Digital Tools

1:1 Learninghttps://webenglish.se/11-learning/

Links to websites, where students can practise 1:1, by themselves, at school or at home.

10 Overlooked Google Docs Featureshttps://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/10-overlooked-google-docs-features.html

Google Docs has a lot of features that new users often don’t notice. Some of these features will save you time, some will give you more formatting flexibility, and others will improve the way that you share your documents.

10 steps to create a student-driven classroom | Ditch That Textbookhttp://ditchthattextbook.com/2019/04/15/10-steps-to-create-a-student-driven-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR38lP-AUA24kq8FUH3YM15puN2G7_befV0-STHW4umNjOjDuDI39DLsqi8

This post was originally published on the Ditch That Textbook blog.
Giving our students voice and choice is essential in a student-driven classroom. Here are 10 steps to making it work in your class.

100 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Knowhttps://www.teachthought.com/learning/60-things-students-can-create-to-demonstrate-what-they-know/

A list adapted from resources of potential student products or activities learners can use to demonstrate their mastery of lesson content found at fortheteachers.org

Help Students Get Organized, Track Progress, Take Notes, and more with Google Keep! [infographic] | Shake Up Learning

Shake Up Learning. In this post, I will show you 25 Things You Didn’t Know Google Slides Could Do.

As adults we (hopefully) know that not everything online is true. For our students though, this is a concept they need to learn. Stude…

(12:55) If you use Google Drawings in the classroom, you know its potential for creating awesome classroom activities. Here are 5 Google Drawings features you don’t know about.

5 Ways to Spot Fake News Video | Common Sense Mediahttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/5-ways-to-spot-fake-news

Watch Common Sense Media’s 5 Ways to Spot Fake News advice video to help you make informed decisions. Lesson plan

(10 min) Captioned. An educational video on copyright by professor Eric Fadden at Bucknell University. Idea: Leave out the captions first and let students decipher the text.

Make a free project with Adobe Express.https://www.adobe.com/express/

Our free plan includes thousands of unique templates, design assets, Adobe Stock royalty-free photos, and more. Available on web and mobile. Tutorial by Richard Byrne (6:28)Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

Plant a Question, Grow Answers! Generate a live word cloud with your audience.https://answergarden.ch/

AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real-time audience participation, and classroom feedback. TipsPrivacy

Create a project charter document, track project details in a spreadsheet, estimate and manage expenses in a spreadsheet, and build a slides presentation to update project progress.

Backchannel Chat – Safe Secure Classroom Discussionshttp://backchannelchat.com/

Backchannels are great for increasing participation in classroom discussions Privacy

Be Internet Awesome is a multifaceted program that includes a fun and free web-based game called Interland and an educational curriculum to teach kids how to be safe and responsible explorers of the online world.Interland

Designing a great Breakout EDU game doesn’t have to be a puzzle. This tutorial reveals the keys to creating a catchy story, setting up a smooth game flow, and crafting clever clues so that you can…

Cloze test creatorhttp://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html

lets you paste in a passage of text, choose how you want words removed, and then generates your cloze test, with an optional word bank

Anybody can learn | Every student in every school deserves the opportunity to study computer science. Common Sence Privacy Evaluation

Teaching Copyright through related words

Be CAREFUL with your posts, you may actually be supporting the very thing you dislike.

Digital Citizenship Curriculum | Common Sense Educationhttps://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum

New and improved digital citizenship lesson plans from Common Sense Education. Engage students with learning games and navigate tough topics, including cyberbullying, online safety, privacy, and media literacy.

Learn about Digital Citizenship with this Story Unit by Sutori. Sutori is a collaborative presentation tool for the classroom for all age groups and content areas. Sutori Privacy

A real-time group brainstorming and decision making app. Privacy

Edpuzzlehttps://edpuzzle.com/

Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students’ understanding. Tips
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EF Class http://class.ef.com

EF Class is a complete set of flexible learning materials and tools to help teachers run engaging, interactive, and motivational English lessons. Sign up to get your teacher account. Privacy

Can you tell the real news from the fake news? A game. Quiz: Fact or Opinion or Informed Opinion?

Do you already have your own content that you like? No problem! Simply upload any pdf/document, click to add places for your students to respond, edit any question details and you’re done. Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

Three questions to help stamp out false news. Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact-checking organisation

Learn English | Online ESL Gameshttps://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/

Games to learn English, interactive, whiteboard and downloadable

How to Use Google Books for Researchhttps://practicaledtech.com/2019/06/02/how-to-use-google-books-for-research/

When students are shown how to use Google Books it can become a valuable search tool for them.

Using the simple search filters you’ll find easy, step-by-step guides and tutorials on Google’s Geo Tools, inspirational stories, plus lesson plans, product information, and much more. Ten Ways to Use Google EarthPrivacy

A quick demo of how Google’s reverse image search tool can be used to fact check and research images.

This video is a basic G-Suite Tutorial on how to create a basic Google Site. Leave a comment if you have any questions. Enjoy!

This video is a G Suite Tutorial on creating more complex layouts and design features in Google Sites.

Hemingway Editorhttp://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Paste in something you’re working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button and compose something new.

