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This Padlet showcases top tech tools for administrators, teachers, and students!

The Top Five
1. Google G Suite for Education
2. Remind
3. Mind Meister
4. PhET Simulations
5. CK-12

Honorable Mentions
Canva
Common Curriculum
Collisions

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Google's G Suite for Education is a powerhouse of coordination and organization for administrators, teachers, and students! The G Suite for Education is composed of several apps including Google Classroom, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides (Ed Tech Team, 2020). One thing I love about the G Suite for Education is the sharing feature, which allows for real-time editing of digital documents in teams. As a teacher, I use the G Suite every day to create lesson materials and assign them to my students. The administrators at my school use shared folders in Drive to organize and make information easily accessible by all faculty throughout the school year.

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G Suite for Education Overview - Summer 2020 PD

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https://www.mindmeister.com/content/education

Mind Meister is a top tech tool to get ideas on "paper" and organize them! This website helps administrators, teachers, and students create editable, visually-appealing, and useful mind maps in an interactive and collaborative online environment (Mind Meister, n.d.; Qureshi, 2020). I have used Mind Meister with my students to organize their scientific research project ideas and in personal study. I think that this tool would be particularly useful as an administrator when thinking through issues, situations, and programs from the balcony view and sharing thinking with other school and teacher leaders.

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MindMeister: Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming

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Create, share and collaboratively work on mind maps with MindMeister, the leading online mind mapping software. Includes apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

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Canva is every teacher's best friend. It is a free-to-use online graphic design tool (Canva, n.d.). It can be used just to add fun to your already made lessons. For example, you can use it to add color to a google form by creating a google form header on the website. It can also be used for more practical needs. For example, you can create worksheets on the website as well. Canva has a long list of things that you can create with already made templates that are user-friendly and quickly can be customized to your specific needs. If you have a project in mind, chances are you can make it happen in Canva!

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www.commoncurriculum.com

Although I only recently discovered Common Curriculum, I think it would be a great tool for administrators and teams of teachers to use as they navigate the daunting task of creating and organization standards-based lessons into an achievable pacing structure. Common curriculum allows for the organization of lesson materials and details into a calendar format that can be easily reviewed by administrators (Common Curriculum, 2021). When I become an administrator, I plan to look into the platform as a way to increase collaboration among educators and provide regular feedback to teachers on their lesson plans. As a teacher, I want to use this tool to become more organized and think more critically about my course structures.

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This is one of the most efficient, time saving, and user-friendly lesson planning resource that I've used! I wish I was able to pick my favorite feature, but there are so many...color coding, standards searching tool, myriad of templates, downloading capabilities - it rocks!!!!!

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Online Lesson Planner & Planbook. Free for Teachers. Common Curriculum

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Save time with easy templates. Align lesson plans to Common Core & 50 state standards. Organize with unit plans. Share & collaborate with colleagues.

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https://phet.colorado.edu/

PhET simulations are great for digital experimentation in the secondary science classroom! There are over 100 simulations on the PhET website that teachers and students can use to develop their understanding of scientific concepts and variables through interactive manipulation of experiment components (PhET Simulations, 2013). The science department at DeKalb County High School uses PhET simulations for inquiry-based labs and demonstration of scientific concepts.

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www.ck12.org

CK-12 hosts a plethora of resources for many content areas! This website allows teachers to customize free, online textbooks for their classes that include real-world connections, media, practice exercises, and interactive elements for students (CK-12 Foundation, 2015). I have used CK-12 for differentiated learning opportunities for students in my classroom. At DeKalb County High School, the Statistics teachers have transitioned to using resources from CK-12 as their primary textbook materials!

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https://k12.playmada.com/

Collisions is gamified learning at its finest for chemistry students! This website utilizes gamified learning and exploration to pique students' interests as they complete levels and learn chemistry concepts along the way (Playmada, 2020). I use this website to engage students in interactive, inquiry-based thinking and learning when we encounter new concepts in my Chemistry class. For example, my students used the website to learn about electron configurations in atoms.

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www.remind.com

Remind is a fantastic app for district leaders, school administrators, teachers, parents or guardians, and students to communicate! The app is designed for safe, effective, and instantaneous communication for schools (Remind, 2018). I love that the Remind App can be used on any device and that my district uses the Remind App to update school stakeholders on things like schedule changes, snow days, and when paychecks will be available!