1. Communication
1.1. BackChannel
1.1.1. Description: This site offers a teacher-moderated version of Twitter. An extension of the in-the-moment conversation might be to capture the chat, create a tag cloud, and see what surfaces as a focus of the conversation.
1.2. Jamboard
1.2.1. Descripton: Jamboard is a web tool provided by Google Suite. It is essentially an online whiteboard that allows users to add text, digital post-it notes, drawings, and images to communicate within the classroom setting.
1.3. ClassDojo
1.3.1. Description: Class Dojo began as a behavior tracking tool and then became a way to easily communicate with parents. Class Dojo has since evolved to include student portfolios. Teachers can also assign activities via Class Dojo, much like Seesaw.
1.4. Remind101
1.4.1. Remind101 is a free app that teachers and parents/students can use to communicate without having each other's cell phone numbers. Remind101 uses a text caster system where the teacher can send reminders about homework and projects. The recipients can respond directly to the text with questions/feedback and the teacher then responds.
1.5. Zoom
1.5.1. Zoom is a free app/website that allows up to 100 people to vide chat for a 40 minute time span. There are upgrades available to increase the time limit. Teachers and students can tune in to the zoom meetings anywhere there is WiFi.
1.6. Classtag
1.6.1. Classtag is a great free source of communication between parents and teachers. Parents sign up and receive notifications on their phone about school work. Teachers can also send pictures, video links, and Google Forms through Classtag. It also is compatible with Google Classroom.
1.7. Groupme
1.7.1. Groupme is another comunication app where people sign up by downloading an app. From there, teachers can put students into "groups" where they collaborate with certain partners. Teachers and other students can also respond to questions in the main group chat, but messages can also be sent individually.
2. Curation
2.1. YouTube
2.1.1. Description: YouTube allows users to find videos and save those videos under a file where you can find them easily for your next use.
2.2. elink
2.2.1. Description: Elink is an all-in-one content curation tool that lets you collect content around any topic from all over the web and turn it into a beautiful web page. You can also export it as a responsive newsletter or embed it on your website.
2.3. Scoop.it
2.3.1. Description: The website enables its users to discover content on their topics of interest that they can curate and publish to their own web page and share to their social networks. Scoop.it received attention from influential bloggers who had identified a need for web content curation.
2.4. Pinterest
2.4.1. Pinterest is a free application/website that is perfect for curation! People can gain inspiration from the hundreds of thousands of pictures and links already on there, but can also share their ideas by adding links to pins and making them public.
2.5. Artsonia Kids Art Museum
2.5.1. Artsonia is an awesome website that allows students to post pictures of their artwork. Teachers can even publish artwork to where it is public and students can vote on their art to receive awards for "Artist of the week."
2.6. Flickr
2.6.1. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a camera phone.
2.7. TikTok
2.7.1. TikTok is a fairly new app that people can make short videos. TikTok has the ability for videos to be public or private. Public videos have the opportunity to show up on the "For You" page meaning anyone with similar interested based on the video posted can see it and share it with others. There are so many "groups" within TikTok that people become a part of.
3. Collaboration
3.1. Google Docs
3.1.1. Description: A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents that students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
3.2. FlipGrid
3.2.1. Description: Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
3.3. Padlet
3.3.1. Description: Padlet is an online post-it board. You can use it for an exit ticket. Students can post three things they learned, questions they still have, or even explain the steps in solving a problem.
3.4. AnswerGarden
3.4.1. Description: AnswerGarden is an easy-to-use online feedback app that can be used to get brief answers from your respondents. It adopts a minimalist design that allows users to create, share, answer, and manage topic questions without signing up for accounts. Although a simple app, it has the potential to be used to accomplish a wide range of education tasks, such as brainstorming, polling, synchronous and asynchronous communication, and formative assessment. For example, a math teacher can post a warm up question to activate students’ prior knowledge, as shown in the picture on the right.
3.5. MindMeister
3.5.1. MinsMeister is the mind map website we used to collaborate on this assignment. MindMeister is an easy to use mind mapping tool that allows its users to create colorful and effective mind maps.
3.6. Mindomo
3.6.1. Mindomo is another free mind mapping website that is similar to MindMeister. It allows its users to collaborate and create meaningful mind maps on information they intend to share.
3.7. Google Slides
3.7.1. Google Slides is an additional component to Google. Like Google Docs, people can collaborate on presentations on and offline.
4. Assessment
4.1. Quizlet
4.1.1. Description: Quizlet is a web-based application developed to help students study information through interactive tools and games. Quizlet's mission is to help students (and teachers) practice and master what they're learning.
4.2. Quizizz
4.2.1. Description: Quizizz allows teachers to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. The salient features include: Student-paced: Questions appear on each student's screen, so they can answer questions at their own pace, and review their answers at the end.
4.3. Plickers
4.3.1. Description: Plickers is a rapid-response classroom-polling app that lets teachers use one mobile device to scan paper cards for student responses. The teacher holds up a device such as a phone or a tablet and scans students' responses, which are recorded.
4.4. Formative
4.4.1. Description: GoFormative is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic device:laptop, tablet, or smartphone
4.5. Socrative
4.5.1. Description: Socrative is a cloud-based student response system that allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones.
4.6. Plickers
4.6.1. This assessment tool allows teachers to collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the need to have students use devices or paper and pencil. Teachers create and print specially coded cards that students hold up in class as their response. The teacher uses the Plickers app to scan the cards and collect the data. (Free)
4.7. Blooket
4.7.1. Blooket is a free digital assessment tool that provides an abundant of engaging opportunities. The way it works is that a teacher/host picks a question set and a unique game mode. Then, we generate a code that players can use to join the game on their own devices. After the game starts, players will answer questions to help them beat their classmates.
5. Creativity & Innovation
5.1. Book Creator
5.1.1. Description: Book Creator is an amazingly easy-to-use digital book-making tool with limitless options. It's available for both iPad and the web (including Chrome). With guidance, even students in early elementary school grades can use this app to produce and publish their own simple books or comics with images, videos, and audio.
5.2. SimpleMind
5.2.1. Description: SimpleMind is a mind mapping tool that turns your computer into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.
5.3. Keynote
5.3.1. Description: Keynote is a presentation-design program perfect for everything from a report you're giving in school, to working with your class to develop a creative project. Keynotes lets you choose a template, create and edit slides, add animations and transitions, and has numerous charts, tables, and graphs to get your message across.
5.4. Tynker
5.4.1. Tynker is the world’s leading K-12 creative coding platform, enabling students of all ages to learn to code at home, school, and on the go.
5.5. Canva
5.5.1. Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. The app includes templates for users to use. The platform is free to use and offers paid subscriptions.
5.6. IMovie
5.6.1. IMovie is an Apple app that can be used to create movies. It is pretty user-friendly and comes with so many features that make editing a breeze.
5.7. SCRATCH!
5.7.1. Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.