The Teacher’s Guide to TECH 2020 Jennifer Gonzalez The Teacher’s Guide to Tech Copyright ©2020 by Jennifer Gonzalez This document is copyrighted material. Your single-user license gives you permission to use this document for yourself and your classroom only. You may keep electronic or paper copies of this document in multiple places for your own use or student use: on your home computer, school computer, personal devices, and student-accessible devices. You may make photocopies of individual pages for classroom use. Reproducing or sharing this document with other users is considered a violation of copyright. If you would like to share this with other teachers in your building, please purchase additional user licenses. For more information on licensing, visit teachersguidetotech.com/guide. Any other questions about this guide should be directed to [email protected]. Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Menu MenuPREVIEW: not all pages are included, so page numbers not accurate and most links will not work. INTRODUCTION 9 Know Your Legal Stuff 48 Plickers Classroom Sown to Grow How This Guide Works 10 Management 76 THE TOOLS 53 BehaviorFlip How I Choose the Tools 13 Audience Response Bouncy Balls Animated GIFs 54 New in 2020 14 & Backchannels 63 Class Charts AnswerGarden Classcraft Am I Some Kind of Tech Art 55 Poll Everywhere ClassDojo Expert? 16 Adobe Fresco Slido ClassroomQ Adobe Illustrator Wooclap ClassroomScreen Adobe Illustrator Draw THE TIPS 18 YoTeach! GoNoodle Adobe Photoshop Sketch Why Bother Learning Adobe Spark Blogging & About Technology? 19 Cloud Storage 80 Assembly Website Building 66 A Look Inside the Lives of Autodesk Sketchbook Blogger Collaboration & AutoDraw Three Tech-Enhanced Edublogs Project Management 81 Canva Teachers 22 Tumblr Basecamp Fresh Paint Weebly Kanbanchi How to Do Tech Without Google Chrome Canvas Wix Miro Losing Your Mind 25 Google Drawings WordPress Padlet Inkscape Getting to Know the Slack MediBang Paint SAMR Model 28 Book Publishing 70 Trello Paper When Your School is Blurb Procreate Book Creator Comic Strip Creators 84 Short on Tech 30 Sketchpad Lulu Pixton Wonderings 35 Storybird Storyboard That Assessment 59 What Tool Should I Use? 38 WriteReader Doctopus & Goobric Troubleshooting 41 Edulastic Career Exploration 74 Formative Quality-Check Your Tech 43 CareerVillage Google Forms Find Your Calling A Hat Tip to Common GradeCam Thrively Sense Media 47 Kiddom The Teacher’s Guide to Tech 2020 3 Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Menu Menu Content Libraries 86 Feedback 100 Games 112 Games & Interactives Actively Learn Floop Class Responder Be Washington CommonLit Google Drive Gimkit iCivics Curipow Kaizena GooseChase The Fiscal Ship Epic Microsoft Word Kahoot! Gapminder Global Oneness Project Peergrade Playmeo Mission U.S. Great Big Story Quizalize Redistricting Game Listenwise Quizizz Flashcard Creators 103 Geography MyShakespeare Quizlet Quizlet Live GeoGuesser Newsela StudyBlue Socrative Google MyMaps Novel Effect Google Tour Builder NewseumED Flipped Learning 105 Global Learning 113 Lizard Point Vooks Edpuzzle Empatico National Geographic MapMaker Wonderopolis InsertLearning Global Read Aloud Seterra PlayPosit PenPal Schools Curation 92 Sutori Skype in the Classroom Primary Sources elink TED-Ed Bill of Rights Institute Feedly Tes Teach History & Digital Public Library of America LiveBinders Versal Social Studies 116 DocsTeach Paper.li Google Arts & Culture Curriculum Pinterest Fundraising & Interactive Constitution Big History Project Symbaloo Payment Processing 109 Smithsonian Learning Lab The Choices Program Wakelet Cheddar Up Facing History and Ourselves Other Great Sites Webjets DonorsChoose The Gilder Lehrman Institute C3 Teachers GoFundMe Stanford History Education Group Casemaker Digital Portfolios 97 Indiegogo Teaching Tolerance Holocaust Encyclopedia Artsonia If It Were My Home bulb Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Portfoliobox Zoom In Seesaw Showcase The Teacher’s Guide to Tech 2020 4 Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Menu Menu Infographics 122 Learning Management Robotics Music 152 Infogram Systems 131 LEGO Education GarageBand Piktochart Blackboard Sphero Groove Pizza Venngage Edmodo Dash & Dot Hooktheory Visme Google Classroom Noteflight Microsoft Teams Math 143 Soundtrap Interactive Lessons 123 Schoology ASSISTments TonalEnergy BookWidgets Desmos Boom Learning Makerspaces 134 GeoGebra Note Taking 155 Deck.Toys Mathalicious Diigo 3D Printing Genially Mathchare Edji 3DoodlerEDU oodlü MyScript Calculator Evernote Thingiverse Wizer NCTM Illuminations Google Keep Tinkercad Photomath Hypothesis Interactive Posters 126 Coding Wolfram|Alpha Kami Buncee