TEDED

description:

TED-Ed — TED's youth and education initiative — aims to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform 

that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.

uses:

• create their own interactive lessons

•  helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools 

• gain presentation literacy skills

• to celebrating innovative leadership 

price:

Free, paid plans have additional features and flexibility

Platform:

Online or Android, but it is functional in your iPad browser window

App:

https://TED-Ed

https://ed.ted.com/on/Hl3XzyAL

 info graph

"canva"

Description:

Information graphics or info graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends.

What we like about the Wikipedia definition is that it makes one thing very clear: Info graphics are meant to present complex data in an easy-to-understand manner. This data presentation is what defines an info graphic and sets it apart from another graphic or type of visualization

Price:

Canva – Allows you to create graphics of any size, and has a built in free “infographics” art section designed specifically for this use.

Uses :

• create your own infographic.
•  allow you to generate an infographic very quickly, without the need for a professional designer, and often in very high quality formats
•  allows you to work with freelance designers to create custom infographics.
• You can post a description of your project and hire a freelancer with the skills and expertise to tackle the job.
• It seems like we tend to learn faster, and perhaps absorb more, when information is presented to us in a visual format as opposed to written text.
• they’re designed to be absorbed quickly and have a longer-lasting effect than regular articles.

Platform:

Online or Android, but it is functional in your iPad browser window

App:

      https://www.canva.com

Socrative

Description:

Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones. That makes these devices a more robust replacement for special purpose “clickers.” “I can assess on the fly and best of all, students can use their portable media to provide me with near instant feedback,” writes one teacher blogger. “Clickers do this but the benefit of Socrative is that students do not have to buy anything and I do not have to spend a lot of time developing quizzes using any certain format.

Price:

 Allows you to create graphics of any size, and has a built in free “infographics” art section designed specifically for this use.

Uses

•  Quizzes
•  Allow open-ended short responses.
• Activities can either be teacher-paced (for use during a classroom discussion) or student-paced (for use as a more traditional class-end “exit ticket” or quiz).
• There’s also a gaming element: the “Space Race” feature can set up a quiz so that teams of students can compete against one another to launch rockets into space.
•  Results can be displayed live in the classroom to facilitate discussion (with student identity kept anonymous) – a “nifty way of using formative assessment to further students’ learning” – while teachers can access detailed classroom and student data on their own devices.
• Socrative quizzes can also be shared with other teachers; as of mid-2013.
•  Socrative had built up a library of 315,000+ quizzes that any teacher could use.

Platform:

Online or Android, but it is functional in your iPad browser window Student response formative assessment system for use with laptops, tablets, smartphones

App:

      https://socrative

https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/38332876

PhetColorado

Description:

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source (see our source code). Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

Price:

 Free, paid plans have additional features and flexibility

Uses:

• Encourage scientific inquiry
• Provide interactivity
• Make the invisible visible
• Show visual mental models
• Include multiple representations (e.g., object motion, graphs, numbers, etc.)
• Use real-world connections
• Give users implicit guidance (e.g., by limiting controls) in productive exploration
• Create a simulation that can be flexibly used in many educational situations

Platform:

Online or Android, but it is functional in your iPad browser window Student response formative assessment system for use with laptops, tablets, smartphones

App:

      https://phetcolorado

Graphing Quadratics

Dropbox

Description:

Dropbox is a personal cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration.  The Dropbox application is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux desktop operating systems. There are also apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry devices.

The service provides 2 gigabytes (GB) of storage for free and up to 100 GB on various for-fee plans. Another option, Dropbox for Teams, provides 350 GB storage. The user data is stored on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and protected with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Advanced Encryption System (AES) 256-bit encryption.

After installation of the associated application, a Dropbox folder appears with the user’s other folders.

