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AGE APPROPRIATE
ARE YOUR APPS AGE APPROPRIATE??
It’s very important all educators check age appropriateness prior to using applications with students. Did you know Adobe Spark is rated for age 13 and up? How about BrainPop and BrainPop Jr.? Did you know you need parent consent to use these with children under the age 13? Do you use ClassDojo? Do you have parent consent for students under 13? You need it! Do you like Flocabulary? Under the age of 13 must have parent consent. Khan Academy is great, but children under the age of 13 need consent. Who loves Plickers? 13 and under need consent! If you use Remind or See Saw with students under the age of 13 you also need consent.
CLICK HERE for a list of vetted applications shared by Arlington ISD under the CONSENT category.
ATTENTION NISD TEACHERS: Use this list provided by Arlington ISD. Feel free to create one permission slip with several applications you know you'll be using this year. Then as the year goes and you learn of new sites and apps that you/your students will be using, send home another permission slip.
The best way to manage consent is to carefully read the use agreement for each application and if needed, have parents sign consent to meet these requirements.
Please see Sample Letters below.
TECH TOOLS
STANDARDS for TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
The ISTE standards are designed to help students become empowered learners and challenge educators to rethink traditional approaches to teaching.
BE INSPIRED!!
Check out some of these awesome resources! Subscribe to their email lists and receive daily/weekly emails. Be inspired by others to integrate technology in meaningful ways!
- Brenham Tech Daily
- Common Sense Education
- Cult of Pedagogy
- EdShelf
- Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
ASSESSMENT TOOLS
- Baamboozle
- CashCrunch Games
- ClassTools
- Crossword Labs
- Flipgrid
- Flippity
- Jeopardy Style
- ►Factile
- ►Jeopardy Labs
- ►Teachers
- ►►Challenge
- ►►Jumble
- ►Students
- ►►App
- Mentimeter
- Nearpod
- Plickers
- PollEverywhere
- Popplet
- PurposeGames
- Quizizz
- Quizlet
- ►Diagrams
- ►Live
- Remind
- Road to Grammar
- Socrative
- ►Teachers
- ►Students
INTERACTIVES & MORE
- Brainrush
- Daily Set
- Easy Notecards
- Fuel the Brain
- GoNoOdle
- Digital Hundred Square Boards
- ►Splat Square
- ►Park the Pods
- ►Counter Square
- Interactive Mathematics
- Modern Chalkboard
- ProProfs Brain Games (Play or Create your own!)
- PurposeGames
- True Size Map
- Wheel Decide
TIMERS
- Cool Online Timer
- Egg Timer
- Kuku Klok
- Online Stopwatch
- Online Timer
- Timer Online Clock
- Timer-Tab
- What Time is it There?
TRANSLATORS
VIDEO ENGAGEMENT
- ClassHook
- Edutopia
- iTunesU (need iTunes acct)
- Flipped Learning
- Khan Academy
- NISD YouTube
- SafeShare.TV
- SchoolTube
- Sophia
- TeacherTube
- TED
- TED-Ed
CREATE VIDEOS
- Apowersoft
- CaptureCast
- EDPuzzle
- ezvid
- FlipGrid
- Hippo Video
- HYFY Screen Video Recorder
- Kapwing
- Loom
- Playposit
- Reclipped
- Screencastify
- Screencast-o-matic
- TinyTake
- Vidyar
BOOKS
- 100 Best
- All You Can Books
- Amazon - Free Books for Kids
- BAEN Free Library
- Bookboon.com
- DOGObooks
- Epic!
