Chronicle Cloud is an innovative educational all-in-one iOS app for teachers. Educators can use Chronicle Cloud in a number of different ways such as: assessing (using their "traffic light" system), note-taking, providing feedback, and much much more. Also, being on the "cloud" teachers can collaborate and share best "teaching" practices in an easy way.
ThinkFluency is an oral reading fluency assessment app developed by a teacher for teachers. ThinkFluency replaces the tedious paper, pencil and timer assessment with an app that enables teachers to quickly assess students’ Oral Reading Fluency Rate. ThinkFluency is easy to use, provides instant results with data that is easy to download and share, and is perfect for RTI and showing student growth. It comes with 6 passages each for grade levels 1-5, but users can add their own passages for the ultimate customized assessment tool. ThinkFluency gives users the option of going PAPERLESS. The student reads the passage from a second device as the teacher follows along in the app. When the student finishes reading, the results are displayed (only to the teacher) and saved so you are immediately ready to test the next student. ThinkFluency is FREE to try when you download the app.
FlexClip is a excellent online video editor that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. This is a great resource that educators can use to edit a video, integrate digital storytelling, introduce a topic, and more through an easy-to-use tool. All an educator has to do is upload their media (video/images), add text, sound, or record a voice over, and then export/share it.
Play4A is a relatively new site that I just found out about for Game Based Learning and creating quizzes. This is a great educational tool that teachers can use to easily create games/quizzes that they can then use w/ their students. This is a fun way to assess student's learning of a subject and differentiate instruction.
Educaplay is an wonderful site for educators to create and share multimedia resources/activities, such as: quizzes, games, puzzles/crosswords, interactive maps, and more. Also, educators can share and use over a 1000 already made educational activities. Best of all, the educational portal allows for teachers to track and monitor student progress, while generating detailed reports to easily differentiate instruction.
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.
ClassroomQ is an innovative easy to use tool that acts a "digital' hand raising device. This is all done via the web and requires very little setup. All a teacher has to do is a create an account and then students join by typing in their name and a unique code that the teacher gives them. From there, a student click on the assistance button and can even type a comment which then a teacher sees. This is ideal to assess student's to learning and differentiate instruction w/out having to disrupt classroom time to do it.
A few weeks ago Buncee announced the release of their Buncee Idea Lab. This is an excellent place for educators and students to find resources/ideas to use Buncee, such as: templates, lessons plans, book journals, and more.
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for educators looking for printables,
Emoji Scavenger Hunt is an innovative way to use mobile devices to go on "scavenger" hunt and integrate technology into the curriculum. All a student has to do is goto the website, click on the play button and point their mobile device to the object that the emoji shows.
Pocket Grade is a simple to use iOS grading calculator that makes it easy for teachers to grade and assignment or quiz. All a user has to do is enter the number of questions and the number of wrong and answers and Pocket Grade does the rest.
