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Udio & Suno:

Allow you to make songs- I want a song about... (cool idea for Dalton & new music people for a project for kids- also very cool for Elementary teachers introducing new concepts)

*Story for Kaylee*

Google Gemini:

Googles version of ChatGPT

Ask it questions and generates content

Free and robust

Extra Data Privacy Protections put in for educators- different from ChatGPT

Gemini does not limit your daily amounts of time to use it

Deep Research Feature for big questions that takes time- actually does the research and completes a report

Can create games for you!

Magic School:

They are the route to go when you don't know what to type into a regular AI generator- they give you prompts in menu options

TeacherServer:

Over a thousand premade tools

Free

Organized by content, age group, target audience

Brisk:

Chrome Extension

Create resources, level text, AI Chatbots, feedback on writing, etc.

SchoolAI:

Whole focus is student use of AI

Monitors student use but doesn't save it outside of your school email account

"Talk to Edgar Allan Poe"

Notebook LM:

Upload your own files and communicate back and forth about it

Generate resources from your own content

Snorkl:

Grades students vocal and drawn responses

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Firework Media Studio (XRenegades)

Company from Minden- Helps get VR into small schools to prepare them for the future.

ArborXR- Management system

Roll over ranch- free

Nppd-Electricity

BodySwaps- job interviews (low cost)

Reulay- Health - island- rexlax- stress relief (Low cost)

Roar-free video overlay (Augmented Reality)

VR Diesel Tech Training VR- comes out today

(UNL- Cost)

Xennialdigital- dissect fish ($60 per headset)

Merge Cube- ($15) build 3d object in AI

Curio XR- FREE to k-12 Math, Science, History (Periodic Table- see what happens when you mix elements)

CareerPathway.com- FREE

Husker Stem VR- FREE Put fireworks and watch them go off at Memorial Stadium.

Fly drones at Memorial Stadium..

$9.99 - Rollercoaster tour of the kidney, heart and lungs.

$9.99 Escape rooms

XRsurvive- Restaurant

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Creator of the Control Alt Achieve blog! Great Google tips added every week!

bit.ly/curts-hipster

Hundreds of Google tools

Inoreader- This is where he gets his info.

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Less than 50% of writing teachers encourage sharing writing between peers

Less than 10% of writing teachers encourage sharing writing beyond the classroom walls

1. Day to day, low-stakes writing/creating

2. Mid to later stages of writing/creating

3. Polished writing/creations

Presentation Software w/ Quick Responses (Pear Deck- Google Extension)

Student names are hidden

Provides an immediate audience

Allows for quick formative assessment

Reading aloud student work has power! Make it sound amazing!

Writing Idea: Put a bunch of random cards in a cup- names of characters, settings, things- the students will pick one of each and put them together to create a cohesive short story

Using Padlet Shelves to work on Vocabulary Words- include a captivating picture with a caption for it that utilizes the Vocab Term

High praise for Google Slides- creating slides that the students will edit

Each student's slide will have their name on it

Short Answer: really great for practicing writing techniques

Golden Lines: select really strong sentences written by students and post them to celebrate them! Good with Slides

Using student writing as exemplars for what good writing is, and maybe the next thing you are working on

"Secret Santa" - Sarah draws Pete's name, and Sarah reads through Pete's narrative. Sarah then creates a quotation slideshow of Pete's amazing quotes.

Peer Reviews: Build TRUST! Be sure to focus on the GOOD in the first sessions, non-critical first, then later, starts giving feedback

Using Feedback starters can be great to kick off peer reviews

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Tech Tools to Assist and Enhance the ELA Classroom

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Tech Tools to Assist and Enhance the ELA Classroom

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Specific Apps & Sites: Brisk, WeWillWrite, GrooveLit, 826 Digital, Revision History

Brisk:

Create Content

Give Feedback

Leveling Resources

Inspect Writing

Makes Quizzes

WeWillWrite:

Different Prompts

Leveled

(Idea-use for Creative Writing Class)

GrooveLit:

A "co-teacher for feedback"

Revision Suggestions

Vocabulary Practice

Latin Roots

Greek Roots

Prefixes

826 Digital:

FREE

Designed to teach writing

Relevant to standards

Applicable/relatable topics

User-friendly

Breaks it down to choice- they can choose topics, authors, composition, level, media

Google Docs/Revision History:

I already use, but such a great tool!

