Paperless Classroom

The power of Google Drive means you have the ability to share files by distributing the link to the files.

Click here for tutorial.

Learning Management Systems are a great way to distribute information. Here are two popular free platforms:

• Canvas (OVERALL BEST) - click here for free version
  

Google Sites allows for easy sharing all from one place. Here are several tutorial sites:

• Tutorials by Kirksville Web Design.
• Google Tutorial for Sites
• Mary Fran's Google Sites Tutorial

Google Drive allows students to share files with teachers from anywhere and any computer or mobile device.

• Google Drive Tutorials
• Google Docs Tutorials

Edmodo is a web-based platform that provides a way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework.

• Everything Teachers Need to Know about Edmodo
• Edmodo Tutorials.

Canvas is a LMS that allows students to upload work plus much more. List of tutorials:

• Canvas Guides
• Canvas Community
• Canvas Groups

Google Presentation is a web-based tool that is very similar to Microsoft Powerpoint. However, with Google Presentations one can access anywhere there is internet available.

• Video tutorial.
  

EDpuzzle allows you to add your voice and questions to educational videos, search for educational videos, insert your own voice comments, insert questions that embed on the video timeline, create classes to track student work.

• EDpuzzle FAQs

Haiku Deck is another PowerPoint alternative that allows one to save presentations online, share presentations on social media sites, download them as PDFs or PPs, and share with others or keep private.

• Haiku Deck Support
• Haiku Deck Videos

Notable PDF is a web tool that allows one to upload documents from Google Drive, Box, or Dropbox and then highlight, underline, strike through, add comments or text. Documents can then be uploaded to Notable to get a link to share, printed or downloaded with annotation to PDF or text file, or save file to drive with or without annotation.

PrintFriendly cleans and formats web pages for perfect print experience. PrintFriendly removes Ads, Navigation and web page junk, so you save paper and ink when you print. It's a great tool to use when your are researching the web and need data to read without all the clutter that comes with webpages.

• Video Tutorial
• Chrome Extension

Evernote is a notes app designed to help you stay organized. You can add text, images, audio, scanned documents, files, and more to your notebook, synchronize everything across all of your devices in Evernote’s free apps.

• Evernote Video Tutorial
• Evernote Clearly Extension

Symbaloo is a web tool that allows one to organize and share the best of the web. With Symbaloo one can create multiple webmixes that can be used per class or per unit.

• Sign up for SymbalooEDU
• Symbaloo User Guide
• Symbaloo Video Tutorial

Diigo is a free social bookmarking tool that allows users to add tags for organization, share with friends, add your own annotations, and highlight notes.

• What is Diigo?
• Diigo Video Tutorials
• Using Diigo to Annotate Web Content

Livebinders is a digital 3 ring binder that you can put virtually anything into; webpage, PDF, document, image, or video. Everything is organized by tab and you can even have subtabs within those tabs.

• Livebinders for Teachers Video Tutorial
• Livebinders Video Tutorials
• Livebinders Tutorial Binders

Google Forms is a great way to monitor a quick exit ticket and then show summary of answers.

• Google Form Tutorial
• Google Form as Exit Ticket Video

Socrative has a template for exit tickets. No set up required. Three questions are asked with the last question being an oral question asked by the teacher.

• Exit Ticket Video Tutorial
• Socrative User Guide
• Socrative Video Tutorials

Poll Everywhere can be used as an exit ticket by using cell phones or laptops. The great part about Poll Everywhere is the answers are anonymous.

• Poll Everywhere User Guide
• Poll Everywhere Video Tutorial

Google Forms is a great way to gather feedback. What makes this tool so valuable is that the responses appear in a spreadsheet. Here are several tutorial guides for using Google Forms.

• Basic tutorial of Google Forms
• 22 Useful Forms for Teachers
• Complete Google Form Guide

Easy Polls is free online service that allows you to create a poll and then embed or share the link. You can change the theme and the settings. No tutorials are needed. It is a very simple interface.

• Easy Polls
• Sample Poll

Survey Monkey basic subscription is free and allows the user to ask up to 10 questions and 100 responses per survey.

• Survey Monkey Tutorials
• Survey Monkey Video Tutorials

Kahoot is a fun way to access understanding because it is a game type format response system. Students are awarded points for answering correctly and quickly. The teacher controls the pace of the quiz.

• Kahoot Video Tutorials

Socrative allows users to ask multiple choice, true/false, or short answer questions. The great part about Socrative is the self-graded quizzes. Just run the report to see the results.

• Socrative User Guide
• Socrative Video Tutorials

Poll Everywhere shows results from quizzes immediately and results can be streamed via a word cloud, ticker view, text wall or cluster. The great part about Poll Everywhere is the answers are anonymous.

• Poll Everywhere User Guide
• Poll Everywhere Video Tutorial

Today's Meet is a backchannel that allows for discussions to take place as the same time as teaching. It is a free service. Create a room and then share the link. All responses can be downloaded at the end of session.

• Today's Meet Video Tutorial

Padlet is a online corkboard. Create a wall and then share the link. Those with the link can add post-it notes to the wall. The responses on the wall can be downloaded at the end of the discussion.

• Padlet User Guide
• Padlet Video Tutorial

Twitter is a social media platform. Using hastags (#) is a great way to conduct realtime discussion. Users can search the hashtag to follow the discussion.

• Using Hashtags on Twitter
• Hashtag Video Tutorial

Blogs are a great way to showcase a student's work. My favorite platform is Blogger because the interface is so easy. For elementary students an easier interface to use is KidBlogs because no email is needed for sign up.

• Blogger Basics Video Tutorial

Livebinders is a digital 3 ring binder that you can put virtually anything into; webpage, PDF, document, image, or video. Everything is organized by tab and you can even have subtabs within those tabs.

• Livebinders for Teachers Video Tutorial
• Livebinders Video Tutorials
• Livebinders Tutorial Binders

Smore is a web tool that allows users to create online newsletters, announcements, etc. If your are reading this then you are on Smore. Smore has any simplistic interface that doesn't require hours of training, virtually no training.

• Using Smore Tutorial

Canva allows users to create amazing images with ease. This web tool is free. Some images have a price of $1 but there are thousands on the site for free or you can upload your own.

• Canva Video Tutorial

Tackk is a lot like Smore. It's a free online site that allows you to create newsletters, announcements, etc.

• Tackk Video Tutorial
• Tackk in the Classroom

Lucidpress is a web-based drag and drop publishing app, enabling anyone to create stunning content for print and digital. This replaces Microsoft Publisher or having to learn Adobe suite.

• Lucidpress Tutorial
• Lucidpress Video Tutorial

EDpuzzle allows you to add your voice and questions to educational videos, search for educational videos, insert your own voice comments, insert questions that embed on the video timeline, create classes to track student work.

• EDpuzzle FAQs

Next time you get ready to present a certain topic try using a movie clip as the introduction.

• MovieClips Site
• Clips to Use in the Classroom

VoiceThread is a tool for having conversations around media. Upload a collection of media, comment on it, and share it with others.

• VoiceThread Tutorial
• VoiceThread Video Tutorials