Kahoot

Kahoot is a free game based learning platform. Students can answer a series of multiple choice problems played in a group setting. These created games promote student understanding and engage peer-led discussions. It is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  

Digital Portfolio - SeeSaw

SeeSaw is a digital portfolio teachers can use to do formative assessment and share what the student is learning with parents on any device. Student learning can be captured in any format and saved. The SeeSaw Basics feature is free for teachers who just want to track work and communicate with parents.

Science 360

Science 360 is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  This site is a video library on up to date view of current science, engineering, technology and math from around the world.  The website features video of the day and videos are embeddable.  There is a list of topics to select from and a search box.  This site is free to use.  It is also available as an app for ipad and android.

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Programming and Coding Apps.... Bee-Bot, Cargo-Bot and Hopscotch

(Description on itunes)

The new Bee-Bot App from TTS Group has been developed based on our well-loved, award-winning Bee-Bot floor robot. The app makes use of Bee-Bot's keypad functionality and enables children to improve their skills in directional language and programming through sequences of forwards, backwards, left and right 90 degree turns. 

Cargo-Bot is the first game programmed entirely on iPad® using Codea™  Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crate

Hopscotch allows kids to create their own games and animations.   


These apps are free to download.                        

Zite ..... Keep up with current issues

I downloaded the Zite app to help me search for articles that are of interest to me.  This handy tool allows me to keep up to date with current issues.

For Android






For IOS

ThingLink

ThingLink helps you create a story from images by linking web content to each image.  The images become interactive and creative.  Thinglink help students develop 21 Century skills and inspire them to be creative.
Thing Ling Education is free for sign up.  http://www.thinglink.com/action/store/education


What is ThingLink Youtube Tutorial.

Sound, Earth and Animals...... Science Apps

My daughter showed me the App, Sound Uncovered which helps you discover, explore and experiment with sound. This interactive app is great to use with your sound unit.  This Free App was developed by Exploratorium.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sound-uncovered/id598835017?mt=8

EarthViewer is an App that helps you explore the science of earth's history. Supporting materials included are video tours and classroom ideas.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earthviewer/id590208430?mt=8

WWF Together is developed by World Wildlife Fund. It consists of animal stories with activities, videos, etc.  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wwf-together/id581920331?mt=8

View PowerPoint from an iPad

My daughter purchased Quick Office app to do PowerPoint presentations from her iPad.  I decided to search around for an app that can produce PowerPoint presentations for Free.  Slideshark is such an app that a PowerPoint can be shown from an iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.  https://www.slideshark.com/

Socrative .... Edcanvas ...... Quiz Taking

Socrative is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  "Students interact real time with the content."  Socrative runs on laptops, smartphones and laptops.  Very easy to register and login.

(Thanks John and Mario)

Edcanvas now allows a teacher to "Add Quiz" on an empty canvas tile, and add questions and answers.  Then it automatically grades the quizzes for you.  I mentioned what Edcanvas is in my March 22nd post.

Socrative and this section of Edcanvas create, "Formative assessments and it helps you guage student understanding after a lesson."

Wordmover for Poem Creation

Wordmover allows students to manipulate words on their ipad. It is a Read Write Think app created by the National Council of Teachers of English. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-mover/id572997152?mt=8

Read Write Think has some lesson plans on using this app. http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?sort_order=relevance&q=using+word+mover+app&srchgo.x=-323&srchgo.y=-484&old_q=

Skype in the Classroom

Post revisited from Dec/12:

Bring the outside world to your classroom using technology!! You can request to invite an organization, author, classroom.... to visit your class through Skype. This virtual technology brings experiences to the classroom where perhaps some students may not be able to experience otherwise.

Connect your classroom with teachers from around the world.  Post a request for someone to visit on a certain topic.

https://education.skype.com/

QR Codes...... What are they?

What is a QR Code?

Quick Response Codes are a type of two-dimensional barcode that can be read using smartphones and dedicated QR reading devices, that link directly to text, emails, websites, phone numbers and more! You may have even got to this site by scanning a QR code! (http://www.whatisaqrcode.co.uk/)

There are many QR Code generators online.  Thanks to M. Addesa for this one particular site.  Click on QR code for the web address.

Project Noah....Connect with the Natural World through Investigation

I love it when I stumble upon sites like this!!!

Project Noah help students experience nature through which they solve real-world problems.  This site is for students to share their experiences with wildlife and they are given oppotunities to make a difference.  Students make observations and investigations on key concepts in the Life Sciences and share their work with the Project Noah community. 

Teachers can sign up and set up their classroom. Resources and teaching materials are available.  Great enquiry based curriculum and critical literacy.

There is an app available as well. 
http://www.projectnoah.org/education

Screenr.......screencast....screen capture

In one of my earlier posts I blogged about Jing the screenshot and screencast software that allows you to capture your desktop. You can download the software for free at http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/

Another instant screencast tool is Screenr. Unlike Jing, Screenr is a web-based screen recorder tool that captures anything you see on your computer screen or creates short 5 minute videos that you can share instantly. All you need is a Twitter account to get started.  http://www.screenr.com/

A great tool for students to use to record demonstration tutorials on whatever they are doing on the computer.  A perfect example is with the idea I suggested for SketchUp.

Shakespeare

Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project is an online resource on everything about Shakespeare.
http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/rjfolio.cfm

Games

http://mrnussbaum.com/gamescode/
Math games for computers, iPad or iPhone.

http://mrnussbaum.com/mr-n-mobile-2/ Mobile games

http://mrnussbaum.com/ 
You can select other subject areas however, this site is based on US content. You can probably find something relevant to what you are looking for.

Kids Stories/Literature

This year I am teaching ESL and Special Ed.  As always I look for new ideas for my classroom. I was searching for some short stories and comprehension work that I could use with my classes.  However, I am not just looking for something that I can photocopy... NO.  I am looking for items that the students can use computers, tablet/iPad or netbooks so that they can use Software such as Premier, text to voice software or Google translate; depending on the student needs.  I came across these sites.....
http://www.kidsgen.com/stories/
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/childrenindex.html
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit

EdApps

Using apps and iPad in the classroom.  This site has a page that gives 14 ways to use Garageband in class.  One example is using voice over for movie trailers. There are also fun educational tidbits such as creating book trailers.  Another tidbit is 13 ways to use imovie in the classroom.  A lot to explore on this site.

http://edapps.ca/2012/05/14-ways-to-use-garageband-in-the-classroom/