
Innovation Badges
We want to recognize you for trying new innovative things in the classroom. You can click the button for the introduction presentation below for more information.
This page contains a list of all the Badges we currently have available. Below you will find a list of the badges and a description of each as well as links to resources to learn more about them. Click the image for each badge for more information about that tool (Those links were lost this summer when I transferred everything to this new website. I will get them back asap.). There are also forms above to apply for badges, submit new ideas, and request help.
If you have an app or technology related activity that you use and don’t see it on the list please fill out the form and I will add it to our list.



1 Classroom Layout
Break the mold of boring desks in rows and organize your classroom in a more engaging way. This can be as simple as organizing your desks into groups or as advanced as incorporating different flexible seating options. (FREE)
“My students benefit from the layout of my classroom. They are able to collaborate together when possible.” Melissa Moses at Lowe
2 Quizizz
Create and deploy a Quizizz assessment for your students that reinforces a topic you studied in class. (FREE)
“It was an easy way to identify those students who knew the material and those who didn’t. Most of the kids were actively involved and motivated by the platform.” Danny Derden at Godwin
4 Twitter
Create a Twitter account for your class and tweet out something positive that is happening with your students. (FREE)
“I love using twitter to network with other debate programs.” Heather Stringer at Princeton HS
5 Instagram
Create an Instagram account for your class and post an image of your students engaged in a fun activity. (FREE)
“I am kept abreast with all things Autism to assist me in the SLC classroom. Use it everyday” Brenda Obera at Lacy
7 Facebook PLC
Join a FB group of educators in your field and tell us about an example of how you learned from or shared with that professional learning community. (FREE)
“This is a tool I use daily. It is a great place to have your questions answered fairly quickly. If I want to know what other music teachers around the world are doing in their classroom, this is where I go.” Alexandria Goldberg at Lowe
8 QR Code
Create a QR code to share a resource with your class. (FREE)
“It was very easy for the kids to just scan and read the story during centers.” Travis Hayes at Lacy
10 Flocabulary
Engage students in a Flocabulary lesson, activity, or video. (Has a free trial)
“The students loved the song and when we talked through the material, they mentioned things they heard in the song. I would absolutely use this again. I already have.” Adrianna Monge at Smith
11 Quizlet Live
Get your students competing against each other or on teams to review concepts in q Quizlet live game. (Has a free trial)
13 Google Classroom Discussion
Post a discussion question in Google Classroom and get your students engaged responding. (FREE)
“Went really great after they did a reading that was online. I will use it again because it showed me a quick assessment of what they knew.” Dina D’Onofrio at Southard
14 AR Explorer
Use an Augmented Reality tool like Aurasma, Walla.me, or other to create an interactive assignment. (FREE)
16 Flipgrid
Collect student responses using Flipgrid. (FREE)
“Perhaps one of the best Apps in my opinion, very friendly, easy to review, feedback and can help to develop writing and speech. I will use it many more times.’ Andres Aguilar at Lowe
17 Google Collaboration
Have students work together to create a Google Doc (Doc, Sheet, Slide, Form) for an assignment. (FREE)
“Great! I had my students work together on researching a Latin American country. They compiled a Google Slides and will turn this in via Google Classroom.” Ryan Kowalewski at Princeton HS
19 Webmaster
Create a website for your class using your preferred website building tool. (Free and paid options)
“I love having a place for learners, administrators, and parents to see what we are doing.” Candace Coffee at Princeton GT
20 Digital Learning Menu
Create an online learning menu to support and dig deeper into a topic you are teaching in your class. (FREE)
“I just posted my first learning menu today but plan on using them weekly” Candace Coffee Princeton GT
22 Google Expeditions
Explore a location using Google Expeditions and VR goggles or Google Cardboard. (Free Options)
24 Genius Hour
Get your kids focused on their passion in your content area. Regularly set aside some time for them to work on a project of their choosing that will deepen their knowledge and desire to learn. (FREE)
“I have always wanted to try Genius Hour. We are currently in our first GH project. Children have selected to investigate animals, art, baking, plants, weather and construction. I can’t wait to see what they learn and produce!” Kerri Beavers at Lowe

