Website creators - easy to use and free! Click on the images to go directly to these sites.
All of these are really easy to use and are picture based formats so you'll be able to easily navigate creation of your site without a lot of technological know how.
These are all sites to get AWESOME slide templates for google slides or PowerPoint!
PowToon! A way to make quick animated videos for free!
Mentimeter - Easy-to-use presentation software for leaders, educators, and speakers that’s interactive, engaging and fun
Plickers! A way to get formative assessment data real time WITHOUT the students needing technology.
Requires the teacher/counselor to have printed "plickers" cards, a computer with projection and a smart phone. |
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
The 9 P's of Digital Citizenship
PPS Digital Citizenship Curriculum Resource lists for each grade level * Elementary School * Middle School * High School |
Documents, forms and other programs
Google Calendars are great for many reasons. My favorite is that they are easy to share with each other and easy to embed in websites. Here are some of the benefits:
- Create a meetings calendar by room (to know if it's in use) or by department to know what others are doing.
- If teachers each have one, families and supports can see what's going on in one easy place.
- Easy for students to support teachers in updating.
- Many settings options are available, make it so others can edit, or just so others can see, up to you!
Google drive is where all of your documents will be housed. Things that you create as well as those that are shared with you. This is your "home base" for most things Google related. Go to drive.google.com and sign in with your Google login, then start creating!
Google docs are a wonderful way to keep track of documents AND have them accessible to you from anywhere. This is "word" but an online version. Students can use Google docs for papers, this way they can write/edit anywhere without the excuse of "I forgot it". Share documents with your staff and allow them only as much access as you want. Follow the same creation instructions as for a "form" but choose "document".
Google forms are one of my new favorite things! They're surveys without having to use another survey site (although I do still really like surveygizmo and surveymonkey). Once you've created your form which is very simple, the results will automatically populate into a Google Docs Excel Sheet. These are also easy to embed directly into your website.
Auto-fill forms in Word from Excel (and Google forms). Creates a word doc from information in an excel doc.
You can also do this using the "add-on" called form publisher.
You can also do this using the "add-on" called form publisher.
More resources...
Doodle is a scheduling tool that allows you to email out potential meeting dates and see what date and time will work for the most people.
There's a delightful woman who works for Portland Public Schools named Melissa Lim. She has put together an amazing page of resources. Go HERE to get to her site. The site includes apps, Google help sites, advice on how to use technology and more.
Worksheet Works
This is a great website with SO MANY worksheets that you can personalize! I use it to make daily or weekly schedules for students to work on time management.
This is a great website with SO MANY worksheets that you can personalize! I use it to make daily or weekly schedules for students to work on time management.
Wordle is an AWESOME tool to make easy word based visuals. Just type in the words you want to use (the more you type each word, the bigger it will be in your word cloud) and poof, an amazing visual!
Videoscribe - Whiteboard style animation videos. Currently costs $144/year or $29/month. Can also do a one time forever payment of $665.
Flipped Lesson Tools:
Back to school night, family/parent interventions, college access, new student orientation, small groups, peer program training, staff training
Presentation: Camtasia, PPT, Prezi, Screencast-o-matic (shows how to navigate through a website), slideshare, videoscribe, voicethread, tellagami, howtoon, voki
Voice: Audacity, itunes, vocaroo, jamendo (royalty free music)
Publication: youtube, vimeo, prezi, imovie, ituens, quicktime, voicethread(has an educator option)
Other: SCOPE (how to - see what others are doing)
Other technology ideas - shared pinterest board for vision board activity - students ID things that are interesting for them prior to coming to group.
Tour of the school for new students (have students create a tour? ibooks?)
Narrate in multiple languages if your school needs that service.