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Unique ways to use Google Slides with ideas and examples.

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Teachers and kids can create customized books, add video, audio, and more.

Ages: K-5

Check out this interactive explanation of Book Creator I created:
https://read.bookcreator.com/Whr4NJVREjMrOAvOG28N8wiaFhK2/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ideas for use:

-Can't find a book Teacher can create books customized to individual child's level of learning.

-Formative assessment e-portfolio to record progress over time students can carry wherever they go.

-About me books
-Kids audio record their voices to accompany their writing or pictures of their writing
-Kids can create their own library
Connected to writeourworld.org

Check out this interactive explanation of Book Creator I created:
https://read.bookcreator.com/Whr4NJVREjMrOAvOG28N8wiaFhK2/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

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Send short videos to talk about projects, thoughts, etc.

Takes videos of kids with funny classes/filters, etc.

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Teacher take a youtube video to use as a formative assessment. Teacher can make video stop and prompt kids to answer a question which gives them instant feedback. Teacher can also create a voice over or add audio notes.
There are videos with questions already made.

Pros:

1. Can be given as homework.

2. Add captions or voice in any language to video.

3. Students can work at their own pace and watch sections of video multiple times.

4. Collects data with scores and can be shared by exporting.

5. Tracks student's time/date of participation.

6. Great assessment tool.

7. Kids love to create their own and quiz their peers.

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Great blog for kids.
Free, with $40/year upgrade

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress

Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning.

Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning. Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Similar to Kahoot, but with an upgrade: avatars, leader boards, themes, music and memes.

Student-directed, displays questions and answers on student and teacher devices, can be assigned as homework with deadlines, stores student results, teacher can create fun memes. Engaging, innovative, formative quizzes.

Can shuffle questions and answers to support integrity and honesty.

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JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.

Pros: Free, lots of pre-made quizzes, easy  to use.

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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

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Voting, polls, simultaneous word clouds from kids submissions.

Can supposedly do lots of stuff.

Pros: Instantaneous word clouds, quick check in.

Cons: Only 2 quizzes at a time or upgrade is required.

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Low-tech student response/polling option. All you need is one teacher tablet or smartphone, no student devices! Quickly check for student understanding or opinion with an activity where every student is heard

Kids have a little shape (similar to a QR code) they answer a question with. The direction they hold their card is their answer. Then, the teacher scans across the room

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Plickers - How to get started? Quick Tutorial for Teachers

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Give examples, demonstration

Give form for brainstorming

Write up or storyboardthat

Public service announcements recycling,

Start with an idea

Pitch the idea to the class.

Big head. Face. Remove the parts that will move. Mouth- Make 3 pieces.

Example: Frankenstein head. Bolts have electricity moving.

Real life: Sesame street: Pixilation

Youtuber: pez

What is rotoscope

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Turn any image into an interactive experience.

Adds little icons to buttons with hyperlinks that lead viewer to messages, pictures and/or videos.

Cost: Free

http://thinglinkblog.com/ Blog for thinglink! Check this website for ways to use thinglink for classroom expectation and routine!

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Popplet is a tool for the iPad and web to capture and organize your ideas. Mindmapping tool. Add videos, links, images. Brainstorm ideas, organize thoughts.

Ages: PreK-5 and teachers

Cost: Web is free, Ipad limited free "lite" version with option of upgrade.

Ideas for use: Personal timeline, vocabulary (ex: noun in center with bubbles of examples around the word), personal

Pros: Very simple, easy to use, visually clear to assist.

Questions: +

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Creative pixel art using google sheets.

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Google Sheets: Pixel Art Template - Teacher Tech

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In my previous blog post TK teacher Christine Pinto had her transitional kindergarten kids use Google Classroom to create Google Drawings. As we all know, the answer is always a spreadsheet so I pondered on what would be a good activity she might be able to use with spreadsheets. Pixel art!

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Customizable video presenter.

Favorite video: Mission impossible for introduces today's "mission".

Turns text into video.

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Presents information in an organized timeline. Student/teacher can add pictures, videos, quizzes.

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Sutori is a collaborative presentation tool for the classroom for all age groups and content areas. It provides the ideal canvas for assignments and lesson plans.

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Creative interactive presentation program. More for teachers due to complicated interface.

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Piktochart allows the user to present information with fun and inviting graphics.

Ages: 5th grade+

Ideas for use: Student about me, classroom rules, infographic/poster, fliers to represent knowledge.

Signs in through google account

Printable

piktochart.com

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Create posters, fliers, infographics with beautiful and professional graphics.

Ages: 5+

Very similar to Piktochart

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Students can create two- to four-panel comic strips using either the free Make Beliefs Comix website or iPad app. Supports multiple learning styles, to supporting younger or special needs students express feelings or experiences they struggle to articulate through cartoons.

Ages: Grades 2/3+

Ideas for use: Writing prompts, social emotional work

makebeleifcomix.com

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Create Your Own Comic Strips Online with MakeBeliefsComix

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We Offer Support and Resources.

From Richard Byrne, editor of Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week -- ''Creating Comics for Comfort'' -- Living in Maine and father of two school-age children, Richard wrote the following item for teachers and students dealing with the terrible tragedy of the recent mass shootings in that state. He thought this an appropriate time to review and use Social and Emotional Learning resources, such as those offered by MakeBeliefsComix.com.

Make Beliefs Comix offers a library of fantastic, free ebooks for SEL. The library hosted by Make Beliefs Comix contains fillable PDFs that you can download for free. The latest addition to that library is 50+ Ways to Talk to Yourself and Find Healing. And for something a bit lighter, take a look at Pet Words: Conversations With Your Animal Friends.

"Here's a video overview of the Make Beliefs Comix ebooks and here's one about how to create comic strips on the Make Beliefs Comix website."

For many LGBTQ+ kids, especially when they're figuring things out, finding accepting spaces online can sometimes feel safer. Seek out creative opportunities and modes of self-expression, with this section in Make Beliefs Comix.

READ ABOUT US IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!

ARTICLE #1: (click on the link below)
MakeBeliefsComix encourages students to create their own visual pandemic diary.

ARTICLE #2: (click on the link below)
One easy way to start playing with ideas is through the free, online tool at MakeBeliefsComix.com.

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Create Comics Online, it's Fun & Free at MakeBeliefsComix!

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Create comics online at MakeBeliefsComix. A fun way educators & parents can empower students to express ideas and stories in comix!

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Connected to BookCreator. Write Our World allows students can read from and publish to our interactive library of ebooks created by kids from all over the world!

Pros: Offers books in dozens of languages

Cons: $7/month

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Your students can read from and publish to

our interactive library of ebooks created by kids from all over the world!

Write Our World envisions a world in which every child's story matters. We empower multilingual youth worldwide to embrace their languages and cultures while building skills for their future through ebook authoring.

Explore our growing inventory of multicultural ebooks created by kids for kids. You can read and listen in two languages!

Your students can be published authors, too! We provide all the tools you need to get started.

We work directly with schools to adapt this program to the specific needs of your community.

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Write Our World envisions a world in which every child's story matters. We empower multilingual youth worldwide to embrace their languages and cultures while building skills for their future through ebook authoring. Explore our growing inventory of multicultural ebooks created by kids for kids. You can read and listen in two languages!

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My theme song

Show clips from movies- Characters with a theme sound or song (ie. superman, rocky).

What are words that describe you?