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Make managing your digital classroom even easier with TodaysMeet Teacher Tools, a toolbox just for teachers.

Lauren MacDonald Tool Name: TodaysMeet https://todaysmeet.com Short Description: TodaysMeet is a backchannel virtual classroom tool used for communication and collaboration between students that occurs during a lesson, when students are at home, or even with students from other schools. TodaysMeet allows for the elimination of off topic comments and helps keep the classroom as a whole focused. Also, this tool allows for all students' voices to be heard and opens the conversation up for everyone to effectively collaborate. What is extremely helpful for students is that they can print out the conversations on TodaysMeet or re-enter the classroom while at home to refer to notes, instructions, or help on homework. Examples of Uses: Students can access the virtual classroom on TodaysMeet anywhere and continue the conversation with classmates and teachers even after the lesson has ended. This is extremely helpful for teachers when they come across more challenging concepts or units in the curriculum because students can use each other to bounce ideas and questions off of rather than the teacher taking a whole class period to answer multiple questions from confused students.

coggle.it is an online, collaborative mind-mapping application, ideal for students who think "visually", as in the langue of flowcharts and diagrams. coggle.it allows users to graphically map out concepts and their connections, and to easily remap and rearrange those ideas as the project evolves. Fellow collaborators can comment or make changes.

A collection of high school bulletin board ideas geared for the ELA classroom.