Digital Toolbox by Alexa Huntley

What is a Digital Toolbox?

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 02:09:30 UTC

This is a curated collection of digital tools and resources designed to enhance teaching practices, support classroom management, and improve student learning.

There are links to helpful articles at the top of each section that support or explain the digital resource topics.

Creating Videos

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 02:19:02 UTC

These are student friendly resources to create videos that support learning.

Canva:

https://www.canva.com/

Clipchamp:

https://clipchamp.com/en/

Screencastify:

https://www.screencastify.com/

Planning and Notetaking

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 02:33:14 UTC

Planning and notetaking platforms that significantly enhance student learning and organization through multimodal tools.

- Mindomo: Mind mapping and brainstorming tool designed to help visually organize information and ideas.

https://www.mindomo.com/

- FigJam: Interactive online whiteboard tool to enhance collaborative brainstorming, planning, and design processes.

https://www.figma.com/figjam/

- How to use Google Draw: Supports through visual and collaborative capabilities such as creating diagrams, mind maps, and flowcharts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSU0JbxWpoc

Assistive Technologies

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 02:47:08 UTC

These platforms offer accomodation supports for students.

Sora:

https://soraapp.com/home

Magic School:

https://www.magicschool.ai/

Clicker:

https://www.cricksoft.com/us/clicker

Artificial Intelligence

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 02:58:25 UTC

Brisk Teaching: Students can use this AI (signed DPA)

https://www.briskteaching.com/

These AI tools can be used by staff. Students are not able to use these resources and they are blocked on chromebooks.

ChatGPT:

https://chatgpt.com/

Magic School:

https://www.magicschool.ai/

Collaboration Tools

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-09 03:13:41 UTC

These platforms are easy to use when you would like to collaborate with another staff member or students are working on a group project.

Padlet:

https://padlet.com/

Wakelet:

https://wakelet.com/workspace/0IVwJR9ZpZh7loYkI-VPz/collections

Student Friendly Online Databases

ahuntley10 — 2024-08-10 01:34:21 UTC

These are databases that the school has subscriptions to. They are useful to show students how to search for correct information using keywords.

PebbleGo:

https://www.pebblego.com/

World Book Online:

https://www.worldbookonline.com/home/