Tech+Tools

**TECH TOOLS**

MISCELLANEOUS
Socrative
 * In beta. Invitation only. Sign up and they will email you directions
 * It is a student response system. Students can respond via laptop, tablet, or mobile phone.
 * Teacher is given a "room number" that students log into.
 * Shows students responses.
 * Various question types: Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Answer, Quick Quiz, Exit Ticket, Space Race

Intro Video about Socrative

GradeCam
 * Allows you to create a scantron type assessment. It provides you with a (bubble) form that you can hold up to any web cam or a document camera and have it corrected.

Online Stopwatch

Conduit Mobile
 * Create an app for your website or blog
 * App works across various platforms
 * No knowledge required of app design, just type in URL

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gnowledge
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create, share, and publish tests online
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free (It is currently in Beta)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Quizinator
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create, Store, and Print worksheets, studysheets , exams and quizzes online.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4Teachers: Tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create online quizzes, rubrics, and more

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mashable's 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers (article)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Group Maker (Random Group Maker)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Random Name Generator

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tell in Future
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have students practice the future tense and write about something they plan to do in the future. Their "future" plans will be delivered at a later date via a url link.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Family Tree Maker

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Playlist
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Find free music online and create a playlist that can be shared with your students

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free TV Online from Around the World

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Fake Wall
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can create a fake Facebook page for a historical figure, literary character, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ACTIVITY CREATION TOOLS
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PurposeGames.com

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Quia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Individual subscription--$49 a year
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create games such as concentration, hangman, flashcards, and quizzes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hot Potatoes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tools for Educators
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create crosswords, dice, word searches, dominoes, mazes, bingo, board games, and much more.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Armored Penguin

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Discovery Education--Puzzle Maker
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create cryptograms, crosswords, word searches, hidden message, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Classtools.net
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create games, quizzes, activities and diagrams

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Super Teacher Tools
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">An assortment of tools from a random group maker to game creation

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">POLL/SURVEY CREATORS
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Obsurvey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">QuizSnack
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online quizzes and polls that can be embedded into blogs/websites

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poll Everywhere

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Survey Monkey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mentimeter

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**URL SHORTENER**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TinyURL.com

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Goo.gl

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bitly
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free URL shortener
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use it to shorten long URL addresses to make it easier for students to type in
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You can customize the URL address (i.e., I use direct my students to my wiki with the following URL: www.tinyurl.com/srtaJ

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hiper URL
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use to open up as many as 5 tabs as a single URL link

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YOU TUBE TOOLS
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tube Chop

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*Use the following converters to bypass school filters by downloading the video to your computer. They also keep you from having to reload a video each time you show it.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online Converter (Converts video, audio, images, and documents)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zamzar (Free Video Conversion)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ConvertFiles (Free video conversion)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">VuSafe

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Videodropper
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Send YouTube videos automatically to your Dropbox folder

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TEMPORARY EMAIL ADDRESSES
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mailinator

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TempInbox.com

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SOCIAL BOOKMARKING/PRODUCTIVITY
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Symbaloo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A visual way of sharing links with your students

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diigo (Social Bookmarking)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Evernote
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Use to bookmark sites
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Copy and save sections of web pages

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">QR CODES
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kaywa QR Code Generator

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Download a desktop or mobile QR code reader from the internet or app store

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Four Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**BACKCHANNELS**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TodaysMeet

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chatzy

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">AnswerGarden
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Throw out a question and receive minimal feedback
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can be used for brainstorming

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CLOUD STORAGE
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dropbox

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SugarSync

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use Drop it to me and Filestork to send and receive files from Dropbox

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Syncplicity

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Box.net
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Download iPhone or iPad app between now and beginning of December to get 50 gb of free storage

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ONLINE LESSON PLANNERS
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PlanBook.edu
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free and Premium plan ($25 yearly)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Planbook.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">$9.95 yearly subscription

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Planbook ($30 yearly)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learnboost
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online grade book, planner, attendance, reporting, and calendar

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PARENT/STUDENT COMMUNICATION**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">remind101
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students/Parents can receive notifications via a text message or email (limit 140 characters)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Currently free for teachers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Parent Letter for Remind 101 (Copy and make changes)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SnappSchool
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students/Parents can receive notifications via text messages or email

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Celly


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How to video from Learn It In 5

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class Parrot

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">gText
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Send text messages to groups

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**GOOGLE**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Art Project**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Google Earth**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use for teaching geography
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use street view so students can see buildings from target culture

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Google Docs**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Communication, Culture, Connections, Comparisons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free online, collaborative word processor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can peer edit along with the teacher directly on the document without printing it off by sharing the link
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create self-grading quizzes and forms using Google Forms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can also be used for spreadsheets and presentations

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google SketchUp
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use for creating house plans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher Guide (Free projects & directions )