Top Ten Tech Tools for you!

Tech Tools requirement: Must be easy to use and

Organize & Manage Evernote https://evernote.com/ Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. Twitter https://twitter.com/ Start a conversation, explore your interests, and be in the know. Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com/ Edmodo helps connect all learners with the people and resources they need to reach their full potential.

Organize and Manage Class Dojo A Cleaner and View Pure for YouTube http://www.classdojo.com/ Class Dojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behaviors in their classrooms. quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on classroom behavior that teachers can share. A Cleaner and View Pure for YouTube http://clea.nr/ http://viewpure.com/ A cleaner way to view You Tube! Example: Journey by Aaron Becker http://viewpure.com/SxUs41jB4Ts

Information Central Britannica eBooks Wonderopolis http://neslibrary.weebly.com/research-links.html Search for encyclopedia and reference articles, magazines, audio and video, as well as dictionary and thesaurus resources. eBooks http://neslibrary.weebly.com/research-links.html To access NES Library eBooks, go to the Destiny Catalog, select Newbury Elementary, and search eBooks. Our collection will be growing! Wonderopolis http://wonderopolis.org/ Wonder is for everyone. It can happen anywhere and at anytime. Connecting the learning we do in our schools, our homes, and our communities, Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings.

Create and Do Thinglink Kidblog http://www.thinglink.com/ Make your images interactive! Kidblog http://kidblog.org/home/ Safe and Simple Blogs for Your Students Over 4 million K-12 students have a voice at Kidblog. We're trusted by teachers around the world. Set up your class for free in 20 seconds - no student email addresses, no ads. Preparing for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards 2014 blog: http://kidblog.org/Awardwinners2014/

BONUS! Youngzine Scratch Voki Google Drive https://drive.google.com/ http://www.youngzine.org/ Youngzine is a one-of-a-kind Web site where children can learn about current news and events shaping their world -- in a simple, engaging and interactive manner. Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ Create stories, games, and animations. Share with others around the world Voki http://www.voki.com NOT FREE if you want a streamlined, ad free version. Students in grades 5 & 6 had to option to create a Voki last year based on their reference resource research. An example of one of the Voki’s created: http://voki.com/pickup.php?scid=8218564&height=267&width=200 Google Drive https://drive.google.com/ One safe place for all your “stuff.” Upload photos, videos, documents and files that are important to you to Google Drive.

J. Brown . Newbury Elementary School . January 2014