*Please note: Availability of these as a “free” app in the App Store is subject to change.

You are NOT required to install any Core App should it become a “paid” app.

App / Description / Integration ideas for instruction / Resources
Edmodo / Edmodo provides a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. /
  • Send out assignments
  • Share web links, images and files with your students
  • Post class discussion prompts
  • Receive completed assignments and post grades
  • Maintain a class calendar
  • Store and Share files
  • Conduct polls
  • Assess Knowledge via Snapshot tool
  • Send messages to students and parents
  • Parent access, to view their student’s work via Edmodo
  • Access to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel without downloading anything (students and teachers)
/ Edmodo App Store Link
Edmodo Overview video
Lake County’s Edmodo site
Edmodo Quick Guides
Mini-Lessons
If you do not have an Edmodo account, see your Media Specialist or contact Cristin Miller via email or phone x4156
Educreations Interactive Whiteboard
/ Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures voice and handwriting to produce video lessons and presentations. /
  • Create Digital Lessons- Whole Class or Small Group
  • Create Digital Storytelling
  • Have students create videos to share theirthinking or what theyhave learned
  • Flipped classroom
  • Project based learning
  • Creating tutorials for students to revisit at home when extra help is needed
  • Assessment of student’s knowledge
  • Digital portfolios
  • Study guide
  • Reading responses
  • Oral paragraph writing
  • Reading fluency practice – child reads the book and records, then replays it to rehearse
  • Jig-Saw activities
  • Parent – Teacher Communication
  • Step-by-step instructions
/ Educreations App Store Link
Educreations Website
Getting Started tutorial video
Examples of how to use Educreations
iBooks / iBooks is an eReader that will allow users to download ePub books and PDF files to read and manipulate. /
  • Click on a word, paragraph or part of a story then use the Define feature
  • Hear the word spoken for ELL and ESE students
  • Search for a word
  • Highlight favorite passages
  • Add a note
/ iBooks App Store Link
iBooks website
How to Use iBooks
5 iBooks tips
Ideament
Formally Idea Sketch
/ Ideamentlets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Ideament for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more! /
  • Brain storming
  • Thinking maps
  • Character sketch
  • Outlining
  • Illustrating concepts
  • Creating lists
  • Flow charts
  • Character development
  • Character analysis
  • Compare and contrast
  • Main Idea and details
  • Story organizer
  • Project planning
/ Ideament App Store Link
IdeamentWeb site
Concept Mapping with Ideament (Idea Sketch)
Nearpod
/ Nearpod enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' devices. It combines presentation, engagement and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.
Imports from PowerPoint /
  • Focus student attention- teacher directs slides that all students see
  • Guide students through content instruction
  • Whole group and small group or centers
  • Present an article or story and allow the students to circle main points
  • Answer math problems
  • Draw diagrams
  • Show short instructional videos
  • Poll student thoughts
  • Discussion starter
  • Writing prompts
  • Learning scale
  • Online quizzingscoring
/ NearpodApp Store Link
Nearpod website
How Nearpod works
QuickVoice
/ QuickVoice is a user-friendly voice recorder. Use to create audio files to address multiple learning styles. /
  • Reading fluency checks
  • Read alouds
  • Students who’s IEPs mandate that test passages are read and reread
  • Voice notes
  • Monitor students who might get distracted, especially when practicing note taking. As your voice reads the story over speakers in the front of the room you can be at the back making sure that everyone is on task.
  • Foreign Language classes-
  • Record students speaking in the course language
  • Tell a story in thecourse language
  • Student led Interviews
  • Student explains different concepts or solutions
  • Presentational speaking assessment
  • Explain how the student(s) solved a math problem
  • Science fair projects – audio presentations
/ QuickVoiceApp Store Link
QuickVoice website
6 Quick Voice-Over Tips
SAFARI
Montage
/ SAFARI Montage provides K-12 school districts with an integrated Learning Object Repository, Video Streaming Library, Media Delivery System and Digital Learning Platform all wrapped into one.
Enter lakesafari.lake.k12.fl.us when you open the App for the first time /
  • Create playlists, lessons, or courses to guide your lessons
  • Have students front load content before your class instruction
  • Use playlists for personalized learning
  • Use playlists as remediation
  • Students can search for content their own projects or an extension to their learning
/ Safari Montage App Store Link
Safari Montage website
Schoology
/ Schoology allows you to manage your classroom, create and submit assignments, participate in interactive discussions, perform assessments, collaborate with your peers, and much more! /
  • Send out assignments
  • Share web links, images and files with your students
  • Post class discussion prompts
  • Receive completed assignments and post grades
  • Maintain a class calendar
  • Store and Share files
  • Conduct polls
  • Send messages to students and parents
  • Mastery Tracking
  • Student Portfolios
  • Embed videos
/ Schoology App Store Link
Schoology Website
Lake County’s Schoology Site(sign in with MyPortal and then it will redirect)
Getting Started on Schoology
Skitch
/ Skitchallows users to annotate, highlight, and mark-up photos, screenshots, maps, or PDFs with simple and quick tools. /
  • Annotate photos –write directly on it
  • Demonstrate Steps / Parts
  • Label diagrams to help students to see the important parts - or let students label the parts themselves
  • Peer Review
  • Story analysis
  • Discuss student work
  • Annotate & label maps
  • Record student thinking / brainstorm
  • Vocabulary Development- vocab map
  • Scientific observations
  • Informational writing –students choose a topic and tell one thing they learned
  • Cause & effect
  • Compare & contrast
  • Students can take pictures of their projects or lab setup and easily annotate it to use in reports.
/ SkitchApp Store Link
Getting Started
Skitch Poster
Skitch for Content Creation
Socrative Student

Socrative Teacher
/ Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational assessments via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction. /
  • Formative assessments
  • Identify student strengths and weaknesses in real time during instruction (or save to view later)
  • Exit ticket
  • Quick question polls
  • Space races – students can compete with each other in teams
/ Socrative Student App Store Link
Socrative Teacher App Store Link
Socrative Website
Socrative User Guide
Create Valuable Multiple Choice Questions
Trading Cards
/ Trading Cardsallows kids a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. /
  • Vocabularyflashcards
  • Show understanding of features of a diagram, a city, the body, etc.
  • Characteristics of characters in a story or in history
  • Properties of a physical object
  • Translation of words for ELL
  • Summarizing
  • Pre-writing
  • Students can share cards with each other
/ Trading Cards App Store Link
Lesson Plans using this App
How-to Video

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