Back to School with Elementari

Elementari is a wonderful new site for digital storytelling and project based learning.  Educators are using this easy-to-use tool to have students create interactive digital stories, digital portfolios, presentations, and even choose-your-own-adventures.  Stories can contain, custom made illustrations, sound effects, or even have a user record their very own audio.  Also, a teacher can customize an already created project as a template to help integrate into their own classroom.  Best of all, the educational portal allows for educators to create student accounts and approve all stories before being published "(ideal for COPPA/CIPA compliance).

Back to School updates:

New Classroom Features

Classroom analytics - Measure how your students engage and learn with Elementari with key metrics such as time spent writing, time spent coding, and the number of characters written day by day. Personalized student feedback -  Provide specific page to page feedback on ongoing stories. Students will be able to review, make changes, and resolve that feedback directly within the authoring tool. Beautiful classroom library - Classroom libraries not only showcase your students' published stories but also include class highlights and class awards. Check it out!

Below is an example...



I highly recommend checking out Elementari by clicking here!!!

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Stick Pick

Stick Pick is a nice iOS app that replaces the "old" popsicle sticks on a teacher's desk by helping teachers guide classroom instruction in a nice convenient way.  Not only does Stick Pick let teachers easily and track which students they are calling on, it records student's progress and lets teachers assess and differentiate instruction on the fly.

I highly recommend checking out Stick Pick by clicking here!!!

while True: learn()

while True: learn() is an innovative new iOS game that educators can use to not only integrate Game Based Learning into their teachings, but introduce STEM skills such as: programming, coding, and logical thinking.  This is done through a fun game where a cat has learned how to code but not speak, and it's up to the player to communicate w/ the cat and solve the problem by creating a speech system.  This is done through puzzles and easy to use drag-n-drop system.

I highly recommend checking out while True: learn() by clicking here!!!

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30hands Learning

30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS app that is ideal for digital storytelling 30hands Pro.  The 30hands community is a perfect cloud based solution that allows educators to: manage/track students, hand in/out assignments, schedule events, and more.  While the mobile is being used in education for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more.

More features...

• Video clips as slides

• Google Drive + Dropbox Integration

• Importing of Google Slides and PDFs as 30hands slides

• Backgrounds and scenes

• Higher quality videos

• Advanced drag-and-drop drawing with editing 

• Slide sharing with parents and students 

• Slide Transitions 

• Unlimited presentations

• Unlimited saves to Camera Roll

For more info on how your school can participate, email info@30hands.com.

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Unicheck

Unicheck is an excellent plagiarism checker that is super fast and easy to use.  It's ideal for K-12 schools and checks everything from citations and references to quotes making it perfect for authorship authentication.  Unicheck can even check in multiple different languages.  Best of all, Unicheck will scan any paper/document, works w/ any LMS (i.e. Google Classroom, Moodle, etc), and generates detailed reports.

Below is a brief demo...



I highly recommend checking out Unicheck by clicking here!!!

Back to School with Storyboard That

Storyboard That the wonderful learning tool that educators are using in a wide variety of ways (i.e project based learning, timelines, digital storytelling, etc.) recently released a link w/ lots of ideas on how to use their site.  Teachers can find lots of ideas on how to use Storyboard That for "back to school" such as: all about me posters, ice breakers, new school year storyboards and more.

I highly recommend checking out Storyboard That back to school ideas by clicking here!!!

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Socrates

Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system.  This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more.

Below is a brief demo...



I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here!!!

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