1. PBL: Tech Tools EXTRAVAGANZA [Slide titles are clickable links]

2. Tools for Management:

3. TRELLO (K) What: A digital project management tool.
Can be used as a digital scrum board with students to keep track of their progress on assignments and projects.
Collaborators can move text boxes to different categories as they work on the project.
Adding contributors is easy.
Its FREE
Limitations:
No calendar
Can’t write documents
Students must rely on everyone updating trello board as they complete work.

4. SCRUM (M) What: Scrum is a part of “agile project management”
It’s a repeated process of work cycle that involves “sprints” of time that people have to get things done.
Scrum involves a scrum master, team manager, and a team. Plus, a set amount of time to get things done.
Teams meet daily to talk through a scrum board and then the team lead reports to the project manager/SCRUM master (Teacher)
It usually involves a scrum board
Limitations:
Teams must trust one another and have a lot of relational capacity.

5. Tools for Display / Collection:

6. PADLET (K)
What:
A virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily
Multiple people can collaborate on the same wall.
Easy way to collect and store information
FREE!!!
Limitations:
Does not display who contributed to the board
Sticky Notes are limited to 150 characters
Site runs slow if there are a lot of people trying to contribute at once.
Here’s a PADLET we created. (This can also be found on Links, Links and & more Links )

7. MindMeister / Lucidchart (M)
What:
Both of these are Google Apps for mind maps, graphic organizers, and creating charts.
They can be added into any Google Doc
Limitations:
Building from scratch can be time-consuming
The already made templates have lots of unnecessary elements that would need to be removed.
Mind maps sometimes need to be made by hand.

8. SYMBALOO (M) What: Cloud bookmarking tool
Could be used for collecting sources / resources
Can be shared between multiple people
Limitations:
It uses icons which can be tough for non-visual learners.

9. SCRIBLE (M) What: Bibliography Tool / Citation Tool
Has an extension that allows users to annotate any website
Can create tags for projects
Creates a “library” of resources for users
Limitations:
It takes a little getting used to, students would need some practice annotating using the web.
Library needs to be built, does not just happen from a simple search.

10. EVERNOTE (M) What: Note Taking Tool “Clipping Tool”
Shares with any other users that you want
Annotating / Drawing extension app called STITCH
Students can use on their phone.
Limitations:
The free version limits space.
Students need to be told how to organize notes for it to work.

11. Tools for Presentation:

12. VOKI CLASSROOM (K) What:
Allows students/teachers to create their own talking character.
Voki characters can be customized.
User can record voice, or type dialogue for the avatar to say.
Cool way to do presentations, especially for students who are shy
Limitations:
Recording limit of 60 seconds or 600 characters for typed dialogue.
15 day free trial than you have to pay for Voki classroom
Free version is limited (3 presentations)

13. SLIDES CARNIVAL (M) What: This is a Slides Carnival set.
Makes your Google Presentations festive
They have a superhero template (and holidays)
Spices things up from just a normal presentation.
Limitations:
There aren’t that many templates yet.
You may get a lot of pages that you don’t necessarily need in that presentation.

14. Glogster
What:
Multimedia presentation tool that allows users to mix all types of media on a virtual canvas to create multimedia posters.
Also allows users to access a library of engaging educational content created by users around the world.
Limitations:
Some features are not user friendly and require time and practice to use the tool efficiently
Virtual classrooms can have a max of 200 students.
Not free ($95 per year 1 teacher 125 students)

15. Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (K)
What:
An screencasting app that is easy to use.
Allows user to annotate, animate, and narrate concepts as they explain.
There are a lot of options to make creating presentations fun and effective.
Limitations:
One take creation app - you get one chance to get narration correct.
User must organize information before they start

16. Smore (K) What: Digital Poster/Flyer
Allows users to design single-page websites for marketing an idea, promoting events.
Can add videos, articles, pictures, text, urls.
Can publish and see the results via the analytics setting.
Limitations:
5 free flyers then it starts costing money.
Here is a Smore one of my students created

17. Other Tools:

18. DIPITY (or) HSTRY.Co (K)
What:
Interactive timeline websites.
Users can create, share, embed images/video, quizzes on timelines.
Teachers can also search for timelines already completed
Limitations:
Hstry.co requires students to join the teacher’s class with a classcode.
It takes a couple of minutes of fooling around with hstry.co to become familar with.
Dipity’s free account limits user to 3 timelines.
Hstry.co’s free version only allows for 200 students in the teacher’s class.
Hstry.co project from Ms. Turner’s classes
Progressive Era Presidents
American Revolution

19. ARCGIS / ESRI (M) What: Geomapping / Geospatial literacy
Already built maps and templates
Check out this titanic map and the data set.
Mannes can help you build your own data and layered map (if you want more).
ArcGIS gives free accounts to educators
Students can crowdsource data by location
Limitations:
Data sets have to be typed a very specific way
Creating a map is not navigationally friendly

20. Survey Tools *Answer Garden *Google Forms *Today’s Meet *Geddit
*Obsurvey
*PollDaddy
*Scattervox
*Tagxedo
*Thinkbinder
*Wordle
*Verso
*Backchannel

21. Feedback/
Reflection

22. SCREENCAST O'MATIC or Voicethread (M)
What:
Let’s you record feedback instead of writing on papers / tests.
It records your screen and you speaking so that you can go through an assignment in Google Docs and give feedback as you go.
Great for flipped classroom
Limitations:
A lot of the features are “pro”
You have to download their launcher

23. Google Apps for Feedback
*Google Forms
*Doctopus
*Kaizena (syncs straight to Google Classroom)
*Google Voice (comments)
*Workflows
*Video Not.es
*Comment Bubble