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https://www.freshgrade.com/teachers/
Sharable online student portfolio.

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The FlipGrid video discussion platform allows students to increase their oral skills, their teamwork, and their creative for showing their learning. 

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https://www.haikudeck.com/education

Check it out! Free 7 day trial. A great way to create presentations

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Schoology... yes still.
Can create a variety of assignments and tests, incorporate google docs, slides, and sheets,  and with all assignments are in one place, it gives students a digital notebook that is always with them, while also

assessing mastery toward standards, and merge grading with PowerSchool.

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Alicia's Favorite Tech Tool: Poll Everywhere

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Alicia's Favorite Tech Tool: Poll Everywhere

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https://www.polleverywhere.com/how-it-works
This seems like a good way to take a poll/survey with minimal distractions and quick feed back. You can also aslk open ended questions and the students can respond in a comment box using their chromebooks.

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Poll Everywhere lets your audience interact with a live presentation using their mobile phones. Ask them questions, or have them ask you. Signup for a free account in under 30 seconds at http://www.polleverywhere.com/signup.

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Sheila's Tech Tool that did not frustrate her after using it for 2 minutes....

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Sheila's Tech Tool that did not frustrate her after using it for 2 minutes....

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www.mindmeister.com

Great for mapping out ideas. A good way to start a project is asking driving questions like what is the essence of a project? It’s great for collaborative brainstorming in project planning and analyzing concepts.

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...was scrible.com but the district has the extension  blocked. It can still be used to organize students resources though

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Pear Deck
https://www.peardeck.com/

Interactive presentation tool. The students can answer questions, add drawings, images, and etc. Assess understanding and present information.

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https://www.duolingo.com/
A fun & quick way to learn a language in small increments every day.  The site appears to be free and operates like a game with levels.  You are only able to move up based on the amount of time you choose to dedicate to the site.  Negatives are that I do not know how to go back and change the amount of time wanting to spend learning the new language.

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Clara's Favorite Tech Tool FlipGrid - https://flipgrid.com/ 

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Clara's Favorite Tech Tool FlipGrid - https://flipgrid.com/ 

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The FlipGrid video discussion platform allows students to increase their oral skills, their teamwork, and their creative for showing their learning.

I create grids on FlipGrid for student’s reading responses. Students purposely create videoclips to present their understanding of their readings. I generate questions and students add their ideas as a group. On their way to building their videoclips, students plan, discuss, rehearse and execute their videotape.

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Teresa's favorite video editor -Movie Maker

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Teresa's favorite video editor -Movie Maker

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https://www.windows-movie-maker.org/

By Microsoft, this is an easy-to-use video creating/editing software.  With Movie Maker, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies. You can also add special effects, transitions, sound, and captions to help tell your story. Share the movie with friends and family.

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https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Screencast-O-matic:
I really like using this webpage/App. Great way to narrate a lesson so the students can watch, pause and watch over again. This grabs their attention and allows them to watch at their own pace. Nice way for the students to also create their own lesson or narration. First time my students watched it, they thought I was a "YouTuber".

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A seemingly really useful tech tool that Katy just saw in that last article on PBL from "Getting Smart". 

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A seemingly really useful tech tool that Katy just saw in that last article on PBL from "Getting Smart". 

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https://www.scrible.com/
Students always seem to think a project means "copy and paste from a website".  This might be a solution!  (sort -of)

Scrible lets users save, annotate, comment on, and share webpages. Perhaps this means no more searching for what site was plagiarized? Require students to share their sources.  Perhaps annotating will also help them put ideas into their own words.  It even looks like it syncs with google classroom.
Unfortunately, it appears this too costs money...

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Courtney's Favorite Tech Tool            Whiteboard Lite 

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Courtney's Favorite Tech Tool            Whiteboard Lite 

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It is a Chrome add on, I use this in my classroom as an alternative to the regular whiteboard and markers. There has been countless minutes wasted trying to find markers and whiteboards for all of the students. Now that the students are one to one, they just pull up the app and complete the math problem. The teacher can go around the room and check quickly. They can erase with the click of a button and move onto the next problem or they can save the problem with a screen shot it and share it with their classmates and teacher.

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https://screencast-o-matic.com/screen_recorder

This tech tool has changed my teaching this year! I am able to create short, quick screencasts of my teaching/demonstrations and post them to Google Classroom for students to re-watch as many times as they need to. It is extremely easy to use, download, and share. The only negative is hearing my own voice from students playing the videos without headphones...

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https://bilingua.io/livemocha-language-exchange
The website gives you an opportunity to talk to people learning the same language you are learning.  Great for adults but I would not recommend it for kids.

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I do not find this very user friendly. I had to click on multiple parts of the piktochart to get it to work. I thought initially that this could be useful for students to summarize their projects into a poster, but the time I did spend trying to navigate through the website was done with frustration.

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https://www.codecademy.com/welcome

Looks like mainly selling you courses for programing languages and web design. Not really something I can see using in school.  I didn’t like it.  Very advanced for our students.

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https://www.studyblue.com/online-flashcards
This app let's you create flashcards. This would be good for ESL students and learning vocabulary. However, this is geared towards high school students. The free option only lets you make flashcrads and study them.

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Learn faster with Chegg. Search millions of Flashcards or create your own online Flashcards for Free. Quiz yourself online or through our mobile app.

