This group is meant to share bookmarks promoting technology usage in the classroom, articles supporting technology usage, and ideas of technology usage.
Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
"Funded by The National Science Foundation, CueThink is an innovative application and a pedagogy focused on improving critical thinking skills and math collaboration for students in grades 2-12. Our mission is to foster a growth mindset and empower students to see challenges as opportunities."
"Dare to live the life you've always wanted.
Find Your Grind delivers a unique approach to learning and navigating the path to self-discovery. We help individuals define their roadmap to discover who they are, where they are going, and the first steps to get there."
"Telling great stories has never been so simple. So easy that it seems like magic.
Fast and Simple
You don't need to have programming or design skills. Hundreds of available templates.
Incredible Results: Shine bright with spectacular designs and achieve the Wow effect you're looking for.
Effective: Interactive visual experiences that improve communication.
Full of life: Animated and interactive creations integrated with the richness of the Internet.
Know your impact: Monitor how your creations are being used in real time. The power of information.
Versatile: All your communication needs in a single tool."
MyBib is a free bibliography and citation generator that makes accurate citations for you to copy straight into your academic assignments and papers. ... If you're a student, academic, or teacher, and you're tired of the poor bibliography and citation tools out there, then you're going to love MyBib.
"PhotoScissors Online provides an extremely easy way to cut a background an image. Instead of trying to accurately enclose a region with the Lasso or Magic Wand tools in cumbersome professional graphical editors, you quickly mark areas you want to cut out and areas you would like to preserve, and the program automatically does the rest. "
"Explore the World with Geography Map Games"
It's so important to know the world we live in. But it's so huge! There are so many countries, cities, flags, rivers, seas and more than 7 billions of people. Do everyone know all countries of the world? Probably not :) Some people even don't know neighboring countries.
And I understand why. Sometimes learning is too complicated or a geography teacher is too boring at school :) But let's change it, let's make geography interesting. That's why playGeography.com was created.
We're a group of enthusiasts who wants to help you discover the world. It's so interesting, there're so many places you'll want to visit, there're so many countries probably you even didn't hear of. At the time of writing, there were 195 countries. How many can you name?
"Google Classroom has the potential for a variety of assessments within the platform and even more ways to provide feedback to students. The following shares what I've learned using this workflow over the last four years, including some of the new features on the most recent update at the beginning of the 2018 school year.
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"Braingenie builds deep mastery and sharpens problem-solving skills.
Learn, practice, and quiz yourself on 5,000+ skills.
Compete in real-time multiplayer matches.
Win badges and go for a top spot on the leaderboard."
Webjets allows you managing any kind of information with ease.
Place cards freely, or group them at the speed of thought.
Collect any information from the Web. Write notes and note ideas. Set goals and remember tasks. No matter if it's YouTube, Wikipedia or Instagram - drag anything into Webjets.
"Hundreds of external applications work with Google Classroom. These integrations save teachers and students time, and make it seamless to share information between Classroom and their favorite apps."
"Teaching students to navigate the databases is not the hardest part of my job, though. The most difficult part is convincing students that they are worth exploring."
"Google Docs is a powerful word processing program with many unique features including voice typing, the Explore tool, Version History, web fonts, and much more. However, Google knows that even with all of those features, Docs may not be able to do everything you want it to do. So Google Docs allows you to install Add-ons to extend the capabilities of the program."
Certify'em lets you harness the power of Google Forms by turning them into online, certification exams. With easy to use controls and minimal setup, you can now send customizable PDF certificates to anyone who passes your online exam!
Certify'em comes with several professionally designed certificate templates, and allows you to specify your own as well (created in Google Slides). Everyone who passes your exam will receive their own personalized copy as a PDF email attachment with a unique serial number. And you'll be able to keep track of who has passed, and who hasn't, using the spreadsheet of records that Certify'em automatically creates and maintains!