Actively Learn:

Quickly align to Nebraska State Standards

Generate text sets to compare/contrast, analyze theme, level texts, INFORMATIONAL TEXT

CommonLit:

Access to an online library

Full curriculum units includes assessments, classes, lesson plans

Diffit:

Turn leveled texts into student ready activities

Gives key vocabulary terms in lessons

Go to EPSON Booth and get big highlighters

***Google Notebook LM:

Take info and generate a podcast out of it

This was WILD to see! SO cool for all classes

Can alter the podcast if you'd like

ChatGPT:

Use powers for good rather than evil

Full lessons, quizzes, examples test questions, etc.

Customize it to yourself in ExploreChatGPT

Canva:

Already use- love!

Syllabus

Agendas

Slideshows

NSCAS Prep

Question Trails

ACT Prep

Handouts

Camp Flyers

Schemely:

Plans inspiring lessons

SchoolAI:

Similar to Magic School

Makes Spaces where you can chat with a bot about your specifc lesson target (makes is more fun)

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LPS- librarians

Amazing resources for K-12 library!!

Curriculum

Lessons

Book recommendations

Life changed!!! 🎉

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NETA 2025 Lesson-Palooza: Over 264 Ways to Rock your Elementary Library

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link to presentation:

leslie.link/neta

password: longtimenoneta

-variety of tech items both for your classroom and your home

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What Would a World Look Like if we were all Engaged Readers?

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What Would a World Look Like if we were all Engaged Readers?

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MyOn Renaissance- Reading Program

Help teachers help students help themselves

Help build Prior Knowledge and Background Knowledge

Connection between Level of Vocabulary and Post-Secondary Success

Online Digital Library

Intuitive Library in the sense that it will populate book recommendations after you read something

It can help with fluency and articulation

Create student dashboards for their progress

Take the Star Test or MyOn Placement Test to place them at a reading level

Gives the student a safe space to practice their reading and be able to discuss their progress with the recording piece

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Hop on the AI-Powered MagicSchool Bus & Expedite Professional Tasks

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Hop on the AI-Powered MagicSchool Bus & Expedite Professional Tasks

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Hop on the AI-Powered MagicSchool Bus & Expedite Professional Tasks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TaG1uwV8x2EKxW_0Cp3Pg_oKE74D9Sv9/view

Differentiate: Text leveler, sentence starters

Can use exemplars to help guide you

Can export to different programs, depending on which tool you used

Session mostly had participants tinker with MagicSchool and ask questions

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Student Facing AI Tools: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGcH208Zc4/u9dm9Ab8-VFJL0hNXHWtAw/edit

Magic School AI

Magic Student: can be all free (there are premium features)

Create a new room

Select tasks that you want them to have access to

Can upload rubric, and it will provide feedback for the student (it’s basically a one-on-one writing conference)

Won’t rewrite the essay by dropping in the rubric

Dropping in an essay and asking it to edit (like in Chat GPT) may rewrite the essay

Canva

Dream Lab

Creates images

Magic Media

Graphics

Videos

Includes a whole AI powered section

Adobe Express

Brisk

Notebook LM (this is the one I was talking about from the ASD conference!)

18+ (not for students)

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khanmingo can be added, but only used by admin on the Canvas side.

Similar to magic school AI

AI teacher assistant

Exit tickets

Feedback

Lesson plans…

*nothing to earth-shattering except that it can be used in teacher Canvas navigation to easily add to lessons and assignments.

