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return to subject listingMedia Literacy - Crash Course
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): advertising (26), bias (26), media literacy (105)
In the Classroom
Have students analyze different media sources (news articles, ads, social media) for bias, persuasion tactics, and ownership influences. Students can design an advertisement or media campaign and then reflect on the strategies used to influence audiences. Give students questionable headlines to fact-check using reliable sources. You might try using Rumor Guard, reviewed here for this purpose.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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OK2Ask: 10 Strategies to Save Time in Assessment - TeachersFirst
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K to 12Join this workshop...more
Join this workshop to discover innovative tech tools and strategies that will streamline your assessment process and provide valuable insights into student learning. Learn how to create quick formative assessments that gather real-time data to inform your instruction. You'll leave this workshop equipped with practical techniques and tools that will help you save time, enhance student engagement, and make data-driven decisions in your classroom. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Identify effective tech tools for creating quick formative assessments. 2. Integrate formative assessment data into instructional planning. 3. Increase student engagement and understanding through effective assessment practices. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
tag(s): assessment (148), Formative Assessment (72), professional development (407)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Decodable Stories Generator - Project Read
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1 to 3tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), guided reading (33), phonics (50), science of reading (36)
In the Classroom
Conduct an interactive reading circle where students read decodable stories aloud in small groups, using the site to display the text. Provide the students with the story and have them create images in a drawing program like Tux Paint, reviewed here. Utilize digital trading cards to reinforce phonics rules highlighted in the decodable stories. Students can create these trading cards using tools like Trading Card Creator, reviewed here, adding definitions and examples to enhance learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Connected Papers - ConnectedPapers.com
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K to 12tag(s): professional development (407), Research (84)
In the Classroom
Share this site with high school students to find academic papers related to their current research projects or use this tool as a professional aid to research current teaching practices. If citing research found when using Connecting Papers, use MyBib, reviewed here to create citations in many different formats.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lumio - Smart Technologies ULC
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (148), blended learning (37), communication (138), Learning Management Systems (20), questioning (35), remote learning (56), Teacher Utilities (159)
In the Classroom
Use Lumio's many included features to deliver personalized learning opportunities for all students. Begin learning about Lumio's features by exploring the activities available in Lumio's library and editing the content to fit the needs of your students. Once familiar with the tools and delivery system, upload and create personalized lessons for students. Quickly adapt activities and content to fit the needs of multilingual learners, gifted students, or special needs students within any content area.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mootion - HK Mootion Ltd
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), communication (138), digital storytelling (152), multimedia (46)
In the Classroom
Mootion offers many choices for classroom use! Paste students' stories into Mootion to create videos and watch them come to life, autogenerate stories about historical events and characters to engage students in your upcoming lessons, or create a story using vocabulary words when introducing new science units. If you do not share the video during class, download the MP4 file to your device and upload it to YouTube to make it accessible to all students anytime.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Theater & Drama - Crash Course
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): acting (19), plays (29), shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
Share the Shakespeare videos during a unit on The Bard - or even to recognize his birthday! These videos would be ideal to use for flipped or blended learning. Have students view the videos at home and then use a tool such as Magic School, reviewed here to create instant questions to review the video and use for a quick entrance ticket at the start of the next class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Crash Course - Crash Course
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4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), black history (130), branches of government (64), business (51), climate (83), computers (109), copyright (46), ecology (101), energy (132), engineering (126), human body (94), literature (219), media literacy (105), myths and legends (24), plants (148), politics (114), space (216), statistics (120), video (261), zoology (9)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or with a projector. The site is excellent for introductory material on any topic you're starting and for giving students some background knowledge. Use Acclaim, reviewed here to organize and annotate the videos you plan to use. Crash Course is also great for your early finishers. Allow them to choose a topic they want to investigate or know more about.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Tech Toolbox for All: Reading Strategies for Every Subject - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12Revolutionize...more
Revolutionize your reading instruction with cutting-edge, research-based technology strategies! This hands-on workshop for educators of all grade levels and disciplines will explore personalized learning paths, collaborative digital experiences, multimedia integration, and gamification techniques that boost student engagement and comprehension. Gain practical experience with various technology platforms and tools and leave with actionable insights for immediate classroom implementation. Whether you're a tech novice or expert, you'll discover valuable resources to support every student's reading journey in the digital age. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Implement collaborative reading strategies that foster critical thinking and engagement. 2. Integrate multimedia elements to enhance reading lessons. 3. Understand how gamification elements motivate students and increase their interest in reading. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
tag(s): reading strategies (100)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Gamma - Gamma Tech, Inc.
