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Immersive Reader - Microsoft
Grades
K to 12tag(s): adhd (28), differentiation (92), disabilities (30), dyslexia (11), Microsoft (80), multilingual (70), reading comprehension (150), Special Needs (56), text to speech (20)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many features included with Immersive Reader for any classroom use. You may need to discuss downloading this product with your school's IT department; however, it is well worth the effort. This product is especially helpful for ENL/ESL students and students needing additional help with reading. Use the language options for students to hear and view text in their native language. Use Immersive Reader to help students with Dyslexia or ADHD to decode and focus on the text by using the options included. Upload classroom materials for students to use for help in understanding difficult text.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Design Wizard - Design Wizard
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K to 12tag(s): design (81), graphic design (49), images (262), social media (53)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many features included with Design Wizard to upload and edit images. Have students use their images to create book covers instead of assigning a traditional book report. As students learn about advertiser tactics, use the ad template and have students create truthful advertisements for products. Create flyers to invite parents to school programs. Ask students to create a flyer that might have been used to invite others to a historical event. The possibilities are as endless as you and your students' imaginations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ABCYA Paint - ABCya!
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K to 4tag(s): digital storytelling (154), drawing (61), painting (55), preK (267)
In the Classroom
Share how to use this site on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector then allow students to explore on their own. Have students create drawings to demonstrate math problems, share science experiments, or draw scenes from a story. Include students' drawings in a digital portfolio like Seesaw, reviewed here. Seesaw offers tools for uploading images and creating an audio recording to share their reflections on their work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Graphic Organizer Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): graphic organizers (49), mind map (28), venn diagrams (15)
In the Classroom
Whether you call them concept maps, mind maps, KWLs, or graphic organizers, these visual diagrams show relationships between concepts and provide a powerful tool for learning and connecting new ideas. Use graphic organizers to help your visual learners build reading comprehension. Find something for all grade levels in this collection.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vocabulary Development Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): multilingual (70), vocabulary (239)
In the Classroom
Browse this collection when you have students who seem to need extra vocabulary reinforcement or choose one or two tools to use repeatedly each time you introduce new terms. Share specific links or the entire collection for students to find "what works" to help them master vocabulary before the test. Mark this collection in your favorites to have differentiation strategies at your fingertips.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Woo! Kids Activities - woojr.com
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K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): holidays (184), Juneteenth (22), poetry (194), preK (267), substitutes (26), worksheets (69)
In the Classroom
Use Woo! as a starting point for lesson ideas and activities, then go beyond worksheets to challenge your students. Ask your students to create their own templates and review materials using Google Documents. Incorporate game-play into your lessons using Bamboozle, reviewed here. Baamboozle is a quick and easy game creation tool that creates multiple types of games for two teams. Incorporate questions into videos using playposit, reviewed here. Students and teachers can comment and add responses directly into this video resource.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Describing Words - describingwords.io
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4 to 12tag(s): creative writing (123), parts of speech (38), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Include a link to Describing Words on classroom computers for student use with any writing projects. Have students create online posters individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here, to share alternatives to overused adjectives. Have students share the results of their search on Describing Words using Image Annotator, reviewed here, to annotate an image.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Help - Google Support
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Bookmark this site on classroom computers for easy reference when working with Google products. Have students create their own support videos using a tool like Powtoon, reviewed here, or Clipchamp, reviewed here, for any technology issues that arise in your classroom. Remember, you can take screenshots (Printscrn button on Windows or Command+Shift+4 on Mac), and include those in a video. You will need to convert the screenshot to a JPG. This can be done easily and quickly using CloudConvert, reviewed here. Share the students created videos using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Substitutes - Ideas and Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): substitutes (26)
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Whether you are a substitute looking for some "filler" ideas or a classroom teacher looking for new sites, check out this list of resources. Share this list on your class website for families to use at home. This list includes resources for young readers and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Imagine Forest - Imagine Forest
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K to 6tag(s): creative writing (123), digital storytelling (154), writing (324), writing prompts (60)
In the Classroom
Imagine Forest is a must-have resource for elementary teachers of writing. Even your most reluctant writers will enjoy the ideas included on the site. Share how to use the site on your interactive whiteboard or with a projector then allow students to explore on their own. Challenge students to set daily goals using activities found in challenges. Publish and share student work to create your own classroom library of student-created books. Ask students to create books for any content area studied during class, be sure to upload and include images taken during activities for students to use in their books. Create a classroom chart for students to share accomplishments like badges and points earned while using the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Formative Assessment Tools - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (152), twitterchatarchive (175)
In the Classroom
Find new tools and tips for using formative assessment in your classroom. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information about formative assessment. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) - College of Education, University of South Florida