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VR as a Gateway to Global Education for Rural Districts

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VR as a Gateway to Global Education for Rural Districts

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VR as a Gateway to Global Education for Rural Districts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uGrZIKLhwDocDiLAwYRHepDI0BLBJzT0/view

VR Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcHXvL2SmWqNwnLpmc-0Ti2N6tQotVseBYWSjL39P2w/edit?tab=t.0

23% higher retention rates when using VR

Many uses in all disciplines

Specific skills (like welding)

Putting students in real-life situations

Allowing students to see historical events (MLK speech)

Seeing things like space

Communication

Bodyswaps (soft skills training)

LOVE this for life skills and employment skills classes!!!

Can also use this for tablets or computers

Dissections

Whack a Mole Math

Can Perkins be used for Special Education funding? Or can sped funds be used to purchase a VR headset?

Students looking for capstone projects

CurioXR

Some of them allow the teacher to take over the avatar and record themselves talking

Zoe Immersive (costs money): can create games together

Yearbook (ROAR): can overlay a video on a picture, kids can scan the picture and see the video

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The Great Escape--Creating your own digital escape room.

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The Great Escape--Creating your own digital escape room.

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bit.ly/neta-escape bit.ly/escape-padlet

This was a FANTASTIC presentation with templates for creating your own digital escape room on genially.com! It is super easy to make your own!

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Full Disclosure: This presentation went VERY fast, so I am not fully clear on the capabilities of all of these resources (and the internet wasn't cooperating, so they couldn't show all of them), but I tried to get a note on each of them. We will just have to look them up.

Extra note: Goblin Tools is fun! :)

Inclusive Education with UDL

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oTRnRfSDso4O39ZmVUV9_DHvwcPdHlVruGn49T3g3r4/present?slide=id.p

UDL

Engagement

Schoolai

MirrorTalk

Free!

Meant to be a reflection tool

Students under 14 cannot log in or create an account, but if changed to “session” they can just record without an account

Curipod

Interactive, includes social emotional piece (check ins)

Google Earth

Can set up projects

When presenting it, you can go through the slides, and it will take you from location to location

Representation

YouTube: Closed captions

Speaker Coach (gives feedback for speeches)

Immersive Reader (embedded in Canvas)

HeyGen: Creates videos

Google Arts and Culture: Talking Tours (uses Google Earth and tells you what you are seeing)

Phet: Interactive simulations

Hands-on virtual labs for science and math topics

Inquiry-based (promotes critical thinking)

Action and Expression

Loom: screen recording software

Speech to text or text to speech

Canva

Translation

School ai

Goblin Tools

Intended to help neurodivergent students with tasks they find overwhelming

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It's Your Ship

Kids Deserve It

One for the Murpheys

Out of my mind- Draper

**Feel free to add more ;)

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@mradamwelcome

Kids Deserve It- Book

Have your students be the "Tech-sperts"

Job of the week- pick a day and go to linked in to show the job listings out there!

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AI In Education: Is This Making us More Creative or Less? A Discussion with Peru State College Students

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AI In Education: Is This Making us More Creative or Less? A Discussion with Peru State College Students

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Spider Web Discussion Method: Really cool engaged discussions about controversial topics ~ took this strategy to have conversations about AI

The WHY we use AI is what makes the conversation tough for everyone to agree on

Are you using AI to get out of work OR using it to get more into your work?

Before beginning- Spider Web Discussions need to happen

Ideas: Use AI for HAL ideas and Behavior kid suggestions

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Project-Based Learning: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGR9YhjevE/W1tQ5wMtGvqLE0jcde8P2w/view?utm_content=DAGR9YhjevE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

More than doing a project.

In-depth research

PBLworks.org

Don’t start with a BIG idea…start smaller and grow them into something bigger

Benefits

Community building and involvement

Collaborative

In-depth learning

Problem solving

Student voice and choice (teacher is a coach)

Engagement and active learning

Developing skills and strategies

Start small

Where

What

Collaborate

curriculum/grade level colleagues

Purpose

What would PBL make this content better?

Moving away from tests and sit and get

Resources

Curriculum

Pull from what you have

Ask the Chat!

ChatGPT

Schemely

Brisk

Engage

Get buy in

Boston Tea Party: can we drink tea while making hats…yelling “no taxation without representation.”