- Free-Ebooks.net
- Gizmo's Freeware
- Harper Collins
- Merlot
- OER Commons
- Open Textbook Library
- OverDrive*
- Project Gutenberg
- Random House
- Reading Rockets - Award Winners
- Scholastic
- Smashwords
- TextBookGo
ONE STOP PLANNING
- ABCYa
- CommonLit
- Discovery Education
- ►Spotlight on Strategies
- LearnZillion
- National Geographic
- OERCommons
- ReadWriteThink
- ►Acrostic Poems
- ►Cube Creator
- ►Haiku Poem
- ►Timeline
- SMART Exchange
- TCEA
- The 3 Tech Ninjas
- Schmoop
- Zunal
VIRTUAL
- 360Cities
- 6 Tools for Virtual Field Trips (Elem)
- 7 New Wonders of the World
- AirPano
- Art Project
- California Academy of Sciences
- Expeditions
- Exploratorium
- Ford's Theatre
- Google Lit Trips
- Google Sky
- Hershey
- HowToSmile - Science
- Lincoln Memorial
- Moon
- Mount Vernon
- Museum of the US Air Force
- National Archives
- National Geographic
- National Park Service
- Nation WWII Museum
- National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Newseum
- NOVA
- Oxford Museum of Natural History
- Panoramas
- Plimoth Plantation
- Project Noah
- Smithsonian
- Statue of Liberty
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- White House
VIRTUAL TEXAS:
- The Alamo
- Houston Zoo
- Blanton Museum of Art
- Bullock Museum
- Johnson Space Center
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- LBJ Library
PBL
- BIE
- Eutopia - 5 Keys to Rigorous PBL
- Edutopia - PBL Series
- Faculty Focus
- Inquiry - Learning.com
- ProjectPals
- TeachThought
- TeachThought - 15 Tools for Better PBL
- Workbench
CODING
PDF EDITORS
PRESENTATIONS
IMAGE SEARCH SITES FOR STUDENTS
IMAGE ENGAGEMENT
- Be Funky
- Big Huge Labs
- Chartle
- Easel.ly
- eLearning
- Glogster
- Jigsaw Planet
- Kids' Zone
- Mematic
- New Old Stock
- Piktochart
- Pikwizard
- pxhere
- Remove Image Background
- Skitch
- Tagul
- Tagxedo
- Thinglink
- Venngage
- Wordle
VOCABULARY
OTHER
- Alt Codes
- Bouncy Balls
- ClassroomScreen
- Emojipedia
- HORG
- Ice Breaker Questions
- Kiddle - Kid Friendly Search Engine
- Print Friendly
- SAMR
- Santa Tracker
- Smokey the Bear
- SurfnetKids
- US-CERT
- WolframAlpha
K-2 TECH APPS
APP SEARCH
ASSISTIVE TOOLS
AUGMENTED REALITY
- 3DBear
- Chromville
- Google Spotlight Stories
- HP Reveal (formerly Aurasma)
- Quiver * App * Color Pages
- Thomas & Friends Minis
- Waypoint EDU
- WWF Free Rivers
CODING
- Cargo-Bot
- CoSpaces Edu
- Daisy the Dinosaur
- Hopscotch
- Kodable
- Learn to Code with el Chavo (Sp)
- Think & Learn Code-a-pillar
EXTRAS
- Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
- Calm
- GoNoodle * Web * iPad
- Punfound
- Pic Pop
- BrinPOP Jr. Movie of the Week (K-3)
ELL/ESL
GRAMMAR
- Antonym Match $
- ESP: English Spelling & Punctuation
- Grammar Fun
- Grammar Jammers Primary Edition
- Grammaropolis
- My Grammar Lab
- Phrasalstein
- Phrasal Nerds: Phrasal Verbs
- SparkleFish
INTERACTIVE
LANGUAGE
LETTERS, WORDS, PHONICS
- ABC Cursive Writing
- ABC Letter Tracing
- ABC Magnetic Alphabet
- ABC Alphabet Phonics Ordering, Song, Matching, and Sound
- ABC Alphabet Phonics - PK
- ABC Magic Phonics
- Interactive Alphabet ABC's $
- Phonics Genius $
- Starfall ABCs
- Syllable Word Search
- Word Wagon
- Word Wagon HD
MATH
- 1st Grade Math Learning Games
- 2nd Grade Math Planet
- 3D Math Racing
- 3rd Grade Splash Math
- 4th Grade Math Planet
- 5 Dice: Order of Operations
- AB Math
- Arithmetic Invaders Express
- Chicken Coop Fraction Games
- Cloud Math
- Counting Bills & Coins
- Counting Money
- Cyberchase Shape Quest
- Dial-a-fraction
- Dominoes Easy Math
- Geoboard
- Interactive Telling Time
- iTooch Elementary School App
- Khan Academy
- Learning Patters
- Let's Do Maths
- Mad Math Lite
- Mathable
- Mathical
- Math Learner: Easy Mathematics
- Math Puppy - Bingo Challenge
- Math Vocabulary Cards
- Meerkat Math
- Moose Math
- Multiplication Genius x19
- Number Frames
- Number Line
- Number Math
- Number Pieces
- Number Pieces Basic
- My Math Flash Cards App
- Pattern Shapes
- Park Math
- Pet Bingo
- Subitize
- Sushi Monster
- Tap Math
- Teaching Number Lines
- Tiggly Addventure
- Timers4Me
- Time Timer
- Virtual Manipulatives!
