Examples of Individual Activities:

• Student created podcasts/videos

• Student publishing

• Journaling/writing

• Investigations, mapping skills with Google Earth

• OR Codes integration

• Collecting/Monitoring Data with Edmodo polls or Socrative

• Graphing

• Audiobooks, Storia by Scholastic, Storyline, podcasts

• Content-specific reinforcement activities

• Enrichment with edu-games

• Virtual Field Trips, Tours, NASA app

• Webquests

• Personal Information Manager; keeping a personal calendar

• “Visualizing” rules of BYOT: students interpret them in a creative way and share it in a wiki

• Sight/Vocabulary Words practice with different apps

• Examples of Paired Activities (in conjunction with others):

• Shared whiteboard space

• Paired tutorial games

• Oral fluency practice

Examples of Small-Groups Activities (in conjunction with others):

• Student-created tutorials (Show Me, Educreations, etc.)

• Collaborative writing and editing 

• Downloaded books for students to read and share

Examples of Whole-Group Activities(in conjunction with others:

• Journaling

• Writing prompts

Whole group formative assessment

• Surveys/Polls in Socrative or Edmodo

• Blogging or discussion boards in Edmodo

Classroom Management:

• QR codes for easy/fast website access

 Online Whiteboards

• Web Whiteboard - create a whiteboard that all students can access and add to from their device 

• Padlet - an  online cork board where students can type in responses to questions, post questions, or any other comments you want them to put.  T

• widla - an online whiteboard.  The teacher starts the board then shares out a link to students

Online Response Tools

• Classflow - Turn personal devices into response tools for Promethean flipcharts 

• Answer garden - an online brainstorming and response tool that creates word clouds 

• Kahoot! - create online, action packed quizzes and surveys 

• KwikSurveys - Create online surveys, quizzes and polls 

• Plickers - A quick response system, where students hold up cards, and the teacher does a classroom scan 

• Poll Everywhere - respond via the web or text message to polls.  results are displayed live in gorgeous charts

QR Code Readers and Creators

•  i-Nigma QR Code reader for all devices 

• QR code reader app for Android and for Apple   

• QR code website for generating codes 

• QR Code generator Android App  

Online Creation Tools

• Big Huge Labs - Create posters, magazine covers and other projects.  Free sign-up. 

• Blabberize - give any image a mouth and make them talk! 

• Glogster - an online multimedia poster creator, utilizing text, images and vide (Fee based) 

• Screencast-o_Matic - record everything that is taking place on your desktop.  Great for creating How To videos when combined with other tools (such as whiteboard tools)

• StoryJumper - Create online eBooks for free.  Share with others to read via a weblink, or embed in your webpage. 

• FlipSnack - create ebooks for publication online.  Design pages using PowerPoint, upload to the site, then publish to the world. 

• Comic Master - create online comic strips

Student Social Media 

• Edmodo - a social media site designed for schools that looks like facebook, and allows students to comment on assignments etc in a safe environment.  All posting can be set to be moderated. 

• Edublogs - an online Blogging site designed with students in mind.  Setting can changed set who can view posts and if posts need to be approved before being seen.

• KidBlog - Blogging for students in a safe environmet.  Lots of safety controls.  ($36 per teacher a year.  Sometimes on sale)   

Word Clouds 

• WorditOut - transform words into word clouds.  Words change size based on importance. 

• Tagxedo - transform words into word clouds of different shapes.  Words do not change size based on usage.   

• Jason Davies - A software engineer who creates software tools.  Normal Word Cloud features.