Tech Corner - פורטל עובדי הוראה

Regardless of whether you are new at technology or a computer ninja, everyone needs to keep on learning, because technology doesn't just stand still!

It keeps moving ALL THE TIME!

This corner is to help you learn new ideas about how technology can help you do your job better and make your work easier.

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Articles

Ten Time-saving Ways for Teachers to Use Technology

One of the ways to take control of our time is to use technology to automate, or at least streamline, some of the things that we all have to do. Here are 10 time-savi...

Two Important Changes Coming to Google Classroom

If you use Google Classroom, be sure to check this out!

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Tech Tools

Flipgrid

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

ThingLink

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

LearnEnglish Apps

Apps for listening, learning tools, and games

The Teachers' Guide to Tech

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

Flipgrid

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

ThingLink

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

LearnEnglish Apps

Apps for listening, learning tools, and games

The Teachers' Guide to Tech

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

About HyperDocs

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

4 Ways to Play Videos in Google Docs

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

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

Kahoot

Make fun digital games with your own content

Quizlet

Digital flashcards, games to enrich vocabulary acquisition

Quizlet Live

Quizlet Live: Putting more fun in Learning

Socrative

Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens

Quizizz

Make fun trivia quizzes about any topic

Flippity

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

QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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

Fake Text Message

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,...

A Year of Picture Prompts

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 f...

Adobe Spark

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, s...

Word Mover

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, co...

Storyboard That

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 c...

Maptia - Home to a World of Stories

Maptia is a bold, beautiful world of thoughtful and inspiring stories told through photographs taken by photographers, adventurers, and writers. Explore stories categ...

ToonyTool

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...

ClassTools

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

Fraze it!

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 c...

Visual Writing Prompts

Visual Writing Prompts provides a considerable choice of creative writing prompts using Flickr images. Each prompt has an unusual image along with basic information, ...

Short of the Week

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 the...

Pixabay

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 download...

Bounce!

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 no...

Inkle Writer

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

Twister

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 sha...

Big Huge Labs Framers

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

Biteable

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

ClassroomScreen

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

Sqworl

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

Match The Memory

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

Photos For Class

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

Timetoast

A tool for creating online timelines

Sway

Easily create animated storylines and presentations

PicMonkey

PicMonkey includes creative tools for photo editing and graphic design

Awesome Screenshot

Free Chrome extension for creating custom screenshots or images

Animoto

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

5 Fun, Easy Ways to Adapt Quizlet Live

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

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Your Idea is Here!

If YOU have any ORIGINAL lessons that engage your students, digital tools that spark their imaginations, please share them here!