Digital Tools for the Classroom by Brittany Miller

Google Classroom

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Create classes, distribute assignments and send feedback.

SeeSaw

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Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication

Edmodo

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Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers.

Google Slides, Doc, Draw, etc.

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Through Google Slides and Docs, teachers can create personalized, aligned, and focused lessons for students through playlists and hyperdocs. See link below for example:

Padlet

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Padlet can be used to present content, projects, rubrics, and assessments for students. Here is an example:

Nearpod

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An interactive digital tool that can be self-paced or teacher directed. Every part of the lesson can be embedded into the Nearpod. Many pre-created lessons or create your own!

Pear Deck

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An add-on for Google Slides, Pear Deck allows you to create interactive presentations for a teacher-guided lesson

Screencastify

millerb18 — 2018-11-13 16:57:28 UTC

Simple to use add-on for video and audio recording. You can record your desktop or with your webcam or document camera. Useful in creating lessons, instructions, and subplans!

We Video

millerb18 — 2018-11-13 16:59:07 UTC

Make and share videos. Very simple Ipad App. More complicated in desktop version.

Playposit

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Take any video and embed questions, assignments, graphs, important points, or reminders. Track student progress!

Edpuzzle

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Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding. Reinforce accountability.

Discovery Education

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A standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind.

Readworks

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Online resource of reading passages and lesson plans for students of all levels K-12. Includes, read-alouds, ELL support,and quizzes, track student progress.

Dreambox

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Adaptive online software provider that focuses on mathematics education at the elementary and middle school level.

Lexia

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Adaptive and differentiated instruction and lessons in reading.

Youtube

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Tread carefully, but lots of great resources!

360 Cities

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360 Stock Panoramic Images

Google Arts and Culture

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Explore collections and stories from around the world with Google Arts & Culture.

Google Tour Creator

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Use a template or build your own immersive, 360 tours with embedded content and audio.

Pexels

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Free stock photos!

Flipgrid

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Students respond with a short video to teacher prompts or questions. Students can also respond to classmates.

Canva

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Graphic Design tool for presentations and posters!

Google Forms

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Quizlet

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Kahoot

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Plickers

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Poll Everywhere

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Class Kick

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Unsplash Photos

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Google Add-on for free access to over 300,000 high resolution photos.

Insert Icons

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Google Add-on with easy access to over 1,800 free icon images from the Font Awesome and Google Material Design collections

Book Creator

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A simple and engaging tool for creating presentations and ebooks with audio, video, visuals, text, and more. Free version is 40 books and includes voice to text. Paid version can be collaborative and share classrooms.

Screencastify

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Student created videos.

Google Drawings, Slides, & Docs

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Deck Toys

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Interactive lesson creation site with a "game" feel. You can embed videos, quizzes, quests, clues, and links to outside sites.

My Simple Show

millerb18 — 2018-11-13 23:34:22 UTC

Digital presentation tool for any subject. Students choose template or create and write in their content. Simple show suggests visuals for the content and students can add.

Stop Motion

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Tiny url

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Shorten any url!

Flippity

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Easily create flashcards, groups, and more from Google spreadsheet data using Flippity

QR Code Generator

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Bloom's Question Starters

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Question prompts for every stage of Bloom's Taxonomy

Google Tour Builder

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Similar to Tour Creator, but works with Google Maps for interactice story telling. You can create a tour of any subject, zooming in to show the places where events took place, and easily integrating the story’s text, photos and videos.

Wix

millerb18 — 2019-01-23 16:15:35 UTC

Wix is a website creator that is easy to use with templates or a blank page with simple has a drag-and-drop interface that is very easy to navigate.

Google Sites

millerb18 — 2019-01-27 17:48:48 UTC

Simple to create sites where you can embed, link, and share every part of a project or lesson. This is an example of a Reconstruction Review I created!

Common Lit

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Provide high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy with read aloud! Grades 3-12.

Study Jams

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Engaging math and science topics with videos, slideshows, step-by-step tutorials, and other activities.

bitmoji for Chrome

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Wizer.me

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Blended Learning "Worksheets"

Geo Inquiries

millerb18 — 2019-02-18 18:47:52 UTC

GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks.

Math Clip Art

millerb18 — 2019-02-18 18:48:43 UTC

The collection includes 9,820 images for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability, money, number sense, and more.

Gimkit

millerb18 — 2019-04-15 13:44:51 UTC

Gimkitten is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win.

Quizzizz

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Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more.

Sli.do

millerb18 — 2019-06-23 01:39:18 UTC

Slido is an interactive Q&A & polling platform.

Google Drawing Example

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Playlist Unit Example

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Google Slides

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Useful for organizing word study, projects, small groups, and more!

Immersive Reader

millerb18 — 2020-01-17 14:22:10 UTC

A free tool that uses proven techniques to improve reading for people regardless of their age or ability.

Read & Write Chrome Extension

millerb18 — 2020-01-17 14:23:22 UTC

provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible!

Helper Bird

millerb18 — 2020-01-18 01:08:44 UTC

A browser extension that gives people the features and customization to make reading and browsing the web easier. Change fonts, immersive reader, split screen.