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Quik
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Duolingo
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Where the TA TEKS and the ELPS Meet

Tools to assist in "Listening"

YouTube (Free)

What can one NOT learn from Youtube?! Many books are available on YouTube with closed captioning.

Google Districts:

Consider how you (and your students) can leverage YOUR district YouTube channel for learning.

Google Docs (Free)

Google Docs has a Voice Typing tool when using a computer (with a mic) or a laptop/Chromebook. If students are accessing a Google Doc from a mobile device, the use of the microphone allows for speech to text.

Let's Recap

Recap prompts students to respond to teachers' questions on video and then asks them to rate how they think they did on the assignment after. Student responses and feedback are stored privately within the app, where teachers can revisit to get a closer look at each student's individual performance, while gathering data on the entire class. This capability and ease of use position Recap as the perfect foundation for frequent formative assessments.

Here's how Recap works:

1. Assign-​Teachers create and assign questions to a student, a group of students or the entire class during or after a lesson.

2. Watch​-As students start submitting their answers and selfassessments, teachers can use individual responses and class statistics for formative assessment, differentiation and personalization.

3. Share-​Teachers can share individual responses with other students, parents and educators. This enables peer learning and strengthens the home-to-school connection.
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Click below to try out Recap.

Wizer.me

www.wizer.me

Wizer is a free service that bills itself as a tool for creating "blended worksheets."

On Wizer you can create interactive writing assignments in a couple of ways. You can create fill-in-the-blank activities that provide students with instant feedback as they work. The other style of writing assignment that you can create on Wizer is an interactive image assignment. You can upload an image and have students label it. As they write their labels they can receive feedback as to whether or not they labeled the image correctly. In that regard, it is like Thinglink but with a quiz component.

In addition to writing activities, you can use Wizer to create multiple choice, matching, and open-ended question activities. All of the activities that you create on Wizer can be shared to your students through Google Classroom. If you do not have Google Classroom you can share your activities by giving students a link and an activity pin code.

Fluency Tutor (Freemium)
www.fluencytutorforgoogle.com/

FluencyTutor for Google is a Chrome web app (works on Chromebook, PC, Mac) that allows teachers to share selected reading passages with their students. Students can hear the passages read aloud. The text being read aloud is highlighted to help students follow along with the reading.

After hearing passages read aloud through FluencyTutor, students can create recordings of themselves reading the passages. Those recordings can be downloaded.

Full version is $99/year.

For more info: https://goo.gl/IOMBjz

What are some of your favorite websites for "Reading"?

Write Reader (Free)

www.writereader.com

Write Reader is a multimedia writing platform for elementary school teachers and students. The appeal of WriteReader is found in the collaboration between students and teachers. Students can create multimedia books that teachers log into to correct. Each page of a book has a space for students to write in and a space for teachers to write in. Teachers use the space on the page to correct spelling errors and or make editing suggestions. Students can also record their voice in the app.
When students or teachers are on a computer, laptop or Chromebook, Stupeflix is a tool to consider for creating videos.
Stupeflix (Free)
https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/education/
Click here to register for an EDU account:

You will be asked to complete a short email template. It allows teachers to manage up to 100 student accounts for FREE (great for younger students).

Select a video style, pick photos, videos, music, add text, and you're done.

You can import photos, videos from your computer or from the web. You can use photos from your Facebook, Dropbox, Picasa or Flickr accounts. You can even use your webcam to record.
Add a soundtrack by uploading a song or choosing one from our library. You can also add a voice-over file or use our computer voices that will read your text.
Then tell your story with text slides and captions on top of photos and videos.

Spell Up

Spell Up is a game in which you hear a prompt to spell a word then have to speak into your laptop or Chromebook to see the word spelled on your screen. If you spell the word correctly it stays on the screen where it becomes part of a tower of words. If you spell a word incorrectly, it will fall off the screen and you will be prompted to try again (you can skip a word after a few tries).

Knoword.org (Freemium)

www.knoword.org
Android App
Students are presented with the first letter of a word, its part of speech, and the definition. They have to fill in the correct spelling of the word. If they enter the correct word, they earn points and time. If they don't get it right, they lose points. This tool is best suited for middle and high school.

Remind

FREE!!

Group text without being IN a group text.

Private--no one knows your phone numbers

Schedule Texts (birthdays, parent reminders, holiday greetings)

Add attachments

Add voice memos

Insert Links

Text as few as 3 people. Great for reminders (pun intended) for smaller groups.

TRANSLATES!!

FREE!!

Benefits:

Apps for your phone:

Click here for the Remind App for iPhone.

Click here for the Remind App for Android.
QR Reader/Scanner: QR Creators:
QR Codes:

Twitter
It is now a choice for an educator to remain in isolation and ignore the opportunity to connect, learn and become better teachers for their students.~ANDREW T. GARCIA
How do you get better at what you do? How do you connect? How do you discover content relevant to your current assignment? Once you find content, what do you do with it? How do you "save" it? How do you find it once it is saved?

Tools for Differentiating Instruction

Andy Adams

Digital Learning Specialist

Region 7 ESC

* Copyright 2017 by Region 7 Education Service Center. This document may be reproduced for educational use only.

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Write your name in the red portion.

You can insert a link to a resource by clicking the icon in the bottom of the box. You can drag your box to an empty space and also click to resize it.