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Students have several ways to bring creativity and life to presentations and video making via animation tools such as Powtoon, Toontastic, Chatterpix, GoAnimate or Voki. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a link to an animated project created by students and be prepared to share through the request form how this tool changed the way students demonstrated learning.ABOUT POWTOON/ABOUT TOONTASTIC/OTHER TOOLS
The traditional whiteboard has now infiltrated the web and teachers and students are now able to draw, write and collaborate on virtual whiteboards with several user-friendly tools. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a screenshot of STUDENTS using an online drawing tool for classwork/collaboration.JAMBOARD CHROME CANVAS
Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students using one of the warmups, lessons or activities from the website and be prepared to describe the benefits of using this tool.ABOUT DISCOVERY ED
Per Edsurge, "EDpuzzle helps teachers customize video content for their classrooms by giving them an easy way to edit video clips, add voice overs, and embed quizzes. Teachers can assign a video to a set of students and track students' viewing history and quiz results." REQUIREMENTS: Submit a screenshot/photo of your EdPuzzle classroom and video activity students have worked on.ABOUT EDPUZZLE
"Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 180+ countries." Download the free app and students enter a code to provide a video response to a teacher prompt.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a screenshot or photo of your topic grid showing student responses and be prepared to describe the benefit of using this tool.ABOUT FLIPGRIDMy Youtube Video
Formative is an engaging web-based formative assessment tool that integrates with several platforms to seamlessly provide students quick feedback.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students using a Formative quiz or a screenshot of a class report and be prepared to describe the benefit of using this tool.ABOUT FORMATIVE
Are you a Googley teacher and want to distinguish yourself for knowing the basics and vast benefits of Google Apps for Education? REQUIREMENTS: Forward the email confirmation that Level 1 has been passed to the Instructional Technology Coach. Be prepared to describe the benefits of using Google Apps in the classroom.ABOUT GOOGLE ED CERTIFICATION
Google Expeditions provides virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to the classroom.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of your students on a Google Expedition and be prepared to share the benefit of the experience for student learning.ABOUT GOOGLE EXPEDITIONS
Google Forms has made it easy to survey and gather feedback and may also grade that feedback at the same time with the quiz feature.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a screenshot or photo of a quiz created with Google Forms and a screenshot of the sheet responses from the quiz.ABOUT GOOGLE FORMS
Google Hangouts provides text and video conferencing over the internet and through your Google account. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a screenshot of using Hangouts collaborating with colleagues or describe an instance of students using this tool to collaborate outside the classroom. Be prepared to describe the benefits of using this tool.ABOUT GOOGLE HANGOUTS
A Hyperdoc is a digital document—such as a Google Doc—where all components of a learning cycle have been pulled together into one central hub. Within a single document, students are provided with hyperlinks to all of the resources they need to complete that learning cycle. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a link of the Hyperdoc to the Instructional Technology Coach. Be prepared to describe why this tool is beneficial to use.ABOUT HYPERDOCS EXAMPLE SEC EXAMPLE
Infographic tools like Canva or Smore provide a platform to easily create online newsletters or posters or informational flyers. You can sign up for free but paid accounts have more options.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a link to a Canva or Smore page you created to the Instructional Technology Coach. Be prepared to describe why this tool is beneficial to use.ABOUT SMORE START WITH CANVA
Lead4ward is a structural and instructional tool for teachers to better focus their work on the meat of the curriculum. Besides the many reporting resources, the mobile app provides teachers with engaging activities and assessments that quickly benefit our students.REQUIREMENTS: Take a photo of students engaged in one of the app activities or of your teaching team designing with the materials offered on the website. Be prepared to describe the benefit of this tool.ABOUT LEAD4WARD
Learning Menus (also called Choice Boards) allow for the important quality of student CHOICE to demonstrate learning. It also allows for differentiation in assessment of your students with the flexibility of the design and rubric.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a copy of the lesson plan with the choice board design offered to the students. Please include rubric with the submission and be prepared to describe the benefit of assessing in this way.ABOUT LEARNING MENUSChoice Board Blog
Build interactive presentations with the easy-to-use online editor. Add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, gifs and more to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations. With the free version, you can have unlimited "presentations," 5 quiz questions and 2 other question types. If you need to take a quick poll or do a word cloud, this would be perfect.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students engaged in a Menti presentation using their own devices. Be prepared to describe the benefit of this tool compared to a basic instructor led presentation.ABOUT MENTI
Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool that can be converted from Powerpoints and include videos, assessments, drawings and more.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of you using this tool with your students or a screenshot of an assessment report after a lesson and be prepared to describe the benefit of using this tool.ABOUT NEARPOD
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books provides background music and sound effects as parents read hard-copy books to their kids. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a short video of teacher & students engaged in reading with Novel Effect and be prepared to describe the benefits of using this tool.ABOUT NOVEL EFFECT
Pear Deck brings life and student engagement to your presentations. Use the free Add-on for your existing Google Slide Presentations and insert questions and assessments as desired. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students engaged in a Pear Deck presentation and be prepared to describe the benefits of using this tool.ABOUT PEAR DECK
Polling tools such as Poll Everywhere/Tricider/ are interactive and live audience response systems. Gather feedback helpful to assess understanding or spur discussion.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of your class responding to a prompt with a polling digital tool and be prepared to describe the benefits of using it.ABOUT POLL EVERYWHEREABOUT TRICIDER
Seesaw is a Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication. REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students using Seesaw to capture learning or communicate with parents.ABOUT SEESAW
Socrative provides a fast way to engage students with formative assessments.REQUIREMENTS: Show a photo of students using this application in class and be prepared to describe the benefit of using this tool. ABOUT SOCRATIVE
Code.org is a campaign to spread access to computer science through fun and easy to navigate coding tools for students of all ages.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a photo of students coding in class and be prepared to describe the benefit of students learning how to code.ABOUT CODINGHOUR OF CODE - Dec 9-15
Students today are social and digital natives. Their brains are wired differently from students in decades past. It is critical to allow students opportunities to learn how to collaborate and contribute and problem solve toward a common task to prepare them for skills necessary in jobs today and in the future.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a detailed lesson plan describing the collaborative project and also submit a photo of students working together on their project. Be prepared to describe the benefit of allowing students to work together on a project.ABOUT STUDENT COLLABORATION
Thinglink is a web-based application that allows teachers and students to create interactive graphics.REQUIREMENTS: Submit a link to a thinglink image used in class from the teacher or a student and be prepared to describe the benefit of using this specific tool for the students.ABOUT THINGLINK
Google Sites is the website editor available to us through Google Apps for Education. A great place to house classroom resources or have students create educational portfolios to document their own learning. It also has the same collaborative features as the Google Drive apps.REQUIREMENTS: Submit the link to the website created by teacher or by a student/group.ABOUT GOOGLE SITESMy Youtube Video