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Tech Playground<\/h3>\n

HANDY TOOLS THAT WE’VE SHOWN OFF IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS (OR WOULD LIKE TO!)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Tools that pair well with AVID are highlighted with red text<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Learning Lunch & PD presentations<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/h1>\n
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March 27, 2026: iPads and Canva<\/a> Our LMC’s 20 iPads offer lots of possibilities for collaboration between teachers and the LMC. Here are just a few! Lunch was wraps from Longboards with ice cream sandwiches.<\/p>\n

January 5, 2026: With some other secondary library friends, Nathan and Michael presented different sessions\u00a0 over Canva and iMovie tools<\/a> as well as Information Literacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

November 21, 2025: The Science of Reading presentation<\/a> during our annual Chili Cookoff.<\/p>\n

November 4, 2025 District PD Day. Nathan presented AVID strategies. Michael presented Everything Borrowed and Blue<\/a> as well as Canva (cheat sheet here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

October 10, 2025: Banned Books, Baxters, and Betsy: Baxter’s donuts while you browse our interactive banned book exhibits. Plus free laminated posters!<\/p>\n

September 26, 2025: SchoolAI tools with our new district subscription. Presented with ITS Jon Courtney. Lunch = Salvatore’s chicken spiedini, salad, pasta, plus home-made, hand-dipped and piped on site canolis!<\/p>\n

May 16, 2025: Learning Lunch: Summer Reading Fiction, plus Broncos Read teams & posters. Lunch from Chicken Salad Chick. Slide Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May 2, 2025: Learning Lunch. Broncos Read v3 launch, plus Summer reading part 1: non-fiction and professional recommendations. Slide Show<\/a>. Food from Longboards.<\/p>\n

April 4, 2025: Breakfast: Pastries & Poetry, food from Baxter’s.<\/p>\n

December 13, 2024: Collaboration Breakfast: Books, Betsy, & Baxter’s<\/a>. Grab a donut and check out some of the best books of 2024. Here is our list of best books<\/a> of the year broken down by categories.\u00a0 Here are our Top 10<\/a> most circulated titles Jan-Dec 2024.<\/p>\n

November 8, 2024: The Cookoff! Our annual semi-friendly, semi-pro competition of staff chili, soup, and desserts paired with a delightful but brief PD session<\/a> on the game-changing technology called NotebookLM<\/a>, plus Google Reading Mode (hamburger dots \/more tools \/ reading mode)\u00a0 and an update on new Mac tools in the LMC editing suites.<\/p>\n

September 27, 2024: Salvatore’s Chicken Spiedini and salad paired well with our presentation about school access for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Check out our presentation here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

May 17, 2024: Our annual summer reading learning lunch! Catering by Jazzy B’s. This Canva slideshow<\/a> has all the titles we mentioned (and hundreds more) and has links to GoodReads + new book posters<\/a> to print.<\/p>\n

March 22, 2024: AI part 4: AI Students can use on campus, featuring a demo of SchoolAI<\/a> from both student and teacher perspective, plus discussion from teachers already using it.\u00a0 Google Slides from the presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n

December 8, 2023: Books + Bagels:\u00a0 These links take you to a folder of printable posters of topics from art and music to fairy tale reboots<\/a> as well as a Google Doc with links to Canva Templates for the posters and Goodreads links for each book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 11, 2023 The Cookoff Learning Lunch: Artificial Intelligence, part 3: tools to detect student use of AI (and why they don’t work well). Food provided by our LSN staff!<\/a><\/p>\n

November 7, 2024: New Young Adult Literature sorted by thematic units: Canva slide show from the presentations with links to lots of useful resources<\/a><\/p>\n

October 6, 2023 Learning Lunch: Artificial Intelligence: tools to save you time as a teacher. This session features MagicSchool.ai as well as a brief background. Lunch: Salvatore’s.<\/a><\/p>\n

May 19, 2022 Summer Reading learning lunch, highlighting new young adult and best-selling novels and non-fiction titles.<\/a><\/p>\n

January 3, 2023 (and ongoing on the linked Google Doc) Chatbot Artificial Intelligence writing creators and Education: A working document with links to AI detection tools, articles, and more.<\/a><\/p>\n

November 11, 2022: “The Cookoff” + updating the library book collection: statistics on our diversity audit<\/a><\/p>\n

October 21 PD Session 1: Library Resources for classroom teachers at LSN and MCPL<\/a><\/p>\n