25 Breakout EDU
Get kids involved gaming, learning, and team building with Breakout EDU. Gets students out of their seat, thinking critically, collaborating and creating as the solve puzzles to win the game.
“We played a Halloween digital breakout on figurative language” Lauren Dierolf at Southard

26 Kahoot
Whole class game in which students compete to answer questions quickly as well as correctly. A scoreboard updates after every question to keep students engaged and fighting for the top spot. (FREE)
“The students loved it, they want to do one before every quiz/test.” Kristen Cooper at Clark
27 Gimkit
Gimkit is a fun new review game designed by a kid for kids. Gimkit is very similar to the mechanics of popular mobile games everyone plays today. Students can improve their score by purchasing upgrades to their game with in-game currency they earn by answering questions correctly. (Costs money as of summer 2020)
“My class loved it. They get really competitive. I like that they can move on to the next question without the wait time like Kahoot has.” Stacy Davis at Southard
28 Blogger
Start an online blog to share stories of what is happening in your class with students, parents, the community, and the world. Maybe your tales can inspire other teachers. (FREE)
“My blog has been a nice outlet to share my educational experiences and ideas.” Stormy Hoyle at Lacy
29 Podcaster
Start an online podcast to share stories of what is happening in your class with students, parents, the community, and the world. You can interview other teachers or students. (FREE)
31 Animoto
An easy to use video making tool that allows you to produce professional looking videos using templates and stock images or your own. (FREE and paid options)
32 Khan Academy
Build standards aligned online review activities for your students to practice applying knowledge and skills. (FREE)
“I liked the subject being explained by a different teacher.” Roberta Rotolo at Godwin
34 Google Drive
Create a few folders in Google drive to organize your files. (FREE)
“Google drive connects almost everything I do in the classroom, as well as to my team and my partner teacher.” Hannah Patty at Lacy
35 Google Docs
Create an original assignment for your students in Google Docs. (FREE)
“Allowing students to use Google Docs to turn in essays and short writing assignments is a more beneficial method to assigning homework.”
Dani Balak at Clark
37 Google Sheets
Create a Google Sheet that contains original data you gathered from your students and used for tracking. (FREE)
“Google Sheets allows me to organize data for a variety of classroom uses.” Katie Filina at Princeton HS
38 Google Forms
Create a Google Form to collect data or feedback from students or parents. (FREE)
“I created this form so that I can keep up with tardies in my class along with a QR code.” Diocelina Guillen
40 Canva
Create a professional looking image with Canva to enhance an activity, presentation, or website. (Free and paid options)
“After doing research on an animal with special characteristics to survive extreme heat or cold, I had students use Canva to create a flyer.” Megan Turner at Godwin
41 Blendspace
Create an interactive lesson with Blendspace to engage your students in a topic. (Free and paid options)
43 Socrative
Use Socrative to engage students in a quick quiz to check for understanding, an exit ticket, to get instant student feedback, etc. (Free and paid options)
44 Nearpod
Create or use an existing interactive learning experience with Nearpod to engage your students in a lesson. (Free and paid options)
46 EdPuzzle
Get students involved and interacting with a Youtube video by creating a comprehension quiz through EdPuzzle. (Free and paid options)
47 Lunch and Learn
Attend a Lunch and Learn Session to learn more about trying new ideas in your classroom. (FREE)
49 Bell Ringer
Use a technology tool or app to create a quick bell ringer activity to get your students focused and on task upon entering the room. (FREE)
50 HyperDocs
Turn a Google Doc into a visually engaging and package learning experience with HyperDocs. (FREE)
52 iPad (Tablet)
Technology at the tips of their fingers, have students engaged using an iPad or other tablet with education apps.
55 Google Forms Quiz
Make your life easier by giving a quiz in Google Forms. You can set it up to grade it automatically and give students instant feedback and results. (FREE)
56 Gallery Walk
Have your students complete a gallery walk, analyzing primary sources, secondary sources, photos, maps, graphs, charts, etc. and answering questions about them. (FREE)
57 Learning Stations
Have your students rotate through different stations completing activities or working with manipulatives at each location. (FREE)
58 Digital Assignment
Take an assignment that you have previously made and convert it to a digital assignment which students can complete and submit on a digital device. (FREE)
59 Get Shorter
Use a web address shortener, such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com to share a link with your students. (FREE)

