With Mentimeter you have lots of options. One great option is to create interactive quizzes that will make your classroom fun. What better way to get students excited about learning than to introduce a fun interactive game or quiz to the classroom? Create some friendly rivalry between students and create a sense of community by using an interactive quiz. Switch up standard teaching techniques and wake up students with some interactive games.

Mentimeter allows you to build interactive presentations with the easy-to-use online editor. Add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, gifs and more to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations.

Your audience uses their smartphones to connect to the presentation where they can answer questions. Visualize their responses in real-time to create a fun and interactive experience.

Once your Mentimeter presentation is over, share and export your results for further analysis and even compare data over time to measure the progress of your audience.'

This test takes about 12 minutes and will tell you your Myers Briggs personality type.
(Introverted or extroverted etc)

Explore careers for your personality type and personalities more prominent in different areas of the world.

Paper by WeTransfer is a digital sketchbook full of powerful tools to create beautiful illustrations. Begin with a brief tutorial and get started drawing. There are no buttons, and the emphasis on touch features makes for an intuitive design. Sketches are stored in sketchbooks that sit neatly on a shelf. Once your book is full, you can start a new one. Share your creations via Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or email, or save them to your camera roll. Paper is completely free, including the additional tools (mixer, color, write, outline, and sketch), which formerly were in-app purchases. Creating can be done with your finger, but you can also purchase Paper's aptly named stylus, Pencil.

"Pear Deck was founded by educators on a mission to help teachers engage every student, every day. With solutions rooted in active learning and formative assessment, we make it easy for you to connect with learners of every age and ability. When that happens, more students participate and learn, classroom community improves, and you'll know you're making a difference."

Watch the video to see how Pear Deck works!

The Free Version includes the ability to:
Design brilliant lessons with interactive questions, polls, quizzes, formative assessments

Work seamlessly with powerful classroom tools from Google and Microsoft

Ready-to-teach templates designed by educators

Support flexible work with Student Paced mode

Teach vocabulary with Flashcard Factory*

Part 1: What is a Podcast?
Part 2: The Importance of 21st Century Skills in Schools
Part 3: Choosing a Topic
Part 4: Retrieving Information – An Important Skill for Inquiry Learning
Part 5: Scripting Using Google Docs
Part 6: Recording Using Audacity

Podcasting is a powerful way for students to share their voice with the world. Along the way, they learn to communicate, engage in critical thinking, and go through the design process as they ultimately publish their work to an authentic audience.
This site offers 20 creative ideas for podcasts you can do with your students.

Anyone can use Quizlet to study and learn content created by other users, or to create your own custom study sets. You can also share sets with friends, classmates or your students.

The best way to get started on Quizlet as a student or a teacher is to search for sets made by other Quizlet users. Students and teachers create new study sets all the time, so it's quite likely that you'll be able to find what you're looking for.

This is a great tool for formative assessment. Students can work in groups and compare answers and learn from one another.

Support your students' social and emotional learning as they navigate the digital world.

Technology impacts students' social and emotional well-being, from how they express themselves to how they communicate with friends and family. With the right support, students can learn how to integrate technology into their lives to promote their well-being and be a positive influence in their communities.

You'll find quick activities, family conversation starters, and professional development resources.

There are sections for K-5, 6-8, 9-12.

This site has 12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates to create mock versions of social media sites.

This is a self reflection document to be used at any point during the year with your students - but used specfically during report card time or three-way conferences. It provides students in kid-friendly language a way of understanding the FASA conditions and how they are able to apply these to their own habits at school. It is a great tool to use and assess during parent, student, teacher conferences. Co-created by Kira Toews and Brenna Siroski

A wealth of ideas to help you learn to study.

Included: general tips, skill guides, test taking, skills by subject.

Check out these sites to find ideas for using movies to engage kids with STEM from DailyStem.com

Swift Playgrounds is an iPad app designed for kids in which they have fun solving interactive puzzles.

TELUS Wise helps Canadians stay safe in a digital world.

TELUS Wise® is a free digital literacy education program that offers informative workshops and resources to help Canadians of all ages have a positive experience as digital citizens.

TELUS Wise workshops and resources cover topics including protecting your online security, privacy, and reputation, rising above cyberbullying, and using technology responsibly.

This site offers a section called "TELUS Wise schools and teachers" that will help you in preparing your students for our digital world and future-proof today's youth by teaching important digital literacy and safety skills.

True Colours Online and Printable Quiz Options

Create a web story or interactive story. You could use this to create a choose your own adventure book - you have branching options!

"You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes."

This webinar can help you get started (start at about 10 minutes in). Copy and paste this url into your browser - https://zoom.us/rec/play/7JAlJL2h_zM3H9eWtwSDC6R-W9ToeKis0SUa_vUEyx28BXRQYwLwMOZBZOOrxYNiFo0SI36nYddl4WRz

Supporting handouts (pass DLSUM2020) https://rise.articulate.com/share/xpvOFHYuevKVJBJ6cQXNjd0RvGDgDE4K#/

The largest site on the Internet for Web developers, W3Schools is a fantastic resource for those interested in brushing up on their Web development skills—or learning them for the first time. Want to make your own website? W3Schools offers tutorials and references on a large range of subjects, including HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and more.

Theis webinar was recorded on October 21, 2021 as part of the Lunch and Learn series. Participants will learn how to:  Send back approved work and view comments in the creative toolsUse new Accessibility features to create Accessible contentUse Progress and Skills to support data informed instruction. Add voice recording or audio files to labels, shapes, images, and captions and lock the size of objects on the canvas

This method enables students to master the skills that are essential if they are to become competent writers. In turn, those skills equip students to become better readers, to communicate more effectively in writing and speaking, and most importantly, to elevate their thinking.

The Hochman Method is a set of specific writing strategies that teachers use in every grade and in all subjects, including ELA, social studies, science, world languages, and math.

Select "Resources" from the top menu to find many excellent supports. You will need to sign up to access the resources, but the account is free!

Please note that Writing Revolution 2.0 is now available and includes - templates, examples, posters and teaching resources. Different PD options are also available to gain access to the full resource library (but there are still many great free resources that just require a free account).