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  Intoduction Quizlet is a fantastic tool for teachers to create quizzes for in-person and remote learning that makes building and assessing quick and easy. It is even smart enough to offer adaptive learning to suit the student. Quizlet offers a huge range of subjects and question styles, from visual study materials to fill-in-the-blank games, and plenty more. But styles aside, the big appeal here is that, according to Quizlet, 90 percent of students who use it report higher grades. A bold claim indeed. So if this sounds like something that could fit in with your arsenal of teaching tools, then it might be worth considering further as it's free for the basic mode and very affordable at just $34 for the entire year for a teacher account. How does Quizlet work? Quizlet is broken down into several styles, including: Flashcards Learn Spell Test Match Gravity Live Flashcards  are pretty self explanatory, like real ones, with a question on one side and the answer on the other. Learn...

 Introduction Canva   is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans,   You can even upload your own photos and add them to Canva's templates using a drag and drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that's free and doesn't require extensive photo editing knowledge to use. Canva is home to thousands of free, professionally designed templates that, thanks to their drag and drop interface, can be customized with just a few clicks. Simply upload your photos to Canva, drop them into the template of your choice, and save the file to your computer. Their template categories include Zoom backgrounds, posters, presentations, flyers, cards, infographics, business cards, Instagram posts, resumes, invitations, book covers, menus, letterheads, newsletters, photo collages, tickets, bookmarks, invoices, recipe cards, and more. What can be done with thanks to Canva? Canva allows for image edi...

 Introduction: One of the main things going for Flipgrid is its ease of use. Teachers set up an account and create grids, which act as communities for students to work in. Within each grid the teacher creates prompts called topics, and students post video responses to the prompts and replies to each other’s videos. Most of the videos are quite short, just a minute or two long, and the tool is simple enough that kindergartners use it. 9 NEW WAYS TO USE FLIPGRID 1. Sharing book reviews :  With Flipgrid’s new augmented reality (AR) feature, classrooms and classroom libraries can use the video QR code to create an engaging way for students to share book reviews. After a student records their review, the teacher can print the QR code and tape it on the book, and the student’s classmates can use their devices to scan the code and watch the review as a way to help them decide if they’d like to read the book. 2. Practicing world language skills:  Flipgrid makes it possible f...

What's Jamboard? Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that lets you collaborate in real time using either the Jamboard device (a 55-inch digital whiteboard that works with G Suite services), web browser or mobile app. What can be done by using Jamboard? You can share a jam session with collaborators whether they are on a Jamboard device, mobile app or web browser.  People in up to 50 user sessions can work on a jam at once. When using a web browser, each Jamboard browser tab counts as a session. Using a Jamboard device, you can: Write and draw with the included stylus. Search Google and insert images or webpages. Drag and resize text and images with your fingers. Sketch a box, star, cat, or dragon. Image recognition technology converts your sketch into a polished image. Using Jamboard on a computer, you can use a web browser to: Write and draw using a mouse or trackpad. Search Google and insert images or webpages. Drag and resize text and images. Present your jam to a Google Meet ...

  Introduction     Nearpod is an online tool that allows teachers to use slide-based teaching both in the classroom and remotely thanks to a hybrid layout. Teachers can create lots of different interactive learning resources that allow students to engage and learn via their device or a single screen in the room. It's also possible to add in question points along the way and have the students take part as you go. Nearpod is also useful as a formative assessment tool and can output student efforts in easy-to-analyze graphs and charts for a clear snapshot of progress.     Nearpod can also use gamification of information to make learning more engaging and fun. It is also built to work well with lots of pre-existing tools, such as Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and YouTube. Teachers can easily import media to make a lesson quickly and simply using already existing resources.  How does Nearpod work? Nearpod allows teachers to create original interactive pre...

  Sign up for a free account and test-drive the features to see what might work for your classroom. The premade stories and templates include some excellent details and embedded resources, and it's worth spending the time to dig in and find content that might be relevant to your classroom. The wealth of embedded media here offers an interesting opportunity to explore media literacy. Teachers could encourage students to compare how different items of embedded media in a timeline portray the same issue or events. How does one author's portrayal of events differ from another author's account of the same event? How is that important? Also, check out whether this might be a good format for collaborative work. Consider inviting students to create a Sutori timeline as they review for a history exam or recap the plot of a short story or novel. These timelines could offer students a visual way to organize a series of links to related documents for a document-based question, or a c...