Lingro refers to itself as the coolest dictionary known to hombre.
When you visit the website, you can paste the address of another website into the top search field, then it will allow you to click on words you don’t know the meaning of, and Lingro will define the words.
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s greatest works of art into the hands of everyone.
Sketchpad is a sweet little utility for creative projects. When the Google Drive toggle is set, the contents save directly into the user’s Google Drive and nothing is stored on Sketchpad’s servers.
Teachers can create content using sketchpad.io as can students.
Levelled reading comprehension activities for all levels of reading ability. Readworks is authentic and engaging wtih automatic grading and tracking of student progress.
This video is part of our Learning Hub Course on Google Forms. This specific video outlines how to create a Google Form that routes to different questions bsaed on the responses inputted by a user.
This video was created to assist parents with navigating Google Classroom during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The male companion to the young women’s site, Young Men’s Health, is just as robust, but is geared to boys. The resource includes general health, sexual health, medical conditions, nutrition and fitness and emotional health. The site has updated their information to be current for the covid-19 quaranting and includes questions and answers that young people may have about this virus.
As students do not log in to the site, there are no privacy considerations we need to be privy to.
The Center for Young Women’s Health is a robust resource filled with topics impacting female youth. It includes general health, sexual health, gynecology, nutrition & fitness, emotional health and medical conditions.
Since the quarantine was announced, they have updated their site to include the experience of quarantine as well as resources to help young people understand this situation.
As students do not log in to this site, there are no privacy considerations needed.
One of my new favourite resources is Flippity. It’s so easy to use, and once you’ve created your content, you can use it over and over again.
Exam creation is a time-consuming process for teachers, and historically many teachers have utilized software such as examview at great fiscal cost. We are pleased to show our teaching staff Problem Attic. Problem Attic is the largest bank of examination questions available to teachers, and even more amazing, it’s an online (cloud) FREE resource, so it is constantly updated, and new questions are regularly being added.
If you need to create a re-test for a student who bombed an exam, this resource may be exactly what you are needing!
Problem Attic lets you search for questions by topic. This eliminates the need to search the database searching for questions that fit your need, you can now draw those questions out quickly.
Problem Attic has recently added new select options on the arrange tab. This allows you to do any of the following:
Problem Attic permits you to change multiple choice questions to fillable questions, and it also allows you to separate questions into parts and subparts. This will allow you to insert custom answer spaces such as:
Problem Attic is great for outcome-based assessment. They refer to this as “curriculum development”, but as we have our Alberta curriculum already established by the ministry and we don’t need to develop our curriculum, we would use these tools to sort questions into their outcome categories.
Problem Attic allows for sharing your documents with other teachers. It will share in an editable format, so teachers you share with can make adjustments to tailor the material to their needs.
Open Culture offers thousands of resources that are free of copyright, and can be used by anyone. Their list of classic books informs users where the free resources are to be found, and in the case of the audio books, it specifies if the file can be downloaded from Audible (free app for iphone and android), iTunes, Spotify and other MP3 options.
This is a great site for high school English students to peruse should they need or want audio support for their novel study portions of their classes.