Symbaloo

Looking for a cool way to display and share links with your students?  Try Symbaloo!  It is super easy and helps you keep all your resources in one place!  Each tile is a link to a web site or resource.  The grids (officially called webmixes) can be shared with a link or embedded in a website.  You can also search other thousands of other peoples webmixes!

Looking for a way to publish and share your students' work?  Check out the web mix I created!
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/publishshare 

The kindergarteners found the runaway gingerbread man! https://t.co/7iRPiQPkl2

The kindergarteners found the runaway gingerbread man! http://pic.twitter.com/7iRPiQPkl2

— Sondra Cimaroli (@igitteacher) December 16, 2015

from Twitter https://twitter.com/igitteacher

December 16, 2015 at 10:01AM
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Google Tone

You can use Google Tone to send the URL for any web page, including news stories, pictures, documents,YouTube videos to  any computer within earshot (that also has the Google Tone extension installed and turned ON). 

Visit the Chrome Web Store to install the extension!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckehldicaciogcbchegobnafnjkcne?hl=en

ViewPure

Watch YouTube videos without comments, ads, or other distractions!  Use ViewPure to get a link to a YouTube video that doesn't take the kids to YouTube! 
Check out this video using a  ViewPure link!

Place Value First Grade

http://viewpure.com/1F3AycEDksY?ref=bkmk

ViewPure

Great Information! Privacy and Internet Safety Parent Concern | Common Sense Media https://t.co/mZApUKIzcK

Great Information! Privacy and Internet Safety Parent Concern | Common Sense Media https://t.co/mZApUKIzcK

— Sondra Cimaroli (@igitteacher) December 2, 2015

from Twitter https://twitter.com/igitteacher

December 02, 2015 at 02:25PM
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PixiClip

PixiClip  is an online whiteboard that allows you to draw and or annotate images while recording the screen and/or your voice or video narration.

• Create math tutorials to walks students through the steps of solving problems.
• Narrate a Google Slide 
• Flip your classroom! Create instructional videos students can watch at home. 
• Tell a Story

You Tube AdBlocker Extension

YouTube is an awesome resource for teachers, but the commercials that automatically play can really stop the flow of your lesson.  If you are using Chrome as your browser, you can get rid of those annoying adds using the AdBolock extension!

When you visit YouTube, an icon will automatically appear in your omnibox reminding you that the extension is working!

Find the extension in the Chrome Web Store!

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Staff Meeting Tips 3/11

You Tube kids!

BrainPop Game Up

BrainPop Make A Map

ICE 2015... in a Thinglink!

Photo Story/ Book Publishing iPad Apps

Looking for a fun way for your students to publish a book or presentation? Here are two apps that will help!

Shutterfly PhotoStory

A new chapter in photo books. Shutterfly Photo Story for iPad is an easy and fun app that lets you make a photo book you can hold, hear and share. Tell your story with photos, Doodles, text and audio, and easily order your book or share a digital version. From Shutterfly, the leader in photo books. 

Adobe Voice

Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

ABCya!

Looking for a Word Cloud Generator (like Wordle) that works on a chromebook and lets you print or save your work?  

Want your kids to create their own interactive word searches or crosswords? Learn about Parts of Speech? Tell Time? Compare Fractions? 

ABCya! is the place for you!

There are even  ABCya! apps in the iTunes store!

PowerMyLearning.org

Find online games to support your instruction and assign them to your students using powermylearning.org!  This free site has organized and categorized educational, online games by grade level, subject matter and common core relevance.   The games are pulled from sites like Mr. Naussbaum, Scholastic, PBS, Harcourt... all over the web.  You can cut your surfing time in half and know that the games are school and age appropriate.  Plus, you can create classes and assign games to your students.  

The powermylearning.org interface is kid-friendly!  Students can create avatars, earn badges, connect with classmates, search and play games on their own. 

Read more about the theory behind this game-based educational approach! 

January Staff Meeting Tips

Google Timer

1. If you use the Google Chrome browser, you can just type, “timer 30 seconds” into the location bar at the top of any page! Then press the “Enter” key to activate the timer.

Flippityhttp://flippity.net/Sample Templatehttp://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1-3cQzEGVytBGTFlN9AtdmTNOe1Jg4hNylPCkVHlFbtA

iFake Text

http://ifaketext.com
Classroom Uses

Kahoot! - November Staff Meeting

Easy, online, web based learning game that can be played on any device!

Teachers create multiple choice quizzes at https://getkahoot.com.  When you are ready to play with your class, launch and project your Kahoot.  A game pin will appear on the screen.

Students can go to https://kahoot.it  on any device, enter the pin and join the game!

Teacher screen/projection

Student Screen

After each question, results are shown in a bar graph.

At the end of the quiz, results can be downloaded and analyzed to see who need more help or harder questions!