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FakeYou - echelon
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): noregistration (81), text to speech (18)
In the Classroom
Create and use audio recordings from FakeYou in several different ways in the classroom. For example, convert a short student-written speech into an audio recording featuring a well-known politician's voice, such as Barack Obama or Franklin Roosevelt. In addition, FakeYou offers many voices making it an excellent option to use when writing biographies to add audio to multimedia presentations. Include the downloaded audio file as part of student-created websites made with Site123, reviewed here, or upload the file to include with additional interactive content within a Genially, reviewed here, presentation or video.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Experiment with Google: Arts & Culture Experiments - Google
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): animation (57), art history (103), artificial intelligence (217), artists (88), climate change (100), colors (62), crosswords (20), drawing (58), egypt (59), emotions (55), environment (244), europe (81), france (39), glaciers (18), insects (62), july 4th (11), museums (51), music theory (47), nasa (32), nutrition (134), painting (52), patterns (64), poetry (190), pollution (52), robotics (30), women (172)
In the Classroom
Save this exciting site to use in several ways to engage students in arts and culture worldwide. For example, as students learn about Europe, add "Where is Hopper" to classroom computers as an activity center for students to explore independently. As students search for Hopper, ask them to use FigJam, reviewed here to add clues and information learned throughout their exploration. As a final project, as a class or within groups, have students create interactive maps of their travels using Google My Maps, reviewed here. Add images, text explanations of the clues, and videos to share information about each location.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WeTeachNYC Search Library - New York City Dept of Education
Grades
K to 12tag(s): newbies (9), OER (37), preK (290), professional development (273), resources (80), substitutes (25)
In the Classroom
Add this extensive search library to your current toolbox of resources for classroom and professional use. Search for ideas when planning upcoming units and lessons and provide differentiated instruction to meet your students' learning needs. Use a learning management system such as Eduflow, reviewed here, or Classkick, reviewed here, to easily create and share personalized instruction that includes resources found on this site along with your current lessons and materials.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SlidesMania - Paula Martinez
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): presentations (22), slides (41)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save SlidesMania for use with slides throughout the school year. Use to engage students using the themes and exciting formats. Create flashcards for students to practice spelling or vocabulary. Create personalized certificates to reward student success or customize templates that feature interactive lessons. Share this site with students to use when creating presentations. Include student presentations in portfolios created with Seesaw, reviewed here, to share with parents during conferences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Open Textbook Library - Univ. of Minnesota's College of Education & Human Development
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): blended learning (27), differentiation (75), OER (37), professional development (273), remote learning (31)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this website as a resource for finding supplemental materials for your classroom and professional development information for personal use. For example, if you teach algebra, use the search feature to find introductory and prealgebra textbooks to reinforce concepts to students differently than your current teaching materials. For students who need enrichment material, take advantage of algebra 2 books to provide differentiated instruction to meet their learning needs. This resource would be ideal to use in a remote learning situation. Consider curating this site along with other open education resources (OER) using Wakelet, reviewed here. Create a collection in Wakelet of your OER resources and share it with colleagues as a professional resource.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Merlot - California State University Long Beach
Grades
K to 12tag(s): OER (37), preK (290), professional development (273)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save Merlot to use for professional development and planning purposes. Create an account to save and access bookmarks at any time throughout the year. Due to the size of this site, consider including it as part of your professional development activities with grade-level or department peers to explore by sections. For example, during one session, examine options of assessment tools, and explore the included collections about your course content at another meeting. Consider using a curation tool such as Netboard, reviewed here, or Milanote, reviewed here, to collect and share saved resources.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cartoon Comic Maker - Magazine Pro
Grades
4 to 11tag(s): comics and cartoons (53), creative writing (126), descriptive writing (41), digital storytelling (150)
In the Classroom
Creating comics can have many practical and engaging uses in the classroom. Students can retell stories to demonstrate comprehension or show their knowledge of scientific processes in a way that allows them to be creative. Comics can also be used to enhance social and emotional learning skills by having students create scenarios they might encounter in daily life. Teachers may also wish to create comics to provide a fun way to relay information, or as an engaging set to a lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wordtune - AI21 Labs
