Communication with students - Remind app

I use the app Remind. This is an app that can send alerts to the students via text message without actually giving out your phone numbers. You can also change the settings to either allow or not allow students to respond. This becomes very handy when I want to tell the students something that I may have forgotten to mention in class, or when you want to remind them of an upcoming test, quiz, etc.

Contributed by Ms. Matsunaga

EdPuzzle - have students answer questions as they watch videos

Great tool for confirming kids actually watch the videos

Contributed by Marie-Juliette P.

Read and Write for Google

Read and Write for Google is a great app for students and staff.  It offers text-to-speech supports in addition to a number of study tools.  It is available for all student and staff use in the Google Web Store.

contributed by Ms. Pearson

Edmodo - great way to communicate, grade, make quizzes, and much more

Fantastic tool for teachers.  Grades quizzes and tests for you, unlike Google forms where you have to take a few steps to grade things.  Easy for kids to recognize due to Facebook-type look.

www.edmodo.com

Alternative to traditional assignment notebook

For the kids who have a tough time keeping up with their assignment notebook,
offer them an alternative.  Let them use their cell phone to take a picture of the homework assignment that's written on the board.  Whatever works, right?

submitted by Mr. Morgan

Assignment organization in Google Calendar

Instead of using Moodle, I use Google Calendar to organize my assignments. I automatically shared the calendar with the school email of each student. I also had them come up and put in their personal email address. Easy access and no excuses when they miss a day! Making the switch to Google Calendar has been a GREAT change!

Submitted by Ms. Fluegge

Do a screencast for free

If you want to record how to do something on your computer, you can record it to show it to others at www.screenr.com

It allows up to five minutes of recording.  It works great.  Here is an example.
http://www.screenr.com/R5O8

Good to use if someone is absent, too.