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2. 1. DoInk
Summary:
This app makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and images right from your iPad or iPhone. This app emphasizes ease-of-use and simplicity while still enabling you to get fantastic results. Tell a story, explain an idea, or express yourself in creative and unique ways.
Classroom Relevance:
The power of a high-end studio at your fingertips
Easy to use and share
Endless classroom applications
You’ll need a green screen
DoInk.com

3. 2. ScreenCastify Summary:
Screencastify is another video app. Videos are automatically saved to students’ Google Drive so they can be accessed from anywhere. This time, however, it captures what’s on their screen.
Classroom Relevance:
Great for explaining their thinking
Easy to use
Accessible anywhere
Great tool for you to use to explain to your students what they should do on their screen
Google Add-On
Screencastify.com

4. 3. Voki
Summary:
Voki is a customizable avatar creator that can give even your shyest student a voice. Great for presentations by the teacher, or as an assignment for the students. Type what you want the avatar to say and use one of their voices or use your own voice.
Classroom Relevance:
Hundreds of customizable characters
Over 25 voices to choose from
Easy to embed
Can be used for problem explanations, speeches, research projects or more
Voki.com

5. 4. Wizer.Me
Summary:
Wizer.Me is a free/paid education platform that allows teachers to create digital worksheets, which can be shared with colleagues or students. Teachers can add video, audio, images, and a variety of question types.
Classroom Relevance:
Works with Google Classroom, Edmodo, and or just by using a link
Automatic checking and grading
Provide individual feedback
Download reports and results
wizer.me

6. 5. FlipGrid
Summary:
FlipGrid is a video discussion platform that is simple to use from K-12. You create a class grid, post a question, and students respond with short videos.
Classroom Relevance:
Excellent for running records and book talks
Students can verbalize their learning process in any subject
Engages all students
info.flipgrid.com

7. 6. Canva
Summary:
Canva is a free, graphic-design tool website that is easy to use and gives you professional results.
Classroom Relevance:
Easy drag and drop platform
Create professional looking posters or other graphics
Tools for social media creation
Easily insert your own images
Free, with pay options available
Canva.com

8. 7. Sway
Summary:
FREE imagery dependent presentation software from MS that allows users to add polls, charts, files, Google maps, and other sources. Convenient drag and drop feature for adding content. No frilly transitions!
Classroom Relevance:
Finished product looks great on virtually any device
Collaboration Google Docs style
Page turning feel would be great for online school newspapers
Sway.com

9. 8. Weebly
Summary:
Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog, or online store for FREE.
Classroom Relevance:
Great for making a class website
Super easy drag and drop format
Up to 8 pages are free
You can see our Weebly class sites at Kpetrarca.weebly.com and
MrsMannion.Weebly.com
Weebly.com

10. 9. Glogster
Summary:
Online tool that allows you to create interactive posters using text, images, audio, and videos.
Classroom Relevance:
Present lessons with links to
outside resources
Embed YouTube videos so students cannot see other videos suggested by YouTube
Parent resource
Glogster.com

11. 10. Symbaloo
Summary:
Symbaloo is a cloud-based application that allows users to organize web links as buttons. Symbaloo can be set as a homepage, allowing users to create a personalized virtual desktop accessible from any device with an Internet connection.
Classroom Relevance:
Super for smaller children, but great for any age
No more searching through bookmarks or typing addresses
Symbaloo goes with you to any device
Create one with frequently used sites for each class that you teach
SymbalooEdu.com

12. 11. ThingLink
Summary:
A publishing tool - easier than Glogster - that brings any picture to life with hotspots that can link to websites, pictures, documents, games, anything on the web or in your google drive.
Classroom Relevance:
So easy even the youngest of children can use it
Older students can create their own as a research project
Can be embedded in websites and is live
ThingLink.com

13. 12. Padlet
Summary:
Padlet is like an online post-it board. It’s great to use for brainstorming or for exit tickets. You can post links, images, text, or even share files.
Classroom Relevance:
So easy even the youngest of children can use it
Once it’s set up by you, anyone with the link can post
Could be used for parent communication, too
Use graphic organizer backgrounds to make it even more engaging
Padlet.com

14. 13. Teach Your Monster to Read
Summary:
Covers letter-sound recognition to blending, segmenting tricky words, to reading sentences. Create a monster avatar and teach it how to read by completing various challenges in a video-type game. 100% free website version.
Classroom Relevance:
Practice phonics in a way that’s fun
Receiving a letter from the monster motivates students to keep trying
Award-winning from Usborne Foundation
TeachYourMonsterToRead.com

15. 14. StoryBird
Summary:
StoryBird Flips creative writing. Students can choose pictures first, and then write their story. Great for the struggling writer. Students can read and comment on classmates’ books. Parents have the option to purchase. All comments are moderated by the teacher.
Classroom Relevance:
Creative and engaging
Authentic Audience
Great for independent writing activities while you work with guided reading groups
StoryBird.com

16. 15. Whooo’s Reading Summary:
In Whooo’s Reading, you set up your class and your students log their reading time. They are then asked common core aligned questions and write summaries for their books. They can comment on other students’ posts and you can easily give them a 1-4 rating on their responses. In addition, it can be used for fundraising.
Classroom Relevance:
Students earn coins for reading and can dress-up their owlvatars
Questions are site-generated - no work for you
PTO fundraiser? Students get sponsors for reading
whooosreading.org

17. 16. Actively Learn Summary:
Actively Learn is an e-reading platform that improves students’ reading comprehension. Teachers can customize instructions, provide feedback in real-time, allow collaboration among students, and receive valuable data on student performance.
Classroom Relevance:
Can insert questions within a text
Grade assignments in real-time within text
Popular topics have built in assignments with questions and notes for students
ActivelyLearn.com

