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This is my district's bread and butter these days. We're rolling out the paid version next year but it's completely free for individual classes.

Available Tool with in app:
Pictures
Videos
Audio Recording
Annotations
Drawing
Typing tools

All students products can be shared in a closed environment with the class or shared with parents. Let the creation, collaboration, communication and critical thinking ensue!

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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VERY simple programming app for lower elementary (K-2). Only available on iPads. A great chance to expose students to programming at a young age.

Sharing from the app is a bit clumsy.

I just started using this app this year to let 1st graders retell fairytales. So far it's going well. I'll have some student work to share in a couple weeks!

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With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.

By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don't just learn to code, they code to learn.

ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children's cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development.

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications.

If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.

Version 1.5.10

Awesome, simple, and fun. Fix something though.

There is this mail letter thing, you can choose different colors for it to trigger a signal in your coding thing, or, whatever you call what it does. There is only a few colors, not a lot. I don't like that part, because I have a lot more things to use that mail thingy than just 6 colors. Can we maybe put a text, instead of colors? Like, any text. For example: "car". And on the character, you put the same text on that mail thingy. And the action happens. Also, why only 4 scenes? Can we add more than 4 scenes? I also want the audio recording quality a little better. There is this noise sound, it makes the recording sound a little glitchy, I also want to have a feature where you can just get audio from your audio library, or video library.
Thank you, I just want an improvement to make coding better. Overall from this, this app is great! Thank you for reading.

I kinda like it

I like it but it just needs more sections or whatever you call it, so here's the sections I need so operators but it's renamed math, sensing, and variables and more blocks in the sections like repeat until, point towards mouse pointer but renamed as point towards hand. And also remove the end blocks replace that as my blocks if you want. What should be in the math\operators: a plus sign, a minus sign and finally add times. Also add clones, delete clone, when start as a clone. Just add everything what scratch has only some stuff.

Works okay buut..

The drawing tool is hard to use and you can only have four frames. When you draw to create or edit a character, the app distorts the lines you draw and doesn't allow you to draw anything small. If you draw a curved or squiggly line, it'll often straighten the line unless it has very dramatic squiggles. Your drawing of a parentheses may end up looking like a straight line or a less than sign. If you're drawing the letter E, it'll often connect the lines and make it look more like a box with funny looking triangles. If you're drawing a tiny circle, it literally won't appear unless you draw it larger. It makes it frustrating to draw anything. In addition, projects are only limited to four frames, so you're restricted to making only incredibly simple games/stories/etc. A small selection of only 40 colors also limits creativity.
But overall, if you're making small, short, simple projects with the pre-made characters, it's an okay app.

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Seller

Scratch Foundation, Inc.

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 9.3 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 9.3 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 9.3 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Age Rating

4+, Made for Ages 6-8

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‎With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design project...

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I came across this website and thought it was interesting. I'm thinking of trying it out. It's a pdf on how to log in and how the game works. It's a way for student collaborate and create games together.

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You have probably heard of this but my niece uses this all the time.  It's a video platform where your students go to share ideas and learn together. They can also add stickers on images to make their presentation interesting. Other students can comment on their videos.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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I shared this on Marisa's Padlet too...

Great for students to create their own Stories (ebook format). Audio recordings, pictures, stamps, drawing, etc.

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My Story School eBook Maker on the App Store

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about My Story School eBook Maker. Download My Story School eBook Maker and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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This app is a 'screencasting' app that allows students to draw, record, take pictures, collaborate (paid) and much more.

I've used it with grade 3 and up.

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This website looks as if they have a variety of activities and different subjects. There are different levels of membership. Just throwing it out there for critical thinking aspect.

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Science Games and Videos | Educational Games for Kids

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You have probably seen this image before but I love referring to this image when I am lesson planning. Helps me to use/integrate technology and different levels.

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Skype is a widely known tool but there is a forum where you can connect with other educators or professionals to bring their knowledge into your classroom.

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Educator Center Overview - Microsoft Learn Educator Center

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Microsoft Learn for Educators takes the best of Microsoft Learn online learning paths and helps you to bring instructor-led training materials from Microsoft into your courses. This program provides members with access to Microsoft ready-to-teach curriculum and teaching materials aligned to industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications.

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I almost forget about this because I use it so often. A great tool for creating and sharing content online!

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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I shared this to Shauna's Padlet as well but it could be useful for you to know which standards/skills you should be teaching your students

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The ISTE Student Standards guide educators toward student-driven learning practices that prepare students to thrive in an evolving technological landscape.

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With Wikispaces classroom, you can create a social environment for collaboration, project-based learning and as social networking

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Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. We make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time.

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Found this and thought it could useful - a place to visual thinking process.

