Some of My Personal Favorite Tech Tools

by Larry Hewett

Joined Dec 2015
Published Books 2

SOME OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITE

TECH TOOLS

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This is a collection of some of my personal favorite online tech tools that I share with teachers during my workshops. I have personally chosen these out of hundreds online. These are some of my favorites; some that I use the most myself; and are some of the most interesting, exciting and creative that I have found. I hope you will enjoy them but more importantly use them. This will be a collection that I continue to add to so keep coming back and check for new additions.

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HERE’S WHERE THE FUN BEGINS!!!!

Screencast-O-matic happens to be one of my all time favorites and one of my most used online tech tools. It is a free site; however, I use the Pro Version which is extremely affordable.

Click HERE for tutorials.

FOR SCREENCAST-O-MATIC TUTORIALS:

FOR IDEAS ON HOW TO USE SCREENCAST-O-MATIC IN THE CLASSROOM CLICKK HERE.

OTHER IDEAS INCLUDE:

Record a lecture, video book report, record demonstrations that you’ll give multiple times, record instructions, do introduction for a topic or unit, record assessment of students, record student performances, student made tutorials, projects, interviews, etc.

CREATE DIGITAL STORIES:

One of the best online tech tools that I know of for digital stories is ArtPad.art.com.

Check it out the next page.

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE TOOLS FOR REVIEWING CAN BE FOUND AT

Try out this arcade game:

http://www.classtools.net/widgets/quiz_0/1lGzy.htm

Tag Galaxy

is a neat little tool that helps students to explore relationships between words and ideas as well as view pictures related to that word. Type in a word to search and immediately you are transferred to a galaxy with the original word at the center and the associated ideas orbiting around it. When you click on the word in the center, a globe populates with pictures from Flickr that are tagged with that word.

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Some of My Personal Favorite Tech Tools by Larry Hewett - Ourboox.com

CANVA.COM

TIRED OF THE SAME OLD POWERPOINT?

WHY NOT TRY CANVA?

COOLTEXT.COM

Need some absolutely exciting fonts for headings or logos? Try Cooltext. There are over 1900 fonts to choose from and some of them are even animated.

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RANDOM ONLINE TOOLS THAT I REALLY LIKE

VOKI

Free talking avatars

ANIMOTO

Create music videos for projects or lessons

CAPZLES

Rich multimedia videos

Generator

Generator is a creative studio space, a space where you can explore the moving image, be inspired, create your own moving image works and share your creations with the Generator community.

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MakeBeliefsComix

At MakeBeliefsComix you can create your own comic strip with an easy and fun way. You have to choose a character and emotion.

PicLits

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you.

Storybird

Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.

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Online Photo Editors and/or drawing tools

Befunky

Pixlr

Google SketchUp

SUMO Paint

PicMonkey

Fotoflexr

Ipiccy

Lunapic

Phixr

PhotoCat

Pizap

Photoshop Online Tools

Ted Ed Lessons Worth Sharing

Lit Charts

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Loupe Collage

Draw Island

Gamestar Mechanic

EdPuzzle

Sway

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Just in case the video on the left doesn’t work try the QR code.

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And even more sites!!!!!!!!!!

Animaps

Big Huge Labs Photo Editing

Blabberize

Emaze

Flipsnack

GlowText Glowing Animated Test

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Interactive Youtube Videos

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Image Chef Word Mosaics and More

Livebinders Online Organization

Make a Gif Gif Creator

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| Design your own photo book with Mixbook’s easy online editor.

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Created with Padlet

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Padlet.com

http://padlet.com/lhewettviking/3bpf2ij0zd5i

http://www.picturetopeople.org/

WePaste Temporary Web Page

Thinglink

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Riker Ipsum

http://www.themarysue.com/riker-ipsum/

Notebookcast

https://www.notebookcast.com/

Rewordify

https://rewordify.com/index.php

StoryMap JS

https://storymap.knightlab.com/

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Steve Spangler Science

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/

Sick Science Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Kfju5UECY&index=176&list=PLC02CFDE5690E4010

Goosechase, a site for Scavenger hunts

https://www.goosechase.com/

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Hyper History: A Visual History Timeline

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

http://www.youconvertit.com/ConvertFiles.aspx

http://www.getmiro.com/

Calorie tracker

http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/

Beautiful games

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

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TECH WORKSHIP FOR WCHS

Introducing the book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek&list=PLE1E6E6B4B10D14BB

STEAM Pop-Up Books: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/6429

Windows Movie Maker and Windows Live Movie Maker(Free):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmfnm1iTg8

Free Printable Paper: https://www.printablepaper.net/

Must-Try Creative Image Maker Tools for Student Projects: https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/8-must-try-creative-image-maker-tools?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8D-gQivg-vXYClTPAn3u-9qnIBzy6qmxGLjyHRB0b-BD0-fBvcd-osSWjoGdNDI-m_ZEUBSTz2Cs9CsycDD9B4N0wypw&_hsmi=23893510