Tech Tools and Educational Apps and Sites
Google and Outlook Tools
Google Docs Tutorial (a cloud-based alternative to Word)
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Google Sheets Tutorial (a cloud-based alternative to Excel)
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Google Forms Tutorial (create polls, quizzes, etc.)
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Outlook Quick Start Guide
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For Presenting
Getting Started with Nearpod (create class presentations including interactive activities)
Getting Started with Haiku Deck (even more really jazzy presentations
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Getting Started with Prezi (really jazzy presentations)
Getting Started with PowToon (yep, even more really jazzy presentations)
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Google Slides Tutorial (a cloud-based alternative to Power Point)
Easily create infographics and data displays.
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Getting Started with Emaze (more really jazzy presentations)
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Language Learning |
Filmmaking |
Learn a language, online, for FREE! Here's a Ted Talk that discusses how having a bilingual brain is AMAZING.
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Create fun movie trailers and mini movies.
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Become a filmmaker! Create tutorials, photography slideshows, business or social media videos, and much more!
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STEM
Students can start designing their own 3-D objects with this app.
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How-to videos on just about any topic imaginable.
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Students can learn computer science fundamentals — via game design — using this app.
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Language Arts
This page is a branch of the New York Times and provides great features such as: a word of the day, a cloze-based fill-in-the-blanks news story activity, a visual thinking activity that poses an image with questions of inference and comprehension, and even the Six Questions, which regularly use embedded video and audio.
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Fun word games, vocabulary games, grammar games, and writing activities.
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This app lets students track their progress, provides data to teachers, creates personalized libraries for students based on skill level and interest, and comes pre-loaded with 1800 assessed texts.
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Grading, Instruction, and Parent Communication
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Collaborative, interactive whiteboard
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Help your students create blogs for projects. Here, though, you can moderate content, create groups, add private comments, and monitor progress.
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Create fun quiz games!
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Provide 1:1 feedback to students, create groups, assign homework, schedule quizzes, and make all of this information also available to the parents.
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