October 21 PD Session 2: What does the educational research say about 1:1?<\/p>\n

September 23, 2022: Lunch & A Movie: SWANK video streaming service. Catering by Salvatore’s (Chicken Spiedini, Salad, Pasta + Red Sauce, Bread & italian butter, plus fresh popcorn, Milk Duds, and Junior Mints).<\/a><\/p>\n

May 20, 2022: Broncos Read re-boot + our annual summer reading recommendations. Catering by Longboards.<\/a><\/p>\n

April 1, 2022 How it started, How it’s going: You may not have noticed, but there’s been a lot going on. This is a quick recap of some of the resources we’ve done trainings on over the past few years that are still incredibly useful! The Slides have lots of links to the resources as well as some tutorials. Food = BWW wings, salad, Mac & Cheese.<\/a><\/p>\n

November 19, 2021 Thanksgiving staff trivia & Surface Book 3 tips & tricks. Based on a staff survey, we offer some hardware and software tips. In the presentation find instructions on pairing your pencil, adjusting the track pad, using dual screen monitors, and adding shortcuts for favorite programs. Plus, we offer lots of tutorial links for Lumio, Kami, and Jamboard.<\/a><\/p>\n

October 29, 2021 Show & Tell for the new Surface Book 3 computers the staff will get on Monday, November 2.<\/p>\n

May 19, 2021: Books and a Buffet (of pop tarts): Nathan and Michael presented two sessions over great new books, including titles on next year’s Gateway and Dogwood readers award lists. The Google Slides presentation is linked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May 12, 2021: Our first learning lunch since the pandemic began! BreakoutEDU<\/a> lets you build and play breakout games online with your students, either synchronously or asynchronously. Michael recorded this YouTube video<\/a> for those who couldn’t attend in-person. We had the Tacos Del Barrio taco truck serving street tacos and burritos for lunch!<\/p>\n

May, 2020: This was our bring-your-own-lunch staff get-together during quarantine \/ lockdown in the spring of 2020. The topic was new books! Here is the YouTube video one of the sessions.<\/a><\/p>\n

November 1, 2019:\u00a0 Our topic for this year’s cookoff is how to use students’ new MCPL digital library cards to unlock powerful teaching tools in your classroom. We will present a much more in-depth session on the same topic (using these same slides) on our November 5 professional development day.<\/a><\/p>\n

Travel and PD: Michael presented a session September 6, 2019 on how to get grants to travel in the summer for PD that doesn’t require district paperwork.<\/a> Food truck Friday with Taste of Brazil!<\/p>\n

Great books to read! Michael & Nathan’s topic for May, 2018 and May 17, 2019<\/a>. Check out the LSN LMC’s 60 second book trailers<\/a> for some titles to consider. Food both years was Low Life BBQ.<\/p>\n

Two great Non-Fiction books, summarized so you get the highlights! Factfulness by Hans Rosling and Courageous Conversations about Race by Glenn E. Singleton<\/a> April 18, 2019\u00a0 Chipotle!<\/p>\n

Schoology<\/a>: Library for Teachers Group 9-12. Library resources at a glance, many can be dropped straight into your Schoology lessons. Join code 3HNST-QGH2C. Topic November 2, 2018. Chili Cookoff!<\/p>\n

Video Tools for Chromebooks and Classrooms<\/a>: Topic Feb 23, 2018<\/p>\n

Augmented Reality<\/a>: Add video, messages, or web links to common objects in your classroom, like posters, book covers, and more. Topic November 3, 2017<\/p>\n

Media Literacy Tools<\/a>: Topic April 26, 2017\u00a0Get a digital version of the poster to print or post.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Makerspaces: February 24, 2017\u00a0<\/a> Play with the LMC’s Sphero kits, arduino and Raspberry Pi kits, and all the links on our Teacher Tech Playground page.<\/p>\n

Breakout Boxes: Gamify your learning! We can design a game for your students based on your learning objectives. Click here to see breakout games the secondary librarians in our district have created.<\/a> Topic for January 2016.<\/p>\n

Makerspace: Robots, Spheros, Arduinos, and more:\u00a0 Students can learn how to code, program robots, build and program drones, or simply drive our spheros in order to learn directions in a modern language. \u00a0The LMC also has iPad controllers, ramps, cones, and other equipment to help create a learning environment that\u2019s right for your assignment. This link highlights current inventory of makerspaces at secondary schools.<\/a> Topic for February 24, 2017<\/p>\n