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), multimedia (46), presentations (17), slides (42), Teacher Utilities (159)
In the Classroom
Use Gamma to create engaging presentations to introduce and review content quickly. For example, ask Gamma to create a presentation introducing a new novel to students, including background information and vocabulary. Instead of creating a presentation, use Gamma to create an interactive website as a flipped learning activity and include links to online resources and assessments created with Microsoft Forms, reviewed here or embedded quizzes made with Blooket, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teachable Machine - Google
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), game based learning (181), gamification (79)
In the Classroom
Share Teachable Machines with students who enjoy working with computers and ask them to develop models for different learning activities. For example, ask students to use the image model to create examples of categories of animals for young students and provide them with a picture bank of animals. Use the picture bank to see if animals are categorized correctly as a learning activity. For older students, use this site to build learning games. Find more ideas at Github's Awesome Teachable Machine List, found here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Udio AI Music Generator - Udio
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), lyrics (15), songs (44)
In the Classroom
Use this song generator to engage students in any subject. For example, ask Udio to create lyrics and music to coincide with upcoming holidays and classroom events. Try asking Udio to make an upbeat song about your field trip to the zoo or a jazz song that includes information about New Orleans, and play the song for students as a schema activator for your lesson. Create songs with specific vocabulary terms for students to use as a learning aid or produce songs that assist multilingual learners in learning English. App smash Udio with MagicSchool's Song Generator, reviewed here by asking MagicSchool to create a song using any topic and details, then copy the lyrics into Udio to turn the lyrics into any genre desired. Ask students to use Udio to make a song that accompanies a research project or multimedia presentation, then include the song with other presentation elements built into a simple website created with edublogs, reviewed here or another free website builder like Straw Page, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Loud Lit - Loudlit.org
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1 to 12tag(s): audio books (24), declaration of independence (15), gettysburg (15), gettysburg address (11), literature (219), poetry (190)
In the Classroom
This site is helpful for many subjects and grade levels. Have students use this website when they have to memorize poetry, the Gettysburg Address, or the Declaration of Independence. multilingual students and many learning support students will benefit from the option of "reading" in multi-media format. Use the audio stories with younger students for listening skills. During a poetry unit, why not have students choose one of the poems to read and listen to? Have the students analyze and write in their journals about what they think the poem means. Replace paper journals by using a blog tool like edublogs, reviewed here. Then have the students share the original poem and their own opinions with the class, making this activity a listening, reading, writing, and speaking lesson. If you are into podcasting, enhance learning by encouraging students to create some of their own poetry readings with commentary.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poe - Poe.com
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), chat (41), DAT device agnostic tool (147)
In the Classroom
Using AI generators helps save time and increase productivity; Poe saves even more time by making it easy to compare output from several AI generators in one place. Use this resource to create quizzes, rubrics, lesson plans, and more. Many of the included resources offer the option to add files and increase productivity further by attaching a worksheet and asking it to modify the content to differentiate learning or to suggest ideas for presenting the content in a different format. Be sure to ask for information as precisely as possible by including grade-level information, the subject you teach, content standards and teaching objectives, and options for differentiating instruction. Math teachers can ask chatbots to explain the content differently or ask for ideas on applying math topics to everyday life. In social studies or science, ask to generate a vocabulary list or create a story based on your lessons incorporating essential vocabulary terms. ELA teachers might use these tools to get suggestions for interventions to support struggling readers or to find additional resources to support current lessons. Use the image generators to produce images for creative writing activities, to develop descriptive writing skills, or to include in multimedia presentations. Always verify any information provided by any AI tool before using it. These tools constantly evolve, and many features regularly change (or upgrade).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AhaSlides - AhaSlides Pte Ltd
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K to 12tag(s): data (148), Formative Assessment (72), polls and surveys (48), questioning (35), quizzes (90)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this handy site for many different classroom uses. Engage students when introducing a new topic by creating a poll to assess learning quickly or find students' interest in a subject. Use a poll as an exit ticket or as a formative assessment. Enhance learning by adding a link to a poll as part of a blended or flipped learning activity. For example, when delivering a flipped learning lesson using Microsoft Forms, reviewed here, include a link to a poll that asks students to reflect upon their understanding of the content learned.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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iorad - iorad Inc.
