FOLLETT SHELF LINK
 Access through Destiny Quest or separate shelf
 Access online from anywhere—or download and
view offline
 Follett Digital Reader app—iPad/android
 Unlimited Simultaneous Access—per building
license of selected titles
 Over 140,000 titles
AXIS 360
 Free e-reading app—Blio—Windows, iOS, and
Android computers, laptops tablets, smartphones,
and e-readers
 413,000 titles
 ESEBCO
 Book fair program
 Use on computer, phone or tablet
BRAIN HIVE
 Free membership
 Titles available immediately
 Charged $1 for each e-book circulated until budget
limit is reached
 K-12
GAIL VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
 Thousands of authoritative, full-text volumes
 Unlimited simultaneous use
 No check out/in
 On-demand translation into 11 languages
EBSCO HOST
Custom collections, Featured collections, Prepackaged subjects sets, Patron driven acquisition
 Patron driven—
 Downloads an ebook or audiobook title
 Views an ebook for more than 10 minutes
 Views more than 10 pages of an ebook
 Prints, emails, or copies & pastes a portion of an
ebook page
TUMBLEBOOKS
Online ebooks—not downloadable
Great narration
Highlights as it reads
$823 for two databases
PINTEREST LINK
 Become huge support piece to educators
 Browse pinboards created by others
 Boards shared by a group or built by 1 person
 Lots of great lesson ideas and resources
 Don’t have to have an account to access great, free
resources
LIVE BINDERS LINK
 Created so anyone, esp. educators, can do with
digital info what we typically do with papers on our
desk—organize them into three-ring binders on a
shelf.
 Upload documents; combine them with your
links—be organized!
 Collaborate with others---even have students
collaborate on binders
 Find lots of great ideas, resources
SCHMOOP LINK
 Activity ideas, quizzes, essay-writing help
 Breaks subjects down in fun, humorous ways
 Uses current events, pop culture, teen-friendly
voice to make learning fun and relevant
 M.S. through college, emphasis on H.S. & test prep
 Free—subscription (added services)
 Great Gatsby – Real Housewives
 Geometry – snowboarding
POLL EVERYWHERE & CLASSPAGER & SOCRATIVE
 Text message questions or surveys.
 Students respond by phone, laptop or tablet
 Classpager – exit tickets, event reminders
POPPLET LINK
 Create wall of multimedia sticky notes
 Share with others
 Can include videos & images
 Invite others via email to collaborate on your wall
ANIMOTO
 Video slideshow creation tool
 Free 30-second videos
 Pay $5/month for unlimited, full-length videos
STORYBIRD
 tool for creating short, visual stories
 select artwork, drag & organize photos & add text
to create digital stories
GLOGSTER
LINK
 create free interactive posters
 glogs—graphics blog
 insert text, images, photos, audio, videos, special
effects and other elements into glogs to generate a
multimedia online creation.[
 PADLET LINK
 Formerly Wallwisher
 Have wall link open—invite others to post
comments
 Lots of possibilities—exit slip, brainstorming, come
up with synonyms, good books, make predictions,
collaborate……
TAGXEDO
 Similar to Wordle—but shapes
 Summarize articles
 Highlight key points
 Summarize course notes
LITERACY CENTER.NET
 Choose a language to play and learn letters,
numbers, colors, shapes and more.
 Great for ELL students.
FLIPSNACK LINK
 Changes PDF into a flipping book.
 Interactive whiteboard—turn the pages with your
hand
EDMODO (free app available)
LINK
 Possibly most-used web tool in education right
now.
 Popular among flipped classrooms
 Management platform designed to facilitate
learning in all directions.
 Students ask questions to other students, teacher
to student, parent to teacher, etc.
SCHOLASTIC CLASSROOM IDEAS TO GO! ($.99)
 Activities & mini-lessons for every subject
 1200 hands-on ideas
 Search by grade level, subject and activity type
 From Instructor magazine—K-8
COMMON CORE (free)
 “I have it next to my laptop whenever I am
planning! Handy! Handy!”
 ELA and Math Common Core State Standards
 Organized by grade level
REMIND 101 (free)
 Send text-message reminders about homework,
tests, and special events to students & parents
 Without students seeing your phone number,
and vice-versaimprove parent involvement
 Only one-way messaging permitted
DROPBOX (free)
 Web-based storage location
 Syncs with specified files or folders on Mac
 Allows you to access files from anywhere
 Many apps have Dropbox sync option
 Works across platforms and devices
 Use to distribute PPt presentations
 Way for students to turn in homework
assignments
EDUCREATIONS (free) LINK
 Works with Apple TV
 Create, record, and share lessons with students
 Flipped math classroom
 Works like a whiteboard
 Explain a math formula…create animated
lesson…..
 Add commentary to photos….diagram a sports
play
SHOW ME (free) LINK
 Similar to Educreations
 Have students develop and share short lessons
with each other
 Both have gallery of lessons developed and
shared by teachers
SCREEN CHOMP (free)
 Similar to Educreations and ShowMe
 Upload creation to ScreenChomp.com
 Provided with link to share via email, twitter, or on
the clipbard.
