Blackbird

Blackbird is an excellent new online platform designed to teach students how to program/code.  This is done through a very easy-to-use interface where students progress through stages typing code and watching their results.  If a student gets stuck there is a "show me" button to help them progress as well: tips, videos, and helpful tutorials to help students and teachers integrate coding into their classroom.  Best of all, Blackbird has an educational portal to monitor and track student progress to make it easy to assess student learning.

Below is a brief demo...

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

For a more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's award winning blog.

Super Teacher Worksheets for Mother's Day

Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects.  Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more.  Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.

I highly recommend checking out Super Teacher Worksheets by clicking here!!!

Super Teacher Worksheets is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits. 

Solitaired

Solitaired is a fun educational spin on the classic card game solitaire.  All a user has to do is select the educational deck they'd like to use and that's it.  There are lots of different decks that have pictures as well as educational facts covering topics such as: historical figures, astronauts in space, and more.

For a more detailed review click here.

Buncee

Buncee, is one of the most versatile learning tools around for: project base learning, digital storytelling, scrapbooking, and much much more, just a new feature that makes it easy for teachers to assess student's virtual assignments and performance.  The way this is done is that an educator can now add free response questions or multiple choice questions to assess a student's learning.  Also, a teacher can generate a detailed report making it easy to differentiate instruction.

Click here for more info on how to assess student's performance.

I highly recommend checking out Buncee for Remote Learning by clicking here!!!

*Buncee is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

Pedagogue

Pedagogue is a excellent new social network for educators that makes it easy to collaborate w/ others and find educational resources.  Also, Pedagogue is a great place to share a wide variety of resources such as: images, lesson plans, web sites, learning tools, templates, etc etc.  Finally, Pedagogue lets educators seamlessly create groups or classrooms making it ideal for collaborative learning, professional development, and modify best teaching practices.

Below is a brief demo...

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

Biteable

 

Biteable is an excellent site for creating stunning presentations/slideshows.  All a user has to do is select a template (or create one from scratch), select a color scheme, and add audio to create a beautiful product.  Best of all, a educator can publish/share a presentation via unique URL or embed it into a site or blog.  Also, a user can set their presentation to public or private to help abide by CIPA/COPPA compliance.  Best of all, teachers can use Biteable in a wide number of ways such as: project based learning, digital storytelling, introducing a topic, and much much more.

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

Below is my brief demo...

Testing on Biteable.

Circly

*Circly recently created some templates that are ideal for education.  For example, the image above shows a template on what student's will be doing when they are finished w/ school. 

Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more.  Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.  Finally, the most unique feature of Circly lets users collaborate in real-time w/ built-in video caller lets user work in groups remotely.  This is a great feature for educators looking to do more group
projects as well work w/ peers remotely.

*Circly is one of the 50 nominated for the Blue Tulip Awards Education and Work Section in the Netherlands, and one of the Top Sites/Apps of 2020 in Technology & Learning magazine.

Below is brief demo...

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

Circly's latest press release details how they can help classrooms get over the COVID-19 pandemic.