Acquired Resources by Mercedes Pomerleau

Mural

mercedespomerleau — 2025-01-14 01:26:06 UTC

Mural is a digital whiteboard that allows people to collaborate in real-time (and it auto-saves!). This could be a great tool to introduce to students because it fosters creativity and teamwork while also encouraging idea-sharing, brainstorming, and mind mapping. It has many features and interactive elements such as sticky notes and drawing, and can be used to organize student's work in many different subjects.

Soundtrap

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-19 01:59:38 UTC

Soundtrap is another collaborative tool that works in real-time and encourages creativity. It allows students to record and edit audio so they can produce, for example, podcast-style projects. It can be used to record small group discussions, make research-based podcasts, or even practice overall speaking skills to obtain feedback from educators.

Scratch

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-19 02:23:30 UTC

Scratch is a beginner-friendly programming tool with a simple interface that includes a variety of preset characters (Sprites), backgrounds, and coding commands to create games. Not only is this is fun way to introduce coding to students who are interested in learning more about digital technologies, but it's a great way to incorporate technology use across many subjects. Students can create games to solve math problems, answer history or geography questions, or even create stories. As an educator you could also share premade games as practice homework.

FlexClip

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-19 02:41:23 UTC

FlexClip is a free video editing tool that can generate videos quickly based on a set of given instructions. It has a clear and simple interface and can help guide students in creating research projects or class presentations. What makes it unique from other video editing tools is that by using AI, it can generate a script with supported visuals from its pre-made catalog. Once again, this can be used across multiple subjects and encourages creativity and collaboration.

Teachers Pay Teachers

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-19 02:49:39 UTC

Teachers Pay Teachers is an educator-based site that houses an abundance of lesson plans, classroom activities, and student worksheets that were created by teachers. It's like the "Etsy" for teachers where you can find plenty of teaching resources for oftentimes low costs (some resources are even free!). This is a great site to consider as an educator (especially a new educator) because it can save a lot of time in coming up with engaging lessons in all subject areas at different learning levels.

Kahoot!

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-28 13:54:21 UTC

Kahoot! is a game-base learning platform where educators can create interactive quizzes and discussions for students. This is a great tool because it encourages engagement, rapid or thoughtful critical thinking, and in some cases group collaboration. It can also be used as an assessment tool because educators can see what topics students may have difficulties with.

Minecraft: Education Edition

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-28 14:03:39 UTC

Minecraft is an open-world, multiplayer sandbox video game where players can build and create unique things using blocks. The education version can be used to make learning more interactive. For example, educators can use it to show different ecosystems, or historical sites that students can explore. Teachers can also assign building projects to students, perhaps building historically accurate houses or conduct science experiments with different materials.

Khan Academy

mercedespomerleau — 2025-03-28 14:09:37 UTC

Khan Academy is a platform the houses a large catalog of educational videos and practice exercises that can be used at home or in the classroom for free. For educators, it can be used to support teachings by providing additional aid to lessons and can even create a more visual learning experience for those who might need it. Students are also able to work at their own pace and track their progress, and the teacher is able to see their progress as well and see where the student might be lacking. Educators can assign videos and practices as homework which can eliminate the need to print out homework sheets from time to time!