Curriculum and Educational Practices

BookWriter One allows you to add pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos to the page. You can use the camera to take pictures or videos and add them to the book. You can draw images and edit images using Pen Tool. Book Writer provides interactive functions such as item connection and auto-play to make your book more fun.

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Brainfeed is designed to inform, entertain, and inspire; Brainfeed provides children 7+, tweens, teens, and even inquisitive adults with a safe corner of the web to explore a universe of educational videos. Topic areas include Science, The World, Technology and design, Arts and music, Language, The Human Body, Social Studies, Mathematics, Life and careers, and much more! The download is free. With the subscription you get over 1,400 videos. A monthly subscription is $1.99, a yearly subscription is $14.99, and a Lifetime pass is $16.99.

Canvastera appears to be a replacement for Glogster.. When I typed in edu.glogster. com, a brief message about its closer redirects me to this site. It is currently in beta and is offered for free until the beta is closed. In setting up an account, Canvastera looks and functions like Glogster did. I used Glogster a lot in the classroom and have a 5 Themes of Geography Project available in the TechInEd store that uses Glogster to create the project. You can use this same lesson with Canvastera.

Comic Life 3 is one of my favorite apps to use. I use it in my comic book series Technology Through the Ages, available on the TechInEd store. It is very easy to use and is available on multiple platforms (Mac/Win, iPad, iOS, Chromebook). There is a thirty-day free trial. I've used it in the classroom, and students enjoy making comics. The educational version costs $19.99 for the Mac/Win version.

Drawp for School allows you to create and collaborate with your students for one-on-one learning without the hassle of added paperwork. The Drawp for School Add-on helps educators power up lesson plans using Google Slides. Explore the ready-to-go free lesson plans and accompanying books aligned to content (CCSS) and ELD standards. Alternatively, adopt Drawp with the existing curriculum as students use voice, text, art, and proven bilingual scaffolds to interact with content. This used to be a free app but now is offered as a school or district wide purchase. It is available for a 30-day trial.

Khan Academy library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons that cover math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers. With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students’ understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.

PhotoStory 3 for Windows may be an old program, but it still holds up well. What I like about it is that I can create Ken Burns-like stories with a microphone, pictures, and narration. It even works with Windows 11. Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make sending your photo stories in an e-mail easy. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device. I've created a storyboard document for students to organize their stories. If you are working on PCs, I wouldn't overlook this program. The best part is that it is free!

Tell About This you can easily capture children's thoughts and stories using visual prompts and voice. Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children's thoughts and stories! They will love to explore and respond to any of the 100 interesting photo prompts using their voice. Craft custom prompts and add profiles to personalize the experience! Simple save/share options.

Thinglink offers an easy way to create audio-visual learning materials accessible in an integrated reading tool. All text descriptions in image or video hotspots can be read with Immersive Reader – in over 60 languages.ThingLink helps students become fluent in using multiple forms of media to express themselves inside and outside the classroom. The apps are free. However, the teacher license is $60/year, and the school license is $3/year per seat.