Crowd-sourcing
- Life in a Day Project
- Kick starter-funds creative projects
- Google Tools
- Interesting Ways series
- People around the world contribute ideas
- 100 Schools Map
- Drop a pin near your school location.
- Used with 100 Days of School celebrations
- Inaturalist.org- science projects
- VT Atlas of Life
- Allows for student submissions, graded like research
- Piggybankr- fundraising site like Kickstarter
- Powerful learning environments created because of digital tools
- Learningwithlucie.com
- Twitter: @techsavvygirl
- Young Writers Project, Music Composition, Kids Blog, Blogger
- 802 YouTube video
Google Hangout by Jess Wilson (Twitter: @wilsonjess) Tech Integrationist- Connecting, sharing, learning
- Meet with colleagues
- Take snapshots of the hangout
- Google Drive integration-share and view files
- Text chat function to have group or private conversations
- Screen share option
- Add video from YouTube
Wonder blogging Twitter: @aimeevt- Wonderopolis+ blogging platform of choice
- New wonder everyday, can search for specific topics, connect to curriculum
- On MONDAY, teachers pick a wonder. Students blog about it for 15-20 mins each day. Students brainstorm ideas
- TUESDAY- students read and comment on friends' blogs, ask questions, add more information
- WEDNESDAY- reveal answer, students add what they learned in a different color
- Common Core iPad app
- P21 toolkit (PDF)
- Wes Fryer- great at this, @wfryer and wesfryer.com
- Chrome Webstore Add-ons
- Teaching channels
- Digital annotations using Diigo
- Interactive Language Arts blog
- Live Binder- Integration into Common Core
- Vermont Department of Education- Common Core in VT
Connect Globally Donna Macdonald- Twitter/ Skype/ Edmodo
- Sept.- International Dot Day (K-1)
- Oct. Global Read Aloud
- Nov. I Spy in the Community
- Research places in the community, create voice threads, comment, with students on Staten Island
- Dec. Mystery Skype- Skype in Classroom
- Jan. Authors on Twitter and Skype, DCF authors
- Feb. Edmodo pen pals- South Africa and Texas
- Mar. World Read Aloud Day, Read Across America Day
- Apr. Poem in your Pocket Day
- May Skype in Classroom- Yellowstone Rangers, weather data across the world, Children's Book Week
- Lego kits $130
- Weedo Software $300
- Take pictures, capture things
- Drawing apps-drawing pad
- Storyboard apps- Popplet, Mindmeister
- Various apps- Corkulous, Scrap it, Feltboard
- Tag cloud (like Wordle and Tagxedo)
- Video and Animation apps- Puppet Pals HD, iMotion HD, iMovie
- Whiteboard apps
- Garage Band
- QR codes
Breaking Open School- Mixed Devices- Wireless access, BYOD
- Tech led workshops, etc.
- Google Sketchup
- Tweeting across grade levels
- Powerful learning environments created because of digital tools
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