MISC & MULTI SUBJECT
- ABCmouse.com
- Baa Baa Black Sheet PreK
- Big Kid Life Vet
- Big Kid Life Firefighter
- Crayola Kids
- Fish School
- iMovie
- MyBackpack
- Sesame Street
- Skill Champ
- Smart-EZE
- WatchKnowLearn
- Zen Studio
MUSIC
ORGANIZING
PRODCTIVITY
READING - BOOKS/STORIES
- Access My Library
- Acrostic Poems
- Aesop for Children
- Audio Books Pro
- Audiobooks
- Bob Books Reading Magic Lite
- ChatterPix Kids
- Draw and Tell
- Dr. Seuss Treasury
- Fairy Tales Bedtime Stories
- Gutenberg
- HOMER Stories: Kids Library
- iPlay&Sing
- Kindle
- LeVar Burton Kids Skybrary (Reading Rainbow)
- Little Bird Tales
- Open eBooks
- Overdrive
- Puppet Pals
- Seedling Comic Studio
- Sock Puppets
- Story Creator
- StoryKit
- Story Mouse
- Storypanda Books
- Story Time Interactive
- Tap to Talk
- TeleStory
- Tellagami
RECORDING
SCIENCE
- A Who Am I - Animal Game
- DIY Human Body
- Earth Day Carol
- EarthViewer
- Exoplanet
- Food Web
- Green Planet 4 Kids
- Kids World Atlas
- Language Central for Science Earth Science
- Language Central for Science Life Science
- Language Central for Science Physical Science
- Leafsnap For iPad
- Lifeliqe
- Light Bulbs
- Marine Missions
- NASA Visualization Explorer
- Oobie's Space Adventure
- Showbiz Safari
- Sound Uncovered
- Science Today
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Barefoot World Atlas
- Fingerprint: Whole Wide World
- Geography Drive USA
- Google Earth
- One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World
- Social Studies Friendzy
- State Bingo and Road Trip US
- Thud! Presidents
- US State Capitals
SPELLING
- 5 Letter Spelling
- A+ Spelling Test
- ABC Spelling Magic CVC Words
- ABC: My First Words
- Back & Forth 2
- Build A Word Express
- Come Learn Spellings
- DoodleSpell
- The Flying Alphabetinis
- Kids Spelling Fun
- Rocket Speller
- Spelling Magic 2 Consonant Blends
- Word Wagon
STORY TIME
- Aesop for Children
- Bob Books Reading Magic Lite
- ChatterPix Kids
- Draw and Tell
- Fairy Tales Bedtime Stories
- Little Bird Tales
- Puppet Pals
- Seedling Comic Studio
- Sock Puppets
- Story Creator
- StoryKit
- Storypanda Books
- Tap to Talk
- TeleStory
- Tellagami
VOCABULARY
- Alphabet Organizer
- Bluster!
- Peek-a-Zoo
- Roots to Words
- Vocabulary Builder 1
- Vocabulary Builder 2
- Vocabulary Builder 3
- Vocabulary Builder 4
- Word Joust K-5
WHITEBOARD
WRITING



