Once students get into high school, building a résumé becomes an important skill for students to learn. Novorésumé is an online résumé builder that is free to use. Unfortunately, students have to go through the sign up process before they can start building. Once signed in, students can select a format and start completing their resume. I recommend…
Source: Codevolve Codevolve is a website designed to interactively teach programming. The interface looks a lot like codecademy.com, but Codevolve puts the emphasis on learning skills, not badges. Another nice feature is Storyboard, where you can create your own assignments.
Showbie is a free educational app for teachers and students that makes creating and completing assignments, providing assessments, and storing grades easy. Source: Showbie – The Heart of Your Paperless Classroom If you are in an iPad classroom, Showbie may be a site you’ll want to check out. As a teacher, you can assign tasks…
At its core, Dropbox is a service for storing and sharing files on the cloud. If you’re one of its 200 million users, this is probably what you mostly use Dropbox for, too. But there’s a lot more that Dropbox offers to make your life easier. Some of Dropbox’s underused features include commenting on files,…
Get kids programming within minutes. Source: Lightbot Lightbot is a series of challenges for students to learn programming, much like Swift Playgrounds or All Can Code. These activities are broken up into two categories, one for students ages 4-8 and the other for students ages 9+. The activites can be completed on iOS, Android, or…
Sesame is a platform to document and assess mastery of skills. Source: Welcome | Sesame Sesame lets students submit all types of work to the teacher for assessment and/or to provide instant feedback. The website can integrate with 1,000s of apps and had curriculum standards built in. There are also customizable rubrics and check lists…
The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! Source: VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! VideoNot.es loads a video on the left side, and lets the user take notes about the video on the right. The notes are linked to the specific time of the video. The notes themselves are…
Flashcard Stash is yet another online flashcard builder. Students can play games on the pre-build flashcards or create their own. There are several different ways to use the flashcards to help remember the terms. Teachers can create an account and then assign lists to students. Unfortunately, the site does not allow Google or Microsoft accounts to…
De Mobo Slides is an innovative way to use your phone to control your presentation and turns your laptop webcam into a digital overhead projector. Source: De Mobo Slides De Mobo Slides is a website set up to allow you to remotely control your presentations from your cell phone. I tested it from an Android…
Play Run Marco! an epic adventure game and learn to code i.e. program computers! Designed for 6 to 12 y.o. kids. Source: Allcancode – Run Marco! Have you been through all of the exercises at code.org and want more? Or do you want something different to start your students on programming? Then All Can Code…