Pecha Kuchas

List of ICT to use in elementary and secondary school

Youtube
o Crashcourse
o Scishow
o Lizzie Bennett Diaries
o Talk
o CNN Student
TedED different from TED talk site
o For teachers and students
o Design lessons around your videos
o Keep track of processes
Wolfram Alpha
o Bringing knowledge
Scratch (free!)
o Coding accessible to everyone
o Easy to use
Google Earth
o Allows students to explore
For better for verse
o Poetry help
Radical Teacher
SkyDrive
Reddit
Smart Music (not free)
o In class and at home for students
MusiQ Lab (not free)
o Piano only
Khan Academy
o Different learning levels
o Homework
o Track their progress
Canadas Food Guide
o Planning
Top Hat Monocle
o Better than just a clicker
o Free for 30 students for 1 class
o Or $20/year per student
o Get feedback from your students
E-book (free ebooks.net)

o Good for elementary

o Picture books
It Gets Better.org
o Show in the classroom
o Help students
Learnquebec.ca/learnapps/dotplan (not a pecha kucha but helpful nonetheless)
o Helps with the QEP and CCCs
Storia by Scholastic
o E-books (5 free when you sign up)
Google
o Drive
o Set up in the classroom
Communicate with the class
o Doctopus
Dropbox (free)
o To save documents
o Used in the classroom
o Can send lessons to the sub
Media Smarts
o Young children and teens
o Teacher resources
o Safe and effective media literacy
The Medium
o Able to share stuff!
Inspiration (software)
o Supports visual learning
o Kidspiration
o Base fee: $38
Smartboard
o White board
o Engaged learning
Antidote
o French corrector
o Expensive
Bureau en Gros: $129.95 (2 computers)
Online $66 (1 computer)
Facebook
o Get parents involved
Socrative
o Online classroom
o Create quizzes
Handwriting Without Tears

o Practice writing
o Get children moving
Edmodo
o Laid out similar to facebook
o Parent/teacher/student involvement
o Quizzes and assignments
Skype
o Connection between countries and cultures
Sparkteens
o For teenagers to be healthy
o Get the entire classroom involved
o Sparkspeople (for adults)
o Spark recipes (app for your phone)
Pinterest!!!
o Lesson planning
Mathletics
o Complete math problems
o Resources
o Over 100,000 schools worldwide
Prezi
o Free and interactive
StumbleUpon
o Gets to know your interests
o Lessons and ideas
o Science in the class (videos and such)
Storybird.com
o Free for first class then $29.95/35 students
o Create their own books
Thinglink
o Interactive pictures
o Free access or pay to have 50,000 more views (companies)
Moodle
o Free software and platform
o Can give assignments, homework and quizzes
o Students learn together
iTunesU
o mainly for higher education
ToonDoo
o Cartoon and comic creator
o Look at reading comprehension
Admongo.gov
o Looks at advertising awareness

o Activities
Bedford St Martins
o Free, helps with grammar
Stellarium
o Free download
o Type in coordinates
o Constellations
Sparknotes- thespark.com
o Free
o Can view without account
o Helps students understand material
Raz-kids www.raz-kids.com
o Make reading easier and fun
o $85-$100/year for 1 classroom
o K-5
o Good for comprehension questions and quizzes
CK-12 (free!)
o Educational content on many platforms
o Eliminates textbooks
o Summative and formative assessments
o On a smart board
o Create study groups or classes
Spatulatta.com (free!)
o Cooking
o Cook by the book
Wikispaces
o Communicate online
o Youtube channel on how to set it up