18. 17. Global Read Aloud Summary:
One book to connect the world. Books are chosen for various reading levels k-12, and are read at the same time all over the world with various ways to connect with other classrooms such as FaceBook, Twitter, and Google Suite.
Classroom Relevance:
Every year October to mid-November
Picture books - novels
Books change yearly
You can be as involved as you want to be
theglobalreadaloud.com

19. 18. Wonderopolis Summary:
Wonderopolis is a nonfiction, high interest, inquiry-based site for kids. It has a wonder-a-day or searchable wonders. Each wonder includes tons of information including articles, videos, maps, and more. Join Wonder Ground, just for educators, filled with lesson plans and educational resources.
Classroom Relevance:
Nonfiction
High interest
Vocabulary intensive
Games and activities within the site to explore even more
Searchable
Wonderopolis.org

20. 19. SumDog
Summary:
SumDog provides engaging adaptive learning for ELA and math. Its learning engine adapts questions for each individual level, progressing them through the standards and the kids LOVE it. Students can play against other players in the room or around the world. Kids earn coins and dress their avatar.
Classroom Relevance:
Common core aligned
Engaging
Free or paid
PreK - 12
Personal favorite is Junk Pile
SumDog.com

21. 20. EdPuzzle
Summary:
EdPuzzle takes existing YouTube or Vimeo videos and makes them more engaging. It’s an easy to use webtool that allows you to add questions to videos. The video stops until the question is answered. If you loved Zaption - you’ll now have to switch to EdPuzzle.
Classroom Relevance:
Great for flipped classrooms or self-paced learners
Already tons of created EdPuzzles on their site for you to use
Makes videos more meaningful
Collects your data for you
EdPuzzle.com

22. 21. Quizlet
Summary:
Free, digital flashcard study tool that students can use on their own or share with friends for some friendly competition. Quizlet can read information to enhance pronunciation of words.
Classroom Relevance:
Automatically generate interactive games and tests
Adaptive training- incorrect cards are repeated more frequently
Teachers can track students’ progress
Quizlet.com

23. 22. Quizizz
Summary:
Quizizz is similar to Kahoot. It lets you access tons of previously-created quizzes or create your own. Unlike Kahoot, students see questions and answers on their device.
Classroom Relevance:
Super easy to use
Students don’t have to register
Everyone engaged
LOVE the memes
Students see questions and answer choices on their screens
You can see, download, and print the results
Quizizz.com

24. 23. Code.org
Summary:
Coding! For Kids!?! YES! It aligns to almost every common core and there are jobs in coding! Every age child can code. Especially with this drag and drop version - even kindergarten! Fits into any subject and helps students problem solve.
Classroom Relevance:
Common core aligned
Engaging and FUN
Kids love it!
There are TONS of coding jobs out there!
Easy for any level
Code.org

25. 24. Skype
Summary:
Skype connects your students to the world around them through video chat. There are Skype in the Classroom activities already set up - all you do is find one you like and sign-up. Mystery Skype - like 20 questions with another classroom in the world - is UNBELIEVABLE!
Classroom Relevance:
Connects our small town students to the HUGE world around them
Engaging
Already tons of experiences out there for you to explore
Skype.com

26. 25. BreakoutEDU
Summary:
Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. BreakoutEDU allows for the facilitation of games where players use teamwork and critical thinking to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to open the locked box.
Classroom Relevance:
Games are available for all ages and content areas.
Can be done digitally w/o a kit
Tons of pre-made breakouts
Make your own for unit review
BreakoutEDU.com

27. 26. Break Your Own News Summary:
Today's top story... you! Or, whatever you want. Break Your Own News is an online news generator that is customizable. Add your picture, write the headline and we'll go live to the scene. Sort of. Post to Twitter, FaceBook, Tumbler, or just save the picture on your computer.
Classroom Relevance:
Great for creating your own images for Break Outs
Tool for students to use in any variety of subjects
Also good for blackmail
BreakYourOwnNews.com

28. 27. NearPod
Summary:
NearPod is like ActiveInspire’s ClassFlow on steroids. Take what’s on your interactive whiteboard and push it out to your students’ devices. Students can respond and manipulate the slide on their device.
Classroom Relevance:
Premade lessons or make your own
Embed 3-D images, videos, virtual field trips, quizzes, polls, open- ended questions, and more
Kids enter a code, and you’re all synched and ready to go
Tons of free content, but paid is available
NearPod.com

29. 28. Seesaw
Summary:
Digital portfolio for students to independently document what they are learning. Students demonstrate understanding with pictures, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. Students can share what they place in their portfolio with families who can “like” or “comment” on it.
Classroom Relevance:
Great for conferences
Track progress over time and demonstrate growth
Young learners can sign in with a QR code card
web.seesaw.me

30. 29. PlanBook.com
Summary:
The easiest way to create and manage your lessons online, developed by teachers for teachers. Easily add clickable state standards.
Classroom Relevance:
Super easy to use
Get a shareable link for administration or students and pick what they can view
Easily embed videos, flip charts, files, and sites so your plans are complete and ready to go year after year with no searching
$1 a month = WELL worth it!
Available online or for IOS and Android
Planbook.com

31. 30. CCleaner
Summary:
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC. It protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and more secure! Optimize your computer in seconds.
Classroom Relevance:
Easy to use
Advanced features for power users
Free!
Makes your computer faster and safer
piriform.com/ccleaner/download

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34. Credits
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