Mentor High School Shared Resources

"ViewPure is absolutely an excellent tool for teachers and students. It allows you to watch YouTube videos in a clean and distraction-free interface. All the distractive features such as ads, related videos, and comments are removed providing students with an ideal environment for watching educational videos. Inappropriate content accompanying YouTube videos lead many teachers to shun away from incorporating YouTube videos in their instruction but with ViewPure this is no longer a problem and teachers are able to provide students with an enhanced YouTube experience with the minimum distraction possible. We said minimum because some ads are integrated with YouTube videos and ViewPure can not remove them."

"a new interesting feature that allows you to 'star and bookmark images directly from Google's image search in your mobile browser.'"

"Everystockphoto is an excellent search engine that allows you to conduct quick searches for free photos. Students can use it to look for images to use in their class projects and/or in their blogs and websites. Everystockphoto indexes and searches millions of free photos in all around the web. Photos returned in search results come under different licenses. Students need to verify the source license of images and make sure they have the permission to use them in their work."

Gmail Contact Group allows you to organize your contacts into different groups so you can easily send emails to specific set of people. As a teacher, you can create a contract group for each of your classes and this way you can email all the students in a single class by simply selecting their group.

"Google has made it possible for Calendar users to easily create to-dos using Reminders. Before, you were only able to create events or entries to remind you to do things but these 'reminders' were not always stable and they 'come and go'. With new Reminders feature, you can create and track your to-dos over time until they are performed. Undone Reminders will always appear at the top of your Calendar till you swipe them away."

"JeopardyLabs is an excellent web tool that allows you to easily create jeopardy games without using PowerPoint templates. The process is very simple and does not require any fees, registration or software download."

Find a video to hook a class into your lesson.

Triventy uses a concept that will be familiar to anyone who has tried Kahoot or Quizizz. To play a Triventy quiz game the teacher projects the game questions at the front of the room and students answer the questions on their mobile devices or laptops. Points are awarded for answering correctly. Bonus points are awarded for answering quickly. Students join the quiz game by going to Triv.in and entering the game pin assigned to your game.