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https://discover.explaineverything.com/
Explain Everything falls into the screen-casting category. Students can create presentations by drawing, inserting, moving, rotating, and recording - visualizing their thoughts, ideas, and share them.

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https://www.emaze.com/
MEREDITH'S FAV
Thuis website allows the user to create presentations, websites, blosgs, e-cards, and photot albums. The templates look very cool and professional. They even have tools that interest educators.

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http://stickpickapp.blogspot.com/p/how-to-use.html
Only for i phones

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Positive: Grades a Google Form and provides teacher with a spreadsheet of results.
Cons: You can only place one answer. Google Forms now allows you to auto grade multiple choice and short answer questions with multiple answer options. It seems obsolete.

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https://www.voxer.com/

Talk app - only used for phones- Push to Talk. Pretty cool - if the students used phones in the class.
Also...free plan offers quite a bit

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prezi.com

https://prezi.com/view/A1jJbodPCbkQEm8z47ne/

Do you really want to dive deep into that presentation? Prezi may be the tool for you. The logging in and registering is cumbersome. There are paywalls all around. But there are some benefits as well. One standout is the non-linear organization, so the presenter can follow questions or feedback from the audience more organically, transferring to the nexus page and then out along another arm. This contrasts a Google slides or ppt where a typical response is to shuffle back and forth or tell the audience member to wait for a few slides.

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http://edu.glogster.com/

Positive:  Very professional in appearance.  Students can use it to create interactive posters with pictures, videos, sounds, clip art, zooming effects, and web links. There is also a content library spanning 9 disciplines, and 80 topics. Seems very comprehensive and engaging.

Negative: $95 for a subscription for 1 teacher and 125 students (What it one to do if you have more students than 125?!)

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http://dragonflyapps.com/noisyfree/
This is a pretty cool noise meter. However, it is only available through the app store. I found something simliar for our Surfaces. It is simple to use. It's called Bouncy Balls. Here's the link:

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https://www.thinglink.com/user/1010318896550379522
This looks like a cool way to add links to a picture , add your own captions. Teachers are able to give their students a code for them to sign up. However, the free version restricts you to only being able to uploading an image or from a URL. I cannot figure out how to add to the "tag buttons."

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No longer exists.
Company shift interest to new program: BEBO https://bebo.com/

It's an all in one streaming app. Check out the link for more details because I don't understand the purpose!! :(

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https://www.weebly.com/

Weebly works as a website building. I recommend this tech tool because students can start creating their portfolios via digital by including school work researchers. I also like the idea that it allows digital communication among students and strengthen networks.

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Storybird.com

Positive: Students can create  picture books with various art to exhibit their creative side. This can be a break from the constant writing lessons that the students receive daily. The art that accompanies the books is also of high quality.
Negative: students can save but would need to pay to print the book they created.

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https://gradecam.com/
A formative assessment tool.

Positive: You can use GradeCam to grade assessments instantly.  Hold the student paper up to any camera on your computer, phone, or a document camera, and instantly get assessment results.  It even graphs student progress.

Negative:  Costs money after 60 day trial.  Also seems to only analyze fill-in-the-bubble type assignments.  Basically it seems like a glorified Scantron.  Google and Schoology can accomplish the same data analysis.

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https://www.donorschoose.org/
Positive: You can tell your classroom story and ask donors for money to purchase things for your classroom Teachers can choose a variety of things to get donations for.
Negative: It may not be supported by the district because there are student images involved with the donation process.

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www.quizlet.com

Quizlet is a free website for creating online study sets. Basically it is an online flash card repository on steroids. Both students and teachers can create their own study sets or use ones already created by others. Aside from flash cards it has various methods for students to study the information that is in the study the material. Some of those methods include including matching, fill in the blank, spelling, quizzes, etc.

Positive:
- Free
- Multi-modal for studying
- Can assess students' progress
- Google SSO

Cons:
- QuizletLive is only for paid subscription
- Ads

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https://www.plickers.com/

Positive: A free app, only the teacher needs the app. A quick formative assessment tool if you don't have 1:1 devices. The teacher prints out a set of cards and students hold up their cards in a specific a, b, c, d direction to indicate their answer.  The teacher then goes around the room scanning answers with their phone or device and the results area automatically posted on your board. The cards are numbered and you can assign each student a card so you can track their answers and progress.

Cons: A little bit of leg work for the teacher, literally!

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https://edpuzzle.com
I LOVE this website! It is a way to take videos and then add in questions and stopping points for students to respond to.
Here are some reasons why:
-It's FREE! You can use your school Google account to sign in.
-You can add your class from Google Classroom so your students are automatically in there.
-You can find videos from Khan Academy, YouTube, National Geographic, TED Talks, etc... (and none of them are blocked :) )
-You can shorten/crop a video, add a question, record and put in an audio track, and create a short answer or multiple choice answer
-It's very user friendly and there are tutorial videos throughout to help you figure out how to create/navigate the site!

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http://www.easybib.com/
EasyBib generates citations for bibliographies.

Positive: Great website to use to introduce citing. Allows for multiple types of sources to be cited. Different citing styles. Easy to use. (ex. paste website URL and click Cite it) Helps save time creating citations.

Negatives: LOTS of ads! Could become a HUGE distraction to students.