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Tablet Resources for Teaching
 Ow.ly (website) – Shorten URLs, making them easier for kids (and adults!) to type. Ow.ly links are
CASE-SENSITIVE! http://ow.ly
 Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Android; free) – This application is intended to provide educators,
instructional designers, and human performance technologists with a convenient job-aid to reference
the core elements of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. Great for generating questions during lessons!
http://ow.ly/xyawI
 Class Cards (Android/iOS; paid) – Class Cards is an easy-to-use yet extremely effective app for
boosting student engagement during lessons and discussions. Based on the book written by the same
name (author: Rick Morris, http://www.newmanagement.com), this indispensable teaching tool will
put your students in the palm of your hand.
 Class Dojo (website/Android/iOS; free) – Class Dojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers
improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on
behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Allows for shared classes/classes
with multiple teachers, too! http://www.classdojo.com
 Digital Citizenship by Common Sense Media (website; free) – Free digital citizenship
curriculum materials that are designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and
participate responsibly in our digital world. You now can access our K-12 curriculum in two ways:
printable on the web or downloadable via iBooks. http://ow.ly/xLyAr
 Digital Passport by Common Sense Media (website/Android/iOS; free) - Web-based games
and videos engage 3rd - 5th graders in independent learning. Modules zero in on critical skills related
to digital safety, respect, and community. Correlates to the Digital Citizenship curriculum listed
above. https://digitalpassport.org
 Dropbox (website/Android/iOS; free) - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your
photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to
your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the
Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Requires software to be installed on computer as well as app on your mobile device.
http://www.dropbox.com

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 Edmodo (website/Android/iOS; free) - Edmodo is designed to get students excited about
learning in a familiar environment. On Edmodo, teachers can continue classroom discussions online,
give polls to check for student understanding, and award badges to individual students based on
performance or behavior. For SCUSD: https://santaclara.edmodo.com/
 Evernote (website/Android/iOS; free) – Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and
small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. Save documents,
photos, links, and more all in one place and access them from any device. https://evernote.com/
 Graphite by Common Sense Media (website; free) – Graphite™ is a free service from nonprofit
Common Sense Media designed to help preK-12 educators discover, use, and share the best apps,
games, websites, and digital curricula for their students by providing unbiased, rigorous ratings and
practical insights from our active community of teachers. http://www.graphite.org/
 Kids Timer (Android; free) – A digital version of the Time Timer, a visual timer that allows kids to
see in a pie chart format how much time is has elapsed/is left. Great for use in the classroom to help
kids with time management! http://ow.ly/xLg47
 QR Barcode Scanner (Android/iOS; free) – Great for scanning books for online searches and for
creating QR Code scavenger hunts in the classroom! http://ow.ly/xLgv0
 Shelves (Android; free) – Shelves is an Android application that manages your collection of board
games, books, comics, gadgets, movies, music, software, tools, toys, and video games. With Shelves,
you can add items in a number of ways: by scanning barcodes, from the Internet, or by entering
details manually. You can also import and export data from a variety of sources, including Google
Books, Google Drive, BoardGameGeeks.com, or Shelfari. There’s also full support for software such
as Dropbox, Delicious Library, and MediaMan. http://ow.ly/xyb9N
 Socrative (website/Android/iOS; free) - Socrative is a smart student response system that
empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games.
Our apps are super simple and take seconds to login. Socrative runs on tablets, smartphones, and
laptops. Separate apps for teacher and student; can also be accessed via the web.
http://www.socrative.com/ for more info, http://m.socrative.com/ for student login.
 TeamViewer (Android/iOS; free for personal use) – TeamViewer allows you to use your tablet as
a remote for your computer. A great tool for getting out from behind a laptop and in front of the
class! Requires software to be installed on your computer as well as an app on your mobile device.
http://www.teamviewer.com