Virtual Reality:\u00a0The LMC has 30 phones and carboard VR viewers that your class can use to take virtual field trips.\u00a0Our phones work with\u00a0Google Expeditions (click to see list of Expeditions).<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Topic for September 28, 2016.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

May 2015: What’s new in Literature (Summer Reading highlights)<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Screen Multimedia: The LMC has two green screen studios to help your students and class groups create their multimedia projects. Paired with Macintosh computers in our editing suites, students can create nearly any sort of movie project. Our YouTube Help Videos<\/a> cover a variety of movie creation questions. Topic for January 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AI TOOLS FOR TEACHERS<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/h1>\n
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LSR7 AI Policy<\/a>\u00a0 Starting with the 23\/24 school year, this policy outlines expectations for student use of AI (including citations for AI use).<\/p>\n

FutureTools<\/a>: Website that has nearly 3,000 AI tools that are searchable and sorted by type.<\/p>\n

AI Detection<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Draftback<\/a> chrome extension to make it easy to see revisions on student (or anyone’s) work.<\/p>\n

Turn It In<\/a> features an AI detector. There is considerable debate about the accuracy of this tool, with independent testers claiming up to 15% of results as false positives<\/p>\n

ChatGPTZero<\/span><\/a> AI detector<\/p>\n

Teacher Classroom AI Tools<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 5 choices, then alphabetical:<\/p>\n

NotebookLM<\/a>: Create a ‘notebook’ to store an immense amount of data. AI will then use only the data you have uploaded to create lesson plans, study guides, and amazingly realistic 15 minute podcasts that sound like a real-life morning radio show. As of September 2024 this was not yet available on the R7 Googleverse.<\/p>\n

MagicSchool.ai<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>One-stop shopping for educators wanting to streamline essential tasks. Lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments & IEPs, communicate clearly, etc. Can also be used to create AI resistant lessons. One of our top picks.<\/p>\n

SchoolAI<\/a>: AI Chatbots for conversations with students, plus other tools<\/span><\/p>\n

Bard by Google <\/span><\/a>Chatbot developed by Google that pulls responses from the internet. Generates dialogue, similar to ChatGPT\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ChatGPT <\/span><\/a>The ChatBot that started it all (way back in December, 2022). Generates authentic dialogue in response to user inquiries. Teachers have access at school, students do not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canva Design<\/a> can generate presentations, & create images with a single prompt. Canva Write is a chatbot.<\/p>\n

Curipod<\/a> Focus on interactive\u00a0<\/span>lessons, slideshows, discussion questions, exit tickets, would you rather questions, drawing prompts. A top pick.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11ElevenLabs<\/a> Text to speech, AI voice generator, enables you to input text in one language (English) and export yourself speaking (in your own voice) in the language of your choice.<\/p>\n

almanack.ai<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Creates a course from scratch. It can create everything from learning targets to notes to assessments. You can add a stimulus and have it create questions for that stimulus.<\/p>\n

Brisk Teaching<\/a>: teacher planning, AI checker, and feedback,\u00a0 level adjustment tool, drDF to Slides, among other things.<\/p>\n

ChatPDF<\/a> Creates an assignment with questions using a PDF<\/p>\n

Claude<\/a>: AI assistant that claims to be secure and accurate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Diffit\u00a0 <\/span><\/a>Adapt existing material for any type of reader; create resources for any topic based on grade level<\/span><\/p>\n

eduaide<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Teaching assistant that can create lesson plans, rubrics, debates, games (BINGO, jeopardy, etc.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gamma<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Generates creative presentation decks, documents, webpages.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Goblin Tools <\/span><\/a>Give this AI tool a task and it breaks it down into smaller steps. Can be used to help lesson plan, or help students with task time management.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guidde<\/a>: Chrome extension that allows you to easily create study guides, directions, etc based on what you have in your browser.<\/p>\n

IMArena<\/a>: Chatbot arena that pits two different chatbots up against each other for useable output. Best part of this tool is you might get free access to a paid version of ChatGPT or other AI.<\/p>\n

MagicSlides<\/a>: Convert PDF (or similar) to a slideshow. Freemium (three free)<\/p>\n

Miro<\/span><\/a>: AI powered collaboration platform, including mind maps and a lot of other features<\/span><\/p>\n

Otter:<\/a> Turn this extension on and it’ll take meeting notes for you on Google Meet, Zoom, etc.<\/p>\n

Project Read AI:<\/a> “Your AI co-teacher for the science of reading.” Generates decodable text \/ stories at any level. Fee based.<\/p>\n

