Jer-Share: November 2017

Welcome to the Jer-Share!

This blog will bring you k-12 Ed-Tech to help enhance your classroom!

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Communication

 Remind: A communication tool that continues to make changes. It helps teachers connect instantly to students and parents. Teachers can post announcements, attach files, add co-teachers to send messages and see when students or parents are accessing messages.
 Seesaw: A digital portfolio system that allows teachers to captor information in a variety of formats. Students have the ability to post information
 Schoology: LMS
 Google Classroom: LMS

Collaboration

 Padlet: Discussion board
 Spiral: This site contains 4 apps (Quickfire: formative assessments, Discuss: interactive presentations, Team Up: students create and share collaborative presentations, and Clip: Turn a public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes.)
 Explain Everything: It is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.
 TodaysMeet: An easy way to promote out of classroom discussions. Teachers can monitor and guide students using this site.
 Edmodo: Allows to share content, manage discussions with students and parents.
 Schoology: Allows to share content, manage discussions with students and parents.
 Popplet: mind-maps
 Google Docs: Collaborative word processing
 Nearpod
 Prezi: Presentation tool

Critical-Thinking

 Instagrok: This is a mind-mapping site that allows students to gather information regarding a topic, create notes, write an outline and share with others.
 Breakout EDU: This has real life games where students must follow clues and solve puzzles to escape from or break into the box before time runs out.
 Scratch: programming
 Coding.org: programming

Creativity:

 Boom Writer: Reading, writing and assessing content

 Storykit: Multimedia storytelling mobile app . It allows its users to create electronic storybooks and share them with others. They can use it to create their own storytelling books and share them with their students. It is all free and anyone can use it easily.

 Folding Stories: It is a game in which players write one line of a story, fold the paper, and pass it to the next person. Write. Fold. Pass It’s as simple as that.

 Story Mash: A collaborative writing community. People come together to collaborate on a short fiction story, novel screenplay.

 Explain Everything: It is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.

 Google Draw: Students can create diagrams, charts at no cost.

 Canva: It is an easy to use tool that allows you to design/create graphics, presentations, covers, posters, invitations.

 Pixir Express: This is a photo editing program.

 Vacaroo: Voice recording-podcasting

 Haiku Deck: Presentation tool

 Emaze: Presentation tool

 Tagul: Word clouds

 Tagxedo: Word clouds

 Six Word Memories: Free form writing (only using 6 words)

 iBook: e-book authoring

 Live Binder: Writing

 Google Story Builder: Create mini-movies or video stories