Weebly for educators is a free website generator for teachers with many options for building your website including polls, surveys, contact information forms, and many more build ins!
Class pager is another text service that as a teacher you can send group messages to the class. It can also be used to take polls or exit tickets in class. It is a handy resource
This is a great website for use in a 1:1 classroom environment. Students can visit the website or download the nearpod app on their phone. The website allows them to follow along during the lesson as well as take quizzes, or participate in interactive polling.
Edmodo is a site that allows teachers to make pages that their students/parents can join to get important information. As the teacher you can post important information that you want your students/parents to know. You can create polls that the members of the page can answer. Teachers can make quiz's and assignments to be completed and graded on Edmodo. This Collaboration tool is great for teachers, students, and parents to have a place where you can see all of the information that you need for the class
Celly lets you instantly group people and topics into cells. Cells function as chatrooms where people communicate instantly via text-based messaging. Cells can include messages from the web or other social networks to capture your interests.
Record Screencasts for providing onscreen instruction.
three to five computers
library with a pod of computers:
Build a Google Site to house class content
digital stories
Microsoft PowerPoint, LibreOffice, Prezi, or Google Docs.
create cartoons
laptop cart or a computer lab:
Enable students to work through course content at their own pace through the use of screencasts, e-books, and other digital media.
enhanced digital note taking
live class discussions
1:1 laptops or netbooks:
handful of mobile devices
Upload and access course content
Record group discussions
record themselves reading aloud for fluency checks
student-created comics
e-books
Try out a tool like Nearpod to project information onto student devices.
Conduct research.
Collaborate using apps like Whiteboard.
1:1 mobile devices:
multifunction devices
create videos
student polling
Quick Checks:
get a quick snapshot of the class
you can get quick and easy feedback that will help inform your instruction.
Personalized Feedback
All three tools provide the ability for teachers to leave personalized comments and notes on student work, and they provide a messaging service for students who may want to send emails with questions or concerns about the course.
A great resource for teachers who are stumped on how to integrate technology into their existing classroom. Includes how to get started as well as ideas like, "if you have an interactive whiteboard", "if you have computers in your classroom", etc.
This is the website that we used for our ice breaker. This website will be useful in middle school or high school classrooms for fun quizzes or even for different types of anonymous assessments.
Nearpod brings interactivity to every students in every classroom. Nearpod is designed to engage students on certain subjects such as science, math, history, reading, and more. Students can also bond teachers through Nearpod program for they all are on same subject at the same time.
Nearpod is a simple, interactive website to use in your classroom. On nearpod, teachers can make quizzes, polls, videos, etc in order to engage and assess their students.