Study.com is a excellent site for finding educational videos that I just found out about from Class Tech Tips. This is a great place to find thousands of videos on a wide range of subjects s
RoomRecess one of my favorite sites around for free online educational games, has a Math page dedicated to K-5 students. This page has a number of different style games such as: RPG, platform, sports, etc. to help students learn and keep them engaged in this fun way. Best of all, Elementary students can find a wide range of Math topics from addition and subtraction, to decimals, fractions, and making change, and much much more.
Jump Numbers is the new educational Math game by Artgig Studio (Mystery Math Town) for adding and counting numbers. The way this work is a player jumps across platforms of numbers going in whatever sequential order the level provides (i.e. one, four, twelve, etc) while rescuing Snortles and squishing numbers to get to the other side.
Projector Screen Store is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works.
Sketch Nation the amazing free web tool or mobile app (iOS/Android) has just released their latest update to bring new exciting features to game creation. Students can now create a multiplayer "platform" game in their new "Arena". Also, users now have the ability to upload their own sound effects or music to add into a game,
* Side Running, Arena and Platformer now have double jump as an option.
* All genres now have a powerup duration slider for changing the player. * New Background scrolling, Zero gravity, Always moving, and Player firing direction on Arena and Platformer. This lets you create RACING and ROLE PLAYING type games! * Hold down the shoot button to fire. * Match 3 can now generate a powerup when matching 3, 4 or 5 tiles at the same time. * Lots of bug fixes.
Also, new tutorials (i.e. storytelling, multi-level games) and Lesson ideas for teachers can be found here.
I highly recommend checking out Sketch Nation by clicking here!!!
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Answerables the innovative educational tool that combines the best features of game based learning w/ a learning management system has just released their free iPad app. Answerables is being used by educators in a variety of ways from collaborating w/ other classes, to browsing the web, all in a secure 3D virtual environment.
Calcugators is the new iOS app for Grades K on up working on addition. This is a fun game that has students working w/ different problems and focusing on skills such as: subtraction, regrouping, counting, etc, to solve basic addition problems. Also, Calcugators tracks student's progress and is a great way to integrate Game Based Learning into the classroom.
The Answer Pad is an awesome teacher tool that has two powerful functionalities: it is both a student response system with a focus on drawing and "show what you know", and a grading solution for your teacher created quizzes. It is browser based for teachers, and works on any device (BYOD), browser or on free apps for iOS or Android for students. It is an ideal tool for engaging students for any grade/subject area, and turning a classroom paperless.
Yogome Epic Schools is the new educational suite of apps (i.e. Epic Teachers, Students, etc.) that uses Game Based Learning to teach/reinforce a variety of subjects (i.e. Math, Science, Programming, etc.) There are over a 1000 educational mini games/activities for students grades K-5. Best of all, a teacher can track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction. Finally, all games are aligned to Common Core Standards.
Otus, the wonderful mobile learning solution and teaching and learning platform was hard at work this summer w/ over 50 updates. Best of all, all of this happens in one safe controlled environment. These updates exist in one single platform.
Night Zoopkeeper is a new free site for students to help their Writing skills through fun interactive lessons. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators to: assign lessons, track student progress, and assess their work in real-time. This makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction and implement project based learning in their classroom.
EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects.
StoryCraft is a fun free iOS app that I found out about from the amazing educator, Shelly Terrell. This is a innovative way for students to collaborate on a story in the familiar "choose-your-own-adventure" style. Users can create a story w/ text and images and invite other students to add to their story. It kind of reminds me of poor man's version of BoomWriter w/out all the voting and bells and whistles.
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for educators looking for printables, worksheets, puzzles, activities, and much much more. W/ back to school right around the corner this is a fantastic place for teachers to go looking for ideas/printables such as: desk tags, games/puzzles, calendars, etc etc. Also, all items are labeled if they are aligned to Common Core Standards and there are even generators/wizards for users to create their very own worksheets/puzzles/etc.
ClassDojo the free positive reinforcement/digital portfolio tool that educators everywhere are using, just released their digital "Toolkit". This toolkit includes 8 tools that will allow educators to communicate w/ parents, create portfolios, and much much more.
KudosWall is a new site/app for building digital portfolios and resumes; that I just found out about from Monica Burns excellent blog. This is a great easy-to-use tool that lets students create digital portfolios on the web or on their favorite mobile device (iOS/Android). These portfolios can include any type of multimedia (i.e. video, images, files, etc), update automatically, and can be managed anywhere.
Owl Eyes is an innovative site that lets teachers create "classrooms" where their students can read and interact w/ texts. Student's are able to select through a wide variety of literature and then annotate the text. This is helpful as they can take notes and pickup right where they left off when reading. Best of all, the teacher tools allows educators to create quizzes to assess how students are doing and they can even track/manage their student accounts. Educators are using Owl Eyes in a number of different ways such as: differentiating instruction, flipping a classroom, and more.
Storyboard That is a excellent learning tool that educators are using in a wide variety of ways in their classrooms. STB is being used as a graphic organizer, for creating storyboards, digital storytelling, project based learning, and much much more. Also, STB has lots of educational resources for teachers and templates to make it easy to integrate STB into the classroom.
AnswerGarden the widely popular web tool that classrooms and educators are using to ask a question and generate responses into a word cloud is now available for the iPad. This wonderful app is great for brainstorming, creating word clouds, and to differentiate instruction to gauge student learning. Also, it's great for group work and to assess students.
Buncee the amazing learning tool that educators around the world are using to integrate technology into the classroom has updated their list of ways to use Buncee w/ the school year approaching. Teachers are using Buncee for project based learning, to "flip" a lesson, digital storytelling, create beautiful presentations, and much much more. Best of all, Buncee Classroom their educational portal, allows educators to manage/monitor student projects, differentiate instructions, etc to engage students and maximize their learning.
Kids'n'Code is a fun free iPad app for kids 6-8 years old learning the basics concepts of programming and coding. This is done by controlling robots and trying to solve simple puzzles. Users of Scratch will feel right at home as Kids'n'Code focuses on such skills as: algebra, geometry, logic and more.