These are my favorite top 20 Tech Tools for 2018. Check them out!
I found a new site that lets you clip YouTube videos and then download the clip in MP4. It is http://hesetube.com/
My latest find is GimKit. GimKit is a quiz based app that provides students with a fun user experience to aid their education.
My latest find is GimKit. GimKit is a quiz based app that provides students with a fun user experience to aid their education.
1 . Nearpod - Create, Engage and Assess Through Mobile Devices
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. What is Nearpod?
2. Kahoot! - Making Learning Awesome!
Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer. What is Kahoot?
3. Buncee - Create, Present and Share Engaging Multimedia Lessons
Buncee. /bun-see/ A creation and presentation tool for students and educators to create interactive classroom content, allowing learners of all ages to visualize concepts and communicate creatively. What is Buncee?
4. Remind - School Communication Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Remind is a classroom messaging app that helps teachers, students, and parents communicate quickly and efficiently. By connecting school communities, Remind makes it easy for everyone to succeed together. What is Remind?
5. Go Noodle - Get Kids Moving
Go Noodle gamifies movement and exercise, getting kids out of their seats and allowing them to be energetic, playful and and active - with a touch of silliness mixed in just for good measure.
The platform features hundreds of pre-recorded, custom-created videos designed to get kids moving. There’s also a handful of videos specifically made to start introducing children to concepts of mindfulness, including breathing and meditation. What is Go Noodle?
6. Matific - Maths Games and Worksheets For Kids
Matific is an award-winning primary maths resource which uses common objects in ordinary settings that children can connect to for a deep understanding of maths. Matific episodes were designed to support each other to allow children to master core maths concepts. Encouraging children to experiment and play to foster understanding, Matific provides engagement across all year groups. With long term use, children can reconnect with core maths concepts that increase in difficulty and reinforce previously learned skills. What is Matific?
7. ThingLink - Annotate Images and Videos
Thinglink allows over 70 different tags to be used within content, such as links, videos, maps, images, social media and more. It’s intuitive interface allows users to create interactive content in just three steps and using an embeddable sharing link, it’s easy to distribute the content to your students wherever they are and whatever device they’re using. What is ThingLink?
8. Explain Everything - Collaborative, Interactive Whiteboard App
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. What is Explain Everything?
9. Quizizz - Fun Multiplayer Classroom Quizzes
Quizizz is an alternative to Kahoot, and there's also a lot for educators to like. It is very similar to Kahoot, with a few key differences. Just like Kahoot, the teacher (or student host) chooses a quiz to begin. A five digit game code is provided. What is Quizizz?
10. Flipgrid - Video for Student Engagement and Formative Assessment
Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. ... That's why it's the leading video discussion platform used by tens of millions of Pre-K to PhD educators, students, and families in 150 countries. Your classroom is next! It's super easy! Create a Grid - that's your classroom or community. What is Flipgrid? (Flipgrid lesson ideas) (More ideas) (How to use Flipgrid) (The Educators Guide to Flipgrid)
11. Padlet - The Easiest Way to Create and Collaborate
Padlet (formerly Wallwisher) is a free application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more. What is Padlet?
12. TouchCast - Leading the Smart Video Revolution
TouchCast creates an interactive presentation that mixes video with web content. The app lets you record a video and overlay elements such as web pages, maps, photos, Twitter streams, polls, quizzes and more. ... From within the app, you can share these TouchCast videos via Facebook, Twitter and email. What is TouchCast?
13. EDPuzzle - The Easiest Way to Engage Your Students With Videos
EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time. What is EDPuzzle? How to use EDPuzzle?
14. Quizlet - Improve your grades by studying with flashcards and games
Quizlet offers tools for students to make flashcards, practice spelling, play learning games, test their knowledge, collaborate with other students and more, providing engaging, customizable activities with contributions from people everywhere. What is Quizlet?
15. Canva - Empowering the world to design
Canva is a free graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. What is Canva?
16. Peardeck - Powerful Learning Moments for Every Learner, Every Day
Pear Deck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K-12 schools and teachers. Pear Deck enables teachers to teach with an interactive slideshow displayed on student devices. What is Peardeck?
17. Zeemaps - Create and Publish Interactive Maps
ZeeMaps is an enterprise-class mapping service that allows you to easily create, publish, and share interactive maps. ZeeMaps allows you to create interactive maps from location data stored in Microsoft's OneDrive spreadsheets. ZeeMaps can periodically update the map as the spreadsheet changes. What is Zeempas?
18. PicMonkey - Photo editor. Design maker. Idea Realizer.
PicMonkey is an online photo editing and design service. It can be accessed from a web browser, or through the PicMonkey mobile app. PicMonkey's mission is to empower everyday creatives to communicate visually. What is PicMonkey?
19. PlayPosit - Interactive Video Learning
PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities. What is PlayPostit?
