Mentor High School Shared Resources

The Learning Accelerator created this guide to help educators understand how to approach measurement of their own blended learning initiatives, so that the results are useful to them and their own local needs, while also contributing to a more general body of knowledge about blended learning that can be useful to others.

Zoom In is more than just a collection of lesson plans and documents. Zoom In provides an online classroom environment. As a teacher you can manage multiple classrooms within your Zoom In account. Students join your class by using a class code (email addresses not required). Once students have joined your class, you can begin distributing assignments to them from the lesson plan database. You can track which students have started the assignments, read their responses to questions within the assignments, and give students feedback on the assignments all within your Zoom In classroom. 

Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension. With Announcify installed in your browser any time you're viewing a webpage you can simply click on the Announcify icon in your browser and have the text of the page read to you. A bonus aspect of using Announcify is that in order to make a webpage easier to read it enlarges the text of the webpage and removes all sidebar content.

An online bulletin board with sticky notes. Create a to-do list or a vision board. Collaboratively plan. Bookmark cool stuff. Possibilities are endless.

Free interactive resources that are standards based for k-12.

Curricular resources from the Traverse Bay School District. Great learning scales and more.

Create random groups and see how kids will perform better.

"Copy Google Calendar Events to Another one upon Creation"

Alice Keeler shows us how to combines sets of data in a spreadsheet. Easy and useful.

"WhatsDue is a free service for sending due date reminders to students. The service sends push notifications to students' iOS and Android devices. I reviewed the service last spring and thought that it was good as it doesn't rely on SMS/ text messaging. Just in time for the new school year WhatsDue released some updates."

Create photo slideshows, share via email or social media, embed in blog.

Create your own online textbooks from pdfs using free app Kindle Textbook Creator.

"Vibby is a new service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website."

Upload a video, invite people to participate, discuss.

"COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for classrooms."