Jessica Cummins
This is a list of great sites and apps that we learned about at AZ K-12 Camp Plug and Play 10.0
Create a free website or easily build a blog on WordPress.com. Hundreds of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.
Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 25 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life.
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
The #1 source for beautiful free stock photos. High quality and high resolution images free from all copyright restrictions (CC0) - no attribution required.
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A free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos with Creative Commons licensing. Download the photos and get attribution links already formatted for you!
Over 410,000 high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Clipart for your needs in 2015. Highest quality, free for commercial and non-commercial use on cards, books, crafts, fashion, merchandise, and services.
Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World's Visual Language. Free collection of icons and symbols.
Gratisography - Free high-resolution pictures for personal and commercial projects. All pictures were captured by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design.
Canva makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.
Listly is a free service that let's you easily create lists of the things you want and share them with the people you love. Easily add products from any site to your Listly lists via our simple bookmarklet. Great for wishlists, comparative shopping, registries and more. Try it out today!
I like to make stuff. After eleven years as a middle school teacher, I am beginning my journey as a Professor of Instructional Technology in Oregon. I'm also a keynote speaker, author, podcast host, and educational technology developer. I want to see kids embrace creativity.
Alternatively, you can use Google Forms to create Choose Your Own Adventure stories. Here's the Crazy Hairdo example. Writers can download the story organizer PDF and use this Forms template to publish it. iBooks Author is a free app for Macintosh for making multitouch books. The book can have text, videos, and other interactive elements.
Connecting teaching with technology.
Through A Different Lens is a teacher led project sponsored by the Vancouver Foundation. This project involves teachers from K-12 who are focusing on alternative methods of instruction and assessment to help all students succeed.
Sharing ideas from the classroom
Class weebly created for Camp Plug and Play 10.0 to list our resources discussed in our sessions.
This iMovie tutorial will get you up and running with iMovie. It contains more than 2 hours of video training. This tutorial is totally free to watch on this site! (Optional) You can purchase the sample media to use as you follow along with the course if you choose (This includes a downloadable version of the course video as well.
Great tool for math teachers. Gives a picture and asks "What is the first question that comes to your mind?" Could also be used as writing prompt ideas.
Six-Word Memoirs from SMITH Magazine. ONE LIFE. SIX WORDS. WHAT’S YOURS?™ Great writing tool for students.
Comic Life is a free program to create your own comic from your own images.
Choose Your Own Adventure Story Writing. The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which paths you've finished, and which still need to be written. There's no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams - so there's nothing between you and the empty page.
Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
URL shortener. Bitly Brand Tools: Own, understand and activate your best audience through the power of the link.
