Digital Tricks for NZ Teachers

New classroom tool that could help in many ways!

Classroomscreen.com

Check it out, would you find this useful?

Classroomscreen | The #1 online whiteboard for teachers Manage your classroom in a fun and engaging way. Classroomscreen is packed with widgets for teachers: timers, group makers, interactive polls and much more...

Got students that need help with tasks?

Use this amazing tool to help them. It even breaks down steps in as much detail as you need, plus gives a time estimate as to how long it might take! Amazing!

Magic ToDo - GoblinTools Magic Todo acts as a standard todo list, with some special sauce. Try the button and let it automatically come up with the steps you need to accomplish your task!

Awesome link for end of August.

Students can upload their own drawings and then use this site to animate them! Wow!

(and it's free to use...teachers love the word free!!!)

Check it out here:

Animated Drawings Bring children's drawings to life, by animating characters to move around!

Whoa. Netflix but only for teachers?!!! Search videos by topic or year level, content made by teachers, for teachers. Something to use instead of YouTube!!! ❤️

TEACHFLIX – A curated collection of videos for the classroom. Classroom videos to use in class TODAY -- crowdsourced from educators like you.Search with the box below. Browse by grade level ("Who's Watching?") or content area.replicamagic

Want to explore more AI for your class?

Check out HILINK. It can help save some time with planning prep and follow up too!

FREE for teachers.

HiLink: AI-powered Virtual Classroom and Lesson Planning HiLink AI Lesson Planner & Virtual Classroom make online teaching more engaging while increasing efficiency. Your next online class, reimagined.

Found a gem to share today..

Tango is a Chrome extension (because we all love the Google stuff!)...

Like a perfect dance partner, Tango has the capacity to both lead and follow. Tango is a free Chrome extension that helps people do their best work by seamlessly creating step-by-step documentation in minutes. Tango lets you document by doing, automatically capturing your workflows as you complete them.

So, for teachers, could be how to use a website, sign up to teaching materials etc and then you share on something like Google Classroom or even via email.

Try it out!

Saving Time with Tango: The Chrome Extension that Creates Workflow Instructions and Guides Within Moments | Tango - Create how-to guides, in minutes Harvard Business School dropouts have designed the new way to document processes and onboard new hires remotely. It's called Tango and it's free to use. Check out more about their story and the tool that's going viral and saving digital workers hours a week.

Today's AI tool...

Lots of tools for Educators to try out. Leave a comment if you use it and let us know how it is!

MagicSchool.ai - AI for teachers - lesson planning and more! Join thousands of teachers saving hours of time using AI to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!

New AI resource for creating docs, slideshows and websites!

Check out GAMMA!

Gamma App A new medium for presenting ideas, powered by AI. Create beautiful, engaging content with none of the formatting and design work.

Just found! Teacher resource page for Canva! You can't find this link on their site apparently.

If you don't have Canva for Educators, you're totally missing out. They will give you the EDU version for free, but you have to apply. If you need help getting it, just ask!

In the meantime, check the resource out for tips on awesome ways to use this livesaving site!

Teacher Resources Teacher resources for Canva for Education created by Design School.

Yet another AI tool for us teachers to try out. Much like the previously mentioned TWEE, this also can help generate tasks for students on whatever topics you need.

Check it out here: https://www.eduaide.ai/

AI-Assisted Lesson Development | Eduaide.Ai Eduaide.Ai empowers educators by providing a set of tools to express their creativity, cultivate their expertise, and align planning with what works for their students. Eduaide is a transparent and principled means to integrate an AI assistant into your lesson planning workflow.

https://twee.com/

This is a serious link for those trying to embrace AI. It will generate tons of useful things on whatever you ask for your classroom, including questions based on any YouTube video you may wish to use. Incredible resource, use it while it's free!

It even has the ability to create differentiated texts depending on what you need. Wow!

Twee – Tweak your lessons with the power of AI 🤯 Create questions for any YouTube video in just a few seconds😲 Generate dialogues, stories, letters or articles on any topic and for any level😱 Quickly create multiple choice questions, open questions, and True/False statements🤭 Find interesting discussion questions, facts, and quotes b...