Grades
K to 12tag(s): editing (83), grammar (137), proofreading (17), writing (307)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to enhance your writing and share it with students for their writing projects. Include Wordtune with writing lessons to explore different methods of stating information and techniques that make writing easier to read and more interesting to the reader. For example, take a random sentence from a piece of student writing and use Wordtune to analyze and offer options for stating the information differently. Ask students to explore and discuss the changes made, what changes made the sentence easier to understand, or find options that they don't find to be as clear as their original work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SchoolStack - Sarah Schwartz and Hal Schwartz
Grades
K to 12tag(s): differentiation (75), personalized learning (7), playlists (5), remote learning (31), Teacher Utilities (170)
In the Classroom
Use SchoolStack to differentiate learning for different student needs and abilities by quickly modifying lesson activities to share with individual students or groups. Replace your current homework activities using SchoolStack to provide students with various options for completing learning activities. Offer activities that meet student interests and learning styles within each stack to encourage student interest and participation. When teaching blended learning or remote learning activities, use SchoolStack to share information with students and gather data and feedback from their participation in the lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Africa in the K-16 Classroom Online Resources - Boston University African Studies Center
Grades
K to 12tag(s): africa (149), continents (31), countries (70)
In the Classroom
Add this excellent site to your other resources for teaching about the continent of Africa. Consider using a curation tool such as Milanote, reviewed here, to organize your ideas and projects into one location. Add links, notes, images, and more onto one Milanote vision board to make it easy to find and view your resources and ideas. As you implement and teach lessons found on the site, ask students to share their learning using multimedia presentation tools such as Sway, reviewed here, and Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here. Find culturally appropriate images for student use at Fresh Folk, reviewed here, and Unsplash, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wottaread - Wottaread
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): book lists (153), harry potter (9), reading lists (74)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students (consider age-appropriateness) as a resource for encouraging reading and finding books that fit their love of fantasy. Use the suggestions on the website to find books to add to school and classroom libraries. Ask students to use tools found at Class Tools, reviewed here, to compare and contrast characters or book series, create a Fakebook page to create a fictional character profile, or use Qwikslides to create a multimedia presentation quickly. Ask students to make book reviews using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here, then share their thoughts on your class webpage for peers to use when searching for new reading material.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Resources related to Source Reliability/Checking Sources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): evaluating sources (29), media literacy (105), Research (79)
In the Classroom
We have included resources for all grades. Remember, our "In the Classroom" suggestions with each reviewed resource, give you ideas about using these tools in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Resources related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): climate (87), energy (137), recycling (43), sustainability (54), water (101)
In the Classroom
Help to deepen your students' understanding (and your own) of the Sustainable Development Goals. Share these resources with your colleagues and students by emailing the page or sharing the link from your school web page and in your school newsletter. Find resources to incorporate into your lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Curation Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): curation (23), organizational skills (80), Research (79)
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Share these resources with your students to use when curating materials for projects and lessons. Share a link to this collection on your school web page and in your school newsletter (or email). Find resources to incorporate into your lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Resources for Student Knowledge Construction - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): critical thinking (141), problem solving (240)
In the Classroom
Find new tools to try to encourage student knowledge construction within your lessons. Each review includes technology integration ideas. Read the details of each tool and find the ones that will make your students become student knowledge constructors.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scribe - ScribeHow
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
The number of uses in classrooms for Scribe are countless! Use Scribe to create guides for students to log in to software, games, and computer programs. Create step-by-step guides for students on how to add or edit images in tools such as Google Slides, reviewed here or Genially, reviewed here. Ask students to include Scribe within multimedia presentations to demonstrate information such as how to search Google for Creative Commons Images or how to narrow searches to fit into a custom time frame. Create Scribes to share with parents for use at home as a guide for accessing online tools needed for homework or practice. If you have a need for a guide to completing online activities, Scribe is the perfect answer!Edge Features:
