DCDS Applications
| Apps | Description | Level | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flipgrid | Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform. Every student has a voice, so let’s amplify! Students record short, authentic videos and can reply to each other’s videos. Educators are 100% in control with video moderation, access controls, and much more. | All | All |
| JeopardyLabs | This is the simplest way to build Jeopardy-like games online for your classroom. Use the template to build your own game and play it online. If you are not interested in creating your own game search the million other templates to see if there is one you can use for your content. | ||
| Book Creator | This is another application that is great for a BYOD environment to allow students (or faculty) to easily create books. This used to be only available on iOS, but in the recent months, it launched a web-based version. Create books easily by adding text, graphics, shapes, audio, and video easily. Once the books have been completed, you can export them to the web, pdf, or print. | ||
| Adobe Spark | One application with 3 tools in to choose from. Adobe Spark is a great application to use in the classroom for content creation and can be used in endless ways for students to show mastery of topics. It is a great tool for BYOD environments as it offers mobile device options as well as web-based. Adobe Spark Video: Create a video with ease by adding images, videos, music and text. Adobe Spark Page: Create a dynamic flat scrollable web page. Adobe Spark Post: Quick and easy way to make a Meme, Facebook Cover, Twitter post image, etc. | ||
| Classroomscreen | This is a webpage filled with widgets that most teachers will find useful in the classroom (random name generator, sound meter, QR code creator, text pad, drawing pad, student work symbols, red/yellow/green light, timer, clock and exit tickets). You can customize/set each widget and display it on your display or board through the projector | ||
| Motivational Poster | Resource that allows students/faculty to create, share, and/or print customized motivational posters. Make motivation posters for your classroom or have students make them to display a concept, describe a character, define a word, etc. | ||
| Wonderscope | This is an iOS App (iPad/iPhone) that uses augmented reality to transform ordinary spaces into extraordinary stories. Students interact with the story through voice and touch. Once the story is open, students move around the room to make the animations and read the lines to unlock the other chapters of the story. The first story is free, and two others can be purchased with i-app purchases. Just to be aware…the free story does have lines about burps and farts… | ||
| Flippity | Easily turn a Google Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards, quiz show, name picker, mix and match, and much more. Each activity comes with a demo, instructions, and a template. Once you have completed the template, publish it and share the link. | ||
| PDF Candy | This a a great application. It is a free online PDF editor. It offers over 24 different ways to process PDF files (convert to or from PDFs; Split, Merge, Rotate, Compress, Watermark PDFs and much much more) | ||
| Timeline JS | This application allows you to build timelines using the website and a Google Sheet template. You can add text, images, and video which can be placed online and included in the sheet via a link. You also have the ability to generate an Embed code allowing you to place it onto a Canvas page if you’d like. | ||
| Sli.do | This application is a powerful backchannel communication tool. Engage your students with live polls, brainstorm, and/or lets you crowdsource the best questions from your students by letting them ask questions and vote for ones they like. Easily distribute slides to your participants and use the application to gain insight with analytics. This application has a free and paid version. | ||
| Insert Learning | This is a chrome extension that lets you turn websites into interactive lessons. Once the extension is loaded in the chrome browser you can use it to add questions, videos, and discussions directly into a web-page…including Google Docs! | ||
| Mathigon | engage, play and explore math. This is a math site that supports active and inquiry based learning for math. It offers interactive content the lets students explore and discover new ideas. | ||
| CommonLit | A free website that helps students develop advanced reading and writing skills. It provides free digital curriculum that enable to assign texts to students, score written responses and send real-time feedback and collect analytics on student progress. | ||
| ChartAccent | A simple site that let's you create charts for your data and then annotate them | ||
| Google Arts and Culture | Website that offers many fantastic media resources, including Google's street view and museum view experiences. | ||
| Google Science Journal App | Free digital science notebook for recording data and writing observations. There are sensors built into the app for recording sound, speed, light, direction and magnetism. | ||
| The Learning Network | This is a New York Times website full of resources. It includes articles written specifically for student readers and lesson plans that cover a wide range of topics, writing prompts, contests, multimedia resources. | ||
| Newseum | For Social studies and history teachers, a collection of primary sources, news artifacts, and lessons that help teachers teach media literacy, civics, and all aspects of the First Amendment. Search for content—by state, century, theme, topics, type of resource, and so on. | ||
| AutoDraw | For the young one's. Visualization and nonlinguistic representation are developed as students begin to draw and the program begins to guess what you are drawing, offering choices to complete the design. Develops drawing skills. | ||