Education Easily Advanced Through Technology
Apps & Web Resources
Management: These tools help to make standard classroom procedures more efficient and accessible...
Aeries -School grade system website
Class Dojo - Used for marking behavior and/or partication during class
Class Cards ($5) - Randomly calls on students and can record when they get it right or wrong
Fast Timer HD - Visible timer
Assessment: These tools help to assess student work by gathering data, responses or pictures...
Socrative - Students can join your quiz room on their own devices and respond to your questions, team review or quiz
Device Camera - Record live presentations, posters or assignments
Learning Management System: These tools create a digital classroom for your course, managing materials, discussions, etc...
Edmodo - Website & App, storage of assignments, videos, maps, extended learning, alerts
**Los Al Edmodo Guide can be found here
Extended learning: These tools help make learning outside the classroom more engaging...
PCC - Post Class Chat using Edmodo
Voicethread - Conversation in the cloud. Post videos, voice or images and then have a discussion online.
Explain Everything ($3) - Recordable presentation & whiteboard, similar to Power point.
Doceri - A recordable whiteboard, you can record what you write on the screen and your voice, lots of backgrounds including graphs & maps
Sock Puppets - Create an animated conversation with puppets, alters your voice.
Research: These tools help you find information on the web smarter, faster or more efficiently...
Chrome - Robust browser, multi-device syncing, ability to search for text within a webpage
Google Search - Browser, QR scanner
Instagrok - Website that will research a term or idea and show you how it is connected to others
Organization: These tools help you keep track of notes, papers, lesson plans, PDFs, presentations, etc... they might even help you go paperless!!!
Mail - School email
Evernote - Record meeting notes, annotate, include photos, Everything is organized in notebooks and is searchable
Camscanner - Photo, annotate, (easier to choose annotation colors) share as pdf
Noteability - ($2) Annotates and organizes notes into books. Uploads easily to cloud storage such as dropbox & google drive
Dragon Dictation - Records your speech and transcribes it to text
Engagement: These tools help to add engagement to a lesson...
Prezi - Animated presentation tool similar to Powerpoint
Facetime / Skype - Video conference
iMovie ($5) - Record and edit video
Keynote ($10) - Apple's presentation tool similar to Powerpoint
Device Video camera - Record interviews, experiments, demonstrations, etc
iCabMobile - Browser that allows you to download videos from a website link (such as discovery education) directly into your camera roll on iPad
Simple Mind - Simple to use mind mapping tool
Popplet ($5) - Advanced mind map, you can add photos, drawings, export as pdf or jpeg
Xtranormal - Web site for creating an animated cartoon that you script to present an idea
Infographic Websites - Images/Posters that use stats and visuals to convey a message or problem (Visual.ly, Infogr.am, or search google images)
Storage: These tools help you store your files as well share them with other for collaboration...
Dropbox - Store your files in the cloud, simple & user friendly, folders can be shared for collaboration, 2 gigs, sign up as teacher - 1 gig for referral
Google drive - Store your files in the cloud, Share individual files or folders for collaboration, 5 gigs, integrated with Google Docs
Evernote - Record meeting notes, annotate, include photos, Everything is organized in notebooks and is searchable