QuickDraw with Google<\/a>: A fun pictionary-on-a-device game where you get several prompts of something to draw, then the program uses Google and AI to guess what you’ve drawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Quizalize<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Turns any quiz into a classroom game. Use a pre-made quiz, import your own. Offers differentiated follow-up based on student quiz results.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slides AI<\/a>: AI creation tool for professional, engaging slides from text.<\/p>\n

Slidespeak:<\/a> AI creation tool to convert PDFs, documents, or text to an engaging slideshow. Freemium.<\/p>\n

Slidespilot<\/a>: Convert PDF (and similar) to a slideshow with the magic of AI.<\/p>\n

Speak Subtitles for YouTube:<\/a> Chrome extension that allows you to convert subtitles from one language into realistic spoken words in another language.<\/p>\n

Stable Diffusion<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Creates artwork and images in particular styles based on a prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n

twee<\/span><\/a> Designed to make lesson planning easier for English teachers. Generates dialogues, stories, articles, etc. Create questions for YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

UBlock Origin<\/a>: blocks ads on YouTube<\/p>\n

Wisdolia<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Auto-generates flashcards from any YouTube video, webpage, or PDF.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Googleverse Tools<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/h1>\n
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All these tools come from (or help with) Google:<\/span><\/p>\n

IORad:<\/a> Chrome Extension that makes it wicked easy to create online tutorials for Websites. No screen shots. No recording. This does all the work for you! Editable, easy, and efficient.<\/p>\n

Dualless:<\/a> Want dual monitors, but only have one? This Chrome Extension allows you to split your screen into two parts, which is VERY helpful with classroom Google Meets. 100 second tutorial video here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Meet Breakout Rooms:<\/a> Chrome Extension. Send your students into breakout rooms while in virtual learning. Overview video here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Menu<\/a>: Extension that allows easy entry into the Google Universe without leaving the Web page you\u2019re on. Easily access search, translate, Keep, maps, calendar, gmail, and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boomerang Calendar<\/a>: Shares your availability for meetings, etc. with one simple email; a very efficient way of getting a group of busy people to agree on a common time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Fonts<\/a>: Easily pick fonts for use in the Googleverse.<\/p>\n

Google student programs:<\/a> Educational opportunities across the Google Universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Tour Builder<\/a>:\u00a0Create \u201ctours\u201d using Google maps, YouTube, Images, links, & \u00a0more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Trends<\/a>: As the name suggests, this Web page will show you what\u2019s trending in Google searches, as well as where things are trending.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hypothesis:<\/a> Similar to Kami<\/a>, this Chrome extension is a web-pased PDF markup tool. Teachers can use it, students might not be able to log into it.<\/p>\n

Kami:<\/a> District-purchased subscription allows you to markup PDFs and other documents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep:<\/a> Google product that allows you to right-click on any Web-based item and save it across all your platforms \u2014 including smart watches. Great for shared lists and a lot more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Save to Google Drive:<\/a> Chrome extension that puts a drive icon on your toolbar. When you find something online you want to save to your drive, just click the icon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

YouTube Video Editor:<\/a> As the name suggests, you can edit video within your account’s YouTube Studio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Swank Video Streaming<\/a>: Added in August 2022, Swank allows teachers to log in through this link to find full-length movies for use in the classroom (or assign as homework). You can assign links to videos, or segments of videos, to your students. They sign in with their Google credentials to access the assigned clips, but can only access the clip you’ve assigned. If requesting a new movie, be sure to include educational purpose or SWANK lincensors might not approve the request.<\/p>\n

AhaSlides<\/a>: Instant feedback during presentations, makes formative assessments interactive and fun on the fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

AnswerGarden<\/a>: Online tool (Website, not chrome app) that bills itself as \u201ca new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bamboozle<\/a>: Make educational games online, no student accounts needed.<\/p>\n

BeeLine Reader:<\/a> Creates a gradient overlay that enhances reading ability for readers at any level. Once you\u2019ve tried this, it\u2019s hard to go back to the old way of reading black type on a white background!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Blooket:<\/a> Much like Kahoot!, this gamifies learning by engaging students in a fun online participatory event.<\/p>\n

Classroom resources from the University of California- Davis:<\/a> Michael created this Google Doc following an NEH workshop in Sacramento, CA. There are a number of great teaching tools for any classroom, plus links to resources specific to lessons on the Transcontinental Railroad.<\/p>\n

