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Tech Tools and Educational Apps and Sites

Google and Outlook Tools

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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 

For Presenting

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​Getting Started with Nearpod (create class presentations including interactive activities)

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Getting Started with Haiku Deck (even more really jazzy presentations
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Getting Started with Prezi (really jazzy presentations)

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Getting Started with PowToon (yep, even more really jazzy presentations)
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Google Slides Tutorial (a cloud-based alternative to Power Point)

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Easily create infographics and data displays. 
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Getting Started with Emaze (more really jazzy presentations)

Language Learning

Filmmaking

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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!

STEM

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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.

Language Arts

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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.

Grading, Instruction, and Parent Communication

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Instructor Guide 
​(Troubleshooting/
​How-To Answers)
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Check out how one teacher used Evernote to get rid of all handouts!
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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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