Adobe Spark- Page
A great way for students/teachers to create webpages for many different items. For example, you could use it for: reports, blogs, portfolios, reflections, newsletters, journals, etc.
Adobe Spark- Recording
Use Adobe Spark to create easy, yet powerful videos.
App Smashing
App Smashing is the fun and creative process of combining the attributes of more than one application to demonstrate learning. App smashing can combine as few as two apps, or as many as one can imagine!
Create with Canva! Part 1: Teacher Use
Canva is an easy-to-use digital design website that allows you to use pre-made templates, or start from scratch, to create professional presentations, documents, logos, etc.
Class Tools to Enhance Student Engagement
Use Classtools to create tools and games that are interactive and easy to use.
Class Dojo Toolkit
The teacher will use Toolkit on Class Dojo to explore classroom management tools.
Create with Canva! Part 2: Student Use
Inspire creativity with Canva through graphic creations.
EDpuzzle Level 1: The Basics
EDpuzzle allows teachers to crop videos from organizations such as Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, YouTube,Ted Talks, and a few others in an easy format while also adding audio notes, quizzes, or audio voiceovers.
EdPuzzle Level 2: Setting Up Your Class
EdPuzzle combines videos teachers make or find (from Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, YouTube,Ted Talks, and others) with custom questions, audio notes, and voice overs. It integrates with Google Classroom, so students can be added a whole class at a time.
Flipgrid – Level 2
Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. It’s where students amplify and feel amplified. It’s video the way students use video.
FlipGrid – Level 1
Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and their families around the world. Flipgrid promotes fun and social learning by giving every student an equal and amplified voice in discussing prompts organized by the educator.
Private: Flippity Pro
Flippity is a Google Sheets Add-on that allows users to create a variety of cool items from flash cards to a crossword puzzle to a quiz show!
Get Going With GoNoodle
GoNoodle is a video resource that you can use for Brain Breaks, Relaxation, Indoor Recess, and Learning Style Differentiation (bringing kinetic learning into the classroom easily).
Kahoot Basics!
Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!
Go Formative: Advanced
Now that you know how to create, give and analyze a GoFormative assessment let’s get a little deeper and add a variety of different types of test items.
Go Formative: Basics
Learn to create simple online multiple choice assessments. These assessments will be automatically graded and you can view data instantly.
Go Formative: Data
Evaluate Data with GoFormative. See how your students do as a class, on each question, and compared to your other classes. Easily allow students to see and track their own data.
Grammarly
Grammarly will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful. Adding Grammarly to Chrome means that your spelling and grammar will be vetted on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web.
LastPass – Staff
Once you save a password in LastPass, you’ll always have it when you need it; logging in is fast and easy.
LucidChart
Lucidchart combines ease of use with more robust functionality to accommodate all students, from those in elementary school to those in advanced engineering courses. Teachers and education leaders can also use the software to explain complex processes and demonstrate learning techniques.
Mystery Skype
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Nearpod
Nearpod is a classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons & assessments that students can access on any device.
A New Way to Remind
Remind is a messaging tool that can empower clear communication throughout your parents, staff, etc.
Newsela
Newsela is a nonfiction reading site where readers can access real news articles, then adjust them to match their reading level to annotate and more!
No Red Ink
Teachers will learn how to create classes and develop practices, quizzes, and diagnostics on No Red Ink.
Pear Deck – Level 1
Pear Deck “transforms presentations into classroom conversations with an array of interactive and formative assessment questions.”
Pear Deck – Level 2
Pear Deck aims to help teachers efficiently understand individual students’ progress in the classroom.
PhET Interactive Simulations
PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery
Piktochart (Student)
Piktochart is a free tool for making infographics, presentations, and printables. Infographics are concise visual representations of data and information that is easily viewed and understood.
Piktochart (Teacher)
Piktochart is a free tool for making infographics, presentations, and printables. Infographics are concise visual representations of data and information that is easily viewed and understood.
Plickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices
Prezi
Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
Quizlet: Part 2 – Quizlet Live
Quizlet Live is a powerful tool filled with fun and engagement for both the students and teachers. It takes Quizlet off of the computer screen only and brings it into a real world interactive competition!
Quizlet: Part 1 – Creating a Study Set
Quizlet is a great way to help kids study for vocab tests or remember important terms.
Quizizz
Quizziz is a free game-based tool that allows you to create fun, multi-player quiz games that can be used both in the classroom as a quick formative assessment and out of the classroom for homework.
ReCap
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Screencastify Your Classroom!
Use Screencastify in your classroom for video recording magic!
SeeSaw Digital Portfolios
Using SeeSaw, students capture learning with photos and videos of their work, or by adding digital creations. Everything gets organized in one place and is accessible to teachers from any device.
Sending Positive Parent Communication
Effective communication is essential to create strong school-home partnerships and to increase parental involvement.
Social Media and your Classroom!
Post your class activities to the school Facebook page to earn this badge!
Socrative
Teachers will learn how to create classes and develop assessments using Socrative.
Quizlet: Part 3 – Spicing Up Quizlet Live
Quizlet Live is great to play with your class to review. Now time to spice it up with your students even more!
Sporcle
Sporcle is a trivia quiz website on which users have a set amount of time to complete their responses. Sporcle can be utilized as a study tool that covers a multitude of subjects. Teachers can create timed assessments for student-use.
Sutori
Sutori is a free website for creating and sharing content. This storytelling and presentation tool makes it easy to integrate all kinds of media into one beautiful and clean interface.
Symbaloo
Teachers will learn how to manipulate Symbaloo to set up all classroom websites in one area.
ThingLink – Level 1
ThingLink is a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic. Create multiple “hot spots” on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a multimedia launcher. Include video, record audio or provide a link to any website with the click of a button.
Thinglink – Level 2
Thinglink allows teachers and students to create interactive images, videos, and audio clips as a way to fully immerse themselves into the content.
Uploading to YouTube To Engage Learning
Teachers will submit a video to Youtube related to a concept learned in class. This could include: a song, skit, chant, or even schoolwide expectations.
VideoNot.es
VideoNot.es allows you or your students take notes along with a video and share them using Google Drive or Evernote. You can sign in using Google.
Wizer.me
Create and share free interactive worksheets that are organized and easy to make for your students online.
EDpuzzle is an incredible-easy-to-use video platform that helps teachers save time, boost classroom engagement and improve student learning through video lessons. EDpuzzle also collects data as students watch and interact with the video.Summer PD 2020: EdPuzzle Challenge