Coggle<\/a>: Idea and Mind- Mapping program that allows multiple collaborators to map at the same time. Easily embed images, links, and more to the maps.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Desmos:<\/a> K-12 Math lessons<\/p>\n


<\/span>Edji<\/a>: Clever extension that enables live, collaborative reading annotation<\/span><\/p>\n

Edpuzzle<\/span><\/a>: Interactive video lessons<\/span><\/p>\n

Formative<\/span><\/a>: Unlock interactive opportunities in lessons to create engagement<\/span><\/p>\n

Free Rice:<\/a> It isn’t just vocabulary anymore. This app donates rice as students practice vocab.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gimkit<\/span><\/a>– <\/span>A high school student built this after playing Kahoot and believing he could improve upon it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Grammarly:<\/a> Extension that check\u2019s you\u2019re grammer and spellling as you type. Clearly it wasnt used for this entry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kahoot<\/span><\/a>: Classic interactive online quiz game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kami:<\/a>\u00a0District-purchased subscription allows you to markup PDFs and other documents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mentimeter<\/span><\/a>: Interactive presentation extension, adds polls and interactivity to what you’ve already got<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearpod<\/a>: Classic freemium online engagement tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York Times Learning Network:<\/a> Invaluable trove of resources geared toward the classroom. Includes lesson plans, writing prompts, infographs and images, Free.<\/p>\n

Noodle Tools<\/a>: citation tool with paid subscription through the LMC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Overdrive\/Sora<\/a>: app or extension that allows you to download content from the LSN LMC\u2019s fiction eBook library to your device and read \/ listen offline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parlay<\/span><\/a>– <\/span>It provides content ideas for discussions, but it mainly is a data collector to encourage better classroom discussions. For instance in can help track student participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perusal<\/span><\/a>: Interactive social learning platform<\/span><\/p>\n

Phet:<\/a> Interactive simulations, specifically for Math & Science.<\/p>\n

Pocket:<\/a> Chrome extension that allows you to save articles for later, then aggregates them all in one place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quizlet Live<\/a>: Through Quizlet, provides gamified instant feedback<\/span><\/p>\n

Quizzez:<\/a> \u00a0Similar to<\/span> Kahoot.it<\/a>; this platform allows you to gamify learning. If you use Kahoot a lot, this is a fun change of pace. If you don\u2019t use Kahoot, start with either of these to engage your students.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Scrible<\/a>: Chrome extension. Save Websites, articles and more. Highlight and annotate within a Website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Socrative<\/a>: Chrome App for students and teachers. \u201cSocrative will instantly grade, aggregate, and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

TeachingBooks:<\/a> This is free to LSR7 teachers and students through your district log-in. Not sure how to pronounce an author’s name? Looking for book trailers or summaries? There are thousands of great book-related resources in TeachingBooks.net<\/p>\n

ThingLink<\/a>: Chrome Web extension that allows students to easily create interactive image and video content.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trello<\/span><\/a>: team organizer, collaborative organizer. “Keeps all tasks, teammates, and tools together.”<\/span><\/p>\n

TurnItIn:<\/a> plagiarism prevention teaching program. Teachers have access through school email as login; see a librarian with access questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typing.com<\/a>: This website offers a typing curriculum that is gamified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wakelet<\/a>: A bookmarking site, similar to Pinterest, but better suited for education & classrooms. Free sign-in with Google.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Adobe Express (formerly SPARK)<\/a>\u00a0Professional-level graphics with templates and fonts from the maker of Photoshop. Free for educators.<\/p>\n

Anchor<\/a> Web-based Podcasting platform, now controlled by Spotify.<\/p>\n

AutoDraw:<\/a> You draw something with your mouse, it gives you a cleaner, better version or other options.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awesome Screen Shot:<\/a> Extension for easily taking screen shots of the whole or only a portion of your screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bitable<\/a>: Online video editor. Easy, but freemium.<\/p>\n

Bubbl.us<\/span><\/a>: Mind mapping, freemium<\/span><\/p>\n

Canva:<\/a> Create posters and graphics quickly and easily. See Adobe Express<\/a> for a similar but more professional (and free) app.<\/p>\n

Classroom Screen<\/a>: Online Whiteboard<\/span><\/p>\n

Dall-E 2<\/a> Image creation AI<\/p>\n

Dall-E 3<\/a>:\u00a0 The Bing AI image creation tool. Requires a personal Microsoft account (free).<\/p>\n

