The document provides descriptions of various educational technology tools including websites, apps, and other resources. Some of the tools described include Illuminations for math activities, Ed Heads for science videos, Voki for student avatars, Show Me for lesson demonstrations, Leaf Snap for plant identification, and TumbleBooks for online picture books. The document aims to inform educators about different digital options available.

1. Tech Smackdown
Trinity Faculty Forum
Marsha Harris…and friends!

2. Illuminations- Website
 Math Activities
 Interactive
 Lessons
 Standards
 Online Activities

3. Ed Heads- Website
 Virtual Science
 Cartoon Videos of the
surgery

4. Avatars-Websites
 Voki Classroom
 Give students a voice on
their personal website or
blog
 WL Teachers
 Assessment Tool
 Build Your Wild Self
 See Marsha‟s Voki

5. Show Me-App
 Great way to prepare and
share lessons and show
assessment.
 On the fly demonstrations
 Example from my son…

6. Leaf Snap-App
 Leafsnap contains beautiful
high-resolution images of
leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole,
seeds, and bark.
 Leafsnap currently includes
the trees of the Northeast
and will soon grow to include
the trees of the entire
continental United States.

7. Fishdom H2O-App
 Help a marine biologist find
hidden treasures in this
ocean style scavenger hunt.
 Build unique aquariums with
tons of accessories

8. Tumble Books Online-
Website
 TumbleBookLibrary is an
online collection of
TumbleBooks – animated,
talking picture books which
teach kids the joy of reading in
a format they'll love.
 TumbleBooks are created by
adding animation, sound,
music and narration to existing
picture books in order to
produce an electronic picture
book which you can read, or
have read to you.

9. Motion Math-App
 Feed your fish and play with
numbers.
 Practice mental addition and
subtraction
 Several levels

10. Chicktionary-Website
 Description: This is a
barnyard game between you
and seven hens. Use the
letters to spell as many
words as you can before
time runs out.

Instructions: To spell a word,
type the letters or click the
hens in order, and watch the
word appear.

11. Poetry Creator-App
 Ever wonder what it would be
like to mash-up a
Shakespeare poem with a Hip
Hop Song? Verses is a new
iPhone and iPad app that puts
a fresh spin on a cherished
classic: refrigerator magnet
poetry. We built this app to set
your creativity ablaze with
Verses's limitless word mixing
possibilities that allow you to
become a kind of dictionary
DJ.

12. Futaba-App
 Futaba Classroom Games is
the only multi-player game of
its kind in the app store! Up
to 4 students can
cooperatively learn using just
one iPad.
 Each child takes a seat around
the iPad and taps in to start.
The game begins as images
and questions zoom into the
playing area. The first player
to match the word to the
image scores a point. Win 3
rounds and you'll be awarded
a Futaba (a small „seedling‟).

13. Duolingo
 http://duolingo.com/#  Duolingo is a free service
that helps you learn
languages with your friends
while simultaneously
contributing to translate real-
world content from the Web.
 Rosetta-Stone-”ish”
 Social network

14. Class Dojo
What is ClassDojo?
 ClassDojo 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.
 Better learning behaviors,
smoother lessons and
hassle-free data - and its
free!

15. Teacher Kit
 Teacher kit is a great
personal organizer for the
teacher.
 Track attendance, behavior
and grades for one or many
classes.

16. Haiku Deck
 Haiku Deck, a free iPad
app, is a completely new
kind of presentation
software designed to make
your slides stunning.
Whether you are pitching
an idea, teaching a lesson,
delivering a keynote, or
igniting a movement, Haiku
Deck makes presentations
simple, beautiful, and fun.

17. Infuse Learning
 Great quick assessments for students
with devices. No need for SRS!
 http://student.infuselearning.com/

18. Soundcloud
 Search and explore original
music and audio you‟ll love.
Play a sound and enjoy
 Create favorites
 Follow favorite artists
 Embed music/sounds in an
online environment
 Create your own recordings
and save

19. Thinglink
 What is ThingLink?
 ThingLink helps you create
and discover rich images.
 Be creative! Make your
images come alive with music,
video, text, images, shops and
more!
 Every image contains a story
and ThingLink helps you tell
your stories. Follow image
channels from your favorite
bands, bloggers and friends.
Your ThingLink interactive
images form a channel that
other users can follow.

20. Zite
 Personalize your own
newspaper and magazine to
all of the topics that you like,
from the resources you trust.

21. iEAR.org
 A site devoted to teachers that reviews educational apps.
 It‟s a little “messy” to look at and difficult to navigate through…but it
serves the purpose.
 #iear
 #edapp

22. Apps Gone Free
 Find great quality apps for
free.
 Only available for limited
days
 Need to check frequently

23. Aurasma
 See and interact with the
world in a new way
 Thanks to Aurasma, every
image, object and even place
can have its own Aura. Auras
can be as simple as a video
and a link to a web page or as
complex as a lifelike 3D
animation. Use the Aurasma
app to unlock Auras and share
the experience with friends. Or
get experimenting and use the
simple tools within the app to
create and share your own
Auras.

24. Songify
 Users simply speak into the
app and turn their words into
auto-tuned musical bliss.
Users can then share those
tunes with their friends
across social networks.
 Since its release last year,
Songify for iOs has been
downloaded over 9 million
times and over 120 million
songs have been created.

25. Action Movie FX
 More crowd pleasing than a
Hollywood blockbuster, this
easy-to-use app adds alien
death rays, car crashes,
missile strikes and other
effects to your videos right
from your phone or ipad.

26. bubbl.us
 Online brainstorming and mindmapping web 2.0 tool
 Similar to Inspiration/Kidspiration

27. Google Stuff
 This is now it‟s own site
 Provides articles and
publications about the
subject
 Search the latest index of the
world's books. Find millions
of great books you can
preview or read for free.

28. Mobile Deposit with your
device-App
 Most banks are enabling
mobile deposit with checks.
 You simply take a picture of
your check and upload it to
your account.
 Most banks have mobile
apps with this feature.

29. Prezi-Website Tool
 Prezi is a presentation tool
that students and teachers
can use as an alternative to
ppt.
 Helps you organize and
share your ideas
 Perfect for 4-6th grades
 Here is a sample of a prezi
that I made!

30. Todays Meet-Website
 TodaysMeet helps you
embrace the backchannel
and connect with your
audience in realtime.
 Encourage the room to use
the live stream to make
comments, ask questions,
and use that feedback to
tailor your presentation,
sharpen your points, and
address audience needs.
 Great assessment tool as
well!

31. What‟s the Word?-App
Surprisingly simple, amazingly
addictive, everyone's new favorite
game!
We'll show you four pictures that have
one word in common between them.
Can you guess what the word is?
(Hint - when you see a picture of a
bank card and a picture of a river
bank, the word is... bank! When you
see a four leaf clover and a happy
jackpot winner, the word is... luck!).
As a word game lover, you'll find this
game to be quick, easy, a lot of fun,
and the best part is that you already
know how to play!

32. Square 345-App
 Square345 is a magic square
puzzle of 3 by 3, 4 by 4, and 5
by 5. Magic squares have
been found in many cultures
for more than 4000 years.
 This is a fun game if you are
into math, brain teasers or just
want to pass your time.
 Test your math skills against
time and try to solve the magic
squares with the best possible
time.