Information should be relevant to what they are learning

Essential Tools

Posters about how to work in a group

When to use computers/devices and when to be listening

Created a Google Form to check in with students

Could be used like an exit ticket?

Where are you with your project?

What do you need?

Digital citizenship when using technology

How to stay on task

Not adding memes and gifs

How to hold each other accountable

Fighting Challenges

Biggest issue is time

Little bits…during last 5 minutes of class or whenever

“Steal minutes wherever you can.”

Designate 15 minute at the end of class

Pull small groups and do other lessons while students are meeting with groups

Try to get reflection time after they complete a project

Building Projects

Guiding Students

Checklists

Build from classroom or school-wide expectations

Have students check them and turn them in as an exit ticket

Journals

Have student reflect in a journal

Jobs

If you give a student a specific job, they are more likely to take ownership of it

Students love to have their ideas shared…

Save for future examples

Share with the community

Can assign a “plagiarism checker” as “job” or task for a student group member

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-Use AI to write letters of recommendation.

-Talk to it like a person and not a search engine

-Show students how you use it in day to day life

-Use to help create sub plans

-Mentioned Brisk was a game changer

-Start small

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Leveraging Generative AI for Innovative Course Design

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Leveraging Generative AI for Innovative Course Design

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KauGcXmWUKNo9AA1fQjCn_ZM7KRRcvx5?usp=sharing

Capabilities of AI in Course Design: formatting, differentiation, assessment and rubrics

Ethical considerations: develop and maintain a systematic approach

-Tell students specifically what they may and may not use

-Should be used to enhance human work, not create it for them

-Teach student how algorithms work and that it cannot think critically

*Could have them do their own assignment, have AI create the assignment and compare the two (find the errors)

Allow students to explore, create, discover with AI

Practice how to identify AI generated texts, biases, and errors

Students do not understand the seriousness of AI content and what its limitations are

NEVER put personal ID information into AI

Prompts should be:

Concise: grade, subject, etc.

Logical: structure and flow

Explicit: clear, overview, objectives, instructions, submission requirements

Adaptive: balance between creativity and details - differentiate instruction, give 3 presentation choices

Reflective: write down specifics that work with your prompt like work choice

Move students through Bloom’s taxonomy. AI can help them with remember and understand, but they may not learn much. After that, students should be applying and analyzing more. Move up through taxonomy. Gradually release responsibility and have students take more ownership of their work.

Perplexity.ai pulls from authentic sources that can be trusted (good for curriculum development)

Can maybe use this to generate lesson plans and instructional design that supports more hands-on learning in English classes???

If it gives you an article, it will be a fake article, so replace it with a required reading that you trust

AI cannot critically think:

Humans must design assignments that AI cannot generate:

-Use higher level Bloom’s Taxonomy (create, evaluate, analyze)

-personal situations

-implement an activity and reflect on professional experiences

-conduct research and use data analysis

-classroom studies

RUBRICS:

Ask a follow up after creating a lesson

Ask it to have the levels and criteria

Student use of AI:

“You may use AI to help you research and generate ideas for the content for this assignment. Please ensure ethical use of the AI generated content is 1) accurate, 2) from a credible source, 3) applicable to your project, 4) how this AI generated information impacts your thinking, and 5) edit what AI generates to fit your presentation. Add on paragraph on how you used AI to assist you with this assignment.”

Purdue Owl has information on how to cite AI.

If you have assignments that you love, you can ask AI to clean those assignments up.

DIFFERENTIATING

Student choice:

written papers

oral presentations

podcasts

AI assisted data analysis

Accommodations:

Accessibility accommodations can easily be done through generating captions for lectures or text to speech. AI can adjust difficult and pace of course materials based on each student’s progress, ensuring that all students are appropriately challenged.

* Can struggling readers use things like Diffit to participate in higher level texts?

Language Support:

For diverse classrooms, AI can offer multilingual assistance and translation services, making content more accessible to non-native speakers. AI can also convert a primary language to English.

Challenges and Opportunities:

-Project base learning that builds weekly

-Questions for understating

-Exit tickets

-Use creativity to design professional flyers, infographics, write a blog or podcast