20. Newsela - Teach Reading the Way You’ve Always Wanted To
Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. They publish high-interest news and nonfiction articles daily at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using a proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. By combining relevant and interesting nonfiction content with standards-aligned assessments, Newsela gives educators the primary solution to dramatically improve students’ literacy skills for the 21st century.
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. What is Nearpod?
2. Kahoot! - Making Learning Awesome!
Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer. What is Kahoot?
3. Buncee - Create, Present and Share Engaging Multimedia Lessons
Buncee. /bun-see/ A creation and presentation tool for students and educators to create interactive classroom content, allowing learners of all ages to visualize concepts and communicate creatively. What is Buncee?
4. Remind - School Communication Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Remind is a classroom messaging app that helps teachers, students, and parents communicate quickly and efficiently. By connecting school communities, Remind makes it easy for everyone to succeed together. What is Remind?
5. Go Noodle - Get Kids Moving
Go Noodle gamifies movement and exercise, getting kids out of their seats and allowing them to be energetic, playful and and active - with a touch of silliness mixed in just for good measure.
The platform features hundreds of pre-recorded, custom-created videos designed to get kids moving. There’s also a handful of videos specifically made to start introducing children to concepts of mindfulness, including breathing and meditation. What is Go Noodle?
6. Matific - Maths Games and Worksheets For Kids
Matific is an award-winning primary maths resource which uses common objects in ordinary settings that children can connect to for a deep understanding of maths. Matific episodes were designed to support each other to allow children to master core maths concepts. Encouraging children to experiment and play to foster understanding, Matific provides engagement across all year groups. With long term use, children can reconnect with core maths concepts that increase in difficulty and reinforce previously learned skills. What is Matific?
7. ThingLink - Annotate Images and Videos
Thinglink allows over 70 different tags to be used within content, such as links, videos, maps, images, social media and more. It’s intuitive interface allows users to create interactive content in just three steps and using an embeddable sharing link, it’s easy to distribute the content to your students wherever they are and whatever device they’re using. What is ThingLink?
8. Explain Everything - Collaborative, Interactive Whiteboard App
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. What is Explain Everything?
9. Quizizz - Fun Multiplayer Classroom Quizzes
Quizizz is an alternative to Kahoot, and there's also a lot for educators to like. It is very similar to Kahoot, with a few key differences. Just like Kahoot, the teacher (or student host) chooses a quiz to begin. A five digit game code is provided. What is Quizizz?
10. Flipgrid - Video for Student Engagement and Formative Assessment
Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. ... That's why it's the leading video discussion platform used by tens of millions of Pre-K to PhD educators, students, and families in 150 countries. Your classroom is next! It's super easy! Create a Grid - that's your classroom or community. What is Flipgrid? (Flipgrid lesson ideas) (More ideas) (How to use Flipgrid) (The Educators Guide to Flipgrid)
11. Padlet - The Easiest Way to Create and Collaborate
Padlet (formerly Wallwisher) is a free application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more. What is Padlet?
12. TouchCast - Leading the Smart Video Revolution
TouchCast creates an interactive presentation that mixes video with web content. The app lets you record a video and overlay elements such as web pages, maps, photos, Twitter streams, polls, quizzes and more. ... From within the app, you can share these TouchCast videos via Facebook, Twitter and email. What is TouchCast?
13. EDPuzzle - The Easiest Way to Engage Your Students With Videos
EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time. What is EDPuzzle? How to use EDPuzzle?
14. Quizlet - Improve your grades by studying with flashcards and games
Quizlet offers tools for students to make flashcards, practice spelling, play learning games, test their knowledge, collaborate with other students and more, providing engaging, customizable activities with contributions from people everywhere. What is Quizlet?
15. Canva - Empowering the world to design
Canva is a free graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. What is Canva?
16. Peardeck - Powerful Learning Moments for Every Learner, Every Day
Pear Deck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K-12 schools and teachers. Pear Deck enables teachers to teach with an interactive slideshow displayed on student devices. What is Peardeck?
17. Zeemaps - Create and Publish Interactive Maps
ZeeMaps is an enterprise-class mapping service that allows you to easily create, publish, and share interactive maps. ZeeMaps allows you to create interactive maps from location data stored in Microsoft's OneDrive spreadsheets. ZeeMaps can periodically update the map as the spreadsheet changes. What is Zeempas?
18. PicMonkey - Photo editor. Design maker. Idea Realizer.
PicMonkey is an online photo editing and design service. It can be accessed from a web browser, or through the PicMonkey mobile app. PicMonkey's mission is to empower everyday creatives to communicate visually. What is PicMonkey?
19. PlayPosit - Interactive Video Learning
PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities. What is PlayPostit?
20. Newsela - Teach Reading the Way You’ve Always Wanted To
Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. They publish high-interest news and nonfiction articles daily at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using a proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. By combining relevant and interesting nonfiction content with standards-aligned assessments, Newsela gives educators the primary solution to dramatically improve students’ literacy skills for the 21st century.