67 BYOT
BYOT: Bring Your own Technology: Have students use their own technology device in classroom activities. (FREE)
68 Digital Primary Sources
Have students explore a digital primary source to enhance their understanding about a topic. (FREE)
70 Hour of Code
Introduce your student to coding with a variety of fun and simple beginner coding programs. (FREE)
77 Insert Learning
Use this Chrome extension to insert check for understanding questions directly into websites. (FREE)
79 Merge Cube
Give students a 3D augmented reality experience exploring topics. The Merge Cube can be turned into many different objects that are applicable to what you are teaching. (There are many free and paid apps that work with Merge Cube.)
80 Matholia
Have students fine tune their math skills with Matholia’s practice modules and learning games. (There is a U.S. Setting from the drop down menu at the top. Has a free trial)
82 Explain Everything
Create a digital lesson using Explain Everything or have Students create a digital project. This might work well with your interactive Smart Projector. (Free and paid accounts)
83 Geometry Pad
Interactive tablet app for Geometry. Get students drawing and learning about geometric shapes. (free and paid accounts)
85 Easybib
Have students use Easybib to create a works cited for any project they are working on. (FREE)
86 Mathplayground
Engage students practing their math skills with the FREE games at mathplayground.com
88 Videonot.es
Videonotes is a cool google Chrome Extension (FREE) that allows you to take notes on the same screen that you are watching a video. The notes save to your Google Drive and can easily be shared. Use this tool to share video notes with your class or have your students use it to show comprehension.
89 Buncee
Use Buncee or have your students use it to create an exciting and engaging presentation. Free and paid plans available
94 GoFormative
Digitally enhance your old worksheets with GoFormative by inserting questions and embedding content to existing documents. Has Free and paid account types.
95 Quia
Create or use existing online games, activities, quizzes, and more qith Quia. Has a 30 Day Free trial and annual subscription.
97 BrainPop
Use BrainPop’s animated videos, games, and activities to spice up your lessons. Subscription based but does have some free content.
98 Quirky
Do you have a budding young inventor in your class. Have them submit their idea to Quirky and see if it can be created in real life. This might be a great idea for GT classes.
100 Digital Escape Room
Build a digital escape room to challenge your students critical thinking skills and content knowledge.
101 Escape Room
Build a physical, live, in your face, hands on escape room to challenge your students critical thinking skills and content knowledge.
104 Fast Form
Fast Form is a Google Forms add-on that allows you to quickly insert Special Character, Subscripts, and Superscripts into your Google Forms.
110 Online Textbook
Have your students complete a lesson or activity through the online textbook in ClassLink.
111 Trail Blazer
If you are one of the most amazing teachers in the school district and you helped me test out a new idea this is the badge I gave you a special invitation to apply for.
116 iTranslate
Use iTranslate to help your ESL students communicate and understand. You could also use iTranslate to explore foreign cultures and learn foreign languages.
118 No Red Ink
Get your students learning with interactive custom tailored activities in No Red Ink.
119 Picmonkey
Create designs to support your class with PicMonkey. Have students create images to show what they have learned.
124 News ELA
Get your students engaged in reading and comprehending with adaptable articles from NewsELA.
128 Spelling City
Expand your students reading comprehension and knowledge of vocabulary words with Spelling City.
130 ZipGrade
Want old school tech with a new twist? Try ZipGrade to quickly grade scantron answer documents with your phone.
131 Symbaloo
Organize web links for a student activity using Symbaloo. Or have student research and gather great resources to share with Symbaloo.
132 Oral Testing
Do you go above and beyond to help your student be more successful with testing by digitally providing testing accommodations with screen casting or inserting audio commentary into a slide show? This might be the badge for you.
133 Google Earth
Use Google Earth and or Google Tour Creator to take your students on a journey exploring locations locally and around the world.
136 Education Galaxy
Have students practice skills and knowledge through individualized learning programs in Education Galaxy.
137 Language Learner
Have your students use a language learning app like Duo Lingo to practice new language skills.
139 Story Time
Have students watch online videos of someone reading story books. For Example Storylineonline.net, The Willard Sisters, Godwin Celebrity Readers, etc.
142 MysteryScience
Use TEKS aligned Mystery Science lessons and videos in class to explore science concepts in greater depth.
143 Epic Books
Get students engaged in reading with a vast library of eBooks and audio books at get epic.com
148 Video Conference
Hold an online meeting with a program like but not limited to Google Hangouts or ZOOM.us with your students or colleagues.
149 In Local News
Engage students exploring local news websites to keep up with current or past events.

