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App breaks down student participation barriers. Connect using available technology. Students share thoughts, questions, etc anonymously!

Great idea! I just read an article about polling and thought of this type of application. Students might interact more if they were not so afraid of public failure. This could gie them the anonymity they are seeking!

Use your own technology

This is a great resource for teachers looking for fast assessments (exit slips, tally answers, etc). Free accounts are available and you can see real time results as students answer. It can be set to have one answer per computer/smart phone, or multiple answers per. Great to have parents leave anonymous comments to questions.

Instant audience feedback for use with mobile devices. Free for up to 40 users. Great way to use cell phones in the classroom for polling activities.

Is this a real question?!

Take classroom discussions online, where some students might feel freer and more comfortable in some ways to ask questions and respond to each other, and where there's no bell to end the discussion period. (Blog posts can even be made into a homework assignment - as an online journal of sorts - or part of a class participation requirement.)

Countdown to Your First Year: Making Planning Manageable (Teaching Channel, 2014)Need help figuring out where to start with planning the content for your first year of teaching? Lily Jones gets right to the point with general questions to consider and a few go-to resources for first-year curriculum planning.

We love to know who's using Tux Paint and how they're discovering it! Please take a moment to answer this short survey. (All questions are optional.) Tux Paint is completely free software, released as "Open Source" software, under the provisions of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Some big shifts in education are discussed in depth!

Make managing your digital classroom even easier with TodaysMeet Teacher Tools, a toolbox just for teachers. Makes it easier to allow multiple students to respond to questions at once without having to wait.

Great website for educators to access royalty free clip art, lesson plans, clip media, and presentations.

This website is AMAZING. It has clip-art, photographs, presentation images, maps, lessons, and answers to tech questions. There are so many images available, they are free (up to a certain amount, but it is very generous), it tells you exactly how to cite them, and it has options for file size and format. It took some clicking/digging around, but this is what led me to this site: FL DOE - Educators button at top - Curriculum, Instruction, Student Services - Instruction & Curriculum - Instructional Technology - Educational Technology Clearinghouse

FCIT (the Florida Center for Instructional Technology) and ETC (the Educational Technology Clearinghouse) provide digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education. ©2011 Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy. Kahoot! is an easy-to-use blended learning platform which works on any device, making the classroom interactive, encouraging both educators and learners to ask great questions.

Interactive, great for a computer lab! Easy enough for primary grades.

this would be great modified into a digital means Students create a variety of content types for their journals -- from written reflections to maps and diagrams -- in response to teacher prompts and open-ended questions. Below are the essential elements of the journal project: Blank journals: At the beginning of each module, teachers hand out a blank journal to each student.

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards.

FREE resource that contains FL standards' information and course descriptions. Maintained by the Florida State University.

FL Standards for reference