Educational Windows Apps
Use the Jigsaw method to learn about your assigned app with others. Use this evaluation tool to record your analysis. Then meet back in your original team to share your analysis with your teammates. Record each other's analysis.
Assessment Apps
1 - ScootPad - Common Core aligned K-5 ELA and math differentiated student learning experience that monitors student progress and proficiency.
2 - Markbook - Assessment and rubric creation tool for formative and summative assessment.
3 - Nearpod - App for creating dynamic presentations that include embedded videos, polls, and quizzes for real-time formative assessment.
4 - Socrative - Tool for creating quick assessments that are graded with results displayed graphically for ease of data driven instruction.
Other assessment tools (mostly web-based) - https://www.graphite.org/top-picks/top-tech-tools-for-formative-assessment
Learning Apps
1 - Annotate101 - Annotation tool for close reading of ebooks and PDF files.
2 - itooch Common Core correlated learning app that engages learners and provides incentives for progressing in language arts, math, and science for grades 1-8.
3 - HMH Readers - Leveled readers to supplement your leveled library. Students can record reading to assess fluency.
4 - NovaMind Mind Mapping - Organize and communicate thoughts, ideas, and reading annotations with this visual tool.
*FLIP - Flashcard creation tool that allows for quizzing and viewing of results of customized flashcards.
Teaching Apps
1 - iLessonReady - Common Core correlated tool that allows teachers to create specific learning targets for students and provides options for learning tasks that align to those learning targets. Targets are encouraged throughout instruction using feedback from self-reflection as well as input from peers and teachers.
2 - Presentation Next - Create dynamic and engaging presentations.
3 - Dynamic Learning - Choose from provided multi-media content resources and use the Lesson Builder to create, edit and play lessons.
4 - Splashtop - Turn your mobile device into an interactive whiteboard to remotely access and annotate your desktop. Create digital flipchart lessons and focus students on particular components.
*Lesson Plan Manager - Tool to create and deliver lessons and then report to students and colleagues.