There are so many awesome tools for schools. In this power-packed set of slides, I share some of the best tools in schools today. If you want to see lots of options for education technology, here is where you'll start. Presented at Kirby SD in Illinois in January 2016.

1. Let’s talk about 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”

4. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

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To get to 50 million subscribers

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To get to 50 million subscribers

7. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

8. days
To get to 50 million subscribers

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

10. 15 minutes
2-3 times a week

11. 5 Most popular ebook readers
 Kindle
 iBook
 Nook
 Kobo
 Google Play Books
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12. 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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13. 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:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/publish-ebooks-free/
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15. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
4. PAPER! ;-)
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
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#2 Reinventing Notetaking

16. 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

18. Use Hemingway App w/ Grammarly

19. Pro Writing Aid

20. TIP: Remove Sticky
Sentences

21. TIP: Add 25% transitions

22. Google Voice Typing

24. Wolfram Alpha Pro

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

29. Twister on Classtools.net

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

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

35. One Note: Only Collaborative
Notebook service

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

41. Extensity

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

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

47. Kill Malware

48. Screenflow: Record
iPhone/iPad Screens

49. 10 Habits of
Bloggers that Win
Free Ebook
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r.com

50. youtube.com/coolcatteacher

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Dropbox * Google Drive * One Drive

52. 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

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

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

55. “flipped” techniques to F2F

56. My Favorite Screencasting Tool:
OFFICE MIX

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

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

59. 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!

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

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

62. Quadblogging – an authentic audience of peers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

74. 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

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

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

77. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

86. “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

87. 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

88. List.ly

89. Ed.ted.com – great flipped tool

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

91. • 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

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

93. 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

94. • 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

95. 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

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

97. 30/30 app

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

99. • 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

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

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

102. 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

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

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

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

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

107. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115. 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

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

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

118. Amazing Race “Cloud Edition”

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

120. 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

121. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 1: Innovate Like a Turtle

122. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”

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