This document introduces and summarizes four tools that can be used in education: Answer Garden, Tuxpi, Animoto, and QR codes generated with QR Code Monkey and QR Voice. Each tool is briefly described and examples are given of how they could be used for different lessons, assignments, and activities aligned with state standards. Screenshots and images are included to demonstrate the tools.

1. By Jennifer ShapiroCreative Commons Image Styrofoam Takeout Box.jpg. Digital Image. Wikimedia
Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Nov. 2013. Web 31 Jul 2014.
Technology Takeout. Digital image. http://www.imagechef.com/t/0ga8/Sticky-
Note. Image Chef, n.d. Web. <http://www.imagechef.com/>.

2. Easy for you to
navigate!
Engaging for
your students!
Public Domain Pictures (Photographer). (2014, July 30). Green Street Sign Reading Easy Street [digital image]. Retrieved from
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=24256192&pl=39150-43068
Public Domain Pictures (Photographer). (2014, July 30). Students Computer Young Boy [digital image]. Retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/students-
computer-young-boy-99506/

4. Four Amazing Tools
• Answer Garden
• Tuxpi
• Animoto
• QR Codes (QR Monkey & QR Voice)

5. QR Code Monkey
&
QR Voice
http://www.qrcode-monkey.com/
http://qrvoice.net/

6. Create a video
trailer for a book
and link it to the
cover with a QR
code.
Book Cover: Image retrieved from www.amazon.com
English SOL 5.1 & 5.2
Check out these
students in action!

7. QR Code Math Walkabout
Math SOL 4.14

8. How to solve
a multi-step
math
problem:
Step 1…
Embed Directions for an Assignment

9. QR Code Monkey
&
QR Voice

10. AnswerGarden
http://answergarden.ch/

11. Use it as an “exit card” to determine the
level of understanding following a lesson
about homophones.
SOL 5.4c

12. Have students brainstorm
prefixes, suffixes or root words.

13. Ask history or science morning
work questions.

14. AnswerGarden

15. http://www.tuxpi.com/
Tuxpi

16. Create a
wanted poster
for a famous
Virginian
abolitionist
during the Civil
War Era.
SOL VS 7a
Wanted Poster. Digital image. http://www.tuxpi.com/photo-effects/wanted-
poster. Tuxpi, n.d. Web. <http://www.tuxpi.com/>.

17. Create a fake
television
newscast
snapshot about
an important
event in history.
History SOL 3.3
TV Newscast Photo Effect. Digital image. http://www.tuxpi.com/photo-
effects/fake-newscast. Tuxpi, n.d. Web. <http://www.tuxpi.com/>.

18. Include in a:
• Book
Report
• Glog
• Getting to
Know You
Activity
Photo Shape Editor. Digital image. http://www.tuxpi.com/photo-
effects/shape-tool. Tuxpi, n.d. Web. <http://www.tuxpi.com/>.

19. Tuxpi

20. Animoto
http://animoto.com/

21. Document a Fieldtrip
Watch my Animoto video about my field trip to Neyagawa, Japan.

22. Document a Group Project
English SOL 5.1b

23. Document the
Process of
Creating a
Science
Project.
Science SOL 5.1
US Navy 110121-N-2513M-003 Yeoman 1st Class Nicole Oliver asks a student to
explain her science project during a science fair at Campostella Elemen.jpg. Digital
image. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Jan. 2011. Web. 31 May 2014.

24. Animoto

25. Is your
technology
takeout box
full?

26. http://www.freetech4teachers.com
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