5. Class Dojo ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers
improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also
captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share
with parents and administrators. Cost - Free
6. Edmodo Edmodo is a social network that you set up for your
class. It looks like, feels like and smells like Facebook; however,
it employs many safety precautions that keep students on task. Cost
- Free
7. This web 2.0 tool uses cell phones, laptops, and/or tablets
to gather feedback from students. You can post as many questions as
youd like, which is nice if you have several classes. Cost - Free
Socrative
8. Game Templates University of North Carolina - Wilming
9. Animoto Use Animoto to easily create presentations and
videos with your own images and music, or choose from a library of
stock files. Teachers can apply for a free Animoto Plus account.
Cost - Free
10. Kidblog is a completely protected blogging platform made
specifically for classrooms. Students do not need email addresses
to sign up teachers can even sign
11. Quizlet As one of the largest and most popular flashcard
creation websites around, Quizlet allows students and teachers to
customize their own sets of flashcards. You can manage access to
the flashcards you create and share them with your students. Cost -
Free
12. Wordle Create beautiful word clouds from text that you
provide. It gives prominence to words that appear most frequently.
You can save, print and share your creation. Cost - Free
13. Bitstrips With bitstrips, you can create your own
comicstrip.
14. Voki Create a speaking avatar. Cost Free for basic account.
Voki Classroom is $29.95/year.
15. Dropbox Dropbox allows you to keep files in a place where
you can always have access to them! No more lugging that computer
around everywhere! Many teachers use it with their students to
share documents, turn in homework, etc. Cost Free (for first 2 GB
can earn up to 18 GB through various avenues)
16. Evernote Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and
small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet
and the web. Key features of Evernote: Create text, photo and audio
notes Clip web pages including text, links, and images Synchronize
your notes across your devices Search for text within snapshots and
images
17. Explain Everything Explain Everything is an easy-to-use
design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets
you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything
to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add
shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale,
copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage. Add new
or existing photos and videos. Import various types of files: PDF,
Mp4, JPEG, etc. Cost: $2.99
18. Screenr Screenr is one of the best instant screencast tools
available. Its free and you can record on your PC or Mac, play it
anywhere even on your iPhone and theres nothing to download (as
long as you have JAVA installed on your computer). Cost - Free
19. Real Player Downloader Allows you to download videos to
save onto your computer. Works great with YouTube. Included in your
free real player
20. Jing Simple and FREE, Jing is the perfect way to enhance
your fast-paced online conversations. Create images and videos of
what you see on your computer screen, then share them
instantly!
21. QR Stuff Create a QR Code for ANYTHING! Webpage, Contact
Info, Dropbox, Video, etc.
22. ELA Sample Lesson Interpreting Figurative Language
23. Skill Focus: Figurative Language Indicator: RL 6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the
impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
24. The Skin Im In Figurative Language Flipchart
25. Student Blogging Class Blog (www.kidblog.org)
26. Student Blogging Class Blog (www.kidblog.org) The Skin Im
In Being Popular Blog Post
27. Compass Learning
28. USA Test Prep
29. Assessment Figurative Language Quiz Using Edmodo
30. Closure Activity: CROWN Communicate what you learned --
briefly summarize what you learned Reaction--what is your reaction
to what you learned Offer one sentence that sums up what the whole
lesson was about Where are some different places you could use
this? Note aspects that you feel you can incorporate
immediately
31. We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past.
-Ian Jukes Final Thoughts