Here are more than 50 ways to use education technology in the classroom. Updated and specially created for Miami Device 2015 with lots of new edtech tools, ideas, and practical tips for teachers of all kinds. We can use edtech to make the classroom a better place if we know how.

1. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
Slides and Links will be posted at
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2. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 1: Innovate Like a Turtle

3. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”

6. Meet Mrs. Adkins: Innovation is
not an AGE, it is a MINDSET
Her secret to
innovating with
kids:
3 folders a
weekend.

7. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

8. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

9. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

10. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

11. days
To get to 50 million subscribers

12. How can
we keep
up in the
face of
such rapid
change?

13. 15 minutes
2-3 times a week

14. 5 Most popular ebook readers
 Kindle
 iBook
 Nook
 Kobo
 Google Play Books
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#1 Reinventing Paper

15. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org
eReaderIQ ereaderiq.com
Free Booksy freebooksy.com
Book Bub bookbub.com
Bookish bookish.com
Hundred Zeroes hundredzeroes.com
Goodreads goodreads.com
What Should I
Read Next?
whatshouldireadnext.com
Which Book openingthebook.com/whichboo
k
Calibre calibre-ebook.com
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16. 7 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
 http://liber.io/
 (Write in Google Drive  eBook)
2. Draft
 http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
 http://leanpub.com/
5. PowerPoint (It works!)
6. Keynote (Yes you can!)
7. Scrivener
Learn more:
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18. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
4. PAPER! ;-)
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#2 Reinventing Notetaking

19. Awesome Productivity Tip
Paper •Journal
Evernote
•Use the
square task
boxes
•Use your “tag”
Task
Clone
•Send to task
manager
Task
Manager
• With link to
Evernote/
picture of
the page

21. Use Hemingway App w/ Grammarly

22. Pro Writing Aid

23. TIP: Remove Sticky
Sentences

24. TIP: Add 25% transitions

25. Google Voice Typing

27. Wolfram Alpha Pro

28. http://www.go-lab-
project.eu/online-labs

32. Twister on Classtools.net

33. Did you
know?
http://www.classtools.net/twister/
You can make “Fake Tweets” at Classtools.net

37. http://cctea.ch/bosch-sketchnote

38. One Note: Only Collaborative
Notebook service

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40. Meet the
new
notecard
Hyperlink is part of bookmark
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41. Diigo Outliner Tool
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/diigo-social-bookmarking-tutorial/

44. Extensity

48. http://cctea.ch/chrome-better

49. Google Chrome Cleanup Tool
(PC Only)
https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/

50. Kill Malware

51. Screenflow: Record
iPhone/iPad Screens

52. 10 Habits of
Bloggers that Win
Free Ebook
www.coolcatteache
r.com

53. youtube.com/coolcatteacher

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Dropbox * Google Drive * One Drive

55. Video Game
programming
See:
http://j.mp/15-code
Gamestar mechanic
http://gamestarmechanic.com/
Gamemaker
https://www.yoyogames.com/studio
iPad:
Kodable (age 5 and up)
Hopscotch (4th and up)
http://j.mp/hopscotch-ebook
by Wes Fryer
http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=hoc

56. Simulation Environments
http://aic.conflix.org
University of Michigan

57. Formative Assessment
Socrative
ROCKS
www.socrative.com!
Tip: Play quizzes as races for
review. Use open ended questions

58. “flipped” techniques to F2F

59. My Favorite Screencasting Tool:
OFFICE MIX

60. Consistent Layout of Screen
Essential
Questions
Video with
Custom
Thumbnail
Assignment
s

61. A note on assignments – Spell out
the LOCATION for turning work in
My Locations:
• (HAIKU)
• (FOLDER)

62. Crescerance: Mobile App
Development
Want to be a happier person? The secret to being a truly happy
person may lie in the most unlikely of places: being kind and
encouraging to others! iCare offers loads of fun, creative ways
for you to be a kinder, happier person by caring for others.
Don’t have time to make a homemade cake or a crafty DIY
project? Don’t know the right words to encourage that friend
who’s having a hard time? With iCare, you can find loads of great
ways to do nice, creative stuff for your friends, family or even the
guy at work. With all the nice, fun ideas iCare offers, you don’t
even have to have a big imagination to be kind!
With iCare, you can find quick, simple ways to be kind to those
around you and encourage your peers and yourself through
iCare’s many sources of positive input.
Our features include:
Inspirational videos
A daily feed of heartening quotes and blog posts
Links to motivating books and other resources
The five love languages and the ways to be kind using them
Inspiring photos and quotes
A motivational playlist from Spotify
Sometimes life can get so hectic, it seems that you don’t have
the time or energy to think of those around you, but it doesn’t
take much to be kind. iCare will help remind you to take time to
be kind and be happy!

