Great Tech Tools for Teachers

Websites, Mobile Apps, pricing, and an idea by TCI.

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have everything you need to keep learning going. We are committed to supporting you with the
technological resources you will need to implement virtual teaching and learning.

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Site/App Platform $ Idea how to use with students

We use Zoom here at TCI for our virtual meetings
Web and screencast recordings. A live webinar could be
& Free used with students that need a 1-off meeting. Live
For
Mobile limited webinars are great for discussion lessons w/TCI
http://zoom.us time
while recorded ones could be used for many others.

Newsela provides rich, engaging content for

Web students in different reading levels and tied to
Free
& For national/state standards. Newsela is offering free
Mobile limited
time
access to Newsela’s entire product suite for the rest
of the 2019/2020 school year.
https://newsela.com/

Turn your questions to students into a fun game!

Web Kahoot has been used by thousands of teachers
& Free daily to gamify instruction. Right now, teachers can
For
Mobile limited get their premium level free through the school year
https://kahoot.com/ time
to deal with COVID-19.

Flipgrid is a free video discussion platform that helps

Web educators see & hear from every student in class and
& Free foster a fun and supportive social learning environment.
In Flipgrid, educators post discussion prompts and
Mobile students respond with short videos. This is a great tool for
https://info.flipgrid.com/ TCI discussion questions with students!

On a digital corkboard, upload images from the

Web major topics you covered this year. Challenge
& Free students to go onto the corkboard and add a thought
Mobile along with a visual or audio piece for at least three
http://linoit.com
topics.

This is a great research site for geography, science,

economics, statistics, and history. Have students
Web Free look for strong correlations between two sets of data
points and then draw conclusions on the
www.gapminder.org implications in a social media post.

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 Great Tech Tools for Teachers
Websites, Mobile Apps, pricing, and an idea by TCI.

Site/App Platform $ Idea how to use with students

Government students could use Animoto to create a

Web 30-second commercial for a fictional or real person
& Free running for office. Have them focus on different
Mobile forms of propaganda when they put it together.
www.animoto.com

Post primary source documents you studied this

year, like a poem or excerpt, and have students
Web Free share what it meant to them or how it connected to
their content this year. Students can type, webcam,
www.voicethread.com or voice record their response.

Prior to wrapping up a lesson, copy and paste the

chapter summary of your unit into a Tagxedo word
Web Free cloud. Invite the students to look at the prominent
words and debrief why each is important.
www.tagxedo.com

As students look for ways to prepare for an

assessment, have them create a Glogster poster that
Web Free has images, video, music, and text that would
answer your unit/lesson essential question.
www.glogster.com

Create a custom hashtag (#likethis) that you use to

have students communicate about your class. They
Web
& Free can use it for assignments or as a discussion board
part of a lesson. Best of all, Twitter keeps all of the
Mobile recorded tweets with that hashtag!
www.twitter.com

Students can research statistical data (such as a

country or region’s GDP, life expectancy, etc.) and
Web Free create an info-graphic to depict that information
with stunning visuals and templates from
http://piktochart.com/ Piktochart.

Challenge students to write a brief (200 or less)

word obituary for a famous person being studied.
Web Free Have them include major accomplishments and
write it as if it just occurred.
www.fodey.com

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