Adaptive or Assistive

Technology/Teacher
Productivity/Innovative Uses
Tylee Crosson
CSN Education Department, EDU 214
September 28, 2021
 Adaptive or Assistive Technology
Readspeaker
● Text to speech tool for K-12
- Can be used for proof-listening, taking notes, using browser extensions, and translating
- Allows for inclusive education
- Audio plays an important role in IEP and 504 plans, and teachers allows for teachers to have
extensive management and reporting tools

● Fee Structure
- Free

● Visit Readspeaker
 Loom
● Can be used by teachers at schools, universities, or educational institutions to instruct
via video messaging
-allows teachers to record their lessons and post it for students

- create a virtual classroom for teachers and students to communicate with each other in real
time
● Fee Structure:
- Free for educators upon verification

● Visit Loom
 TeacherTube
● An educationally safe online community for sharing instructional videos
-Provides content with professional development for teachers

-Allows teachers to post videos designed for students to view

-Select a subject and find thousands of videos to choose from

● Fee Structure
- Free for everyone

● Visit TeacherTube
 StoryboardThat
● Creative educational platform that can be used by teachers and students in
various ways including:
-Making posters for your classroom
- Setting up assignments
- Creating plot diagrams, graphic novels, character maps, and timelines
-Customizing worksheets, quizzes, story cubes and more with the drag and drop interface.

● Fee Structure
- $5.99/month for a single teacher
-$16.76/month for a department
-$24.92/ month for school district
● Visit StoryboardThat
 Seesaw
● Can be used to create a learning loop between students, teachers and families
- Students explore intuitive tools
- Drawing, recording, collages, videos, and more

● Fee Structure
- Free

● Visit Seesaw
 Peardeck
● Offers interactive lessons to keep students engaged in both the classroom and
remote or hybrid learning environments
- Allows teachers to add interactive assessment questions into presentations using drawing
tools, images, and traditional multiple choice formats
- Students can respond to these questions and receive feedback in real-time
- Compatible with google and microsoft softwares

● Fee Structure
- Free for basic use
- $149.99 annually for additional features

● Visit Peardeck
 99 Math
● Multiplayer game that provides engaging math practice to increases math fluency
- Students can join a live game easily with a join code and play against other students.
- covers different areas of mathematical topics from grades 1-12
- allows you to track your student's progress based on how they score in the game
- scores for your overall class to track what mistakes were made and what topics need to be
focused on

● Fee Structure
- Free

● Visit 99 Math
 Canva
● Graphic design platform
● allows you to easily create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, Zoom
backgrounds, and more using professionally designed templates
● You can upload your own photos and add them to Canva's templates using a drag and drop
interface.

● Fee Structure
- Free for k-12 teachers and students

● Visit Canva
 Epic
● The leading digital reading platform that safely fuels curiosity and reading
confidence for kids 12 and under
- gives millions of families and classrooms instant, unlimited access to thousands of books,
videos and quizzes from leading publishers to help kids everywhere read, learn and grow.

● Fee Structure
- Free

● Visit Epic
 My Shakespeare
● Encourages deeper classroom engagement and allows students to gain a richer
understanding of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.
- Students can interact with and have access to Media-rich, full-text editions of Shakespeare's
plays.
- Interactive content and notebook study tools

● Fee Structure
- Free

● Visit MyShakespeare