Codecademy Woot Math Notability Glogster Code.org Would You Rather… OneNote ThingLink Kodable Rocketbook Made with Code Mind Mapping 148 Language Study 128 Scratch Coggle Duolingo Trinket.io Lucidchart FluentU Tynker Popplet Italki Unruly Splats Sketchboard LingQ Electronics Lupa Arduino Microsoft Translator littleBits Kano Makey Makey Pi Top Raspberry Pi The Teacher’s Guide to Tech 2020 5 Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Menu Menu Parent Engagement 159 Podcasting 168 QR Codes 179 Social Media 189 Bloomz Anchor QR Code Generator Facebook ClassTag Audacity QR Code Reader Instagram FreshGrade LinkedIn Remind Presentation 171 Research 181 Reddit SignUp.com emaze Google Scholar Snapchat Smore Google Cast MyBib Twitter Google Slides Zotero Photo Editing 163 Haiku Deck Speaking & Discussion 192 Adobe Lightroom Nearpod Science 183 Equity Maps BeFunky Pear Deck Algodoo Extempore Gimp PowerPoint Compound Interest Flipgrid Photoshop Express Prezi ExploreLearning Gizmos Kialo Pixlr Sway Google Earth Parlay Prisma Google Expeditions Skype Snapseed Productivity Google Science Journal StartSOLE VSCO & Planning 175 HHMI BioInteractive Voxer Auto Text Expander Learn.Genetics Physical Education 165 Boomerang Mystery Science Special Ed/UDL 196 Coach's Eye Calendly NASA’s Eyes First Then Visual Elanation Google Calendar PhET Simulations Schedule My Bracket IFTTT Physics Classroom Livescribe Pen Seconds Interval Timer Microsoft To Do Ptable Microsoft Learning Tools Sworkit Noisli Star Walk NaturalReader Team Shake Planboard Visible Body ONEder Toggl Read&Write for Chrome Rewordify Understood The Teacher’s Guide to Tech 2020 6 Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Menu Menu Spreadsheets 200 Video: Live Streaming Writing 221 THE TERMS 228 Google Sheets & Short Form 211 Composition Helpers Microsoft Excel Speare REFERENCES 242 Video: Screencasting 213 WriteWell Survey Tools 202 Camtasia 287 Google Forms Grammar Instruction Explain Everything 288 INDEX 267 SurveyMonkey Screencastify 289 GrammarFlip Typeform Screencast-O-Matic 290 NoRedInk Quill Acknowledgements 280 Teacher Professional Virtual & Proofreading Development 204 Augmented Reality 216 Ginger About the Author 281 Fishbowl 3DBear 293 Grammarly Insight ADVANCE CoSpaces Edu 293 Participate Google Tour Creator 293 Social Writing JumpStart: A Technology Swivl HP Reveal 294 BoomWriter Course for Thoughtful TeachFX Merge 294 Wattpad Educators 282 Verso Metaverse 294 WriteAbout Quiver 295 Style Editors Video: Animation Thyng 295 Hemingway Editor & Production 207 Tilt Brush 295 ProWritingAid Adobe Spark Do Ink Word Processing Google Docs iMovie Microsoft Word mysimpleshow PowToon Toontastic 3D The Teacher’s Guide to Tech 2020 7 PREVIEW: not all pages are included, so some links will not work. The Tips Why Bother Learning About Technology? A Look Inside the Lives of Three Tech-Enhanced Teachers How to Do Tech Without Losing Your Mind Getting to Know the SAMR Model When Your School is Short on Tech Wonderings What Tool Should I Use? Troubleshooting Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies A Hat Tip to Common Sense Media Know Your Legal Stuff Menu | Introduction | The Tips | The Tools | The Terms | References | Index Why Bother Learning About Technology? especially if up until now you’ve been doing letting people work together in a way that just fine without it? Here are just a few records their progress and lets participants reasons, in no particular order, why adding dive in whenever and wherever they are even a little bit of technology to your available, even if they are in different teaching can make a big difference. countries. This means your students can collaborate with each other and with you. It saves you time. By automating things Technology also gives you global access to you do over and over again, you get more other teachers: Social media channels and Why Bother time to spend on other tasks. For example, discussion and collaboration tools like using screencasting tools to record some Voxer and Skype enable you to share ideas basic lessons offers the same instruction, Learning and resources with like-minded but it frees you up from having to repeat it professionals all over the world. About yourself. Coordinating parent-teacher conferences with a tool like ClassTag lets It helps you differentiate instruction. you set up the event once, then have Technology has so much potential for Technology? parents sign up on their own without you allowing you to differentiate instruction. Technology can be a huge pain in the butt. having to coordinate schedules. Being able Here are just some of the ways: to record voice comments on students’ Wi-Fi goes out, programs freeze, YouTube Content: Suppose