Here are three useful websites that provide easy-to-use tools for managing the classroom using your projector screen, wall monitor, or Promethean Board or for recording your lessons or online demonstrations.
Teachers who want to be mobile while using Classroom Screen or Flippity, or use their Chromebooks' microphones or camera with a utility, can use Google Cast to display their Chromebook screens on their desktop computers for projection. (This also lets elementary and middle school teachers use their Chromebooks' touchscreens.)
Classroom ScreenFree website with a variety of tools you click on and off as needed:
Hint: Click the menu icon at the top left at the site for useful tips & tricks
| ScreencastifyWe've already have a dozen or more teachers and over 100 students using Screencastify. It is a Chrome extension teachers or students can install on their Chromebooks so they can record their screens and/or record using their Chromebooks' built-in webcam.
Some teachers use Screencastify for flipped video lessons where they provide the lesson as a video they embed in Canvas or Google Classroom for their students to view outside of class.
Limited Premium Access accounts
The free version allows you to record up to 50 videos, each up to 10 minutes in length, which will have a Screencastify watermark. There is a Premium version which removes the length and quantity limits as well as the watermark, while adding online trimming and merging as well as exporting. The district has a limited pool of Premium Access accounts which are issued to site Instructional Technology Assistants (ITA) and others who help with district trainings. If you would use Screencastify Premium to conduct trainings, contact your site ITA to request a license.
| FlippityTurn a Google Sheet with student names or terms, etc. into a variety of free tools and games (some ads):
Sharing a link with your students
When you want students to use a tool on their own Chromebook or iPad, you will need to send them a Flippity.net link. Here are some ways to do that:
If you like Flippity, you can install its Add-on to Google Sheets so you can quickly invoke it within Google Sheets from the Add-ons menu.
Skip the spreadsheet: If you're in a hurry, you can just quickly type things in and use some of the features without using a Google Sheet.
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