As you work to pick tools for your classroom, here are 50+ of my favorite tools for the classroom. This includes many that you can use for reinventing writing (my new book) but also ideas for every time of classroom.

1. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
Slides and Links will be posted at
Check out my new book Reinventing Writing and
Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds

2. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
• Let’s play
Kahoot!

3. Pick three

4. Some favorite new tools
 Kahoot – www.getkahoot.com
 Plickers - www.plickers.com
 Telegami – www.tellagami.com
 Extensity (managing Chrome extensions)
 Thinglink www.thinglink.com
 Tiny Tap www.tinytap.it
Follow Free Tech for Teachers!! @rmbyrne
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7. http://tinyurl.com/kindle-notecard
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Learn More: Chapter 3, Reinventing Writing

8. 5 Most popular ebook readers
 Kindle
 iBook
 Nook
 Kobo
 Google Play Books
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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#1 Reinventing Paper

9. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project
www.gutenberg.
Gutenberg
org
eReaderIQ www.ereaderiq.
com
Free Booksy www.freebooksy.
com
Book Bub www.bookbub.c
om
Bookish www.bookish.co
m
Hundred Zeroes www.hundredzer
oes.com
Goodreaders www.goodreads.
com
What Should I
Read Next?
www.whatshould
ireadnext.com
Which Book www.openingthe
book.com/which
book
Calibre www.calibre-ebook.
com
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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10. 6 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
1. http://liber.io/
2. (Write in Google Drive  eBook)
2. Draft
1. http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
1. http://leanpub.com/
5. Powerpoint or Keynote (Yes you can!)
6. Scrivener
Learn more:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/publish-ebooks-free/
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11. Did you know?
 You can export your notes from Kindle or
iBooks into Evernote?
 See 11 Ways eBooks Can Improve Your Life:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/11-reasons-ebooks/
 You can convert almost any format of ebook
to another using Calibre?
 See The Epic eBook Guide:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
 Students can set up a kindle email
 Put them in a group and email docs to them (a
small charge will be incurred unless you hook it
up directly via cable.)
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12. #1 Reinventing Paper
Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
 Evaluate Amazon Whispernet
 Create a place where you can distribute
or link to free ebook content
 Older students set up a profile on
kindle.amazon.com
 Learn to export notes from books
 Make epublishing part of what you do
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16. #2 Reinventing Notetaking
Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
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17. Notes area
Reminders
Search
Shortcuts for frequently
used items

18. Share your
notetaking
and files

19. One Note: Only Collaborative
Notebook service

20. #2 Reinventing Notetaking
Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
 Select an official notebook service for your school
 Connect students and teachers
 Share notes
 Learn to capture, annotate, and find
 See if students can find notes at a later date
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4

21. Meet the
new
notecard
Hyperlink is part of bookmark
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 5

22. Features of
the New
Notecard
(Diigo)
Annotate Websites: Privately,
To a group or publicly
Group Bookmarks
http://physicsofthefuture.wikispaces.com
Student efolios
Citation Reports

23. www.classtools.net
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

24. http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

25. Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

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27. Dropbox * Google Drive * One Drive
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29. Did you know?
You’re not stuck! You can move your
files. Mover.io

30. #5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Dropbox: Did you know?
 You can connect to your students and share files
 Dropbox is a great way to share videos
 You can create a folder people can upload to using
dropitto.me
 Sortmybox will help you organize and move your dropbox
materials
 Jotform sends forms straight to Dropbox
 Automate Dropbox with IFTTT
 You can create a website from a Dropbox Folder using
site44
 My bookmarks of all the things you can do with Dropbox:
https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/dropbox
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31. #5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Google Drive: Did you know?
 You can install Google Drive like a
Dropbox Folder
 You can set up shared class folders
 Google Drive can link with other services
(like wevideo)
 See “Becoming a Google Drive Master”
 http://j.mp/gdrive-master

32. One Drive: Did you know?
 Integrated with Office and Windows 8 (no
need to install)
 If you don’t buy the service, only 3 students
can sign up PER DAY behind a firewall (I give
it as a home assignment/ school supply)
 Free versions of Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint
available online with your files if you use it
 Replaces the “Jump Drive” more easily than
anything else.
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets

33. #5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
 Set up collaborative writing tools
 Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
 Empower peer feedback
 Train and connect everyone!
 Teach students (and teachers) to convert
files of all types
 Teach students how to convert and use
many types of cloud tools
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 6

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So much more than the “essay”
- reinventing wordprocessors