Class Hook<\/a>: Easily access and embed clips from popular TV and movies for classroom use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Complexly<\/a>: From literature to biochemistry, Complexly’s shows cover a breadth of topics designed to get you thinking. Owned by Hank Green, of “crash course video<\/a>” fame.<\/p>\n

EdPuzzle<\/a>: Create a free teacher account to create quizzes or checks for understanding within YouTube videos, voice-over existing videos, and a lot more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Elai.io<\/a>: Create corporate-style training videos by entering simple text. 60 seconds free.<\/p>\n

Fotor:<\/a> AI image creator<\/p>\n

InVideo<\/a>: text to video AI creation tool.<\/p>\n

IoRad:<\/a> This makes it wicked easy to create a how-to tutorial for web-based activities. You just click through the steps of what you want to show, and IoRad does all the screen captures and even voices it for you. If you love it there is a Google toolbar Extension.<\/p>\n

Genial.ly:<\/a> Similar to Canva or Adobe Express, this free tool lets you easily create interesting promotional materials or other projects.<\/p>\n

Leonardo AI<\/a>: Image creator. Freemium.<\/p>\n

MindMeister<\/span><\/a>: Mind mapping, collaborative sharing<\/span><\/p>\n

Mindomo<\/span><\/a>: Mind mapping, charts, graphs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos: Beautiful, professional images for use in presentations, movies, etc. No-cost, copyright free, royalty free.\u00a0 Pexels<\/a>\u00a0 or Pixabay.<\/a> Frequently blocked.<\/p>\n

Photopea<\/a>: Free photo editing, similar to Photoshop, that works on Chromebooks<\/p>\n

PikToChart:<\/a> create nice graphics, charts, and pictograms. Freemium. See also Venngage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pixton<\/a>: Create comics & characters easily. Also available in Spanish.<\/p>\n

PlayPosIt<\/a>: Similar to EdPuzzle<\/a>. Post video and pause and designated spots.<\/p>\n

Quiver Vision:<\/a> Use iPads or student smartphones to make maps, flags, cells, volcanoes, and a whole lot more turn 3D.<\/span><\/p>\n

ScreenCastify:<\/a> Video recording tool for creating screencasts. The program records everything on your screen, or the part you want it to capture, while you do the voice over. Great for flipped classroom use! You can also make highlights and draw on the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch.io<\/a> Online whiteboard and drawing tool<\/span><\/p>\n

ScreenPal (formerly ScreenCast-O-Matic):<\/a> Video capture tool for recording screencasts, includes option to show you in a picture-in-picture box in the lower right corner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Storyboard That<\/span><\/a>:<\/span> (NOW REQUIRES A SUBSCRIPTION) Storyboard That empowers users to create storyboards and graphic organizers with its award-winning, browser-based Storyboard Creator.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suno:<\/a> This alarmingly easy AI tool will create a catchy song in nearly any style based on your request.<\/p>\n

TurnOffTheLights:<\/a> Extension for watching videos; by clicking the shortcut everything that\u2019s not the video gets darkened on your screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

TypeWolf:<\/a> Easily pick quality fonts for presentations, graphics, etc.<\/p>\n

Venngage<\/a>: Charts, graphics, pictograms. See also PikToChart.<\/a><\/p>\n

Visme.co<\/a> Create engaging\u00a0presentations, professional\u00a0infographics, and other\u00a0stunning visuals\u00a0online.<\/p>\n

VideoNot.es:<\/a> Take notes as you watch a video, posts to Google Drive.<\/p>\n

WebCamera.io<\/a>: Records video from the Web Camera and saves to your Google Drive folder<\/p>\n

WeVideo<\/a>: As easy as iMovie, but online. 5 minutes of free edited video a month.<\/p>\n

WebWhiteBoard.com<\/a>: This is exactly what it sounds like. Picture a community Google Doc that\u2019s fully interactive and shareable, but instead of a Doc it\u2019s a whiteboard. It\u2019s that easy. Passwords \/ emails optional.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

YooDownload<\/a>: Download videos or audio files from the Web for use in student projects. Be sure to close all pop-ups right away by X-ing out of \u00a0tab that opens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ziteboard<\/span><\/a>: Chrome extension, Online whiteboard and folder manager<\/span><\/p>\n

PROMPT WRITING HELP<\/span><\/p>\n

Teacher’s prompt guide to Chat GPT<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompt writing 101 for educators<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompts for ELA teachers<\/a><\/p>\n

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