FUTABA CLASSROOM GAMES FOR KIDS ($5.99)
 Pre-K animals, shapes, transportation
 K-3rd--Math, sight words, geography
 First Spanish & Japanese Words
 Add your own content & create own games
 Multi-player (up to 4/iPad)
EASY BIB (free)
 Works with iPad and iPod Touch, but works best
with iPhone 4
 Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style
citations
 Scan a book bar code OR
 Type name of the book
 Build work cited
 Email citations
GOORU (free iPad)
 More than 3,000 collections
 Organized playlists of multimedia resources
 5-12 grade math & science topics
 More subjects coming soon
 Videos, games, digital textbooks, more
 Teacher-reviewed resources
APPS GONE FREE
 Daily notification for free apps—both personal
and for school
STICK PICK ($2.99)
 Randomly (or intentionally) choose student’s
name from virtual can of Popsicle sticks
 Sticks are tied to mode and level of difficulty for
each learner
 You will be shown over a dozen Bloom’s
Taxonomy related questions that are tied to the
learner’s individual ability level
 Formative assessment easy to track
SOCRATIVE (free)
 One app downloaded on students’ tablets and
one on teacher’s
 Students respond to MC, short-answer, quizgame questions, exit tickets
 Results displayed as bar graphs
 Get results in real-time
ECLICKER (audience free; presenter $14.99)
 Teacher asks MC, T/F, agree/disagree questions
 Collects individual responses—summarizes class
results
 Run from laptop or iPad
 Students answer from laptops, iPads or iPhones.
CLASS DOJO (free) SCREENSHOT
 Laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
 Behavior management program
 Enter real-time data about student behavior by
assigning points for teamwork, creativity, more
 Uses icons, badges, pop-up notifications
TOO NOISY PRO (free) LINK
 Teach students what “inside voice” is
 Set app to max. acceptable noise level for your
classroom
 When it’s exceeded, app will respond with alarm
 As noise level increases beyond acceptable
level, noise level meter indicates level &
background graphics change.
AUTISM XPRESS (free)
 Encourages people with autism to recognize and
express emotions
 Displays 12 buttons, each a cartoon caricature
of a facial expression of how one feels
 Pressing button creates full-screen image of that
emotion
SUPER DUPER WH (free or $11.99 PRO)
 Helps children learn how to correctly ask and
answer WH questions with four learning games
for each WH set of cards
DRAGON DICTATION
 Easy-to-use voice recognition app
 Allows you to easily speak and instantly see your
text or email messages
 Supports multitude of global languages
 Handy for kids who have difficulty with fine
motor skills or learning disabilities like dyslexia
or dysgraphia
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS ($4.99)
VIDEO
 Entire first novel in color with full narration and
animation
 Animate the action yourself in Flip-O-Rama
 Play zany, fun, interative games
 Create your own avatar, discover your own silly
“Captain Underpants name” and see your avatar
right alongside Capt. Underpants!
MUSIC TUTOR (free)
 Improve your sight reading skills
 Choose to practice between treble, bass or both
kinds of notes for 1, 5 or 10 minutes.
 Try to make a higher score each time.
DRAWING WITH CARL ($.99) VIDEO
 Simple, easy to use pencils help you make great
drawings
 Explore creative drawing with mirror painting
 Draw mustaches or funny eyes over photos
 Add stickers
 Share creations on FB or by email
SOLAR WALK ($2.99)
 Shows size comparison of planets
 Good short movies explain tilt of planet and
seasons, phases of moon, solar eclipses, tides,
constellations, more
 Can be used to find objects in night sky by
holding it up to the sky
FROG DISSECTION ($3.99) SCREENSHOT
 Aimed at M.S.
 Alternative to physical dissection
 Learn about dissection tools, as well as frog’s
anatomy and organs
NASA (free)
 Huge collection of latest NASA content
 157,000images
 latest NASA videos
 launch information & countdown clocks
 current news and feature stories
 on and on and on!
MOTION MATH ($1.99)
 2nd-5th grade—decimals, fractions, percentages
 Move device around to move a bouncing ball
left and right to position it according to its value
on the number line
 Three levels of play
GEOBOARD (free)
SUSHI MONSTER (free)
 Elementary
 Students feed their Sushi Monsters by correctly
choosing two numbers that when added or
multiplied result in the number that the
monster wants to eat.
 When the monster has been fully fed, students
move on to feeding a new monster.
SOLIDS ELEMENTARY HD VIDEO
 Help students understand how a shape is
constructed
 Put kids in front of it and let them loose.
Curiosity will take over
 Teachers—students will understand geometry
faster.
MY MATH FLASH CARDS (free)
 Students can practice addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division
 For mastering basic elementary math facts
STORY CREATOR (free)
 Allows students to create stories with pictures,
video and recording
 Students can share their work via email
 Non-speaking children with autism can share their
stories
ISTORY BOOKS (free)
 Two dozen free digital storybooks for kids 2-8
 Mostly adaptations of classic children’s tales like
The Ugly Duckling
 Option to reach each story or to read along with
narrator
WORD MONKEY ($1.99)
 Zany word game
 Spell words from rising jumble of letters
 Each successfully spelled word removes the
letters from the screen
 If letters reach the top of the screen, game over!
 Great for spelling and vocabulary
 For ELL and all students
 Lex teachers recommend
STORIA (free)
VIDEO
For iPad, Kindle, PCs, and Android, not Macs yet
5 free-books with each app doanload
up to 40 shelves with each download
good for classroom use or home
lots of activities, some read-alouds
LEARN THE WORLD ($1.99)
 Test students’ knowledge of countries, capitals,
and continents
 MC quizzes—earn flags of countries from
around globe
DISNEY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ($3.99) VIDEO
 Gives users chance to flip through a digital
scrapbook in order to learn about the lives and
times of our 44 U.S. presidents
 Mapped to national social studies curricula for
grades 3-8
GEOGRAPHY DRIVE USA ($3.99)
VIDEO
 Elementary and M.S.
 Challenges students to drive their virtual cars to each
state in the U.S.
 Move from state to state by correctly answering
questions about each state they visit.
 Earn money for each correct answer
 Money used to buy fuel for cars and to customize cars
 More than 750 questions about state & national
geography