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1. Google Drive
2. One Drive (Microsoft Word/
Office 365)
3. Etherpad (for server installation)

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37. Did you know?
#5 Reinventing Word Processors
 Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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38. #5 Reinventing Word Processors
Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
 Set up collaborative writing tools
 Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
 Empower peer feedback
 Train and connect everyone!
 Teach students (and teachers) to convert
files of all types
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 7

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41. Class Twitter Accounts
Open Doors
Karen Lirenman
Kathy Cassidy
Building Student Learning Communities
through Twitter
http://j.mp/lirenman-twitter
Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom
http://j.mp/primary-twitter

42. Did you
know?
http://www.classtools.net/twister/
You can make “Fake Tweets” at Classtools.net

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46. #7 Reinventing Group Reports
Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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47. #7 Reinventing Group Reports
Popular Group Website
Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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49. See https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Mindmeister

50. Did
you
know?
You should preplan what you’ll write before
you start collaborative writing?
Favorite outlining tools:
Hackpad, Google Drive, Etherpad, Office 365

51. Brainstorming tool
bubbl.us/
Source: http://www.web2teachingtools.com/bubbl_us.html Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

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55. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/

56. Did you know?
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
 Captions under images are read 300%
more than body copy
 Headlines placed below an image are
read by 10% more people than headlines
above
 Never break the left margin
 Images should either have: story appeal
or demonstrate something
 See: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shocking-truth-about-graphics/

57. Spelling City
www.spellingcity.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

58. www.funbrain.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

59. Visuwords – www.visuwords.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

60. Google Forms – A school survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

61. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

62. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

63. www.wordle.net
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

64. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

65. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

66. http://www.tagxedo.com/
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

67. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

68. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

69. Wikis! http://westwood.wikispaces.com
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

70. www.edmodo.com
Free, blogging, assignments
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

71. Give assignments and receive responses
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

72. Trello – project management!
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

73. Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

75. Build your circle of the wise
“The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.” C.S.
Lewis
RSS
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

76. Tons of free resources for your whiteboard / classroom
http://www.mentormob.com
Theresa Allen’s page: http://j.mp/1dDkYbO
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

77. List.ly

78. Ed.ted.com – great flipped tool

79. Cel.ly: Mobile networks

80. App Advice
• Find apps on iPad / iPod to find new
tools
• App Advice
• Apps gone free
• For Droid –
• See Richard Byrne!
• @rmbyrne
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

81. Feedly.com
Replacement for Google reader
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

82. Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.com
For building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

83. My “personal” newspaper
• Flipboard
• Editor.flipboard.com – can co-curate
magazines also!
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

84. Staying Positive
You become like those you are around.
• What are you reading?
• Kindle
• iCatcher – iPhone/ iPad
• Every Classroom matters (my show!) ;-)
• Subscribe to videos and listen
• Have a personal “radio station” for the
drive to school
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

85. •Couch to 5K App
•Weight Watchers App

86. 30/30 app

87. www.hootsuite.com
Schedule updates like lunch menus.
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings

88. Efolios
• Weebly.com
• Webs.com
• Wixx.com
• Wikispaces
• Wordpress
• Voicethread (for younger students)
• Burn DVD
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

89. http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive

90. www.smugmug.com
Monetize the photos your annual staff is taking.
I hereby authorize the School to use
photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and
audio recordings of my child in school
media and advertisements. I understand
that I must notify the Ravenscroft
Communications Office, in writing, to
change this authorization.
Ravenscroft School
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

91. Free painting software
http://www.getpaint.net/ ---- ninite
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

92. Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

93. Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

94. Microsoft Worldwide Telescope
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

95. Build your own planetarium
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ExperienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?Page=Dome
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds

96. Citations
• Son of Citation Machine
• Noodlebib
• EasyBib
• Citation generator in Microsoft Word

97. Google nGram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

98. Google nGram
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

99. Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings

100. Setting appointments
• Timebridge
• Doodle
Productivity
• Bridging Time
Zones
• Paperless
Classroom
• File Management

101. Livebinders
http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=164223

102. Some new favorites
• Wunderlist
• Task Clone
• EXTENSITY!!!
• Snagit
• LastPass

103. Fantastic Tools for Schools
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104. Mastermind Meetup #3
• Web 2 Elevator Pitch
• You will research a tool
• Send one person forth with a 3 minute
pitch.
• Your table will be pitched by 7 teams
• All of us will vote on our favorite tool of
the round