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13 Free Web Tools  

Give great AUDIO feedback Kaizena has the tools you need to help students improve their work.

"Kaizena has the tools you need to give great audio feedback."

"Kaizena has the tools you need to give great audio feedback."

A Tool for Collaborative Interpretation of Texts

A TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE INTERPRETATION OF TEXTS

A TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE INTERPRETATION OF TEXTS

Prism

Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation." Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or "facets." Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical use and scholarly exploration, revealing patterns that exist in the subjective experience of reading a text.

"7 Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning"

Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free!   More than just a grading tool, Flubaroo also: Computes average assignment score. Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions. Shows you a grade distribution graph. Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key. Lets you send individualized feedback to each student.

to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale.

Teaching isn't easy. All too often educators are asked to achieve high goals with meager resources and distracted students. No technology alone can improve learning, but an intimate partnership between educational institutions and technology developers can. Our mission is to empower you-to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale. Schoology isn't just an LMS. It's a living, breathing educational community that can adjust to changing student needs, learn from collective experiences, and continually improve as education and technology advance. We strive to provide an unparalleled educational experience that improves student outcomes by providing educators information and insights that were never before possible. Schoology hopes not only to illuminate why particular students learn the way they do, but also to provide support and personalized content that is tailored to them. Schoology is transforming learning through the collaboration of passionate individuals. We're on a unique journey, and this is just the beginning.

Free Tools for Teachers: Helping You Engage Students

Many teachers who attended the training knew only about Smarter Balanced's year-end tests; the interim and formative tools came as a surprise.

ClassDojo which offers a feedback tool that uses positive reinforcement to encourage students to improve their character and behavior.

I was so impressed with this app/website. It really redefines the old posting behavioral outcomes on the board.

Whole class input analysis with visuals

Tool for CCSS--close reading

"ClassDojo makes it easy to keep my students alert and on-task."

Behavior Management Software - incentive, reward, etc.

class dojo is a tool to assess classroom behavior in nursery,pre-k, kindergarten class

Article on how teachers can connect with students better in and outside of the classroom using Twitter

Excellent job tagging and adding comments about the resources you added to the group's Diigo library. They were tagged with SHU17 on time. Thanks. Looking forward to learning from you and your shared resources next week. You used specific tags that will help you create a data base of resources you can use to search with. Great.

The mission of Authentic Education is to make schools better by providing our clients with state-of-the-art educational thinking, tools, and training

Missing the SHU17 tag this week but see you added it in for the next week's posts.

Storyboards can be an effective tool to have students design a new game level or write a cut scene, an interlude of drama that breaks up the gameplay and moves the game storyline along. 

20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools

This is a great resource. Thanks. I like the "other apps" section

Google Apps is beginning to revolutionize education. With its highly collaborative, online/offline format - and its attractive price tag (free!) - many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools

Safe online platform for teaching and learning

get started by watching a tutorial video.

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously