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Ten Technology Resources for Educators

The best websites to help educators create an engaging and creative learning environment in the classroom.

Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

Kahoot is an interactive game-based website that allows teachers to create questions related to content areas in their classroom that students are learning. Teachers and students can then use Kahoot to gain their level of understanding presented in a game.

Start Your Back-to-School Adventure

Peak Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to engage students in individual and social learning actively. Teachers create presentations for different content areas and connecting the presentations to their Google account. Students use a login code to interact with the presentation while the teacher monitors their progress.

BrainPOP

BrainPOP is an educational platform that offers hundreds of animated videos for specific subject areas such as ELA, math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology. The platform is for students aged 3-12. The videos have interactive quizzes, activities, and games

Nearpod: You'll wonder how you taught without it

Nearpod is a platform that allows teachers to create digital lesson plans to share with students in class and track their progress. Students can follow the lessons on their own devices. The lessons include teacher-created slides containing text, video, images, websites, questions, quizzes, polls, and assignments. Teachers are also able to assess students in real-time.

Activate engagement across your community.

Remind is a communication tool for teachers and can be translated into different languages. Remind lets teachers text message students and their parents without exchanging telephone numbers. Teachers are not able to text individual students, only classes as a whole. Messages can not be deleted or edited.

One account. All of Google.

Google Classroom is a tool that allows educators to create, organize and manage online assignments using Google Docs and Drive. Teachers can also communicate with their students through the platform regarding any projects.

Powtoon | The World’s #1 Visual Communication Platform

PowToon is a free website with a teacher classroom option for up to 90 students. Students can turn slideshows into video presentations. PowToon allows students to use their creativity and create their presentations or use ready-made templates. Features include adding text, images, simple animations, short videos, stickers, transition effects, and borders.

Flocabulary - Educational Hip-Hop

Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers use Flocabulary's educational raps and teaching lesson plans to supplement their instruction and engage students. Our team of artists and educators is not only committed to raising test scores, but also to fostering a love of learning in every child.

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share

Scratch is an application that helps students with tutorials and guides to develop interactive animations, games, and slideshows. Students can include photos, music, and sound in their creations and post their projects on the Scratch site for others to view.

Flipgrid | Empower Every Voice

Flipgrid is a website and app that provides teachers with a platform to facilitate video discussions. Students can post video responses and use various filters, text, stickers, and screen recordings. Students can also activate the closed captioning and translations feature as well.