Tools That Make a Difference

(Instructions)
Who: Choose one of the tools from How: Use Google Slides to make a
chapter 11. visually pleasing graphic.

Where: Insert a new slide in this

Why: This way we can have one slide presentation. Be sure to choose a tool
presentation of each of the tools that no one else is using.
covered in chapter 11.

When: Be sure to describe the W’s

about your tool. You can use whatever
format you think looks the bests!
Choose ONE to Show and Tell

● Animoto ● Museum Box ● Sqworl

● BoomWriter ● Netvibes ● VoiceThread
● Diigo ● Padlet ● Voki
● Edmodo ● Pinterest ● Wordle
● Evernote ● Planboard
● Lino ● Present.me
● Manga High ● Skype
● Moodle ● Sound Cloud
Moodle - Reya

● Course management system

similar to Canvas
● Easily accessible
● Great for Students and Teachers
● Each interface is different for
every school

Why Moodle?

● Safe, virtual place to get

assignments, instant feedback,
● Allows for forums
● Each student has an already
created account and they can
sign up for specific classes
What? Evernote is an online organizational tool that allows you to clip texts, images, audio,
and PDF files from the internet and save them to one location, which you can then share with
anyone, anywhere!

Why? It is often difficult for student to organize all their material, especially when they have
multiple web pages all pulled up at the same time. It also allows students the ability to save
recordings and interviews all in the same place as their links and texts.

When? Maybe you’re trying to compile resources for an upcoming history test? Or maybe you
need to plan out a presentation and organize all of the sources you are going to use…

How? Getting started is simple… just visit www.evernote.com and sign up for a free account
which gives you 40 MB of storage to save per month, and if you want more a premium account
offers you it for a small fee.

Where? If you want to find more out about this cool website you can visit the evernote video
library, expand your brain with evernote, or 7 ways to use evernote
SOUNDCLOUD
Lucy Petersen

➔ Middle → High Schoolers

➔ Audio recording app
◆ Files stream to cloud, share on social
media
➔ Social website where people can make music
and share them with others
➔ Students can create podcast-type
supplements for presentations/writing
projects
◆ Ex. Journalism class
➔ Very user-friendly, easy to navigate
Skype
-Makenna

● Skype can be used to connect with people worldwide over a video

conferencing system
○ Through Skype, people can transfer files, text, and even
made land-line calls
● Why and when should teachers use Skype?
○ Collaborate on lessons, with multiple people
○ Share information instantaneously
○ Connect with another classroom that may be halfway across
the country
○ Can interview people for projects
● Who can use Skype?
○ Anyone with an internet connection can download and use
Skype
○ Free to use, but there are certain features that cost
● Where?
○ https://www.skype.com/en/
 Laura Coors
VoiceThread
● This website allows teachers to create
interactive communicative learning.
○ Thinking globally
○ Oral and written communication

● Presentations through talk, text, videos,

and images makes the learning more
globally focused, extends the learning
beyond the classroom.
○ Audio and video recording
○ Instant messaging

● It can help give students a voice when

they feel like they can’t speak out in front
of the class.
○ Give fair critique of language
development and social interaction
in the technology world of each
https://voicethread.com/
student.
 Sqworl How?

Jack Dickinson Sqworl is very easy to use. After creating an account on

Sqworl, you will start gathering your websites into a group.
Sqworl will then give you a URL for your group that you can
What? share with others.

Sqworl is a tool where students When?

can gather and share website
Sqworl is useful for younger
bookmarks. students that are learning how to
do research. Through Sqworl
Why? they can find reliable sources and
share them with their classmates.
Sqworl is useful because it allows
students to collect a few
legitimate resources, and focus
their research.
Edmodo
Katie Judson

What?
You can share content, access
homework, take quizzes, complete
assignments, participate in polls, and
receive class info.
Why?
You can use it on any device. There is a
free app.
When?
When in the classroom, at home, any
time when technology is allowed to be
used in school
Where?
www.edmodo.com
How?
Sign up as a teacher; it will send you an
email with steps
https://www.skype.com/en/

● Skype is a worldwide video conferencing

system
● Began in 2003, now there are millions of
users
● Free to download!
● “Connect classrooms and communities
around the world.”
● Available in many languages

Daniela Roach
Rheannon Vernon

Who?
2nd grade - 12th grade
Kayla
Monson
Present.me
● HOW TO USE:
● WHO: With this tool, teachers can ○ Upload a new or old presentation to
upgrade old lectures from Powerpoint or present.me
Keynote or make new lectures ○ Record a video narration to go with
each slide
● WHY: Teachers can use present.me to be
○ Then anyone can go back and watch
more flexible with classroom instruction
the presentation anytime unlimitedly
○ Teaching online
● WHERE:
○ Flipped classroom
https://slidepresenter.com/en/present-me-
○ If a student is absent/wants to
special/
watch it again
○ Teachers can use this presentation
again!
● WHEN:
○ During a lesson
○ If a student is absent and missed
the lesson
○ If a student needs to view the
lesson more than once
 WHY IS IT USEFUL WHEN DO YOU USE IT?

- Easy for teachers - Can be used for grades 3 -

Brontee Ryan - Safe environment for
students to be
creative
WHAT IS IT? - Teachers can go
online and monitor
- Literacy sight
students’ progress
- Students can interact and
create written content in a
new way
HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
12
- Lets students develop their
reading, writing, and
assessment skills
- Create and share stories
while learning literature
standards
- Common Core

- http:boomwriter.com/Admin/Registr
ation
- Begins with story start which is the
first chapter of the book.
- Submit entry
- Vote for the best one!
 Why is it useful?
Museum Box How do you get
● Allows for students to
work in an organized and
started?
categorized manner
● Register the school
● This also helps when
● Created an individual
comparing and analyzing
teacher account
different artifacts or
● Pay $100 per year
“cubes”
● Create student user
What is it? accounts

When do you use Where can you

● Web-based tool where one can
create a gallery of digital it? find out more?
artifacts in the form of cubes
○ You can add audio, video, ● Helpful when
http://museumbox.e2bn.org
text, and images to give a analyzing the who,
/
full picture of each post what, when, and
where questions
within a subject or
event
Wordle
By Lauren Petersen

Who: Teachers who want to start introducing a

new topic, show major themes/relations to a topic
or draw conclusions from large section of text

What it is: Allows you to create word clouds from

text, emphasizing words that appear more
frequently in text

When: When discussing power of words and

images, potentially as an intro or concluding
activity before/after a major unit, show awareness
of word choice and start conversations

Where: Completely online on www.wordle.net; no

login or membership needed
A wordle from the Westmont Community Life statement.
Why: Helps foster creativity, can draw out major
themes