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K to 12In the Classroom
The number of classroom uses for this tool is countless! Use iorad to create guides for students to log in to software, games, and computer programs. Create step-by-step guides for students on adding or editing images in tools such as Google Slides, reviewed here or Genially, reviewed here. Ask students to include iorad tutorials within multimedia presentations to demonstrate information, such as how to search Google for Creative Commons Images or narrow searches to fit into a custom time frame. Create tutorials to share with parents for use at home as a guide for accessing online tools needed for homework or practice. If you need a guide for completing any online activities, iorad is the perfect answer!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Prodia - Prodia
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), editing (91), images (260)
In the Classroom
Use Prodia to generate images for many different classroom uses quickly. Generate pictures to use as creative writing prompts, as artwork for newsletters and slide presentations, and create images to teach vocabulary in foreign language classes. Use image creation tools to help students explore how to write descriptive and effective prompts that generate their desired outcome. Ask students to create images to include with any writing project, and share student writing in digital books using Book Creator, reviewed here. Use Book Creator's many features, including images, student writing, audio recordings, and more, to create interactive books to share with peers and family members.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Microsoft Reflect - Microsoft
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K to 12tag(s): classroom management (122), communication (138), social and emotional learning (96), Teacher Utilities (159)
In the Classroom
Use Reflect as part of your classroom social and emotional support activities. For elementary classrooms, include daily check-ins, provide learning opportunities to encourage the use of emotional vocabulary, and incorporate reflections as part of discussions of characters and their emotions when reading stories and books. In middle school, include Reflect as part of weekly check-ins for emotional support, facilitate group discussions based upon feedback from check-ins, or use Reflect's tools to encourage students to set personal and academic goals. Use Reflect with high school students to promote mental health awareness and provide tools for stress management.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MirrorTalk - Swivl
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (143), assessment (148), DAT device agnostic tool (147), Formative Assessment (72), preK (263), social and emotional learning (96), Teacher Utilities (159), teaching strategies (42), thinking skills (16)
In the Classroom
MirrorTalk can be used in many ways to support student learning and reflection. Begin the school year with a prompt that encourages students to reflect on the previous school year and set goals for the new year. Create prompts as exit tickets for students to reflect on the day's lesson and as a formative assessment for you to modify upcoming lessons as needed. Use this tool as part of a retrieval practice strategy to encourage students to recall facts about new concepts learned in class. Learn more about retrieval practice by watching the archived OK2Ask: 3 Cool Tools for Retrieval Practice, reviewed here and by visiting this blog post, Using Retrieval Practice to Boost Student Learning, found here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blogger - Google
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K to 12tag(s): blogs (64), communication (138), digital storytelling (152), writing (321)
In the Classroom
Use Blogger to create and share your class blog with students and parents. Include updates on classroom lessons and upcoming events, and share pictures of students at work (with appropriate permissions). Add this site to your list of website creation tools for students to use for many projects. For example, ask students to share poems, lab reports, or quick journal entries and add an image or links to additional information. If students create pages, check with your district's policy on publishing student work. Have students take turns writing weekly blog posts that share information about what they learned at school or ask them to share writing or research projects with family and friends. Use images you and your students take, or find free image resources on TeachersFirst Special Topics Page: Free Image Resources, reviewed here.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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