FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

"Prepare your students through real world experiences. Challenges that bring context, relevance & inquiry to classroom learning. Real-world, inquiry-based lessons to engage, excite & challenge students. For K-12 Math & Science. Live & interactive. Real time student responses make teaching, class facilitation and differentiation easier."

"Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there, what topics other participants want to discuss, join an "unhangout," and chat with each other."

Synths are searchable and scannable on Explore, shareable externally with transcriptions and each one is a gateway to more. Use threads, hashtags and comments to have open, real-time conversations or in an experience you synthesize using Podcasts. The website includes essential tools for synthesizing an experience, including participation management, privacy and publishing controls. Invite one or many participants. Discuss a topic on a one-time or ongoing basis. Keep it private for participants only or make it all discoverable.

"I created my 250th Google tools tutorial. All of my Google tools tutorial videos can be found in the YouTube playlist listed below. The tutorials in the playlist cover a wide range of features of Google tools for teachers and students. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtx-qUNKJwDz6b_3NaGTkGXaTPrLCpacY"

Superb online whiteboard tools: random name picker, sound level indicator, QR code display, drawing/text tools, traffic lights, timers/clocks, visualizer, & even a fab exit poll tool.

"Cite This For Me is one of the most popular citation tools today. Launched in October 2010, we began with the mission of helping students create perfect citations in a fraction of the time. Citing isn't something you usually think about, but it's important nonetheless. Without even realizing it, you do it already in your everyday life in little ways. Have you ever said, "I heard on XYZ News that . . . ," or "I read in XYZ that those two celebrities are dating," or even "Mom said that you can't do that." By saying where you got your information, you are casually citing a source."

Convert PDFs to Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files or vice versa.

AudioPlayer for Slides is a Chrome Extension designed to help you easily add or record audio to your Google Slide presentations. Once installed, simply click the extension icon and authenticate to Google Drive. Then open a new Slide presentation and right click a slide and click Manage Audio. Away you go! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audioplayer-for-slides/anlkfbpodhealnhnmdaflcekcmcjpnil?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

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!

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?

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"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. "

"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."

Express yourself with natural brushes and hand-picked colors. Never lose a masterpiece with automatic syncing to your Google account.

"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."