IT Cohort 2014

Add your voice to a presentation and see who has watched your video.

Add your voice to a presentation and see who has watched your video.

This looks similar to jiing! I love the idea of having a voice behind a presentation because reading slides can be so boring! In the examples I watched, I noticed that music played. What a great addition to a presentation. I could see students having a lot of fun with this. It would be beneficial to both teachers and students.

An excellent resource for ipad integration in education. They also have resources for augmented reality.

A Pinterest board that provides links to tools that can be used in the classroom to enhance communication, collaboration, and technology skills, just to name a few.

A one-stop shop for all things Genius Hour. Links to Daniel Pink, tweet chat, and everything you could ever want to know about Genius Hour.

Vimeo offers teachers another video resource website other than Youtube. Teachers can find many educational videos on here for free.

I've heard a lot about vimeo and think it would be a great resource for the classroom! This of course would be great for students to use to capture student attention, but I could see older children making their own. Especially if you assigned a topic to them where they had to teach the class the topic. I think this seems a bit more student-appropriate since Youtube can be full of craziness. Do you agree? Have you ever had students make one?

Students can use this to do list as a chrome extension. This could replace their paper planner as a way to organize events and homework.

Kenton - This looks like a powerful tool for teachers and students alike in productivity! I can see myself using this to stay organized with tasks that I need to complete and encouraging students to use it. I watched a video and it said you can share tasks with others. I think this would be helpful to be the teacher and share the "to do list" with the whole class. Can you tell if this is a possibility? I love the chrome extension so it is available at an easy click through my email and my main screen (we're a google and chromebook school, so it's nice to find things that work well with those. I also like the app features on other devices.

Create online flashcards for a class. You can share these with friends or colleagues.

I agree that these can be used in the classroom successfully. I have used something similar and have found success. Now, I am not sure what you teach but I think this would be best in a language classroom. That being said, it works in all settings. I like that this is primarily a student centered resource. Since students have to create their own flash card set they internalize the information. Finally, have you tried quizlet.com? It is a very similar resource that allows students to play different games with their sets. It too has an ipad app like cramberry which I like.

I agree with Kenton - it is a great resource for students to use to learn information. What I like about this one is that you can search ready-made sets. But I like quizlet.com a lot better. It has interactive games to learn the words and can even write quizzes for the students to test their knowledge. I have used that for independent study of vocabulary words for novels. I couldn't write 30 different quizzes to assess their familiarity with the new words they chose for themselves, but on quizlet they can take a quiz and show me their score. It has apps from Apple and Android so students can use it from different devices. Also, it has a print option for students who don't have access to a smart phone or internet outside of school. I like that it gives them an active way to study and instant feedback on what they know and what they need to study still. Finally, it has class options so I could enter a set and share it easily with the students.

Looks like a good resource for teachers - lessons plans, puzzles, interactive games - all separated by grade level and subject.

This looks like an awesome way to collect and organize formative assessment data from students. It looks free with the option to purchase more features.

This site allows people to collaborate and create stickies to help share and remember ideas.

This would be great for formative assessment. You create a wall on which students can post "sticky notes" to add to discussion, answer a question, ask questions, etc.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

This is an excellent resource for nonfiction texts on current news. It will adjust the reading level for differentiation, connects to Core standards, and has reading quizzes. You can set up classes through which students can work.

This is an excellent resource for nonfiction texts on current news. It will adjust the reading level for differentiation, connects to Core standards, and has reading quizzes. You can set up classes through which students can work.

This would be a good communication tool to use to keep parents and students updated on a variety of sites/media without having to post to multiple locations.

This would be a good communication tool to use to keep parents and students updated on a variety of sites/media without having to post to multiple locations.

This is an e-reading website with the capability to pose questions to students as they read. You can create a class and add content from the web.

This is an e-reading website with the capability to pose questions to students as they read. You can create a class and add content from the web.

This blog is continually updating with new ideas for the classroom in several different learning areas and different grade levels.

This is a website where there are constantly new ideas and documents being pinned for just about anything that you are looking for. Whether it be for different room ideas, reading groups, math, it has it all!

This website allows you to make a "word cloud" of important words to make things such as thank yous, a way to intro a topic, a way to introduce a new book, and more.

This blog by Skype, offers teachers a great place to find various blogs by teachers about the use of Skype in their classroom. These collection of blogs help teachers find ideas for how to incorporate Skype into the classroom.

This is a blog by the Technology Direct at College Community School District, Craig Barnum in Cedar Rapids, IA. He posts great ideas for curriculum ideas, digital literacy tools, and other content ideas for teachers, parents, and staff.

This blog by Matt Bergman, gives wonderful tips and skills to try when incorporating iPads into the classroom, which I am currently working on doing.