GaETC 2016 Highlights

Leslie Fisher

Tech guru with lots of practical Mac/iPad ideas and solutions for the classroom.

Tony Vincent

Tech guru with lots great ideas.

Knight Lab

The Lab develops prototypes, projects, and services that help make information meaningful and promotes quality journalism, storytelling, and content on the internet.  The website has an excellent timeline and map tool for students to use.

Google Tone

Google Tone turns on your computer's microphone (while the extension is on) and uses your computer's speakers to exchange URLs with nearby computers connected to the Internet. You can use Google Tone to send the URL for any web page, including news stories, pictures, documents, blog posts, products, YouTube videos, recipes—even search results. Any computer within earshot (including over a phone or Hangout) that also has the Google Tone extension installed and turned ON can receive a Google Tone notification.

Go Formative

A platform for real-time formative assessments + a FREE next-generation student.

new.goformative.com

New version coming out soon!

Versal

Versal is a new way for anyone to teach virtually anything, interactively.

EDpuzzle

The easiest way to engage your students using videos.

Jumble and Kahoot!

New prototype.

Quizizz

The easiest way to make an online quiz.

Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne

The History Project

TPS-Barat Primary Source Nexus (grade level projects)

Nearpod Basics

How to Use Plickers in the Classroom

Creation Ideas

Lensso Create

Lensoo Create turns your iPad or Android tablet into a virtual whiteboard with voice recording and smooth digital writing. Using Lensoo Create you can quickly share your ideas through email, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn from virtually anywhere. Whether you are a teacher looking to instill knowledge, a student wishing to present your ideas or simply a person with an impressive skill to share, Lensoo Create is for you.

Educreation

Share Instantly
Post your videos to Educreations and share them with anyone. You can even share videos via email, Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo or YouTube, or download and store them in Dropbox or Google Drive.

 PixiClip

Pixiclip is an interactive whiteboard.
Upload images, draw sketches, and share replays with friends!

Worksheet Works

 This website is the result of many years of hard work by a by a small, dedicated group of software designers, programmers, artists, teachers and parents with a vested interest in childhood education. Our goal is to provide the finest quality paper-based teaching materials to teachers and parents around the world. We aim to make all of our worksheet modules useful, valuable and effective in everyday classroom and homeschooling situations.

StoryboardThat

Simple & Fun Interface:The storyboard creator uses a familiar drag and drop interface that users of all ages pick up in seconds. Our creator allows you to fully customize numerous aspects of your storyboard; from coloring in your own character, to adding text, we have everything you need to get the story straight!

Assessment Tools

Plickers

Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices

Kahoot.it

Engage the room and focus attention by projecting the quiz onto the screen at the front. Without needing an account, everyone in the room quickly joins through their personal device, seeing their name appear at the front.  Join using any device with a web browser!

Infuse Learning

Customized professional learning projects focused on your desired learning outcomes. Made to order with your technology, pedagogy and content in mind

Nearpod

Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. Plus, it’s free.

Answer Pad

Our co-founders have been involved in the assessment field for the last twelve years providing a state specific assessment solution for Connecticut Public Schools. The Answer Pad was created out of a number of pain points that were learned along the way. Two of the primary pain points were lack of student engagement & the issues facing teachers transitioning from paper to digital. The Answer Pad is a work in progress. Our team works closely with teachers to get feedback from the classroom to make improvements. This results in new features being released as the tool develops.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class anywhere in real time.

Flipped Classroom

Edmodo

Join Edmodo, where over 44 million teachers, students, and parents are connecting to collaborate on assignments, discover new resources, and more!

Schoology

Schoology is not your typical learning management system (LMS). We have redefined the LMS to make online education a collective effort and to increase the overall impact of everyone involved in a student's education.  With an easy-to-use collaborative interface, our CODiE-award-winning solution and robust mobile apps empower engaging instruction and system wide collaboration on any device.

Dropbox

 

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.  Never email yourself a file again!

Evernote

Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace.

Screenleap

Quick & Easy Sharing
Installation-Free Viewing
View from any device with a browser (including PCs, tablets, and smartphones) without having to install any software.
Frictionless Collaboration
Save valuable time by not requiring your viewers to create an account in order to see your screen.

Wikispaces

Get your students excited about learning in a modern, easy-to-use environment with the web tools they know and love.

Weebly

It's surprisingly easy to create a unique website, blog or online store

Blogger

Create a beautiful blog that fits your style. Choose from easy to use templates with flexible layouts and hundreds of background images, or edit your blog’s CSS and HTML to create something entirely unique. If you’re using your blog for a brand or business, you can create a custom domain that’s easy for people to find and follow.

Creation Tools

Knowmia

Use video presentations and interactive assignments to impact students both in and out of the classroom. It’s simple and free.
Educations
Education is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable device.

Explain Everything

A unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool used by over 1.5 million students and educators.

Screencast-o-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen recorder for instant screen capture and sharing.

Blendspace

Blendspace is the easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content.

Screen Chomp 

This recordable whiteboard is just the canvas you need to jot your ideas down and share them – with the world, or just a friend or two. Helpful to anyone, but developed with teachers and students in mind, ScreenChomp records your touchscreen interactions and audio so you can share any time with your students.

Toontastic

Creating cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button and tell your stories through play! Once you’re done, share your cartoons with friends & family around the world.

Book Creator

Bring your books to life.  Add your text, images, video, music and narration and use all of your content to tell the whole story.

Collaboration Tools

Padlet 

Welcome to the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world.  You'll feel like a superhero!

Lino (teachers only)

Sticky notes and photo sharing.

Ask 3

Ask3 allows students and teachers to collaborate on lessons in and outside of the classroom. By turning your iPad into a recordable whiteboard, lessons can be posted into an Ask3 classroom where others can add text and video comments, questions and answers. Whether students are asking questions or  answering them for others, peer to peer teaching is possible with Ask3- anywhere, and any time.

Screencasting Options for Classroom

Screenleap

Quick & easy sharing.

Recordit

Quick & easy sharing

Screencastomatic

Online screen recorder for one-click recording for free.

Screenr

Screener's web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web.

Snagit

No matter what you're working on, Snagit helps you capture great looking images and videos with just a few clicks. Easily customize your screen captures with effects, or show off what's important with Snagit’s markup tools. You can also create quick videos by recording your screen.

Reflector

Reflector is an AirPlay receiver that allows you to wirelessly display your iPad or iPhone on a number of devices. It’s available for Mac, PC and most Android devices. Mirror your device on a big screen without wires or complicated setups. Play games, watch movies, demo apps or present on the big screen from your iPhone or iPad. With Reflector, everything you do on your phone or tablet is wirelessly streamed to your computer or android device.