Weekly Resources – Spring Survival Guide

At EdTechTeacher, all of us have been in the classroom, so we know the challenges of May: warm weather, end of year pressure, and the allure of summer! This week, we have some great articles, resources, and ideas to help you through the last weeks of school.

Creation & Collaboration Tools for the BYOD Classroom

Lisa Johnson and Samantha Morra did a fantastic job in this week’s webinar, offering up some great suggestions for tools that work in any classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYADLBery5I

For even more BYOD, creation, and collaboration ideas, come get inspired at the ETT Summit in July.

Articles from the EdTechTeacher Team

The Invisible iPad: It’s Not About the Device

When we are able to properly strategize our learning objectives and goals, the technology becomes secondary to meaningful learning outcomes; this is how how it becomes the Invisible iPad. ETT Summit presenter, Michael Cohen (@TheTechRabbi), wrote this fantastic post for MindShift, and we can’t wait to hear him talk about the invisibility of technology in July!

4 Powerful Formative Assessment Tools For The Chromebook Classroom

Socrative, Geddit, Google Forms, and Kahoot! – learn from Holly Clark about how these four tools can support formative assessment in Chromebook classrooms.

Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect

With mobile devices, teachers have endless opportunities to engage in professional learning. Beth Holland offers a strategy for creating an effective system.

An Introduction to the New Google Drive iPad Apps That Offer Better Offline Support

Samantha Morra highlights the new features of the Docs and Sheets apps for iPad.

Digital Zombie Series: Invisible Cell Phone Shields

In his latest post, Carl Hooker warns of the power – and peril – of the Invisible Cell Phone Shield.

Resources from the web – tools for the BYOD (or any) classroom

Comment Bubble – React to Video
Similar to VideoNot.es, use Comment Bubble to provide feedback on videos.

ActiveTextbook
ActiveTextbook could be used as a sort of web-based iBooks Author. Create interactive PDFs that can be viewed on the web. Upload a PDF and then layer on video, images, links, etc. as hotspots.

Haiku Deck
Create presentations through the web or iOS app. Haiku Deck includes a built-in, Creative Commons search engine and limits the amount of text on each slide to force a focus on the visual aspect of presentation design.

Tackk
Create interactive posters from any web browser. Content can include images, video, and audio.

BigHugeLabs
Make posters, magazine covers, and more. Printed projects can be ordered for a price.

ThingLink
From the web or iOS app, students and teachers can create and collaborate on touch-able images.

Snapguide
Create image and video rich how-to guides from the web or the iOS app.

Desmos
Beautiful, free, math! Students can interact with math through the web or the app.

Padlet
From any device, students can collaborate on Padlet’s digital bulletin boards.

Blendspace
Teachers and students can curate and distribute web based content through Blendspace. This site works on all devices.

Trello
A web and app-based project management tool, teachers and students can organize projects using cards on digital boards. These can be shared for collaboration.

Common Curriculum
This is a web-based, collaborative, lesson planning tool for teachers.

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