Tech Corner

Flipgrid is a free service to post prompts to which students can respond with short videos that they record on their phones or other devices

Learn how to make images or videos interactive in a few minutes! Excellent tool for Blended Learning

Apps for listening, learning tools, and games

Created by Jennifer Gonzalez of Cult of Pedagogy, it’s a 329-page digital binder you’ll use all year to help you navigate the tech world with confidence

A transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction

In this blog post, by "Control, Alt, Achieve, we will take a look at four different options, that are workarounds for adding video to a Google Doc

FlipQuiz™ provides educators with a quick way to create your own gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom

Make fun digital games with your own content

Digital flashcards, games to enrich vocabulary acquisition

Quizlet Live: Putting more fun in Learning

Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens

Make fun trivia quizzes about any topic

Hili Zavaro blogs in Quantum Teaching about a cool tool to help divide your class into groups within seconds

Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn - NO INTERNET CONNECTION NEEDED

Fake Text Message is a tool to create images that appear to be screenshots of text messages. Use the editing tools to include a name, a series of messages, show time, battery life, and more. When finished editing, choose the link to create your image then share it using social media links or download to your computer

Do you need ideas for writing projects? The New York Times offers an archive of 160 images as inspiration for writing across many genres. Scroll through the site to find images in different categories, based on the type of writing you want to encourage your students to do

Create beautiful visual stories with Adobe Spark. Follow prompts to add your own images or select from thousands available online. Personalize your story with text, slideshows, links to outside resources, and more. When complete, share using the unique URL or with the social media links provided

Use Word Mover to assemble poems from word tiles. Use word banks, existing famous works, or create your own word tiles. Experiment with word placement, size, font, color options, and twelve backgrounds

An easy, interactive tool to create storyboards. Choose one of the layouts provided and build a storyboard, using drag and drop technology. With a free account, you can save your work three times a day, print, and embed your storyboard

Maptia is a bold, beautiful world of thoughtful and inspiring stories told through photographs taken by photographers, adventurers, and writers. Explore stories categorized by places, themes, and storytellers. Stories focus on portraying an individual perspective of the location and why the story matters on a personal level

ToonyTool is a simple canvas that allows you to easily create a single frame cartoon. With ToonyTool you can add a dash of humor and create a single comic to get your message across

Hundreds of tools you can use in your classroom to gamify learning

Fraze It is an innovative website that functions as a dictionary. Students and teachers type a word or phrase of interest into the search box. The website will then create a report for the word/phrase that includes multiple examples of it being used in different contexts, a definition for it, synonyms for the word/phrase, images depicting the word/phrase, translations of the word/phrase into multiple languages, and examples of native English speakers pronouncing it

Visual Writing Prompts provides a considerable choice of creative writing prompts using Flickr images. Each prompt has an unusual image along with basic information, including appropriate age groups and Creative Common credit

Short of the Week is an enormous, searchable database of short films. You can scroll down the page, browse the titles and synopses of the films, and click to view them. Teachers can play a video for students and have them summarize it and analyze it for different aspects, such as imagery, plot, themes, and more

Pixabay is a database of royalty free images users can download at no cost. When creating websites or any project, teachers can have students use images only downloaded from Pixabay. This way, students will not be at risk for using materials protected by copyright

Bounce is a web-based tool for annotating and making notes on websites and images. Students can create boxes over the elements of the website or image they wish to notate and add comments to them. When finished, students can tap the “Save” button on the top right of the screen, and they can share it over social media or through the provided link

Inkle Writer is a template-based resource for students who are interested in drafting and publishing original choose-your-own-adventure stories

Create fictional tweets quickly and easily by entering minimal information. Your fictional tweet will appear on a wall with your image on it, and will be ready to share through links provided at the bottom of the page

Choose from many unique frames to spice up your photos. Choose from stamps, canvas, wood and more. Excellent tool for stamps designing for creative writing tasks

This is an excellent site which allows you to easily create animated videos. It can be used for book trailers, ads or any other project

Create an interactive board and project it on a screen in the classroom. You can display beautiful backgrounds and many classroom management icons, timer and many more

Do you want to keep all the excellent sources that find online? Here’s a simple visual bookmarking site for educators

This website allows users to play or create a matching game with photos they upload. It can be used to review literary terms or figurative language

Teachers can send students to this site to find images for their projects and presentations. These photos are appropriate for any grade level

A tool for creating online timelines

Easily create animated storylines and presentations

PicMonkey includes creative tools for photo editing and graphic design

Free Chrome extension for creating custom screenshots or images

Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom

Quizlet Live is a collaborative classroom game focused on team work, communication skills, and vocabulary words. Learn different ways to play