Misc. Web sites and tools for your classroom:
Use TEDED to make YouTube a powerful educational tool.
32 Reading Websites - These cover elementary school through high school (sites like Open Library and Gutenberg Press where students can get free copies of books they need for class)
Tons of free brain breaks to use in your classroom! Your students will love this! -Gonoodle
Free website with tons of educational curriculum games - sheppardsoftware.com
Wonderful extensive list of free online tools to spark student creativity: http://goo.gl/
Do you Swivl?
Here at Norris, we have 4 Swivl units for staff to use. They are awesome for recording your lessons or for evaluating your teaching style. More info and help can be found in this doc.
Matt Rosenau posted this to our Middle School Community:
A 31-second example of the Swivl. The wireless mic allows a viewer to hear your small-group interactions with students anywhere in the room, even if there's conversation going on. Let me know if you're interested in trying it out.
CK-12 - Amazing resource for more than just free ebooks (Flexbooks)!
Practice, practice, practice!
Improve your learning by practicing thousands of interactive questions in Math & Science. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Are you Free at 1 pm on December 3rd? - This webinar may be for you!
CK-12: How to Build a FlexBook
Discover the easiest way to build a FlexBook using your own content as well as content available on our website. Connect on the webinar to share tips and best practices and get answers to your CK-12 questions.
Date: Tuesday December 3rd, 2014
Time: 3:00PM Pacific time
If you have not looked at CK-12 before <--- now is the time!
Some PowTunes Awesomeness!
Lisa Harrington's class here at Norris has made some great little clips using PowTunes. Here is just one example:
Google Apps - Tips, Tricks and Features:
6 Google Apps Updates You Might Have Missed From October
How to Enable and Set Limits on Your Google Forms
5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google Apps
Earlier this week, Google announced all Spreadsheets in Google Drive will be migrated to the new version of Google Sheets. Learn all about the New Google Sheets in this short 6 minute video! (Ignore the info on opting into the new sheets. In our Norris School EDU environment... you are already opted in by default.)
How to Create a Works Cited with Google Docs - Short two minute YouTube.
Need a quick timer? Type "set timer 5 minutes" in Google search. Allows full screen too!
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From the Google Guru (Great to follow on Twitter and via email tips!)
With Add-ons available for Google Docs and Sheets, it was only a matter of time before these custom tools made their way to other parts of the Google Drive suite. If you happen to use Google Forms on a regular basis, you have to be thrilled that Add-ons are now available there, as well. - Now you can add custom features to Google Forms with Add-ons
With Add-ons available for Google Docs and Sheets, it was only a matter of time before these custom tools made their way to other parts of the Google Drive suite. If you happen to use Google Forms on a regular basis, you have to be thrilled that Add-ons are now available there, as well. - Now you can add custom features to Google Forms with Add-ons
Send Bulk Custome Emails Through Gmail With Google Drive - This 5 minute YouTube will show you how.
The Chromebook Usage Collection by KC Testerman. This is a list of web tools that do not need plug-ins that can be used on chrome books. I've used all of these items and highly recommend.
Nice list of Chrome extensions in this Google Presentation.
IOS Apps and Tips:
Here's one for the elementary staff:
Fun Timer By all4mychild FREE TODAY -
Description
The Fun Timer has been designed specifically for kids who have little sense of time or weak time management skills. Place an image or word at the center of the timer reflecting the reward or fun to be experienced after their chore or task. When they get off task or start goofing around, just start the timer and the kids will see concretely that their fun time will disappear if they don't get back to business. The adult controls all the features to be able to use the timer at each child's developmental and cognitive levels. It's a FUN way to teach kids not to waste time!
Upgraded to IOS 8 .. get the most out of it with this huge list of new features.
Mathseeds apps are a great way for young students to practice and master all the essential math skills. Written for the Common Core Standards, students can access a huge range of activities that make learning math fun, motivating and very rewarding!
Let's do some App Smashing:
It's a simple app smash that we complete in Kindergarten. It might look like there are several steps, but it's really quite easy for....
App Smashing Defined: The process of using multiple apps in conjunction with one another to complete a final task or project.
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