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Graph visualization of: Join a global community of mappers with over half a million ideas and 30,000 maps. Click on the bubbles to explore, and log-in to create free public & private maps on any topic!

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Thinking in a different direction than most educators would use it - ed.ted.com allows you to take a video and create a lesson around it. I was thinking it might be interesting to allow students to work through that process to present/collab with others

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Using Technology to Develop Critical Thinking

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Using Technology to Develop Critical Thinking

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Using Technology To Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills - SPS | Distance Learning

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What Is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is a higher-order cognitive skill that is indispensable to students, readying them to respond to a variety of complex problems that are sure to arise in their personal and professional lives. The cognitive skills at the foundation of critical thinking ar…

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Another article to add to your research sources.

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Not all on the list may be useful, but sharing all together so you can check them out.

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Around October of every year, while teachers are waist-deep in curriculum, kids are thinking about what they're going to be for Halloween, and retail stores are already gathering steam for Christmas, I'm thinking about one thing: technology.

That's because every January I put out a fresh version of The Teacher's Guide to Tech, my uber-fabulous directory of tech tools. All year long, I take notes on new tools I hear about from teachers I talk to, in conversations on Twitter, and by paying really close attention at conferences. Then, from October through early January, I start figuring out which ones are going to make it into the guide. This year I added 60 new tools, and I'm so excited to share them with you.

As I have done every year since 2015, I'm going to shine a spotlight on six of the tools I added to this year's guide: They're not all brand-new, but I think each one could make a real difference in the way your students learn or the things they produce. One of them is super trendy right now, but it deserves the attention. One of them takes you into the past in a way that can be breathtaking. Three can be used in a dozen different ways and in all subject areas. And one-I would bet money on this-you're going to want to try right away.

And so, without further ado, let's begin.
flipgrid.com
OK, so this one I have to get out of the way first. Even though I don't think Flipgrid actually needs any more attention than it's gotten lately, there's just no way I'm writing a post about up-and-coming tech tools without including it. For me, this has been hands-down the most talked about tech tool of the past year, and for good reason.

So what is Flipgrid? It's an app where someone, usually a teacher, poses a question or prompt, and students respond to it with short videos. Once they've finished their video, they can leave responses to other students' videos.

This tool would be a great way to get students talking about any topic, reflect on a book or film, or ask questions about something you're exploring in class.

At a time when we are all getting less and less comfortable with face-to-face communication, preferring instead to talk through text, Flipgrid gives us a way to bring our real voices, our actual faces, our true, less-edited selves back into play.
insertlearning.com
With this tool, you can basically take any page on the Internet and turn it into a lesson. Suppose you find a great article from The Guardian that you'd like students to read, but you'd also like to ask them a few questions about it, add a bit of commentary of your own, and insert a related video. With InsertLearning, you can do all of that right on the article.

InsertLearning, formerly called DocentEDU, is an extension you add to your Chrome browser. Once it's there, turning any web page into a lesson can be done in minutes. You start with a web page of any kind, then highlight text, add notes, and embed your own questions-either multiple-choice or open-ended-that students answer right on the page. You can also embed other content like YouTube videos, ThingLink images, flashcards from Quizlet, mind maps from Coggle, even videos you record straight from your webcam.

Once an InsertLearning lesson is created, you assign it to classes of students with a special code or through Google Classroom, and student responses are sent to a teacher dashboard, where you can grade them right inside the app. You can also share lessons with other teachers, so they can copy and edit them for their own use.

I think we're getting beyond the point where we count on one platform to do everything for us. Instead, teachers are probably better off using different tools depending on what best fits the learning goals at any given time. A tool like InsertLearning would be a fantastic addition to your collection of resources for creating engaging, dynamic lessons.
bookcreator.com
Book Creator is a beautiful, flexible tool that allows students of any age or skill level to create, publish, and share online books.

Creating books using this tool can be as simple or complex as you make it. Students who prefer more structure can choose a comic book layout and insert Google images straight from the app into locked panels. Those who want more flexibility can choose a completely blank page and upload their own artwork. Students can customize the font, add shapes and stickers, hyperlink the text to other online resources, and import audio and video files.

When the book is ready to be published, the pages turn like a real book, and the audio and video play right inside the app.

This tool would also be wonderful for teacher use. You can create books and place them into either a private library-just for you-or create a public library that your students can join by using a code. Within the shared library, anyone can create books to be shared among the other members.

Book Creator really could work for any age level and in any content area: Students can create books to show how a key science concept impacts their daily lives, explore a social justice issue throughout history, study examples of math principles at work in the real world, or craft an original, illustrated story. A book could chronicle a student's journey through a genius hour project, showcase a student's artwork or photography in a portfolio, or record class memories after going on a field trip.

