Technology Tools and Cool Websites
Edpuzzle: Great website to create interactive self-paced lessons. Take any video and add voice overs, questions, and and ability to check individual progress and understanding.
Audiotool: A web based tool that includes digital versions of sophisticated tools for creating music tracks. Effect pedals, amplifiers, synths and more.
Science 360: Up to date science videos from scientists, engineers, and universities featuring different STEM areas are gathered here for use in the classroom.
Screencast-o-matic: Create videos of your screen, great way to create videos for a flipped classroom, communicate with parents, or for differentiation.
Pear Deck: Web based, Google friendly way to add interactive formative assessment activities into your google slides.
Learn Around the World:This website promote global learning. You can take a virtual field trip from the classroom.
Tiki-Toki: Great website to use to create a 3D timeline.
Popplet: Similar to a graphic organizer and shows their thinking in a visual way
Thinglink: Free website where students can demonstrate learning via videos, interactive graphics, and 360 views.
Explain Everything: Interactive whiteboard where students can collaborate and share presentations, tutorials, using new and existing videos, and text.
Touchcast: Touchcast says it is truly “a TV studio in your hands. Using an iPad students can create smart videos they can annotate and add element layers, such as video, maps, polls, etc. Students can interact with the elements from within the app. This app would be an easy way to create student news shows or to create videos to share learning.
Plotagon: Another movie making website that allows students to create 3D animations. The site recommends educators use the website to turn ordinary writing assignments into a rich, animated movie making experience.
Comic Life: Comic Life states “Comic Life is perfect for engaging reluctant readers and teaching visual literacy, perfect for integrating STEAM and Common Core Standards into your lessons. Easy to learn and fun to use, Comic Life is a great tool for any student.” The website has a section on implementing Comic Life into your curriculum.
Quaver's Marvelous World of Music: There are so many interactive creative zones to explore including music composition, melody composition, sound effects, dance, drumming, synths, guitars and creating music through art.
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. Short. Authentic. And fun! That’s why it’s the leading video discussion platform used by tens of millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 150 countries. Your classroom is next! (Take from the Flipgrip website)