63. Did you know?
You’re not stuck! You can move your
files. Mover.io

64. Did you know?
 Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors

65. Quadblogging – an authentic audience of peers

66. ReinventingWriting
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67. Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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#7 Reinventing Group Reports

68. Popular Group Website Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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69. Mindmapping is great for Writing or App Building!

71. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/

72. Spelling City
www.spellingcity.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

73. www.funbrain.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

74. Visuwords – www.visuwords.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

75. Google Forms – A school
survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

76. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

77. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into
Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

78. www.wordle.net
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

79. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

80. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

81. http://www.tagxedo.com/
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

82. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

83. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

84. www.edmodo.com
Free, blogging, assignments
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

85. Give assignments and receive
responses
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

86. Trello – project management!
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

87. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

89. “The next best thing to being wise
oneself is to live in a circle of those who
are.” C.S. Lewis
Build your circle of the wise
RSS
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

90. Tons of free resources for your whiteboard / classroom
http://www.mentormob.com
Theresa Allen’s page: http://j.mp/1dDkYbO
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

91. List.ly

92. Ed.ted.com – great flipped tool

93. • Remind
• Celly
• Bloomz
3 Ways to Connect w/ Parents

94. • Find apps on iPad / iPod to find new
tools
• App Advice
• Apps gone free
• For Droid –
• See Richard Byrne!
• @rmbyrne
App Advice
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

95. Feedly.com
Replacement for Google reader
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

96. Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.com
For building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

97. • Flipboard
• Editor.flipboard.com – can co-curate
magazines also!
My “personal” newspaper
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

98. You become like those you are around.
• What are you reading?
• Kindle
• iCatcher – iPhone/ iPad
• Every Classroom Matters (my show!) ;-)
• Subscribe to videos and listen
• Have a personal “radio station” for the
drive to school
Staying Positive
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

99. •Couch to 5K App
•Weight Watchers App

100. 30/30 app

101. www.hootsuite.com
Schedule updates like lunch menus.
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings

102. • SeeSaw (Love love!!)
• Weebly.com
• Webs.com
• Wixx.com
• Wikispaces
• Wordpress
• Voicethread (for younger students)
• Burn DVD
Efolios
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

103. http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

104. • Doctopus (monitor work & progress)
• Floobaroo (Grades forms)
• Goobric (cool rubric tool)
Google Apps Helpers

105. Monetize the photos your annual staff is taking.
I hereby authorize the School to use
photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and
audio recordings of my child in school
media and advertisements. I understand
that I must notify the Ravenscroft
Communications Office, in writing, to
change this authorization.
Ravenscroft School
www.smugmug.com
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

106. Free painting software
http://www.getpaint.net/ ---- ninite
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

107. Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

108. Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

109. Microsoft Worldwide Telescope
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

110. Build your own planetarium
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ExperienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?Page=Dome
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds

111. • Son of Citation Machine
• Noodlebib
• EasyBib
• Citation generator in Microsoft Word
Citations

112. Google nGram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

113. Google nGram
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

114. Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

115. • Timebridge
• Doodle
Setting appointments
Productivity
• Bridging Time
Zones
• Paperless
Classroom
• File Management

116. Livebinders
http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=164223

117. • Wunderlist
• Task Clone
• Snagit
• LastPass
Some new favorites

118. Some favorite new tools
 Kahoot – www.getkahoot.com
 Plickers - www.plickers.com
 Telegami – www.tellagami.com
 Extensity (managing Chrome extensions)
 Thinglink www.thinglink.com
 Tiny Tap www.tinytap.it
Follow Free Tech for Teachers!! @rmbyrne
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Random Awesomeness

119. http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

120. Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

121. Amazing Race “Cloud Edition”

122. See https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Mindmeister

123. Brainstorming tool
bubbl.us/
Source: http://www.web2teachingtools.com/bubbl_us.html Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

124. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 1: Innovate Like a Turtle

125. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”

126. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
@coolcatteacher
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