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This site also suggests an app for randomly picking students called PickSticks.

February 13, 2015 Looking for some interactive whiteboard apps to use in your class? The titles below are among the best you can find out there. These apps will enable you to brainstorm and organize your ideas visually. They are also ideal for joint collaboration on a classroom project or for working on a shared presentation.

Incorporate art activities into your English language arts lessons, and your students will have so much fun! Use these resources to introduce new concepts or reinforce ELA topics your students have already learned.

"When we process our learning by showing, retelling, and expressing, it reinforces our understanding. And, we just might inform and entertain an audience while we're at it!"

Lessons/activities, etc. for math, science, literacy, art, music, physical education, etc...great resource!

Games and teacher guides (includes great interactive math games)

Teachers have so many options these days when it comes to helping students with special needs successfully integrate into their classroom. This article explains ways to integrate assistive technology into your classroom.

Assistive devices, commonly used school technologies, links to online resources

Great site (National Archives) for creating your own interactive learning activity with primary source documents.

A free study site for English as a Second Language (ESL) students with games, quizzes, puzzles, MP3 files with transcripts, listening practice, pronunciation practive, etc.

This site allows teachers and students to create flyers and newsletters. It can be used for projects. For example, students could create a "digital poster" using Smore.

Allows to read a QR Code with you WebCam using HTML5 WebRTC API.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.

This is a concept mapping tool which can be used for the teacher or the students to organize ideas in math into a tree like concept map.

This website is a problem solving software example for math. This matrix logic puzzle website is a great way to get students to solve word problems with math. Each word problem is a different situation and the website gives the students a matrix to use to solve each logic puzzle. It gives the students clues and they can check their answers as they go along to see how they are doing.

This is an example of a simulation software for math. This website constructs any geometry figure possible. It shows you step by step how to do a geometry construction. The students can control the pace of the simulation, pause it and play it forward.

create speaking avatars as a learning tool and post them to any blog, website, or profile

Voki allows students to type up paragraphs or essays. Then their Voki avatar will read it back to them. Students will be able to detect errors in their writing by hearing it read aloud to them.

This website was a fantastic resource for me this week when learning how to create interactive slides. This is a great element to add to any PowerPoint presentation to get the students involved. Creating links on the slides to travel through the questions in the correct order takes some time to organize in your head but once it is created, it is awesome!

This video is a fantastic resource to watch what to do visually when creating interactive slides. This video describes the importance of "clickable" areas and helped me realized that the user can not read my mind on where to click for the slides, therefore create a giant object hidden in the background will send the user to the correct page.