GotTechED the PodcastEpisode #83: 13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode #83 called “13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive."  In this episode we’ll share X ideas for making your classroom activities come alive with creativity and increased student engagement.  We’ll also share some information about the long awaited release of the Hopewell Valley Student Publications Network at HVSPN.com.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Segment 1: HVSPN.comSegment 2: 13 Creative EdTech Tools/Tricks to Make Classroom Activities Come Alive

1. Thinglink Mobile App lets you capture real world 3D media for VR exploration.  Create the thinglink experience right on your phone!  They also added the ability to share thinglinks to a VR headset 
2. Let Google provide the support.  Help and hint links in problem set worksheets.  Links to videos or Mote comments to give students a push in the right direction
3. Set up a scavenger hunt!  
4. Google Site URL’s
5. QR code generators
6. Bitly or tinyuls
7. In a Google Doc use the Doc Secrets AddOn.  Want to keep some text in your document private while sharing the rest of it with others? DocSecrets can help. Just add a password to the DocSecrets sidebar, then type any secret text you want to add to your document in the add-on's Insert field. You can select existing text on the page and click Censor text to hide it—but that text would still be visible in the document's history, making it not nearly as private. Then, to see the hidden text, your collaborators will have to both know your password and have the DocSecrets add-on installed—otherwise all they'll see is colored lines and dashes.
8. Nick - Why so few fonts in Docs.  Don't download a fonts add-on in Google Docs—none are better than the built-in Google Fonts integration.  Just click the down arrow on the fonts menu and select More Fonts.
9. Study tools with mind mapping
10. MindMeister has an add-on that automatically turns bulleted lists into a MindMap
11. Mindmup
12. Let Ablebits bring professionalism to student reports
13. Ablebits’ Table Styles add-on for Google Sheets and Docs
14. Let a program do the work for you:
15. Text giraffe- instant word fonts
16. https://www.wordificator.com/ have words will a shape or picture
17. Coolers color schemes
18. Fancy Text Generator
19. Give students curations of pictures/video to use
20. https://www.dreamstime.com/
21. Unsplash
22. Burst
23. Pexels
24. Pixaba
25. Stocksnap.io
26. Life of Pix
27. Gratisography
28. The Jopwell Collection
29. PicJumbo 
30. Crello
31. Flickr
32. Canva for education
33. Free Images
34. Allow students to add music or to make their own music
35. GotTechED’s Guide to Student Music Creation
36. Incredibox
37. SoundTrap
38. YouTube Music Library
39. Introduce sites that allow you to manipulate photos
40. Pixlr
41. Photofunia
42. Canva for Education
43. Slazzer
44. Snap Seed
45. Remove.bg
46. Audio Replacement Strategy
47. GotTechED’s Teacher’s Guide to Student Podcasting
48. Hands on Game creation
49. Escape Rooms
50. Build puzzles
51. Board Games
52. Build Models
53. Story Telling
54. Storyboardthat
55. Bookcreator
56. pixton

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