April 11, 2021

13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive

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GotTechED the Podcast

Episode #83: 13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode #83 called “13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive." In this episode we’ll share X ideas for making your classroom activities come alive with creativity and increased student engagement. We’ll also share some information about the long awaited release of the Hopewell Valley Student Publications Network at HVSPN.com. This is another episode you don’t want to miss. Check it out.

Segment 1: HVSPN.com

Segment 2: 13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive

Thinglink Mobile App lets you capture real world 3D media for VR exploration. Create the thinglink experience right on your phone! They also added the ability to share thinglinks to a VR headset
Let Google provide the support. Help and hint links in problem set worksheets. Links to videos or Mote comments to give students a push in the right direction
Set up a scavenger hunt!
Google Site URL’s
QR code generators
Bitly or tinyuls
In a Google Doc use the Doc Secrets AddOn. Want to keep some text in your document private while sharing the rest of it with others? DocSecrets can help. Just add a password to the DocSecrets sidebar, then type any secret text you want to add to your document in the add-on's Insert field. You can select existing text on the page and click Censor text to hide it—but that text would still be visible in the document's history, making it not nearly as private. Then, to see the hidden text, your collaborators will have to both know your password and have the DocSecrets add-on installed—otherwise all they'll see is colored lines and dashes.
Nick - Why so few fonts in Docs. Don't download a fonts add-on in Google Docs—none are better than the built-in Google Fonts integration. Just click the down arrow on the fonts menu and select More Fonts.
Study tools with mind mapping
MindMeister has an add-on that automatically turns bulleted lists into a MindMap
Mindmup
Let Ablebits bring professionalism to student reports
Ablebits’ Table Styles add-on for Google Sheets and Docs
Let a program do the work for you:
Text giraffe- instant word fonts
https://www.wordificator.com/ have words will a shape or picture
Coolers color schemes
Fancy Text Generator
Give students curations of pictures/video to use
https://www.dreamstime.com/
Unsplash
Burst
Pexels
Pixaba
Stocksnap.io
Life of Pix
Gratisography
The Jopwell Collection
PicJumbo
Crello
Flickr
Canva for education
Free Images
Allow students to add music or to make their own music
GotTechED’s Guide to Student Music Creation
Incredibox
SoundTrap
YouTube Music Library
Introduce sites that allow you to manipulate photos
Pixlr
Photofunia
Canva for Education
Slazzer
Snap Seed
Remove.bg
Audio Replacement Strategy
GotTechED’s Teacher’s Guide to Student Podcasting
Hands on Game creation
Escape Rooms
Build puzzles
Board Games
Build Models
Story Telling
Storyboardthat
Bookcreator
pixton

Segment 3: Where to Find GotTechED

Guise: Do us 3 favors

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