150 Spinners
Use a random spinner or selection tool like Wheeldecide.com to take the pressure out of choosing a student or group to perform a task.
151 Calm’em Down
Relax and refocus your students with soothing sounds such as Rain and Thunderstorms on YouTube or Calm.com
152 Lone Star Learner
Build students Reading Comprehension skills with online activities in LoneStarLearning.com
155 zzish
Create an assessment for your students in Zzish to track who is understanding concepts and who needs more help.
157 Unique Learning Systems
Unique Learning System provides Special Education curriculum with lesson plans and activities designed to meet all students at the level and meet their needs.
158 WebQuest
Send your class on a student centered adventure through the internet to find answers and information. Provide students with a list of questions and let them find the answers where they can. You can also provide a specific website you want them to use for lower level students.
160 Times Tales
” Times Tales® is an award winning, innovative, mnemonic-based program that makes it fun and easy to memorize the upper multiplication facts. Times Tales® utilizes visual, simple stories to provide students with a “memory peg” which allows quick and effortless recall of otherwise abstract facts. ”
161 Bouncy Balls
Bouncy Balls is a fun tool for monitoring classroom volume levels. Bouncy Balls uses visual and audio cues to warn your class to be quiet.
163 Sketch Notes
Sketch notes or visual note taking is a different way of taking notes. This can be a great way for visual learners to process information.
164 Paper by 53
” Bring your ideas to life in all their messy glory. Paper’s perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, type, paint, draw — wherever your thoughts take you. ” Paper is a great tool for drawing as well as sketch note taking.
166 Photography
Have your students capture life around them with a digital camera. Photography can be used to capture images of work students have created and add their work to a digital portfolio.
167 Book Creator
Students can use Book Creator to create many types of books including interactive stories, science reports, instruction manuals, about me books, comic adventures, etc…
172 ClassHook
Classhook allows you to search for video clips from popular TV shows and movies that are educational and relevant to your topic. There are filters to narrow down your search based on grade level and clip length.

173 Badge Builder
Have you submitted a new badge idea through the badge submission form? Was it approved and added to the list? If you answered yes to both of those questions you can apply for #173 Badge Builder.
175 MakeyMakey
Have your students explore and learn about electric circuits, conductivity, and electric flow. This engaging learning toy is great for science class, maker spaces, and more. Students can make music or play games with everyday objects.
176 Poll Everywhere
Use Poll Everywhere to survey students and allow them to learn from the results.

177 iStation
Get your students learning reading or math through iStations adaptive curriculum and assessments.
178 Siemen’s Solid Edge
Have your students design engineering and industrial projects with a CAD program like Siemen’s Solid Edge

179 Learning Farm
Learning Farm is a self paced and fun dynamic adaptive learning platform that has topics covering all TEKS.
Melodi Bedell at Lowe, “It provides building blocks for those who struggle with certain concepts.”
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ABCYA
ABCYA has Grammar and Math practice games for PK-6.
“This is especially helpful with my ELL kids. They can choose lower grade levels to review anything from Math to Words/Syllables.” Kari Foy at Lacy
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Google Certified Educator LVL 1
Earn your certificate for Google Certified Educator Level 1
“I became Google certified to better help my virtual students in Google Classroom, and I can help my coworkers now with the basics of Google education tools.” Lauren Dierolf at Southard

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Stop Motion Animation
Have your students create a a stop motion animation with tools like JellyCam.
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Eduphoria
Use Eduphoria to examine assessment data. Use that data to identify TEKS and concepts to reteach.

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Google Sky
Engage your students in exploring the cosmos with Google Sky.

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3D Printing
Get your students developing products with a 3D printer

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CosmoBuzz
make your in class game show experience more exciting and accurate with CosmoBuzz.

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Fact Monster
A fun way to practice basic math facts.

