:
A screencasting tool that lets users record audio, video, browser windows, or entire screens in Google Chrome.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Create short how-to videos
- model exemplars of anything from poetry annotation to lab safety procedures
- send quick reminders home
- adding links to your videos to direct viewers to additional resources.
Platform
- Chrome Extension
Price
- Free
- Paid Version
Grades/Ages
- Grade 3-12
Description:
Simple, elegant tool for creating presentations
How teachers can use this tool:
- Creating engaging Keynote presentations
- Inserting interactive actions
- Creating flipped classes
- Empowering students to create with Keynote
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- 6th -12th
Description:
is a website and iPad app that helps students create comics and build writing skills. It also offers a wealth of resources for teachers and parents to support comic creation and writing instruction.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Create Autobiographic Comix
- Practice New Vocabulary
- Promote Team Collaboration
- Practice conversation skills for ESOL students
- Introduce creative writing
- Create comic books
- and more
Platform
- Website
- App
Price
Grades/Ages
- Grades 2 and up
Description:
Pages is a strong word processing and page layout app that works on iOS mobile devices and Mac computers.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Students can share read-only files and leave constructive comments for peer reviews.
- create picture storybooks and strong enough to support complex books and research papers
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All
Description:
Is the easiest and most fun app to edit photos! Choose from hundreds of photo grids, exclusive stickers, and festive background patterns. Use our intuitive tools to quickly clip, draw, and decorate your collages
How teachers can use this tool:
- As a teacher tool
- All about me adjective activity
- To publish writing
- A replacement for worksheets
- Guess my number activity
- Life Cycle activities
- Expanded notation activities
- Measuring objects and recording our answers
- and more
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All Ages
Description:
Record a single tab in your web browser, capture all screen activity, or use your webcam to record or insert a video of yourself. While recording, use the tools to write, draw, erase, keep time, restart, or spotlight a section on the screen. There's also an option to play the audio in a tab you're recording, but the sound can be hollow and difficult to hear.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Teachers can record themselves to create a flipped classroom, explain difficult concepts, recap the day's main objectives, demonstrate an idea, or give students audio or video feedback on their work.
- They can communicate with parents as well, explaining procedures or bringing a personal touch to the traditional classroom newsletter.
- Students can use Screencastify to demonstrate what they've learned or how they solved a problem, give presentations, catch up their absent peers, make and read ebooks, or practice reading aloud in a foreign-language class.
Platform
- Chrome Extension
Price
- Free
- Paid Version
Grades/Ages
- Grade 3-12
Description:
Video slideshow maker a gem for a variety of classrooms
How teachers can use this tool:
- Family heritage map
- Art Portfolio
- History Recap
- News Report
- Digital Storytelling
- Etc
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All ages
Description:
Digital Story telling-simple and clever visual tools for people of all ages around the world, focusing on the Four C's (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration) in order to help improve the world's thinking capabilities and potential
How teachers can use this tool:
- Make posters for your classroom
- Set up assignments for your students with plot diagrams, graphic novels, character maps, timelines, and more
- Create customized worksheets, quizzes, story cubes, and more with the easy drag-and-drop interface
- With over 2,000 resources, we have something to get you started now!
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free for 14 days
Grades/Ages
- Grade 3+
Description:
StoryJumper for Teachers is designed to:
- give teachers an interface to manage and review students' work.
- provide strong privacy controls over student information.
How teachers can use this tool:
- All About Me Book. Great way for students (and teachers!) to introduce themselves to each other. See our All About Me Lesson Plan.
- Narrative Writing. You can customize our Narrative Writing Lesson Plan or StoryStarter Guide.
- Reflective Journal. Students reflect and write about what they did and learned after completing a school project or field trip. See our Reflective Journal Lesson Plan.
- ABC's of _______ Book. Cover the basics of any topic in 26 pages, A-Z. Click "Create a Book" and choose this template.
- Group Book. Each student contributes one or two pages to a group book on poetry, field trip, or other topic.
- Teach a Topic. Write a book to teach a topic, demonstrating mastery of the subject matter.
- Diary. To develop empathy, create a diary from the perspective of a historical character or animal.
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Grades 2 and up
Description:
There's more to StoryWeaver than just reading. It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It's the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- 2nd grade and up
Description:
Podcasts in bytes
How teachers can use this tool:
- Audio Exit Ticket
- Reflections
- Present Evidence of Thinking
- Language Practice
- Appsmashing
Platform
- Website
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- All Ages
Description:
Timelinely empowers people to go beyond just video. Highlight interesting parts of a video on a timeline with interactive comments, pictures, links, maps, other videos, and more.
How teachers can use this tool:
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- 4th- 12th
Description:
Animated story creator with 3D graphics.
How teachers can use this tool:
- storytelling
- Each comes with a basic story outline -- set, conflict, challenge, climax, and resolution -- and a brief overview of what each plot point means.
- For each plot point, kids can use the included sets and 3D characters or design their own with simple drawing tools
Platform
- App
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Elementary
Description:
You can create and alter a character's appearance on Voki and make it speak by adding a voice message recorded from a phone or microphone. Other options include using an uploaded file or one made with a text-to-speech function available in more than 25 languages.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Vokis can also explain math terms, clarify word pronunciation, or clarify components of a larger concept.
- Vokis can relay a speech and illustrate a lack of movement and other elements to help kids understand nonverbal communication.
- Shy students can use Vokis to express feelings and share writing with the class, but make sure they don't get used to hiding behind an avatar.
- Vokis can provide scientific experiment instructions; teachers can also have politically themed Voki characters like Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin explain their party's views.
Platform
- Website
Price
- Free trial/ Paid Subscriptions
Grades/Ages
- Grades 4-6
Description:
We Speak NYC features civic-focused learning tools for English language learners and teachers.
How teachers can use this tool:
- Watch our Emmy Award-winning videos. Use our educational and civic materials online.
- Download materials for use on the go.
- We offer free weekly English conversation classes for intermediate level learners. We Speak NYC classes take place in community and faith organizations, public schools, and libraries throughout the city.
Platform
- Website/Downloads
Price
- Free
Grades/Ages
- Secondary
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