Plethora of Tools. What’s the Best Tool?

There are an incredible number of web tools that come online every day.  If you are looking for a particular tool to help you in the classroom, it is probably already out there.  You may have to dig a little to find exactly what you are looking for, but more than likely, you can find something.  For those that are especially gifted in coding and tech language. If they have not found it…they write or create it.

With that being said, let’s get back to the tools that we know about.  Tools that help us collect data, analyze data, create videos, audio programs, podcasts and make digital books.  Tools that are coming on board lately have figured out that to make headway, they should work well when integrated with the Learning Platforms that are being used by educators…for example Google Classroom or Office 365.

Here in our little school district in Georgetown, SC, made a paradigm shift years ago from “find me a something cool: to do with my class to the more sound “Here’s my lesson plan, what might work well to enhance what we are going to be doing?”

Let us not forget that the single best tool in the toolkit for instructing kids is and will always be the teacher.  Teachers inspire us.  Teachers challenge us to be creative.  Teachers give us the confidence to be innovative.  Teachers lead us into collaborative learning.

If you are a teacher, you are very much appreciated.  If you are a student, let your teacher(s) know that you appreciate them.

 As for the  web tools, HERE is a link to some tools we have put together for Teachers to explore and use as they see fit in their classrooms.  Enjoy!

Keith