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Math Antics
Engage your students with Math Antics instruction videos. Kick it up a notch and make the math Antics video into an EdPuzzle.

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Blooket
Blooket is an engaging online review game with many different game modes.

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Baamboozle
Baamboozle is an awesome Teacher led whole group game show platform that you and your students will absolutely love.
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PowerPoint Timers
Create or use custom PowerPoint presentations that are timed to automate and facilitate your class.

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Pink Cat Studio
Activities, decor, review games, classroom management tools and more.

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Classroom Booksource
Here is a really cool tool for managing your own classroom Library. Thanks to Mrs. Bagale for the recommendation!

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WordWall
WordWall.net takes your list of vocabulary and turns it into a dozen different games. It is one of the coolest things ever. Thanks to Mrs. Neal and Mrs. Summers for this recommendation.
https://edtechmrbrown.com/wordwall/

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MyWordle
Jump on the wordle craze by custom creating your won wordle puzzles for your students. You aren’t limited to 5 letter words. How about foreign language vocabulary words? this would be an awesome way to study those. Or spelling words!!! Thanks to Mrs. Petrovic for this wonderful tip.
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Slides Carnival
Slides Carnival provides themed google slides templates. “By using the templates it takes a boring google slide lesson and transforms it into a more engaging fun presentation.” Mrs. Rios at Southard loves how it saves her time by providing perfect templates. We will gladly accept SlidesGo or another Slides template provider.
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Talking Points
Talking points is a parent communication tool that translates communications in to multiple languages.
Mrs. Beaty at Lacy says, “Allows me to communicate with parents in English or Spanish easily and quickly.”
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Pocketlab
PocketLab provides the flexible hands-on tools and resources you need to teach science your way. Another good one from Mrs. Summers at the HS.
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Science Fusion
How do forces affect motion
Have your students complete the virtual simulation “How do forces affect motion”
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Science Fusion
Design a solution to a problem
Have your students complete the virtual simulation “Designing a solution to a problem”
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Formative
Enhance a PDF
Create a Formative activity for your students by enhancing an existing PDF document
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Formative
Enhance a Video
Create a Formative activity for your students by enhancing an existing video file
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Import Google Doc
Create a Formative activity for your students by importing an existing Google Doc
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Multiple Choice Activity
Create a new from scratch Formative activity using Multiple Choice questions
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Formative Combined Activity
Go next level by creating from scratch a Formative activity that combines both multiple choice and numeric question types
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Formative
Feedback
Leave feedback in the form of a teacher comment on your students Formative assignments
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Edulastic
Multiple Choice
Create and have your students complete a multiple choice activity in Edulastic
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Edulastic
Fill in the Blank
Create and have your students complete a fill in the blank activity in Edulastic
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Edulastic
Highlighter
Create and have your students complete an Edulastic activity in which students use the several highlight question types
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Edulastic
Graphing
Create and have your students complete an Edulastic activity for your students in which they use a graph to answer
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Edulastic
Multipart
Create and have your students complete an Edulastic activity with multipart questions
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Edulastic
Data Diver
Identify a concept your students are struggling with by examining the Edulastic Data
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Edulastic
FB Groupie
Join the official Edulastic FB group to learn how other educators use Edulastic

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Zearn
Get Started
Create your account and get logged into Zearn

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Zearn
Get Setup
Set up your class and roster your students in Zearn

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Zearn
Bookmark a Lesson
Bookmark a lesson for a student in Zearn. This assigns a specific activity to a student over a standard they need more practice on.
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BrainPOP Recommended Topic
Assign one of the recommended topics that appear on your BrainPOP teacher home page
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Brain Pop
Engineering and Tech
Have your students complete and engineering and tech lesson in BrainPOP
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Flocabulary
Lyric Lab
Have students demonstrate their knowledge by getting them to jump into the rap game with Flocabulary’s Lyric Lab
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Challenge Raps
Get your students in a Flocabulary Challenge Rap battle over several possible math topics

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Progress Learning
Shortcuts
Set up 4 shortcuts on the teacher dashboard where you first log in

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Progress Learning
Pending Setup
Assign a course to each of your listed classes to remove the “Pending Setup” label
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Progress Learning Create Assessment
Choose standards and have Progress Learning create an assessment for your students. Oh also assign it and have them complete it.
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Progress Learning
Create Assignment
Create an assignment with practice questions, notes, a learning video, and an assessment. Also have your students complete this assignment.

