Mrs. Heskett's shelf of awesomeness by Leah Heskett

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Students can collaborate on the same dotstorming board or their own. Students can vote on their favorite board.

ScratchWork Tools

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Great for brainstorming or use instead of your mimio studio. It makes your hand writing look better.

CueThink

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Students solve word problems and record their reasoning at the end. Students answers are shared on a community board for the class.

My Maps

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Google My Maps

Mural

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Mural app for brainstorming

360 View of You Project

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Students make a presentation about were they go to school and share with school in another country.

Canva

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Canva has premade poster/flyer templates.

Google Drawings

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Adding pictures and text is so much easier with Drawings.

Quizizz

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Students and teachers can make quizzes in this program. There is even a print option for all quizzes so you can send for absent students.

Kahoot

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Quiz game projected on a whiteboard. Students answer on their devices.

Quizlet

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Many options for students to study vocabulary. Students also can play the live version teams vs. teams.

Epals

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Connect our students with the world.

Google Teacher Tribe

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Great website along with very entertaining podcasts.

Alice Keeler

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Alice is the Google Classroom guru.

Ditch That Textbook

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So many great ideas on how to engage our students. Need ideas to other than "sit and get" check out this site.

Shake Up Learning

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Ways to engage our students by integrating technology.

Tom Mullaney Youtube

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Need tutorials about tech in the classroom? Check out tom!

Jamboard

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New from Google. Great way to collaborate using this google app. Jamboard can be found in the waffle.

Breakout.edu

lheskett — 2019-03-02 20:34:27 UTC

Check out the free digital games. Digital games have to set up. Plug and play at it's best.

PowToon

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Powtoons are comic slideshows. Merge a comic strip and slideshow together.

Pixton

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Pixton schools has lesson plans and user friendly set up for teachers. Students love making their own avatar.

Flipgrid

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Video response it's like YouTube and Instagram smashed together.

Screencast-o-matic

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Want to try out a flipped lesson? Or to video a lesson for absent students? Try this app.

Screencastify

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A google extension that walks your students through their first screen cast.

Padlet

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Brainstorming made easy. Great for teachers to keep links in all one place.

Boardthing

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Brainstorm collaboratively with a student chat function.

Twiddla

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Students can collaborate by marking up a website or making mind maps. Teachers can one link for students to gain access

Coketch

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his is a collaborative tool where students can add pictures, draw, and communicate through a chat feature.

Debate with Google Slides

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Students debate with cartoons and speech bubbles. Rebuttals could be in the comments or screencast a response.

Collabrify

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Intergalactic mobile learning labs students can co-create work that usually would be done on one sheet of paper.

Google Gaggle

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Integrating technology with younger students can be challenge. Check out this article to see how to implement Google Gaggle.

Slack

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Not a G Suite school? Try Slack.com for collaboration.

Green Screen

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How to make a video with a green screen.

Whoo's Reading

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An alternative to AR.

Plickers

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If you are not 1:1 but need a quick way to assess learning.

SumDog

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Interactive math activities

Skype in the Classroom

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Skype has virtual field trips, lessons, and more.

Expeditions

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Google Expeditions

QR Codes

lheskett — 2019-03-02 21:49:15 UTC

An article about how to make your class more engaging with the use of QR codes.

Rubric Maker

lheskett — 2019-03-02 21:52:32 UTC

Need to make a rubric for collaborative learning? Check out this site.

Ideas for Cross-curricular Projects

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Many ideas on how incorporate other subjects into one project.

Project Based Learning Ideas

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Many great ideas in this article.

Book Creator

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Make books with this app. There is a Chrome extension for this app.

Apps for Creating Books

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Many apps for younger children are iTunes apps. This is wonderful for our 1:1 iPad classrooms. Find great apps here.

Blabberize

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Check out this program. Your students will love it!!! With Blabberize you can make pictures talk!

Student Planner

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A Google Extension that is a student planner.

Kizoa

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Great for beginners to make movies.

Book Creator

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Make books on the iPad.

Storybird

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Google Extension for creating stories. Stories can be views on a community/classroom board.

Google Keep

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Digital post it notes that can be shared with students/teacher.

Chatterpix

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Upload a picture and make it "talk". Your students will love this!

clarisketch

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Take a picture and talk and draw.

Vyond

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An animation tool through Google Play. This will work on Chromebooks.

Wunderlist

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A Google Extension that allows you make to-do lists and keep you organized.

Wonderscope

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Make your classroom into a game with wonderscope.

Polyup

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Math playground K-12.

MACE conference

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NASA's Mars Project

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iNaturalist

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HyperDocs

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Check out this website for amazing ways to make and use HyperDocs in your classroom.

Flippity

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Make flash cards, jeopardy, and more!

Educational Duct Tape

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Jake Miller is a teacher who shares many many ideas about technology and the classroom .

Geoguesser

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Students try to guess a location by Google Earth photos of landmarks and such.

Free Rice

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Play, learn, and fee the hungry! Students answer questions and earn rice that goes to aid in feeding the hungry.

Street Trek View

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Take your students to the Great Barrier Reef. 360 degree views of wonderful places on Earth.

Google Quick Draw

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See if Google can guess what you are drawing.

Find more great activities here.

lheskett — 2019-04-02 20:04:25 UTC

Google Teacher Tribe has a very beneficial podcast.

5 ways to use Adobe Spark

lheskett — 2019-04-03 18:48:12 UTC

Helpful hints on way to use Adobe Spark.

Adobe Spark

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Adobe Spark Video

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How to use Adobe Spark Video

Need some help with Genius Hour? Check out this post.

lheskett — 2019-04-19 02:40:16 UTC

Genius Hour In The Classroom: 6 Principles Of Genius Hour - TeachThought PD

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