Developing your Personal Learning Network is important! You'll soon depend on it. Here's a compilation of sites that can make your PLN top notch.
SAMR Google Form Tool:
Janna showed how you can use Google Forms and SAMR to measure student engagement during walk-throughs to inform your instruction. Email jelfrink@wolves.k12.mo.us for more resources.
Tackk:
Tackk is a site used for creating online posters. Teachers and students can quickly and easily share information or present in a new and creative way.
Newsela:
Newsela is a free Google app (and website) for students to explore a world of nonfiction. It is updated daily with real-world news stories that are printed at five different lexile levels for simple, easy, and necessary differentiation.
Symbaloo:
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool that makes it simple and fun to organize the best of the web. You have all your favorite websites at your (and your students' ) fingertips.
Flippity.net:
With Flippity.net, you can easily create interactive 'flash cards' using a Google spreadsheet.
Kahoot:
Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system. The creator is able to create and share quizzes, discussions, surveys (which are called kahoots) using any device with a web browser. Highly engaging! Provides immediate results in a downloadable excel spreadsheet.
Zaption
Take a video from many different sources (YouTube, Vimeo, PBS, TED, etc.) and create a "tour," which is a video (or compilation of short videos). Add interactive features to the videos, like an image or document with further information, and Q/A.
It is extremely user friendly and lends itself to questions beyond your basic facts and what might fall at the lower level of Bloom's. If you're flipping your classroom, this is a great way to engage students. I can add students to my groups, and then check analytics to see how many of them watched it.
