Tech Tips To Save an Educator's Sanity!
Welcome! Here I have compiled the BEST of what I have used and read to help you and save you time. Please enjoy!
Featured New Stuff I have been Using!
playfactile
- Create online engaging Jeopardy-style quiz games for the classroom in just minutes with Factile. Make your own or choose from 700000 existing games and ...
Quizizz
- 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.
HOT TIP!
Future Me (Write a letter to your future self... pics, too! & Thank you Meg Daniels!)
SideKick (Can see when GMail emails are opened! Plus other stuff!)
Class Tools (The Flea Market of teacher tools!)
Randon Name Picker! (Picks kids for questions & discussion & works on iPad!)
Try Kahoot! (AWESOME free & easy to use response system! VERY Competitive!) UPDATE! Now has a jumble feature!
SideKick (Can see when GMail emails are opened! Plus other stuff!)
Class Tools (The Flea Market of teacher tools!)
Randon Name Picker! (Picks kids for questions & discussion & works on iPad!)
Try Kahoot! (AWESOME free & easy to use response system! VERY Competitive!) UPDATE! Now has a jumble feature!
Animoto!
More HOT TIPS??? Please click HERE
Student Response Systems
- Quizalize (Engage your class and deliver instant assessments for personalized learning on any computer, tablet or smartphone.)
- Quizlet (Flashcards, tests, and study games make it fun to learn anything.)
- Socrative (Empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens.)
- Kahoot (Free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn)
Need $$$? Try:
- Donors Choose (Online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need)
- Kick Starter (World's largest funding platform for creative projects)
Online Technology
- Bookemon (Online Book Maker)
- Brain Pop (Animated materials / information for all subjects)
- CiteLighter (Toolbar when researching online!)
- Curriki (Free teacher site for Wikki Creation)
- Glogster (Online Interactive Poster Maker)
- Myths & Legends Story Creators (Online animated story creation)
- Newsela (Easy for an entire class to read the same content, but at a level that’s just right for each student)
- Quizlet (Flashcards and Creator)
- Shmoop (AWESOME site for almost all subjects and information especially English & History)
- Story Bird (According to Donna: "Storytelling for the elementary minds and available to buy")
- StoryBoard That (World's BEST Online Storyboard Creator!) Free but very limited! $9.95 /mo otherwise.
- Tagxedo (Advanced Word Cloud Creator)
- Time Machine (Video Time Machine of year's past)
- UJam (Online music and vocal maker)
- Wall Wisher (According to Frank: "Online sticky note social networking")
- Wordle (Basic Word Cloud Creator)
Presentation Materials
- Blend Space (Allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content!) 1 min video? HERE
- EMAZE (Next generation of online presentation software!) Newspaper Theme is awesome!
- Go Soap Box (Powerful Student Response System)
- Kahoot (Another Powerful Student Response System)
- Poll Everywhere (Free online clickers through Cell Phones, iPods, or Computers)
- Prezi (Online 'slideshow' with only 'one' slide...motion sickness?)
- Screen Cast (Online Video storage to share)
- Slide Rocket (Power Point on steroids!)
- Slide Share (Load & Share Power Points with your students/audience)
- Weebly (Free website creator) * My Favorite!
- Wiffiti (Shows text message in real time on screen)
Video
- Animoto (Online Video Creator...AWESOME w/ PowerPoint!)
- Bliptv (Online best in web videos from their creators)
- FLVTO (Online Video Converter... can strip audio)
- Jing (Online Screen Capture...Free!)
- School Tube (Educator / Student created Videos)
- Teacher Tube (Educator Created Videos)
- Vimeo (Hi-Def Youtube!)
- Youtube (Online Videos)
- VuSafe (Safe way to watch Youtube Videos)
- WeVideo (Very easy online video editor)
- VidToMP3 (Covert a YouTube video to MP3 to listen to)
Conferences
To Follow
- Kevin Honeycutt (Great Tools 4 Kids!)
- Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) HERE
- Rushton Hurley / Next Vista for Learning / Key Note Speech
- Gary Abud
- Leslie Fisher
- Steve Dembo
- Terry White
- Edutopia (A must have if you decide to only follow one!)