Destiny McNeil
Little bird tales is an awesome way to get kids to tell their own stories or to re-tale and summarize other stories. Little bird tales can be an awesome and fun way to get students to want to do projects. You are able to upload pictures or draw your own and can add voice over or music to your stories. the downside to little bird tales is that it is only free for 90 days then you have to start paying to keep your account.
https://littlebirdtales.com/
Go soapbox is an awesome website that is free to join and free to use (with up to 30 students at a time)! Go soapbox allows you to create quizzes, polls, and discussions for you and your students to use and get real time feedback. Quizzes are automatically graded for you and available in a spread sheet. Students answers can be displayed in a pie chart or a bar graph. You can choose to make their answers anonymous or have their names attached to them.
http://www.gosoapbox.com/
Google Cardboard is an exciting new program that people of all ages can enjoy. The Google cardboard app is free so the only thing you have to purchase is the eye wear which can be purchased for under $20. Google cardboard can be used in a variety of usefully ways within the classroom. Students can use Google cardboard to explore distant places and other times that would be impossible to take filed trips to.
https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/
Kahoot is a fun way to quiz your students and get realtime results. Students connect and play using their own devices. Kahoot is free with some paid upgrades available. Kahhot uses fun colors to help grab students attention and makes it more entertaining.
Kahoot.it
Class DoJo is available for students and parents to use. It works much like a social network for all students and parents in your classroom. Teachers can get the students to use Class DoJo inside the classroom or from home.This is a great tool to help keep all of the parents in the loop so that they can keep up with everything that is going on. This can also be helpful to students who are out sick or have to miss school for any reason, all the teacher needs to do is keep the account up to date posting homework and other important information.
Class DoJo
Socratives allows you to make quizzes, polls and other ways of asking questions and assessing what students know or how they feel. Teachers get real time feedback and can choose to leave answers anonymous or not. Socrative is beneficial in many ways within the classroom, teachers can ask all students the same question all they need is a device to connect. Socrative can also be very helpful when dealing with shy students or any student who prefers not to answer aloud. Student's answers can be displayed in many ways. Socrative can without a doubt be used in nearly every learning environment.
Socrative
Aurasma allows the viewer to experience augmented reality by simply opening the aurasma app and holding it up to any picture that has an aura. Aurama is free and can be used in variety of ways. You can use premade auras or make your own. Teachers could make auras from all kinds of pictures and charts in their room or even have student make their own auras. Aurasma can be a fun tool to use inside and outside of the classroom.
Aurasma
Scoot Pad is a game based learning program that works in 8 steps to help students master what they are learning.
The 8 steps are:
1 Placement Tests
2 Assignments
3 Instruction
4 Adaptive Practices
6 Intervention
7 Assessments
8 Mastery
By using theses steps children will work their way up and master the topic that they are working on. Because Scoot Pad is an adaptive program the activities will get easier or more challenging depending on how the child is preforming. Scoot Pad can be used inside or outside the classroom to help reinforce what students are learning.
Quiver is one of my favorite apps! Quiver is an app that is used to take their normal coloring sheets and turn them into 3D works of art that come to life. Quiver has both free and paid coloring sheet packs that anyone can print off and use. Quiver can be a fun way to get your students excited about learning. What student wouldn't love to see their coloring page come to life in 3D? This app can get just about any child excited about learning.
Quiver
Plickers is a fun way to get your students to answer questions. All you need to do is print out the QR codes for each student then hand them out and a device to check their answers. Each side of the square represents a letter answer, a, b, c, or d, the students turn the card so that the correct answer is on the top. You can make your own questions and answers. Once you ask a question students just turn the paper so that the correct answer is at the top, then teacher holds up their device scanning all answers at once. Plickers gives real time results, so that the teacher can quickly adapt to the students and give them more help or less help with. topics they are quickly grasping or maybe not getting.
plickers.com
