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Worksheet Puzzle Generators• Help teachers produce exercises
for practice rather than test items.
• Automatically format and create crosswords, word search puzzles, and similar game like activities.
• Practice for lower level skills, such as math facts.
• Cloze exercises – comprehension exercises with certain words removed and students fill in the blanks.
• Exercises to review words and definitions.
Web Page Design Software• Tools that are authoring programs that allow people to
create Web pages in the same way they would use processing to create documents.
• Common uses:• Classroom news, activities, and resources
• Web-based lessons
• Student-produced work
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Microsoft WebMatrix
Interactive Whiteboard Activity Software
• Create lessons for use with interactive whiteboards.
• Notebook – software for the interactive whiteboard activity software used with a SMART Board
• ActivStudio and ActivInspire – the programs used with the Promethean Activboard interactive whiteboard
Online Survey Tools
• Variety of item formats
• Instant tracking and visual summaries of results
• Data downloads
Features
• Student polling• Generating data for graphic illustrations
• Teaching survey design
• Teaching data analysis• Teaching math concepts
Integration Strategies • SurveyMonkey
• Zoomerang
Examples
Student Information Systems
Software tools that help educators keep track of student, class, ad school data to maintain records and support decision making.
Makes it easier to keep parents notified about students progress.
Capabilities:•Track and report on attendance•Maintain records on student demographic data•Develop class scheduling•Track and report on test scores and achievement by objective•Allow parents to have online access to student grades and attendance information•Notify parents about problems with grades or attendance
Examples:•PowerSchool•Pinnacle SIS•Tyler SIS•QuickSchools
Electronic Gradebooks• Teachers keep track of and calculate student grades.
• Software allows:• Teacher to enter students names
• Test/assignment names
• Data from tests
• Weighting information for specific test scores
• Teacher to enter notes about tests
• Software examples:• PinnacleGrade Gradebook
• Teacher Planet’s listing of gradebook packages
Test Generators
CAPABILITIES
• Test creation and revision procedures.
• Random generation of questions.
• Selection of questions based on criteria.
• Answer keys.
• Test item banks.
SOFTWARE EXAMPLES
• Exam View Learning Series
• Test Creator
• Wondershare QuizCreator
• Easy TestMaker
Rubric Generators• Teachers create or adopt rubrics for grading complex
products or performances.
• The teacher follows a set of prompts and the system creates a rubric.
• Examples:• RubiStar
• Rubric Maker
Word Cloud Generators• Tools that create a graphic arrangement of words from a text
passage that shows the most-frequent words as bigger than the others.
• Can be used in any subject.
• Examples:• Abcya
• Tagxedo
• Tagul
• Worditout
• Wordle
• Wordsift
Lesson Planning Software• Help teachers prepare
and document lesson plans.
• Examples:• PlanBookEdu
• ILessonPlan
• MyLessonPlanner
Research and Reference
• Help students research any topic
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Wikipedia• Encyclopedia.com
Online Encyclopedias
• Help students learn about and use local, national, world, and extraterrestrial geography
• Worldatlas• Rand McNally• U.S. Atlas• Google Maps• The National MapDigital Atlases and Mapping Tools
• Give definitions and synonyms
• Word atlases• Merriam-Webster• Dictionary.com• Any words/thesaurus• Technology words
Digital Dictionaries
Calculators • Students collect and analyze data from problems or
experiments.
• Graphing calculators • Software-programmed devices that have small screens and can
illustrate equations in graphs.
• Calculator-based labs (CBLs)• When probes or sensors are connected to a graphing calculator.
• Examples:• Texas Instruments graphing
• Vernier LabQuest
Charting and Graphing Tools• Students create charts and graphs to illustrate and
study data summaries.
• Software automatically draw and print desired charts and graphs.
• Examples:• SmartDraw
• The Graph Club 2.0
Student Response Systems• Clickers
• A combination of handheld hardware and software that permits each student in a classroom to answer a question simultaneously while allowing the teacher to see and display a summary of results immediately.
• Student engagement
• Software examples:• Student Response Solutions
• Smart Response
• iRespond
• ActiVote, ActivExpression, ActivEngage
• Cell Phones
Desktop Publishing• Students create their own letterhead, brochures,
flyers/posters, newsletters, newspapers, and books.
• Opportunities for creative works
• Practice in grammar, spelling, and communication
• Methods of reporting research findings
• Example:• Microsoft Publisher
• Adobe InDesign and PageMaker
• Quark Express
Scheduling, Calendar, and Time Management Tools• Help teachers organize their time and plan activities.
• Formulate plans for daily, weekly, or monthly.
• Remind users of event and responsibilities.
• Software examples:• FileBuzz Teacher Calendar Software
• Reel Logix Calendar Software
• Easy Schedule Maker