Mobile Device Polling: Poll Everywhere
☆ Poll Everywhere allows for live audience participation via texting, web, or Twitter.
☆ Cool new feature...results appear in live word cloud and countdown timer.
☆ Read more about new features.
Online Bookmarking with Annotation: Diigo
☆ Free educator accounts - click here
☆ Bookmark/archive webpages, annotate with highlights/sticky notes, organize by tags/lists.
☆ Share one item or whole collection.
☆ Great use for research in any class.
Collaboration: Google Drive
☆ Access files anywhere, anytime. Share files and folders.
☆ Shared files and folders allow for collaborators to update in real time.
☆ 15GB of file storage.
Webmix Collage: Symbaloo
☆ SymbalooEDU available to teachers for their use in the classroom.
☆ Symbaloo just went social - read how to share your webmixes with friends/colleagues.
☆ Educational Benefit: you can store websites needed for class projects on one page (called a webmix) so students do not have to surf the web. Great for any grade level.
Customized Browser: Google Chrome
☆ Signing in to Chrome brings your bookmarks, history, and other settings to all your computers.
☆ Customize Chrome by adding apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store.
☆ List of my favorite Chrome Apps and Extensions - click here.
Classroom Book Management: Classroom Organizer
☆ Need an inventory system for classroom novels or a way to track checked out books?
☆ Scan barcode on books to add them to your account, checkout/return books online or via app.
☆ Read more about this free web-based program to help organize your classroom books.
Voice Comments on Google Doc: 121 Writing
☆ The fastest, simplest way to give high quality feedback on writing.
☆ In Google Drive, right click on Google doc, open with voice comments, highlight and speak.
☆ Take grading papers to another level by using voice comments.
Week in Review: Flocabulary
☆ Quality, educational hip-hop videos created to display world events in the Week in Rap.
☆ Videos are free and great for social studies or humanities classes for grades 5-12.
☆ Check out other free videos on the site by subject and grade level.
Digital Clipboard: eduClipper
☆ Digital clipboard very similar to Pinterest.
☆ Clips can be liked, reclipped, shared, or viewed.
☆ New feature: create presentation portfolios (add Google Docs, Office files, Images, PDFs, videos).
Parent/Student Contact: Remind 101
☆ Need to get short updates to parents or students? Try Remind 101.
☆ One way texting service that can be pushed to users via website or app, schedule texts, 10 classes with unlimited participants, and easy sign-up process.
☆ Click here for teacher resources...parent letters, etc.