Bill Gates kicks off an introduction to the series How Computers Work. A playlist

How to Create Green Screen Videos on Any Computerhttps://practicaledtech.com/2019/07/14/how-to-create-green-screen-videos-on-any-computer/

Creating green screen videos used to be difficult. Today, just about anyone can do it on any modern computer.

InsertLearninghttps://insertlearning.com/

Insert instructional content into any web page Four Ways to Blend LearningPrivacy

Kahoot! https://kahoot.com/

Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games! 15 Fun Kahoot Ideas Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Softwarehttps://www.useloom.com

Get your message across with instantly shareable videos for work. Capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate it all at once, then instantly share with a simple link. Privacy

Google Classroom + Meaningful Feedback = Winning Combination! In this post, we will explore ways to give meaningful feedback in Google Classroom.

Interact with your audience using real-time voting. No installations or downloads required – and it’s free! Privacy

Online Form Builder & Form Creator | JotFormhttps://www.jotform.com/

If you need online forms for generating leads, distributing surveys, collecting payments and more, JotForm is for you. Learn more about how we can help at JotForm.com.Tutorial by Richard Byrne (6:29) Privacy Notice

This video is an edited version of a music video that illustrator and animator Steve Cutts made for Moby and the Void Pacific Choir’s song “Are You Lost in the World Like Me?” in 2016. (UpWorthy.com)

Padlethttps://en.padlet.com/

The easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. Ideas: Exit tickets, Brainstorming Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

Pear Deck was founded by educators on a mission to help teachers engage every student, every day. 20 ways to use PearDeckCommon Sense Privacy Evaluation

Peergrade empowers teachers by letting students take part in evaluation and feedback. Privacy

Can you spot when you’re being phished? Take this Quiz

Free Online and Mobile Lesson Planner for Teachers | Chalk. Privacy

Story Generatorhttps://www.plot-generator.org.uk/story/

Automatic short story generator tool. Choose some keywords and we will automatically create a short story in seconds. Privacy

Live interactive audience participation | Poll Everywherehttps://www.polleverywhere.com/

Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue… conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites — anywhere with internet. Privacy

Make Videos and Animations Online Privacy

Pinpoint classroom progress in real-time – Quizalize lets you engage your class and deliver instant assessments for personalised learning on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Privacy

Create free quizzes on content or vocabulary Privacy

Quizlethttps://quizlet.com/

Learning tools & flashcards, for free | Create vocabulary quizzes for students to study Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

Here’s how you can help. A lesson plan with resources.

Rewordify.comhttps://rewordify.com/

Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. Privacy

In the online world, we might think about how what we do impacts ourselves. The key is in understanding how the ripple effect of our actions impacts both ourselves and others.  lesson plan

Screencastify Screen Recorder for Chromehttps://www.screencastify.com/

Teachers across the country are spreading the magic created with Screencastify TutorialsFree e-book

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Get your class on the same (web)page, instantly. Chrome Extension.

Google Tools for Special Needs https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11ecS2L3YNu5DQOkk9wY_B_ylgW_ZyEj7mqre9Vqykxc/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g28c5140ad5_0_19

Google Tools for Struggling Students by Eric Curts – @ericcurts ControlAltAchieve.com/sped

Synthhttps://gosynth.com/

Synth is a free platform for recording short podcasts that listeners can reply to with short audio recordings of their own.
Tutorial by Richard Byrne (9:51)Privacy

The Magic of Google Forms | Episode 9 of GTTribe | Shake Up Learninghttps://shakeuplearning.com/blog/magic-google-forms/

Google Forms is much more than a survey tool–it’s magic! In this episode, Matt and Kasey discuss the magic of Google Forms and some fantastic ways to use it in the classroom. How to Create a QR Code for a Google Form
How to Create Self-grading Timed Quizzes in Google Classroom 

For too long, passwords were the only thing standing between criminals and valuable information you keep online. Now, websites and apps are adding a second layer of security called Two Factor Authentication and this video explains why it matters, and how it works.

I recommend in my presentations to stop using Google Docs. Here are 5 reasons to use Google Slides for things you might normally choose Google Docs for.

Video Lessonshttps://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/

Practice English with any Youtube or Vimeo video, instructions and examples

A great idea for a new year! Student-Created Vision Boards with Google Slides! A student-created vision board is a great way to help students set goals and visualize reaching them!

Automated human-like text to speech ~ Voicepodshttps://www.voicepods.com/

Voicepods is an easy to use service that can convert your content into realistic voice using state of the art deep learning models. Privacy

A presentation tool for both teachers and students. Lessons, homework and projects have never been more engaging and fun. Easily share among teachers, students and parents. Privacy

Wakelet is a free platform that allows you to curate and organize content to save and share. Privacy

#GDPR just turned one and it could help avoid potentially embarrassing situations. To know what life would have been like without GDPR, have a look at this video.

A New York exhibit chronicles prominent cases of images altered by journalists and asks: If seeing is believing, how often are you, the viewer or reader, being misled?

Does your school teach digital citizenship? Learn what it is and why it matters.

Cambridge English Write & Improvehttps://writeandimprove.com/

Write & Improve is a free tool for learners of English that marks writing in seconds. It is provided in association with Cambridge English (part of the University of Cambridge).

‘ Your Data Matters’ aims to highlight how people have new control and rights over how their personal data is used answering the question “What is Data?”