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Progress Learning
Question Creator
Create 5 teacher made questions in Progress Learning and assign them to your students
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Progress Learning
Space Explorers
Get all of the students in one class up from Space kitty to Space Explorer
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Progress Learning
Space Pirates
Get all of the students in once class ranked up to at least Space Pirates
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Progress Learning
Captain Prestige
Get all of the students in one class completely leveled up to Captain Galaxy Prestige level
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Progress Learning
Bulletin Board
Use the printable Bulletin Board resources to make a place to showcase your students alien ranking progress
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Progress Learning
Green Dot Challenge
Get your students started in teh Progress Learning Green Dot Challenge
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Progress Learning
348ers
Get all of the students in one class to thier full 348 Galaxy Stars Earned
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Progress Learning
Session Activity Report
Examine a Session activity report after your students complete an assignment or assessment and tell me what you noticed.
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Progress Learning
Galaxy Star Report
Look up your classes Galaxy Star Report and see how their progress is coming along. Do you qualify yet for badge #269 the “348ers”
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Progress Learning
Printed Prepper
Find an applicable activity for your students in the Printable Worksheets. Print it and set it off to the side for a later date when you will be out and need work for a substitute.
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Progress Learning
Printed Writer
Find and use with your class one of the Printable writing activities available in Progress Learning.
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District Teacher Web Page
Update your district teacher webpage with current info. Try not to use date related terminology so you don’t have to update it often.
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CommonLit
Find and assign age appropriate reading activities for you r students. Activities can be sorted by genre, theme, literary devices, and state standards. From Mrs. Dixon at Clark MS “I like this because I can use it both online or in print form.”
Also Mrs. Katie Smith at Lovelady HS “Students can work on comprehension and analysis skills but also make connections to the main text studied in class to a supplemental text.”
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TeacherMade
Teachermade is one of my favorite tools. It is one of the top 3 EdTechTools of all time IMHO. Teacher made lets you take your boring old worksheets and turn them into digital activities or create some very unboring digital activities from scratch. Mrs. A Smith at Lovelady HS had this to say about it in her recommendation, “Instant feed back. Instant corrections. Auto grades. Allows me to track their progress all at once.”
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Easel by TPT
Easel is another option for creating online digital assignments. This tool is a part of the TPT system and easily integrates with any activities you have purchased from them. It allows you to digitize and assign activities in Google Classroom. Mrs. Blair at Lovelady HS had this to say about it, “Since the Easel by TPT site is integrated with Google Classroom, it helps cut down on students wondering if they turned an assignment. Its also handy when kids are absent then they can have a virtual copy of the assignment and they don’t miss a beat.”
Mrs. Webb at Godwin Elementary had this to say about it, “Some students struggle with writing neatly on fill in the blank items so by having the assignment digitally it helps those students keep their work neat and on track rather than worrying about fitting everything on the paper.”
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Genial.ly
The website Genial.ly is a platform that allows users to create and share interactive visual content, such as presentations, infographics, interactive images, and videos. The main purpose of Genial.ly is to provide a user-friendly tool with templates for creating visually appealing and engaging content for the classroom. Mrs. Katie Smith at Lovelady enjoys using the Escape Room templates.
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Kami
Have students use the more than 40 tools available in Kami to collaborate and annotate. Mrs. Katie Smith at Lovelady says, “Annotating and collaboration tools for all types of documents. I use it with my PDF documents the most. Students can highlight, doodle, mark out, write notes, and listen to the document being read to them.”
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Factile
Engage your class in a Jeopardy style quiz game with Factile! it’s a blast and comes highly recommended by Mrs. Arionne Smith at Lovelady HS, Mrs. Rebekkah Patterson at Southard MS, and Mrs. Hall in the curriculum department.
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Ninja in the Middle
Challenge your class to a game of greater than and less than with Ninja in the Middle or the Pro version. This EdTechMrBrown original was recommended by Mrs. Ms. Matthews at Lacy Elementary.
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