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Wizard School For Curriculum and Creativity

Wizard School is an app for iOS and Android that was developed by educators coming from elementary and middle school backgrounds. It inspires creative thinking through exploration. Students learn about various subjects, then create pictures and videos to showcase what they’ve learned. From educators to educators, this app is free with no in-app purchases.

1. EXPLORE fascinating topics, such as science, design, languages, geography, and sports.

More than 3,000 videos, maps, and content curated by educators.

2. CREATE something awesome with fun stickers, videos, photos, and drawing tools!

Fun Challenges designed by educators will inspire you to design, tinker, and build.

Design a treehouse. Write with hieroglyphics. Make a talking president. And more!

3. SHARE your creations with family and friends with safe, private messages.

100% controlled by parents, who can monitor everything.

Parents can reply from their email and view creations on a private website.

https://youtu.be/FbwJ40VIouI

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Google Arts and Culture

Attention teachers who teach science, history, and art!

This resource is fabulous.  Google unveiled a resource for you that will help you and your students discover works and artifacts, allowing you to immerse yourself in cultural experiences from a myriad of museums across 70 countries around the world. Search projects, experiments, artists, mediums, art movements, historical events, historical figures, and places. Watch the intro video and check out the examples below.

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Coogle – Collaborative Mind Mapping

Here’s another Google app you might be interested in.  Coogle is a tool for building mind maps. Students work independently or collaboratively. Finished mind maps can be saved as PDF’s or PNG image files for sharing.

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Use Coogle for any subject matter. It’s free and offers the following:

3 private diagrams, Unlimited public diagrams, Real-time collaboration, Over 1600 beautiful icons, Unlimited image uploads, PDF & Image download, Shared folders, Unconnected text boxes, Export as .mm and text, Comments & Chat

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Get on the Same Page With Google Tone

What if you could get your students on a website at the same time without them having to type in a URL?

Introducing Google Tone!  With Google Tone you simply share a series of beeps with nearby computers, laptops, or mobile devices.  For this feature to work properly all devices must be ready to receive a URL by:

  • having the Google Tone extension installed to their Chrome web browser and turned on,
  • being logged into their Google account; and
  • having audio (speakers and microphones) enabled on each device.

Sure, you could just bookmark your sites after typing in the URL or you could broadcast a series of beeps to your most favorable sites and have everyone on the same site at the same time.  So many avenues and they all take you to the same place.  It just boils down to preference.

Google Tone may not work in loud spaces, over a distance, with a poor Internet connection, or on computers without a microphone or with a microphone incapable of detecting sound broadcasts.

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Insert Learning

Insert Learning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn any webpage into an interactive lesson.  Think about blog sites like Quora, Tween Tribune or Medium where you can take a post and highlight key points, quotes or phrases; or make comments, ask questions, or even start a discussion if you’d like.  Check out my sample below or better yet, go to the demo page and test it out for yourself.  I think you’ll find this tool to be a ‘must have’ with your Chrome web browser.  This extension can be shared and assigned to classes in google classroom.  Amazing find!  Got to have it!Insert Learning