 Price:

 Free, paid plans have additional features and flexibility

Uses:

•            Users can save files to the folder
•         add new folders
•         Drag and drop files among folders just as if they were all local.
•          Files in the Dropbox folder can be accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection
•          The user just has to log in to his account to upload, download and share files.
•          To share a file, the user can generate a URL for it from the Dropbox website and send it out so that others can view it.
•          Folders can be shared by sending an invitation from the Dropbox website. Recipients that don’t have Dropbox accounts will have to sign up to access the folder. 
•          The service is named for the repositories used by banks, post offices, video stores and libraries to allow people to drop items off securely

Platform:

Dropbox has usually been considered a consumer market service. However, it is increasingly being used within the enterprise and as such is an example of the IT consumerization trend. Online or Android, but it is functional in your iPad browser window Student response formative assessment system for use with laptops, tablets, smartphones

App:

      https://Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ml50sgaxzpxi5b8/AABP6EZzAvEs-tx3m7ejjkCFa?dl=0 

Vyond

Description:

Vyond was founded as GoAnimate in 2007 by Alvin Hung, and the first version of GoAnimate went live in mid-2008. In May 2009, Domo Animate was launched. This program allowed users to create Go Animations based on the Domo shorts. The site closed down on September 15, 2014, and later redirected to the GoAnimate for Schools website. In early 2011, GoAnimate became a founding partner of YouTube Create – a suite of apps available to content creators within 

Price:

GoAnimate removed its 14 day free trial to the schools site, Free, paid plans have additional features and flexibility

Uses:

•      Vyond provides its users with a library containing tens of thousands of pre-animated assets, which can be controlled through a simple drag & drop interface.
•          Asset types include characters, actions, templates, props, text boxes, music tracks and sound effects. 
•          Users can also upload their own assets, such as audio files, image files or video files. There is also a drag & drop composition tool, which users can employ to create pans and zooms.
•       Spoken dialogue and narration can be recorded directly into the platform or imported as an audio file.
•       Characters can automatically lip-sync dialogue that is assigned to them. Alternatively, audio can be set as voiceover narration. Users can download their finished videos as MP4 files, GIFs or video presentations.
•  They can also export them directly to a variety of video hosting sites including YouTube, Wistia and Vidyard.

Platform:

Visit vyond blog

App:

      https://Vyond

C:\Users\SARA\Desktop\2019-02-06_1342.swf

https://app.vyond.com/videos/c6ca0838-d677-4cec-8bb0-ae9d088fd59e

Random  name selector at techstarter

Description:

Customizable random name picker. Choose from different styles like Spin Wheel and Slots

Random Name Picker is a free web-based tool that allows you to pick random name using Spin Wheel. It is simple and easy and can be customize by changing the names to whatever your liking. You do not need to download or install any plugins/software as it is based on HTML5, so a modern browser (e.g Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) is all you need.

Price:

Free at techstarter website

Uses:

•          pick random name using Spin Wheel

Platform:

Visit techstater blog

App:

      https://techstarter

https://www.teachstarter.com/widget/random-name-selector/?file_id=2579274#

Educaplay

Description

Educaplay is an an online database in which teachers and students can use a variety of resources to help them in and out of the classroom! Educaplay also allows users to share their activities and posts with out teachers and students. 

There are a lot of different resources for students on Educaplay, one of my favorite being the Learning Resources Tab, which allows students to filter different activities to find one based on what they are having trouble learning.

Price:

Free

Uses:

·         Educaplay offers a wide variety of activities that a lot of teacher may haver never even thought of using in their class

·         Resources for Students

·         Resources for Teachers

·         It even allows you to share you activities with other teachers. So if a teacher in another state is doing the same lesson as you, why waste time creating a whole new activity. 

·         Join Educaplay offers a variety of activity making tools for teachers such as riddles, dialogues, jumbled sentence, matching games, and quizzes. They also offer a blog that serves as an online community of teachers to share their experiences 

Platform:

educaplay offers both free and premium memberships! You can join today at http://en.educaplay.com

App:

      https://educaplay

Geogebra

Description

GeoGebra is an interactive mathematics software program for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school up to university level. Constructions can be made with points, vectors, segments, lines, polygons, conic sections, inequalities, implicit polynomials and functions. All of them can be changed dynamically afterwards. Elements can be entered and modified directly via mouse and touch, or through the Input Bar. GeoGebra has the ability to use variables for numbers, vectors and points, find derivatives and integrals of functions and has a full complement of commands like Root or Extremum. Teachers and students can use GeoGebra to make conjectures and to understand how to prove geometric theorems.

