1. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
Slides and Links will be posted at
www.coolcatteacher.com/miamidevice
Reinventing Writing and

2. Use Hemingway App w/ Grammarly

3. Pro Writing Aid

4. Kaizena (as a standalone)

5. Kaizena (in Google Docs)

6. Kaizena (on your phone)

8. Extensity

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

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

14. Google Voice Typing

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

16. Kahoot – getkahoot.com

17. Zaption: Quiz within your
movies.

18. Plickers (if you have no
technology)

19. Plickers (if you have no
technology)

20. Plickers (if you have no
technology)

21. QuickKey: A quick way to grade

22. “flipped” techniques to F2F

23. PowerPoint: Make Beautiful
Handouts
Tip: Get
fonts,
graphics,
etc. on TpT.

24. PowerPoint: Make Screencasts
with the Office Mix Add In

25. Make Animated Movies

26. Padlet
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/how-to-use-padlet-fantastic-tool-
teaching/

27. • Type
• Record your voice
• Add a hyperlink
• Add a photo
• Add a document
What you can share on Padlet

28. Customize how your Padlet
looks

29. 3 layouts of
Padlet

30. Security and Control on Padlet

31. How You can Give Students the
Link to Padlet

32. • Younger classes (as a portfolio)
• As a simple blog
• Class padlet with links to everything
• Have students sort pictures on padlet to
classify them (use on your Interactive
Board)
• Use as a class backchannel
• Have students upload pictures of how they
solved problems.
Some Ways to Use Padlet

33. Seesaw: Simple Portfolios

34. Seesaw: Simple Portfolios

35. Seesaw: Simple Portfolios

37. Wolfram Alpha Pro

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

41. Twister on Classtools.net

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

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

46. Paper by 53
https://www.fiftythree.com/

47. Procreate

49. Kill Malware

50. Screenflow: Record
iPhone/iPad Screens

51. Buffer App

52. Hootsuite

53. Wordpress

54. 10 Habits of
Bloggers that Win
Free Ebook
Get on My Teachers Pay
Teachers Store
https://www.teacherspayteache
rs.com/Store/Cool-Cat-Teacher

55. youtube.com/coolcatteacher

56. 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

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

58. Haiku Learning
(now Powerschool Learning)

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

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

61. • Makes incredible presentations.
• Import Powerpoint by going to File  Open in
Keynote
• If you want to move your smart art, copy in
Powerpoint and then do Edit  Paste and Match
Style in Keynote
• You can buy amazing animated slide decks to
customize.
• Make sure students know how to use Magic
Move
Keynote

62. Giphy: Will pull gifs out of
movies

63. Crescerance: Mobile App
Development
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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!

64. MAD about Mattering

65. Classcraft: Turn Your Whole
Classroom into a Game

66. Gameon Wordpress Plugin

67. Slack

68. • Meetings
and video
Zoom
Room

69. Quadblogging – an authentic audience of peers

70. Mindmapping is great for Writing or App Building!

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

73. How I use Canva
• Blog graphics
• Infographics
• YouTube thumbnails
• Book covers
6 free lesson plans using Canva
https://designschool.canva.com/teaching-materials/writing-letters-that-matter/

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

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

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

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

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

79. 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

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

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

82. 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

83. http://www.tagxedo.com/
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

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

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

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

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

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

91. “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

92. 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

93. List.ly

94. Ed.ted.com – great flipped tool

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

96. • 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

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

98. 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

99. • 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

100. 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

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

102. 30/30 app

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

104. • 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

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

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

107. • http://www.coolcatteacher.com/googl
e-classroom-resources/
100+ Google Classroom
Resources

108. • https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/googleclassroom-gafe
Google Classroom Symbaloo for
beginners

109. Google Classroom and
Geogebra

110. Microsoft Word

111. 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

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

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

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

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

116. 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

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

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

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

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

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

122. • Wunderlist
• Omnifocus
• Task Clone
• Snagit
• LastPass
Some new favorites

123. Day One: Journaling

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

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

126. Amazing Race “Cloud Edition”

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

128. 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

129. Alfred (productivity tool)

130. Scrivener: My Favorite Writing Tool

131. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 1: Innovate Like a Turtle

132. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”

133. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
@coolcatteacher
www.coolcatteacher.com/miamidevice
The Every Classroom Matters Show