Getting Started With Schoology
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What: Schoology is a learning management system; an online classroom space that can be used along with Google Docs and Drive. Where: iPad or computer; website Who: All 1:1 grade levels. Find more help with learning Schoology HERE. |
Getting Started with Pic Collage
What: Use photos, stickers, frames, and text to create collages. Where: iPad app Who: All ages Find more information about Pic Collage HERE. |
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Getting Started with Padlet
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What: Padlet is an online, customizable bulletin board. Collaborate in real time with students or colleagues. Where: iPad app or computer; website Who: All grade levels. Find more help with Padlet HERE. Reviews and more information. |
Getting Started with Storybird.
What: Storybird is an online social platform for storytelling. Where: iPads or computers; website Who: All Grade Levels Find more help using Storybird HERE Sample projects Reviews and Information |
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Getting Started with Soundtrap
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What: You and your students can record spoken audio and create music tracks, or combine them together to create an audio track with music in the background. (Open Soundtrap with the Google Chrome browser and log in with your Google login.) Where: iPad and computer; website Who: All 1:1 grade levels For more help using Soundtrap, look HERE. Reviews and Information. |
Getting Started with VoiceThread
What: VoiceThread provides students of all ages an online platform to create and share media projects that can incorporate video, image, voice, and even drawings. One of its most valuable assets: allowing for collaboration opportunities as well as audio or video feedback from readers and viewers. Where: iPad app or computers; website Who: All 1:1 Grade levels For more help getting started with Voicethread, look HERE. Additional Information and Reviews |
Getting Started with iMovie
Getting Started with GarageBand
What: Amazingly powerful music workstation unleashes the musician in us all. Can also be used to record spoken audio. Where: iPad app or Mac computer Who: Grades 4-12 Ratings and Information |
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Getting Started with Thinglink
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What: ThingLink is a web-based tool for embedding multimedia content in an image or collection of images. Where: iPad and computer; website Who: All Ages Reviews and Information |
Getting Started with Notability
What: Notability is a note-taking and writing app that can be used by students and teachers alike. Where: iPad app Who: All 1:1 iPad grade levels. Reviews and Information User Guide |
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Getting Started with Edpuzzle
What: EdPuzzle gives teachers a set of tools to crop an existing online video to just the moments needed for a specific teaching purpose. Teachers can also customize the cropped video with voice-overs, audio comments, as well as embedded assessment questions. Where: iPad app or computer; website Who: Grades 6-12 Reviews and Information |
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Getting Started with PlayPosit
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What: eduCanon is an easy-to-use tool that lets teachers add interactivity to streaming video content from popular sites like YouTube and Vimeo, among a number of others. Where: iPad app or computer; website Who: Grades 5-12 Reviews and Information |
Getting Started with TES Teach
What: TES Teach with Blendspace is an easy-to-use platform for creating multimedia lessons that kids can access online. Using a drag-and-drop interface, you can organize videos, text, links, images, and quizzes into cubes, then organize them to create lessons, or "canvases, " for your students to complete independently. Where: iPads or computer; website Who: Grades 6-12 Reviews and Information |
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Get Started Writing Interactive Stories with Inklewriter
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What: inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. (Think of a "choose-your-own-adventure" type of story, only you write it!) It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.
Where: iPads or computers: website Who: Grades 6-12 Sample Story Reviews and Information |
Getting Started with Tackk
What: Tackk is a social creation and collaboration tool. After signing in, users can create pieces of blog-like content known as Tackks. Tackks can be blogs, school projects, events, or even blank canvases to help students and teachers present information. Students and teachers can also participate in streams, which are private messages between users where comments, photos, and videos can be shared. The site is image-rich, and content can be searched by specific user or by using tags. This virtual world is like a Pinterest-meets-Facebook platform in a smaller setting, allowing for curating, creation, collaboration, and communication. Where: iPad apps or computer; website Who: Grades 9-12; younger with support Make a Classroom Tackk Board 20 Ways to Use Trackk in the Classroom Examples from Pinterest Reviews and Information |
Getting Started with Shadow Puppet Edu
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What: Create video slideshows, adding your own narration and text. Videos can be up to 30 minutes long and can include up to 100 images, free for classroom use. 2014 Best App for Teaching & Learning from American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Where: iOS devices Who: All Ages Reviews and Information Examples and Teaching Ideas |
Getting Started with Adobe Spark
What: Adobe Voice is an easy-to-use tool for creating voice-narrated slideshows using clip art or personal images. Students can add background and music, creating impressive, high-quality presentations that can be shared via social media or email, and featured in the public gallery of Adobe Voice creations.
Where: iPad Who: Grades K-12 Adobe Spark Getting Started Guide Reviews and Information |
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Getting Started with Explain Everything
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What: Explain Everything is a presentation app that integrates content from many sources that teachers and students can use to create lessons, tutorials, and more for class or personal use. This formidable tool is like a superhero version of PowerPoint. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies, and more from many sources (including iTunes, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, WebDAV, etc.) to use in a presentation. Explain Everything can also be used as a whiteboard with the iPad video display.
Where: Android, iPad Who: All Ages Reviews and Information Comprehensive Tutorials and How-to Videos |
Getting Started with Buncee for Edu
What: Use Buncee for Education to create digital stories, presentations, holiday messages, and creative projects with your class or at home with your kids! Where: iPad Who: All 1:1 Grade Levels Reviews and Information How-To Video Collection |
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Getting Started with Creatubbles
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What: Focused on Art! Love making awesome art? Then upload it here and share it with the world. You’ll be able to connect with other young artists from lots of different countries and give and receive feedback on creations. Where: Website Who: All Ages Reviews and Information Creatubbles How-To Page |