Tuesday Tech Tidbit

Wordwall is an amazing website that allows teachers to create custom interactive activities for students.  In the free account, Wordwall includes 18 types of interactives.  These activities include: Match Up Quiz Group sort Random cards Random wheel Matching pairs Find the match Open the box Gameshow quiz Anagram flash cards Missing word Rearrange words Word search Maze chase Labelled diagram Crossword True & false Wordwall includes over 54 million activities already created and shared by other educators.  Activities can be shared with students as an assignment for the entire class to complete live. The free account allows you to create 5 resources.  Of course, subscription plans are offered that allow you to create even more resources.   To check out Wordwall, visit https://wordwall.net

Classroomscreen is a website that allows teachers to project a home screen with a variety of widgets that help to organize and manage the flow of their classrooms. Classroomscreen provides 19 widgets that you can customize.  These widgets include: Random name generator (for choosing a name of a student in your class) Timer Poll Text box Drawing box Sound level meter QR code generator Dice Stop watch Clock Group maker You can use Classroomscreen.com for free with no need to register.  You won't be able to save your screens or your widget orientations with the free account, but that's not much of a burden if you ask me.  This resource is extremely easy to use.  To check it out, visit  https://classroomscreen.com .

Puzzlemaker is a free puzzle generation tool for teachers and students.  It is provided by Discovery Education.  It is a completely web-based and super easy to use.   With Puzzlemaker you (or students) can generate a wide variety of puzzles, including word search, cross-cross, math squares, number blocks, mazes, and more.  Simply provide the requested information about building the puzzle parameters.  Then supply the words, letters or numbers. Voila!   Puzzlemaker will churn out a puzzle that can be printed easily.  You can also create PDFs of the puzzles that can be shared in Google Classroom.  Students can use their styluses to complete PDF puzzles on their iPads.  Puzzlemaker is a great vocabulary builder and math resource.  (And it’s fun to use!) https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a one-stop shop for converting files and editing PDFs?  Meet your new best friend, 123apps !  This website offers a bunch of free, web-based applications that allow you to edit a variety of media files as well as convert files from one format to another.  The interface is super easy, yet this resource is quite powerful. The biggest draw to 123apps in my opinion is its massive array of PDF editing functions .  You can split, merge, compress, and rotate PDFs.  If you have a couple of PDFs that you want to merge together, or if you want to snag a couple of pages from a giant PDF document, look no further than 123apps.  While you're at it, you can convert a wide variety of file types into PDF, or you can convert a PDF into an image file. 123apps also offers a wide range of video and audio editing tools. You can: Trim video Merge videos Add audio to video Rotate video Flip video Change video speed 123apps has a voice recorder as ...