Its main features are:

Price:

Free

Uses:

•          GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application,
•           intended for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school to university level. GeoGebra is available on multiple platforms with its desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux, with its tablet apps for Android, iPad and Windows, and with its web applicationbased on HTML5 technology.
•         Its creator, Markus Hohenwarter, started the project in 2001 (as part of his master's thesis) at the University of Salzburg, continuing it at Florida Atlantic University (2006–2008), Florida State University (2008–2009), and now at the University of Linztogether with the help of open-source developers and translators all over the world.
•          After a successful Kickstarter campaign, GeoGebra expanded their offerings to include an iPad, an Android and a Windows Store app version.
•          GeoGebra includes both commercial and not-for-profit entities that work together from the head office in Linz, Austria, to expand the software and cloud services available to its user communit
•          GeoGebra is an interactive mathematics software program for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school up to university level. Constructions can be made with points, vectors, segments, lines, polygons, conic sections, inequalities, implicit polynomials and functions. All of them can be changed dynamically afterwards. Elements can be entered and modified directly via mouse and touch, or through the Input Bar. GeoGebra has the ability to use variables for numbers, vectors and points, find derivatives and integrals of functions and has a full complement of commands like Root or Extremum. Teachers and students can use GeoGebra to make conjectures and to understand how to prove geometric .
  

Prezi

Description

Prezi is a web-based tool for creating presentations (called prezis for short). It's similar to other presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint, but it offers some unique features that make it a good alternative. In recent years, it has become popular in schools and businesses. If you're looking to create a presentation that's a bit more eye-catching and engaging, Prezi may be for you.

Price:

Free as trial.

Uses:

·         You might be wondering what makes Prezi different from other presentation software, like PowerPoint or Keynote. For one thing, Prezi is completely free to use. There are upgrades you can pay for to unlock additional features, but everything you need to create and share a dynamic prezi is available free of cost.

·         Another great reason to use Prezi is that it is run entirely through your web browser, meaning there will be fewer compatibility issues than with other programs like PowerPoint. Your prezi will always look the same, no matter what computer you're viewing it on.

·         Because of its unique presentation style, Prezi can use movement and metaphor to help communicate a point you're trying to make. If you want your audience to really feel a sense of space and distance between locations, you could use a map template, like in the prezi below

https://prezi.com/view/7oNN11kur2qV7IyyUsT3/

Concept board 

Description

A form of stimulus material, comprising visual and/or verbal representation of an idea for a product or service, often outlining its attributes and benefits and used to present this idea to participants in research. These are usually mounted on large boards so a group of people can easily see them. Such concept boards may be quite polished and resemble advertisements, or they may be very rough and 'unfinished'.

Price:

Free as trial.

Uses:

·         It is made of only images carefully selected to represent the mood and the feel that we would like to have as a final result of the room.

·         Substantially is a visual collage that can be made as a tactile, physical board searching images on magazines, cutting and sticking them on an A3 cardboard or can be created as a digital page, selecting images from the thousands and thousands of websites, grabbing and sticking them in the digital board in a second.

·         We normally prefer to create our concept boards as a digital page because it gives us more freedom in terms of creativity and then prints them on our specifically designed boards so to be more effective at the client presentations.

·         The concept is very useful at the early stage of a project as a guide tool for the designer and for the client. The client will understand the colour scheme, the materials and the overall feeling and before proceeding further with the Sample Board, the designer will have the client approval.

·         When it is made in the right way, so as an organized display of the designer thoughts and ideas, it is a very useful tool to use to effectively communicate the design ideas to the client.

·         The pros for the designer also is not to lose track where, further in the project, will be overwhelmed by fabrics, furniture, wallpaper, etc. In this way, the designer will always have a guide to go back to the initial tracks and check the original goals

 https://app.conceptboard.com/board/9f8i-it4b-zut9-ofzs-zf5y

Powtoon

Description

Powtoon is a company which sells cloud-based software (SaaS) for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.

Price:

Free as trial.

Uses:

• Engagement: Using animations in place of traditional presentations increase engagement with content.
• Creativity: Teachers and students alike are able to creatively express their message to the intended audience with no previous experience in animation.
• Flexibility: Even with the library of pre-created objects, the ability to import images and music, add text and create voiceovers means that PowToon can be used for a variety of purposes and audiences
• PowToon is Web-based animation software that allows you to quickly and easily create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs.
•  PowToon is used by businesses to create engaging, creative presentations that capture attention, and can be similarly used for educational assessment and content delivery. There is a free version available, as well as paid subscription that allows for more features.