Padlet.com - K-12 - FREE - "The easiest way to create and collaborate in the world". Padlet is a great tool that allows students to"post" an idea, sentence or response on a general board. Teachers give a link and with no registration and students can go on the site and interact with it. Students are able to see each other's responses and teachers are able to see what the students have written or contributed from their own screen. It is a fun tool that is very simple to use.
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3d, 4c,4d, 5b, 6b
How to use padlet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuzciL8qCYM
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3d, 4c,4d, 5b, 6b
How to use padlet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuzciL8qCYM
Thinglink - K-12 - Free with paid upgrade options - A tool that makes images interactive by allowing images, videos, audio, etc to be embedded into them. Thinglink is easy to use and it revolves around a concept that many students are already exposed to - tagging! Students already know how to tag images through facebook and instagram. Thinglink, allows students to tag not just words but also videos, more images, links, text and even audio. What once was just a static image can now become an interactive experience.
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3b, 3c, 5b, 6a
How to use Thinglink video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8J7X_Utp0
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3b, 3c, 5b, 6a
How to use Thinglink video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8J7X_Utp0
Smore - K-12/Administrative - Free with paid upgrade options - Smore is a great website that is user friendly and straight forward. It is simple to sign up for and did not require much information to be given. It offers pre-made templates. It would be great to use this in the classroom as a teacher, to send information about events in the classroom and as an administrator it would be an easier way to send out information to parents quickly and ensure that they do get the information as opposed to using paper and relying on the students to deliver it.
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 2b, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3b, 3d, 5b, 5c,6a, 6d
How to use Smore video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnTK5ShAPuM
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 2b, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3b, 3d, 5b, 5c,6a, 6d
How to use Smore video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnTK5ShAPuM
Aurasma - K-12/Administrative - Free with paid upgrade option - Aurasma is a great augmented reality that allows you to embed information into anything. For example, you can take a bulletin board that is normally static and make it dynamic by placing images or information into them. When students scan the words, images, 3-D models and sentence examples pop up. It truly was exciting to see them play with it. Aurasma can be used to create digital scavenger hunts around the classroom.
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 2a,2b, 3b, 5b, 6a, 6d
How to use Aurasma video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im532nQsPnA
ISTE Standards: Students: 1a, 2a,2b, 3b, 5b, 6a, 6d
How to use Aurasma video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im532nQsPnA
Screencast-O-Matic - K-12 - Free with paid upgrade option - Screen-casting is a tool in which you can recording your screen and share it with others. Screen-casting works well when you just don't want to explain something to someone but more importantly show them exactly what you mean by walking them through it, and even more beneficial, people can also rewind! Students can create their own tutorials and publish it for the world. It is simple to use and easy to explain to others.
ISTE Standards: Students: 1b, 2a, 2c, 2d, 3c, 5b, 2a,
How to use Screencast-O-Matic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQeky1RG0jU
ISTE Standards: Students: 1b, 2a, 2c, 2d, 3c, 5b, 2a,
How to use Screencast-O-Matic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQeky1RG0jU