Teacher Sites

Please feel free to reach out for instructions how to sign up for and use these sites in your classrooms!

Click on the title of each site to open the website or application.

Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

Many possible uses: (1) students respond to an assignment using video; (2) whole screen recordings of up to 10 minutes: (3) record a video short (up to 10 minutes) for a class greeting or verbal directions.

"An easy-to-use online collaborative post-it board. Create a board, and share the link with your students via your learning management system. If you set it up a certain way, students can start adding notes to a digital wall, and you can see all the ideas gathered on the wall immediately."

"You can make Pear Deck Slides within PowerPoint Online. Instead of simply presenting informational slides, Pear Deck makes your slides interactive so every student can respond to your questions or prompts right on their own screens. Pear Deck Slides help you engage every student in every seat and give formative assessments, no matter what grade or subject you teach."

"Create a learning game or trivia quiz, which can be played as a class to spur competition."

"Create a corkboard, pose a question, add an image, video or file. Then, have students react. This is a great way to get students engaged. Use as a way to test prior knowledge or at the end of a lesson to see what students learned."

"Kami is an online document annotation and markup tool. You can highlight, underline, and strikethrough text in PDF and other document formats. You can also add text boxes, shapes, and images."

"Similar to Pear Deck, Nearpod is an instructional platform that merges formative assessment and dynamic media for collaborative learning experiences."

A screen recording tool that makes it easy to record, edit, and share videos of your computer screen. This can be used by teachers to record their screens to present instructions to their students, or by students to present their work using their computer screens.

"Enhance how you use videos in your class. You can: (1) take a video (your own or one from EdPuzzle); (2) embed your own assessment questions; and (3) track your students’ progress." You can choose where the video pauses along the way for students to answer questions.