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101 Free Tech Tools for Teachers. Top 5 Tech Tools to Take Control of Your Classroom. 75 digital tools and apps teachers can use to support formative assessment in the classroom. There is no shortage of formative assessment strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. We didn’t just add any old tool to this list. Here are the criteria we used for those that made the cut: Teaching Teachers to Put Tech Tools to Work. In early August, before the start of school, teachers spent an hour in training that “prepared them with everything they needed to know,” Perdisatt says.

Teaching Teachers to Put Tech Tools to Work

The tool allows teachers to see every screen in their classroom at the same time, and if a student is doing something unrelated to the current lesson, teachers can click on their account and close off-target tabs. Teachers can also lock students’ screens, hold digital chats with individual students and display what’s on students’ screens to the entire class on an 85-inch monitor at the front of the room.

Such screen sharing, Perdisatt says, encourages accountability. “When the kids see what they’re doing up there in front of everyone, they tend to do what their teacher has asked.” The software has been so effective, Perdisatt says, that the district is going to skip the one-to-one training sessions she originally thought teachers would need. 10 Best Distance Learning Tools for Teachers. Distance learning tools are software products that teachers use in a digital classroom.

10 Best Distance Learning Tools for Teachers

This includes audio, video, or digital text. These tools allow learning to happen anytime, anywhere via an internet connection. In our list, we’ll explore the differences in some available distance learning technology tools for teachers. Several offer delivery, hosting, and collaboration for your existing curricula. Others come with all the curricula already programmed and ready for use by your students. 10 Free EdTech Tools for Teachers – The Tech Edvocate. Implementing edtech in your classroom while feeling constrained to your personal or professional budget is difficult.

10 Free EdTech Tools for Teachers – The Tech Edvocate

Luckily, there are plenty of edtech tools free for teachers! We scoured the internet and found over 100 free apps, websites, and educational programs. Here are our top 10. ‎Remind: School Communication on the App Store. This is the first app I’ve ever reviewed!

‎Remind: School Communication on the App Store

But I have to say how this app has been so amazing for our family! My 5 year old son has autism and receives a lot of special services including seeing numerous teachers and therapists at school. Before this app I was never able to keep up with all the emails, found it impossible to go through everything and respond to everyone in a timely manner. Once his school started using Remind, all the important communications, the stuff directly from his teachers regarding things in his specific care, now had their very own home on my phone, and the unique style alerts easily combined to separate these important messages from the noise of my constantly roaring email inbox! Using Remind – Help Center. Flipgrid. (3) Students: Getting Started with Flipgrid. Educators: Getting Started with Flipgrid. Slides: Free Online Presentations for Personal Use. 20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers - Ditch That Textbook.

The right colors and graphics can make all the difference when creating an engaging Google Slides or PowerPoint presentation.

20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers - Ditch That Textbook

However, sometimes creating the right theme takes time and creative energy that we don't always have. That's why Slides Mania was created. With more than 150 free PowerPoint or Google Slides themes, you will surely find one that fits your next presentation or project. Many of these templates fit perfectly in the lessons you already teach. Teachers from all over the world have used these themes in their classrooms in lots of creative and engaging ways. 30 Google Slides Templates for Teachers, Educators, and Students for 2020. Google Slides Templates Worksheets & Teaching Resources. 15 Google Slides Hacks For Teachers. Bored Teachers, LLC (“Bored Teachers,” “we,” “us,” “our”) provides its services (described below) to you through its website located at www.boredteachers.com (the “Site”) and through its related services (collectively, such services, including any content, new features, and applications, and the Site, the “Service(s)”), subject to the following Terms of Service (as amended from time to time, the “Terms of Service”).

15 Google Slides Hacks For Teachers

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or modify portions of these Terms of Service at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date these terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Service after the date any such changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Service. Overview of the Service. Teachers' Essential Guide to Google Classroom. How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom. Using new apps and programs can be intimidating, but once you take a chance on them, some will have you wondering why you didn’t give them a try sooner.

How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom

Google Forms can definitely be one of those. Ten minutes after giving it a whirl, your mind will be bursting with ideas about all of the ways you can use it with students, parents, colleagues, and even friends. Google Forms Tips for Teachers. Google Forms Tutorial for Teachers. Teachers' Guide to Google Forms in 2020 - Beginner's Tutorial - Google Forms and Sheets 101 for Adult Ed Teachers and Administrators. Best Google Docs add-ons for teachers. Google Docs add-ons can make all the difference for teachers who want to use the online tool for education.

Best Google Docs add-ons for teachers

Add-ons allow educators to expand the capabilities of Google Docs so they can be more creative in helping students learn most effectively. Many schools already use Google Classroom, with Google Docs being an easy and free way to handle resources, work, and materials. Whether working in the physical classroom or teaching remotely, Google Docs is a great way to share information without papers. Add-ons are there to make it even better. A Google Doc add-on is a software addition that allows the program to be used in a different way beyond its original purpose. Here's what you need to know about add-ons and which are the best for your purposes. Get Padlet. Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate on.

Get Padlet

It works like a piece of paper. We give you an empty page - a padlet - and you can put whatever you like on it. Drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and voilà! A padlet is born. Make it even more beautiful by choosing custom wallpapers and themes. How to Teach Remotely with Padlet. Padlet Tutorial for Students - How to Join and Participate. Padlet Tutorial and 5 Use Cases in Classroom [NEW] The basics for Educators.