Mentor High School Shared Resources

Make your own comic strip in English SPanish French Portugese and Latin

Add signature, add notes/sketches, add text, highlight text, quick access

"COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for classrooms."

Upload a video, invite people to participate, discuss.

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"Copy Google Calendar Events to Another one upon Creation"

Create random groups and see how kids will perform better.

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

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

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

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.