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"Explore some of our favorite Cool Tools that can be integrated into student-centered, engaging lessons. For each of the tools, you will get a basic overview, see examples, review classroom applications and explore how to adapt it for use in your content area."

"The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law."

Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense. The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Display 1 to 5 rows of beads, 10 beads per row. On the iPad, display up to 10 rows. Hide beads with the resizable shade, which allows teachers or learners to model subtraction or difference problems. Reverse the colors of rows 6 to 10 to distinguish (or not) groupings of 25 beads. Use the drawing tools to annotate work and show understanding Write equations and expressions with the text tool.

Multiple coaching tools

Jen Gonzalez puts out a new list each January with great tech tools to try.

Welcome to another online tool to allow for Formative Assessment and engage students in discussion. Answer Garden allows the teacher to set up a website that gathers student input and ideas. As students answer a question prompt, their answers appear on the home Answer Garden screen set up by the teacher. Both teacher and students have an opportunity to see what the ideas of the crowd really are. It is simple to use. Since this is a open web tool students should be reminded to not answer with personal or identifying information. No student log in is required. Ways to use Answer Garden: Pose a Driving Question Collect ideas and opinions Look for adjectives that describe a character in a book Use as a polling mechanism… large words most popular Look for number of class that can get a correct answer Incorporate in a Socrative Seminar Align words to an idea, concept, place, or object Compare and contrast using two Answer Gardens Exit ticket of a learned concept Get feedback on an upcoming test

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Cool Tools by instructional Strategy

"StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool, yet stable in our development environment, and it has a friendly authoring tool. " Features: Large maps and snap map

Use this tool to identify the kinds of learning that students should be typically engaged in during each phase of a project and to identify strategies for effectively assessing their learning in each phase.

Catlin Tucker is fabulous--lots to learn from here. Her site also includes resources on grading more efficiently, mastery learning, etc.

Site includes searchable database of tech tools organized by purpose, subject, grade level

Great site for tech tools, especially for Google Classroom.

Great ideas for making annotation an instructional tool