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Title of the
Tool
Edivation
PD360

Function of the Tool

Online learning community for
educators to share ideas and lesson
plans, watch videos of appropriate
instruction, receive feedback from
administrators and even receive
professional learning development
trainings.
Kid friendly way to view youtube
videos. It simply embeds the video into
a nicely designed page with no ads or
commercials. This takes away
opportunities for them to get off task
or onto inappropriate sites.
Easy way to create animations or
videos.

NicerTube

wideo

readwritethi
nk
interactive
timeline

Simple but extremely interactive

creation of a timeline. Students or
teachers can do this. Great for whole
group or small group.

Blabberize

Glogster

Tagxedo

Make a picture talk! Students can

upload pictures or drawings and give it
a mouth, and speak about the content
they researched. I usually had my
students read a piece of their writing.
This is a fun tool educators or
students can use to create virtual
posters or pages.
Students can create word clouds of
important vocabulary or words from
the content.

Edutopia

Class Dojo

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Story Bird

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Wiggio

This is an online community for

teachers. It has articles, videos, and
forums for educators to share ideas.
Great tool for classroom and behavior
management. It can also be used as a
tool to communicate with parents.
Create interactive and animated
stories with writings and then have it
be read to you. Students can publish
their writings.
Fabulous way to for students to
collaborate in group projects with one

Appropriate Content Area and Grade

Level
Teachers and administrators for K-12

For any educator K-12 who wish to use

youtube videos and minimalize
distractions/inappropriate material.

Educators k-12 can use this easy to use

tool in order to make content come alive
for students.
For social studies class in middle or
elementary level.
Readwritethink also has many wonderful
interactive tools, inspriring ideas, and
lesson plans educators can share among
each other.
Any content K-12. This would probably
work best with elementary/middle school
and in writing, social studies, or science
class.
Educators for any content K-12. Could
also be built into class webpages or
blogs.
Upper elementary, middle, or high
school. I do this in my writing class some
times. They wrote an informational piece
about a topic, then created a word cloud
about that topic. Students became very
engaged and enjoy this.
All educators K-12

Mostly elementary level classrooms.

Elementary writing/reading class.

Middle to high school level classrooms.

another and with the teacher.

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Wall Wisher

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Weebly

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Poll
Everywhere

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Prezi

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Bubbl

Online brainstorming with many

features similar to word, but is
visually more interesting. It helps students and
teachers to create a mind map on a page.

Upper elementary up through high

school

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Voki

All educators K-12, but probably more

entertaining for K-6

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TubeChop

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ThingLink

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WordSmyth

Create a digital avatar that delivers

your message to the class. The
students will enjoy a silly character
talking to them and still get the
content you need to supply.
Extremely easy way to cut and trim
away unnecessary parts of youtube
videos.
Make images come alive with any
content from the web. You can make
these pictures interactive
A website that provides kid friendly
definitions in beginning, intermediate,
and advanced versions.

Survey
Monkey
Jupiter
Grades
Nonfiction
Videos

Blogging, notifications, event planning, posting

messages, teaching, collecting feedback, and
watching/sharing videos.
Create a classroom website and blog, manage
student accounts, collect homework assignments
online, maintain parent communication
Classroom polling system, can be used via web
or via cell phone sms text messaging, quick
tally's without singling out a specific student.
A creative way to make a presentation.
(Alternative to Power Point)
Create surveys online to use as an assessment
or practice activity

Free online grade book that is

accessible for all teachers
This is an online documentary archive
of so many wonderful videos to make
content more understandable and
visible.

All educators K-12

All educators K-12
Mostly high school
All educators K-12
More for middle to highschool. Could still
easily be used in upper elementary.
All educators K-12
All educators K-12

All educators K-12

All educators K-12

All educators K-12