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K to 12tag(s): images (262), maps (212), professional development (405), teaching strategies (47)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to find digital content for use with any project. Discover the many free resources and training in TIM as part of your professional development activities as you learn to target the effective use of technology within classroom instruction. Plan monthly staff training sessions based on different aspects of technology integration. Use Gravity, reviewed here, to discuss essential questions or as a collaborative tool for sharing ideas and problem solving with peers. Gravity offers tools for short, collaborative video responses for classes and groups.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Weje - Webjets Ltd
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K to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (154), microblogging (15), organizational skills (89)
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Use Weje to organize and curate content for any unit. Share video and website links, upload notes, and create mindmaps for student review. Ask older students to create their own Weje to organize information for large projects and when collaborating with other students. Weje is perfect for creating and curating career research information. Include a link to a curated Weje board as part of a larger multimedia project shared using a digital storytelling tool like Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Notion - Ivan Zhao and Nicolae Rusan
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K to 12tag(s): calendars (37), collaboration (94), organizational skills (89), spreadsheets (24)
In the Classroom
Use Notion to organize and plan through one convenient workspace. Collaborate with other teachers using Notion to plan lessons, organize classroom events, or manage student projects. Share with your school's parent/teacher organization to use as a planning tool. Share Notion with older students as a tool for managing homework and after-school activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timelinely - Daniel Levin
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K to 12tag(s): communication (139), digital storytelling (154), video (264)
In the Classroom
Create flipped learning lessons for your blended learning classroom using Timelinely to provide questions, additional links, or notes to any video. Enhance student learning by asking students to use Timelinely to share information learned through videos. Include annotated videos with any multimedia presentation. Sway, reviewed here, offers many tools for including images, video, and more as part of online presentations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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DesignCap Poster Creator - PearlMountain
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K to 12In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free resource to create posters for any topic. Have students design poster book covers to summarize stories read. Include posters with student blogging projects as part of an online portfolio. Replace paper pen by asking students to write blogs sharing information learned using a site like edublogs, reviewed here. edublogs offers tools for creating class and individual blogs. Extend student learning and classroom technology use by asking older students to create posters of different cultures and countries, then include them in a virtual field trip using Google My Maps, reviewed here. With Google My Maps, students can embed images and videos onto their pointers and shapes for any given location. Challenge science and math students to create posters demonstrating an understanding of topics using their own words and images.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Androidify - Google Creative Lab and Larva Labs
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6 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (154), images (262)
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Use Androidify to create GIFs for many occasions. Create an android and share on your interactive whiteboard to use as a creative writing prompt. Share your GIFs on your class website to add interest to information you share, change the mood of your android to reflect excitement or concern, or change the appearance of your android to demonstrate cultural norms in other areas of the world. Ask students to create an android reflecting the mood of characters in a story, to share their reaction to lessons, or to include with a blog post about any topic. Use Androidify with ENL/ELL learners to help learn colors, types of clothing, or mood.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Meme Buddy - Mike Bodge
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4 to 12tag(s): creativity (93), DAT device agnostic tool (146), digital storytelling (154), images (262)
In the Classroom
Use Meme Buddy to quickly create memes on the fly. Share a meme on your interactive whiteboard as a discussion starter for the beginning of your lesson. Ask students to create a meme as a one sentence summary of the day's activity and use as an exit ticket. Meme Buddy translates information into other languages, create a meme in a different language as an anticipatory set for learning about a foreign language. Foreign language teachers will love creating memes to teach phrases to students!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Interactive Planner for Caregivers - TheCPLawyer.com
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K to 12tag(s): Special Needs (56)
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Use this planner to create a personalized schedule for any student. This is especially helpful for students with strict requirements due to diet or health care. Students who receive different services throughout the day will appreciate having this schedule included in their notebook or taped onto their desk for easy viewing. For more visual students, create an infographic using Visme, reviewed here, to provide a daily or weekly schedule.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Infographics - Grammar Check - GrammarCheck
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): grammar (134), grammar review (31), infographics (56), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for quickly sharing grammar tips with students. Include a tip of the week on your class website or blog, or display a tip on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector each week to share with students. Along with using the infographics in your teaching, ask students to use the Grammar Check editor, reviewed here, for their own writing, and then find the infographic that has the rules for their grammar mistakes. Have students compare and contrast different types of infographics and share their opinion on features that make effective presentations. Ask students to create their own infographics using a tool like Genial.ly, reviewed here. Genial.ly offers free templates and designs for customizing and creating infographics.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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