FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

Set up your questions. Write your own questions, or customize any game from our extensive library. Invite the students to join. At the lesson, present your game on a large screen - just like running a presentation. Your students will see a short link (triv.in) over the screen. Using that link, they can join the game from their smartphones - no need to install any App! Start the game! That's it! Once the students are in, you start running the game. The game syncs across the main screen and the students smartphones, so that everybody enjoys a real time fun experience, while viewing the game results in real time over the large screen. YouTube video: https://youtu.be/F1Cp8JPTTYA

Buncee is essentially an online slideshow. But you can save your Buncee offline as an interactive PDF which makes it a great way for students to build ebooks. A Buncee can also be used as an online invitation to an event. When you have completed the creation of your Buncee you can select "RSVP" when you share it and recipients will have an option to register their interest in attending your event.

a free quiz game platform. Students play your quiz games on their laptops or tablets by going to the Quizalize website then entering their names and a class code. Students are awarded points for correctly answering questions quickly.

"On GE Teach students can compare two maps side-by-side. Students can select from gallery of map layers to compare side-by-side in GE Teach. In addition to comparing maps students can still use the drawing and measuring tools that you would typically find in Google's My Maps tool."

"Personalized math and reading comprehension practice your students will love. By addressing student weaknesses and building off strengths, Front Row is designed to increase confidence and promote growth in ALL students, regardless of their ability level."

Dragontape is a collaborative online video merging service with which you can drag online videos starting with YouTube onto a 'tape' that can be shared with the world.

HOW DOCENTEDU WORKS: Turn almost any website into an engaging lesson by adding questions, discussions, insight, and more into the text.

"Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage."

"Teachers know their students best. CommonLit is not a scripted curriculum - we provide high-quality materials, selected by teachers, to help professionals teach at the highest level. CommonLit is compatible with any curriculum or standards. Our goal is to challenge students to think deeply and answer important questions. We help teachers meet reading standards in every state. Engaged students learn more, do better on standardized tests, and become life-long readers. We help teachers get kids excited about the themes that run through life and literature."

Sign documents yourself or request signatures from up to 20 different people in any order, or all at once. And when the document is fully executed, everyone gets a copy delivered to their inbox. See your documents progress with status notifications that keep you in the loop throughout.

"Thematic is a simple service designed for creating and sharing picture stories. Thematic allows you to display up to twenty pictures organized around a theme of your choosing. You can add a line or two of text to each image in your story."

"Convert, Store and Share your documents Convert your PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Convert various formats to PDF. Store & share your documents for free. "

"Analyse text content using our free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index."

"'Fluency' derives from the word 'flow' and when we think about being 'fluent' in any context, it refers to being flexible, accurate, efficient, and appropriate. In other words, the way we use skills, language and speech flows naturally and easily. In a digital context for learning, fluency involves using technologies "readily and strategically to learn, to work, and to play, and the infusion of technology in teaching and learning to improve outcomes for all students""

"What happens when the computers themselves are down-a systemic virus, or a site-wide upgrade that went bad? What do you do with the eager faces who tumble across your threshold ready for their once-a-week computer time? You need something that ties into technology without using it."

"Video-based question, or VBQ, is a series of videos with critical thinking and higher-level questions. The novelty of this idea is that students are in control of their learning."

"A real-time group brainstorming and decision making app. Dotstorming takes the process of dot voting online to allow groups of people to collaborate on a topic."

"Notes, boards and lists, templates and forms, tags and other tools for data driven note taking. Your personal data canvas, as simple and as complex as you want."

"ExitTicket is a student response system, designed by teachers to achieve one simple idea: Accelerate student achievement" This is a very powerful tool for PrimeTime 1 and PrimeTime 2 and during your class periods.

"Make history with us: Interview an elder for the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Choose someone to interview. Pick great questions. Find a quiet place to record. Listen closely. When you're finished, share your interview with the world. Help create an archive of the wisdom of humanity. Browse the library; hear the stories of people all around the world."