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Category |Technology |Price |Description |Ease of Use |Strengths |Weaknesses | |E-learning tools |Curriculet |Free |Interactive reading tool |Medium

• Initial set-up hard |Checks for comprehension

• Helps develop close reading skills |Limited text choices | |Video Production |VoiceThread |Free-$450 |Online multi-media presentation tool |Easy-Medium |Versatile

• Allows for student collaboration |Appears to work best with Google chrome

• Potential for trouble in M.S. setting | | |HaikuDeck |Free/$25per yr |Presentation app (ipad) |Easy |Multiple design choices |Auto-pacing appears to be set at 5 secs | |Web development |Weebly |Free-$4.58/mo |Website- building platform |Easy - Medium |Allows for privacy controls |Accessing help can be difficult | |Web publishing/

blogging |Wordpress |Free |Blog platform – mobile and web |Easy |Can change privacy settings for class only

• Students access on their mobile devices |Only 35 students per class on class website

• Seems more private than blogger | | |Blogger (Google) |Free |Blog platform (website) |Easy |Can include text, photos, videos |Safety precautions necessary to avoid inappro-priate content | | | |Free - $99 |Online social platform for storytelling |Easy |Up to 75 students on free account

• No ads

|Setting can alleviate privacy concerns

• Collaboration across classes requires paid account | |Asynchronous discussion |Wikispaces |Free - $1000 |Website platform for publishing and collaborating |Medium -difficult |revision history available for student collaboration (or lack thereof)

• Appealing to multiple age groups |Only 2 GB available on free subscription | | |Padlet |Free |Website platform for bulletin-board like discussions |easy |posts can include videos, texts, and images

• can upload to social networks or make in to a QR Code |privacy can be an issue | |Social Networking |Edmodo |Free |Classroom Social Network |easy

|Posts can include text, video, and images

• Teachers’ Settings can manage students’ privileges

• Library connects with Google Drive

• Parent feature | Teacher vigilance necessary as the potential for abuse is possible (as with most social networks) | |Gaming |Grammar Pop |$1.99/iPad |Gaming App for learning parts of speech |Easy |fun, past-paced

• parts of speech are in context of a sentence |must start at lower level to work up to advanced

• doesn’t address learning or performance deficiencies

• must load game on EACH ipad | | |Kahoot |Free |Gaming APP for formative assessment |Easy

• Initial set-up can labor-intensive |Fun, fast-paced

• Able to get feedback on individual students |must be online to use.

• 1:1 ratio is necessary | |Interactive video/simulation |Aurasma |Free |Augmented reality tool (APP) |Easy |enhances one-dimensional learning

• possibilities for use are endless

• can be used in multiple classrooms and age groups |must be online to view the “aura”

• sometimes the “triggers” don’t “read” | |Classroom Technologies |Socrative |Free |Online assessment tool (website and APP) |Easy |Provides feedback for formative assessment

• Can provide immediate feedback to address deficiencies |Appears to be a separate student and teacher app which seems confusing | |Teacher Professional Development |Edutopia |Free |Website an online community focusing on education |Easy to select articles relevant to teaching area |Topics are varied

• Offers timely information |Often see “repeat” articles | | |Twitter |Free |Social network |Easy |Access to other teachers and their perspectives and resources

• Keeps you updated on conferences |Wading through all of the minutia can be tiresome

| | |Graphite |Free |Website for evaluating educational technology |easy |Provides teacher reviews &“How I Use” |Doesn’t include all available technologies | |

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