Resources to Find Ed Tech Tools
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There are a few websites that will help you find educational technology tools to fit your lesson plans. These sites all include various filters to help you find tools by grade level, age, standards, platform, content area/ topic, assistive technology (special education), and teacher recommendation. Explore them all and then decide for yourself which one/ ones you prefer to use to locate technology to use in your courses.
Children's Technology Review Exchange (CTREX)
The Practical Ed Tech Handbook (Richard Byrne)
NYS Education Department Digital Tools
NYS Education Department (Organized by Subject Areas)
Also, consider searching on Twitter #edtech, #edtechchat, #edchat, #eduductape, #ditchbook, #teachertwitter, #edutwitter to find options.
Great Websites for Tech Integration Ideas
Ditch That Textbook Website - blog, resources list, templates, and a podcast
Common Sense Education Tips & Resources and Teacher Created Lessons
Class Tech Tips and resources by Monica Burns
Recommendations - Videos to Assist with Teaching Strategies
This is a collection of Edutopia videos all in one place that contains ideas from teachers on effective classroom techniques for every grade level.
Many of you asked about The Teaching Channel subscription but after meeting with the vendor, our Dean, many of you, and the JET library the cost for the subscription integrated into the library is too expensive. Please see our dean if you are paying for an individual subscription. NOTE that included in KDP membership now is The Teaching Channel. So if you are a member of KDP or would like to be a member, you will be able to access The Teaching Channel through the KDP website.
Recommendations - Ed Tech for Lesson Plans
Canva - By far, this is my favorite all purpose ed tech tool that I highly encourage you to use and have your students sign up to use too. It is a graphic design tool but it has specific to education templates that can assist you and your students, our future teachers.
Canva Design School - This is an amazing site that has online courses, tutorials, and resources to help you get started and continue to hone your skills using Canva!
Teacher Design Playbooks - These are ready made templates for science, back to school, mathematics, social studies, ELA, and early learning
Teacher Essentials Course - This certification will equip you with all the essential skills needed to facilitate engaging learning with Canva.
Recommendations - Ed Tech for Video Creation
Canvas Studio - Our amazing TLS team recently purchased Canvas Studio as a great compliment to our Canvas subscription. TLS offers training sessions. Canvas Studio can be used by you and by your students within Canvas to create videos and screen record presentations. It is a seamless integration into Canvas, but you can also create videos to use outside of Canvas. The following video provides a clear overview to share with your students on how to use Canvas Studio - How to Record in Canvas Studio. This tool replaces Panopto.
Flip (formerly known as Flipgrid) - Flip is a versatile tool that can be used with yoru students for video creation, presentations, introductions, and demonstration of knowledge. Personally, you can use Flip to create engaging content videos for your online and blended/ flipped classrooms. The Flip camera is AmAzInG! The camera lets you (and students) screen record, use varied backgrounds, add customized stickers from your images, use a black/ white board, and filters to create professional looking videos. Flip contains a Discovery Library which contains many templates for use by subject area. Flip also integrates with Canvas! Ask me if you need help setting up an account or integration Flip with your Canvas course and assignments so you can view the videos in SpeedGrader!
Sadly, Flip is only available in Microsoft Teams for Education which I am advocating for us to get but so far we do not have that access. Flip discontinued as of June 30th and you have until September 30, 2024 to download and save any videos from the platform. Please visit Flip Help for directions on how to download your videos. See below for other options!
Recommendations - Ed Tech for Curation, Student Portfolios, Newsletters
Wakelet - Wakelet is a great curation tool as it allows you to add links, text, images, PDFs, tweets, Flip video, YouTube, Google Drive items, One Drive items, and Adobe Express. You can collaborate on a Wakelet with a colleague or with your students, and you can create Wakelet Spaces which allows you to organize your Wakelets for a course or for a specific reason. (For example, all the Wakelets I made as Online Learning Resource Newsletters back in 2020 are in one space called Remote Learning At Its Best: Faculty Support Network (FSN). I have used Wakelet as a tool to organize resources presented at a conference, for example the Teaching Professor Conference, and Creative Teaching Day 2022 at Molloy College. You can use Wakelet with your students to create Student Portfolios or submit work to share with the class.
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