If you've gotten stuck in a never-ending cycle of worksheets and multiple-choice tests, introducing a tool like Book Creator could open up some incredible possibilities for students to demonstrate and share their learning.
newseumed.org
Social studies and history teachers, you're going to love this one.

Produced by Newseum, a news museum located in Washington, D.C., NewseumED houses an incredible online collection of primary sources, news artifacts, and lessons that help teachers teach media literacy, civics, and all aspects of the First Amendment, giving you and your students an up-close look at history.

So if you're looking for how a German newspaper covered Jesse Owens' win at the 1936 Olympics, you can find that. The front cover of Life magazine capturing the very beginning of a 1965 march for civil rights in Selma, Alabama? They have that. An image of Abe Lincoln without a beard? Check.

The site gives you several ways to search for content-by state, century, theme, topics, type of resource, and so on. Once you find something you'd like your students to use-a map, a newspaper, a quiz-you can share it with them using a URL that lasts for two weeks but can be renewed an unlimited number of times.

If you find a lesson you'd like to teach, handouts are there for you to download, print, or copy, and everything has been aligned to NCSS, NCHS, NCTE, and Common Core Standards.

When I first saw this site, I thought about way back when the Internet first became a thing that regular people used. We used to talk about how theoretically, you could go online and find just about any document you could think of; like, the whole Library of Congress would be on there. Except back around 1994 when I tried to find stuff, it ended up not being that easy. When I look at a site like NewseumED, that vision is starting to look more like a reality now.

At a time when the concept of "truth" has become pretty shaky, having access to primary sources has never been more important. NewseumED deserves a place on every history teacher's list of go-to resources.
autodraw.com
OK, I have to admit: This one I included just because it's so frickin' cool. Someone showed it to me on Twitter one day and I freaked out. I do think it has some educational value, and I'll get to that in a minute, but first let me just tell you about it.

AutoDraw is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to guess what you're trying to draw. You start with a blank screen, begin sketching something, and AutoDraw gives you a strip of professionally illustrated images to choose from, based on what the tool thinks you're trying to draw.

Every time you add more detail to your own sketch, AutoDraw's guesses change. When you see an image that matches what you're going for, you can choose it, then add color, resize it, or basically manipulate it however you want. If you choose to, you can turn OFF the automatic feature and just sketch without any assistance, but seriously, that feature is a thing to behold.

When your masterpiece is complete, you can automatically download it as a PNG file, share it on Twitter or Facebook, or grab a unique URL and share it that way.

So here's where I see some educational value beyond this tool just being neat-o: Images help us remember things. I've talked on this site about the value of dual coding, visualization, and nonlinguistic representation. A tool like AutoDraw fits in there: If you want students to add doodles to their notes, and they get frustrated with their own drawing skills, this tool can help. If you like to add icons or illustrations to your classroom materials, but you don't have the time to create your own or look all over the Internet for pre-made ones, this tool can help.

Beyond that, if you have early finishers in class or need something fresh for preferred activity time, giving students ten minutes to play around on AutoDraw would be great. And if students need illustrations for projects, videos, or books, AutoDraw can help them create those.

Also? Really cool.
sway.com
First we had PowerPoint. Then Prezi came along and shook things up quite a bit. Then a little over two years ago, Microsoft quietly introduced Sway, a unique platform that gives you dynamic, almost cinematic presentations that have the feel of a modern website.

You start by selecting a template, a topic, or a document you already have on your computer-or start from scratch. You work within a storyline, getting all your information typed in, images and videos inserted, forms added, and content embedded. The program is set up so that you can add content from the app without having to toggle between tabs. This includes Creative Commons images, so you don't have to worry about copyright laws.

Once your storyline is complete, you can design your Sway: Choose from a number of styles or use the Remix button until the preview of your work looks exactly how you want it. You can choose for your Sway to scroll up and down, left to right, or be presented in slides just like PowerPoint.

Sway would be another nice option for presenting your own content or offering students a different way to share their learning or produce creative projects of their own.

All the tools, all in one place.

If you're not yet familiar with the Teacher's Guide to Tech, let me introduce you: It's my encyclopedia of educational technology, a 329-page PDF you can keep on your home computer, work computer, or any device that will read a PDF.

The whole purpose of the guide is to make it fast and easy for you to navigate the world of ed tech. Once you start using it, you won't believe how much you'll learn, or how FAST you'll learn it!

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One of them is super trendy. One takes you into the past. Three can be used in a dozen different ways. And one you're going to want to try right away. Come see.

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Sorting and considering will be fun!

Thanks everyone!

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Have students reflect on how the project connects with technology and connects with content.