Tech Tips and Tutorials on tools that can be used in the classroom.
There are many different curation tools out there being used by educators but one that many teachers are using, and do not realize they can use it for education, is Pinterest. Pinterest works by “pinning” various things you find online into different groups onto a wall that you can share out with others. It is…
IFTTT (which stands for If This Then That) is a great tool to automate many of the things that you may already do online. The web service uses “recipes” to create “triggers” that will act when certain events happen. For instance, my favorite so far, you can create a spreadsheet that will contain every tweet…
Kahoot is a new, free game based formative assessment tool for use in the classroom. The teacher can create quizzes, discussions or polls for students and they can use their computer, tablet or phones to join to answer the questions. Using the points system, more points are awarded the sooner someone answers correctly. This can replace…
Lucidchart is a great online tool that you can use to make a wide variety of diagrams including concept maps and venn diagrams. They have a lot of templates to get you started. Lucidchart can also be integrated with your Google Drive and you can even create new diagrams straight from your Drive account. This also…
Thinglink is a tool for creating interactive images by using images from your computer, Facebook, Flickr account or any found online. Thinglink allows you to add in information and resources into an image and has many potential uses for in the classroom setting. What you create can easily be shared out with others or embedded into…
There is a sort of hidden feature in YouTube where you questions to a YouTube video that you created or uploaded. It is a beta feature but if you go to www.youtube.com/testtube, you can add it to your account and insert questions into videos. These questions will stop the video and either, depending on the option…
Videonot.es (http://www.videonot.es/) is an online tool that allows you to take notes while watching a video. The notes are synced up with the time in the video and can be shared out thanks to the integration with your Google Drive account. This can be used by a teacher who wants to have questions posed at various…
Google has finally released Chrome Apps for Macs, which allows you to run various Chrome Apps from your desktop. Not all apps are supported, you can go here to see which apps are included, but the apps that work allow you to work even if you are disconnected from the internet. You can work in them and…
With sites like Animoto going to a more paid setup, there are not a lot of easy to use options out there for making video slideshows. We do have access to a tool that can not only allow you to create a video slideshow, it is connected to your Google Drive account and can be…
As many have made the transition from Office products into Google Apps, one area that has been more difficult than others for some people has been moving to Google Spreadsheets. Google is very good about updating their apps and making them more user friendly while at the same time introducing new tools and features along…
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