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Requires download/installation of software
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Take a Virtual Field Trip - Google Arts and Culture
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): adaptations (15), africa (149), amazon (10), animals (277), archeology (26), architecture (79), aviation (42), california (17), central america (26), chemicals (39), climate change (100), colors (62), coral (11), dinosaurs (47), earth (188), earthquakes (50), ecosystems (90), endangered species (27), evolution (84), first ladies (4), flight (33), fossils (43), france (39), insects (62), inventors and inventions (82), italy (29), machines (17), magnetism (36), martin luther king (42), medieval (33), mexico (52), migration (45), molecules (42), moon (72), peru (6), presidents (145), railroads (16), rainforests (17), respiration (10), romans (52), shakespeare (96), south africa (15), van gogh (8), virtual field trips (129), volcanoes (59), women (172), world war 1 (83)
In the Classroom
Be sure to take advantage of the guide included on this site on how to take a virtual field trip. In addition, the guide offers suggestions and lesson plans for making the most of virtual field trips. Use any of the included field trips as an engaging introduction to many different topics. For example, several different field trips take viewers under the oceans and use these excrsions to introduce a unit on ocean animals, climate change, or oceans worldwide. Use Figjam, reviewed here for students to share notes, questions, and information learned throughout the activity. Instead of assigning a typical research project, ask students to create a virtual field trip using Google My Maps, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Georgia Virtual Learning Shared Resources - Georgia Virtual Learning
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5 to 12tag(s): art history (103), body systems (36), business (46), chinese (40), drawing (58), environment (244), financial literacy (90), french (67), geology (60), japanese (50), latin (21), literature (211), music theory (47), myths and legends (43), narrative (16), novels (32), nutrition (134), oceans (140), OER (37), photography (126), plagiarism (30), poetry (190), psychology (59), robotics (30), romeo & juliet (7), short stories (18), sociology (22), space (230), spanish (103), STEM (328), writers workshop (32)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a supplemental resource for your current lessons, as a resource for students to learn about subjects not covered in their current courses, and to differentiate learning for students. For example, provide remediation to high school students by sharing the 9th or 10th-grade literature and composition courses as a review activity or enhance your British Literature unit by assigning a module that focuses specifically on 17th, 18th, or 19th-century British literature. Consider assigning different activities to groups of students to present to their peers. Ask them to use an infographic creator such as the Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here, as a tool for sharing important information. As a final learning extension, create a digital class book using Ourboox, reviewed here, to share understanding of the content learned. Include text, images, maps, and more in the student-created books.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Attribution Builder - Open Washington
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): citations (30), digital citizenship (86), plagiarism (30), Research (79)
In the Classroom
Use this easy tool in any subject area when requiring research or attributing information and sources such as images. Recommend this site to students for use at home to build properly constructed attribution of materials. Include this resource as part of your digital citizenship lessons using the section on licensing as a starting point for teaching students about different forms of Creative Commons and Public Domain found on the Internet. Include this site on your classroom computers for students to use at any time to cite resources. Ask students to include attribution for all images and resources whenever creating multimedia projects such as presentations created with Sway, reviewed here, videos made with Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here, or interactive images created using Genially, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rawpixel - Rawpixel Ltd.
Grades
K to 12tag(s): creative commons (26), graphic design (50), images (253)
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Include Rawpixel with your other image resources for your professional use and share with students. Be sure to include discussions of proper attribution of images and Creative Commons Licensing. Consider using a curation tool such as Wakelet, reviewed here, or Padlet, reviewed here, to share image resources with students. Ask students to enhance presentations using images and elements found on Rawpixel. For example, when creating presentations on the American Revolution using Google Slides, reviewed here, or Canva Edu, reviewed here, ask students to find a PNG image of a smartphone, then add chat boxes into the phone to depict a conversation between George Washington and one of his generals. This site contains many useful images and graphic design resources; it is worth saving and using in all classrooms!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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