Tech tool chest
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This document provides a list of online resources for reading, writing, listening, teaching, practice learning, games, and collaborating with other teachers. It includes websites for ebooks, audiobooks, writing tools, listening tools, teaching tools, continuing education courses, iPad apps, and ways to collaborate with other educators. A variety of free and paid resources are presented across different subject areas.
Tech tool chest
- 1. G A B R I E L A PA U L I N O C A S T I L L O TECH TOOL CHEST
- 2. READING WEBSITES E-BOOKS, AUDIOBOOKS • Storyline Online • http://www.storylineonline.net • Read to Me • http://readtomelv.com • We Give Books • http://wegivebooks.org • Starfall • http://starfall.com • Online Storytime by Barnes and Noble • http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/online-storytime-books-toys/379003588/ • TumbleBooks • http://tumblebooks.com • International Children’s Digital Library • http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ • ABCya! • http://abcya.com • Storynory • http://www.storynory.com/ • Oxford Owl • http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
- 3. WRITING • Figment • More than just a website, Figment is a fantastic online community that encourages students to share their writing with one another and inspire each other to new heights of creativity. • Grammar Gold has a number of different exercises and provides audio support for its text. • Grammarman offers online comics, with audio support for the text, that teach grammar topics. • Brainpop has a large collection of movies related to grammar. They’re closed-captioned, and also have quizzes. • English Grammar Lessons has tons of engaging activities. • PowToon This site allows for the creation of web-based presentations that include animated videos and amazing content. • Meograph Meograph, a multimedia storytelling tool, allows users to pull video and photos from the web, from social media, cloud-based storage, the computer's hard drive or webcam. Easily add narration and music then embed or share. • Vocabulary Don’t assume that Vocabulary.com is just another digital flashcard site. This innovative site uses an adaptive learning system to help users learn the most essential English words needed in academic and business environments.
- 4. LISTENING • PowToon This site allows for the creation of web-based presentations that include animated videos and amazing content. • VideoNotes Allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. • Meograph Meograph, a multimedia storytelling tool, allows users to pull video and photos from the web, from social media, cloud-based storage, the computer's hard drive or webcam. Easily add narration and music then embed or share. • Kaizena Kaizena is a quick and easy tool that offers users the ability to embed voice comments, text comments, and links to student work
- 5. TEACHING TOOLS • Thinglink Make your images completely interactive by adding links, videos, text, and more with your computer, smartphone, or tablet. • Canva Create dynamic flyers, presentations, banners, infographics, graphics for social media, and other designs incorporating vibrant stock backgrounds, photos, graphics, and fonts, as well as images you upload. • Glossi (Site now known as Slipp) Glossi is a powerful digital media publishing tool. Add links, images, PDF files, animations, videos and audio files. • Recite Recite is where you can go to "Turn a Quote into a Masterpiece." Pick a quote from literature, a movie, a mentor, teacher, or create of your own, choose a template, and voila, you have created a gorgeous quote with Recite This. • Meograph Meograph, a multimedia storytelling tool, allows users to pull video and photos from the web, from social media, cloud-based storage, the computer's hard drive or webcam. Easily add narration and music then embed or share. • Droptask DropTask is a task management tool that provides a colorful visual of the user’s task at hand that resembles a Venn Diagram.
- 6. CONTINUED PROFRESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT • Khan Academy • Udemy • Academic Earth • edX • Alison • iTunesU Free Courses • Stanford Online • Harvard Extension • Open Yale Courses • UC Berkeley Class Central
- 7. IPAD APPS • Endless Alphabet (Free + IAP) A joyful collection of words, and monsters to explain them. • Comics in the Classroom (Free + IAP) This is an interesting approach to teaching history to children through digital comics, with topics including Pearl Harbour, Florence Nightingale and Jack the Ripper. • Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior (Free) This entirely-free app wants to teach children to code using the JavaScript language. • My First 101 Words (£1.49) This is another app for teaching toddlers their first words – you can probably guess how many – but using video rather than just text and narration • Kids' Vocab – Mindsnacks (Free + IAP) Another impressive app to help children build their essential vocabulary: 7-12 year-olds in this case. • Symmetry School: Learning Geometry (£1.99) More maths here, focused on geometry. • Kids ABC Trains (£2.56) Aimed at pre-school children, this uses trains and railways as a way to teach kids about letters and phonic sounds.
- 8. COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHERS TEACHERS • iWrite This fantastic website has it all – up-to-date resources for teachers and parents with innovative new ideas and articles on teaching creative writing, plus great tools for students helping them to explore different forms of writing, from exposition and narrative to persuasive rhetoric. PowToon This site allows for the creation of web-based presentations that include animated videos and amazing content. Recite Recite is where you can go to "Turn a Quote into a Masterpiece." Pick a quote from literature, a movie, a mentor, teacher, or create of your own, choose a template, and voila, you have created a gorgeous quote with Recite This. Pearl Trees Pearltrees is a website and app where users can collaborate and visually share their interests. Those who use Pearltrees can organize web pages, files, photos, notes, and much more and when done can share them easily with others. Stoodle Looking for a real time collaborative white board with unlimited pages? Then Stoodle is the site for you! Communicate with other teachers and librarians via video conferencing and text chat, use Stoodle Boards for brain storming and come back to the boards later to peruse your ideas. EduCanon This site supports flipped instruction by allowing teachers to embed multiple-choice questions into YouTube, TeacherTube, or Vimeo videos. Videos can also be chopped so students view a portion of a film.
- 9. PRACTICE LEARNING • Grammar Gold has a number of different exercises and provides audio support for its text. • Ventures Arcade from Cambridge has some excellent reinforcing exercises for grammar. • Brainpop has a large collection of movies related to grammar. They’re closed-captioned, and also have quizzes. • PowToon This site allows for the creation of web-based presentations that include animated videos and amazing content. • Recite Recite is where you can go to "Turn a Quote into a Masterpiece." Pick a quote from literature, a movie, a mentor, teacher, or create of your own, choose a template, and voila, you have created a gorgeous quote with Recite This.
- 10. GAMES • Interactive ESL Grammar Games comes from ESL Games • Kahoot Kahoot is a classroom student response system that is completely device agnostic. Whether they are using laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, Google Tablets, various smartphones or more if students can access the internet they can respond to all of the information provided via Kahoot. • TodaysMeet TodaysMeet is a back channel for questions, comments, and feedback in any class, presentation, workshop, or convention.