Tech Tools You Can’t Live Without

A recent Zoom Discussion with TCEA members found us sharing the technology apps, websites, programs, and tools that we simply couldn’t live without. It was such a powerful list that I thought I would share it with you. Big thanks go to all of those members who joined the discussion and shared their favorites!

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Productivity Tech Tools

• RescueTime free for 14 days; after that $6/month
• Greenshot
• LunaPic
• Toggl free tool for capturing time on different projects
• Scan Docs with iOS Notes
• Remove.bg remove the background from any photo
• Calend.ly is a great way to set a date that works for everyone
• Kleki is a simple paint tool that allows you to combine images in layers
• Wakelet – curate resources of all kinds; fabulous free tool for teaching and learning
• Classroomscreen
• Loom – free screen and video recording
• Whiteboard.fi – online whiteboard tool
• Wolfram Alpha – great computational thinking and research tool
• Doodly – whiteboard animation software
• Toonly – create animated explainer videos
• Canva – design tool
• Adobe Spark – design tool
• Smore – create beautiful e-newsletters
• Buncee – remote learning tool
• Noun Project – free icons
• Answer Garden – feedback tool
• Noisli – great for creating background sound for you to work to

Leisure Websites and Apps

• House Party – allows you to bring in a video with one, two, or more people and then they have several games you can play together
• Word Stacks
• Hamster House
• Free Rice – play vocabulary games to send rice to those in need
• Skillshare – fabulous videos for learning art, graphic design, painting, photography, etc.
• Pocket Frogs
• Libby – read ebooks and listen to audio books from your public library

Add-Ons and Extensions

• OneTab – reduce tab clutter
• ColorPick Eyedropper
• Session Buddy – manage tabs
• Remote for Slides – control Slide on any device
• Emoji Keyboard by JoyPixels – emoji icons in Google Classroom
• Google Meet Grid View
• Print Friendly & PDF – Print Friendly is great for generating a PDF from a web page to mark up with Kami
• Sir Links-A-Lot – Google apps link modifier
• Extensions Manager (aka Switcher)
• Move It – get you up and moving
• Share to Classroom
• Extensity – good for managing extensions
• PushBullet – lets you easily share files, text, photos from one device to another
• Slides Timer
• Timify.me – timing and tracking of Google Forms quizzes
• Classwork Zoom – takes information from the revision history and visualizes it in a timeline
• Draftback – good for seeing revisions and spotting copy and paste

Smartphone Apps

• PicCollage
• Snapseed
• Mobilize (TCEA Community)
• MyFitnessPal
• Spark email app by Readdle
• Pocket
• Genius Scan
• Seeing AI – good for sight impaired; describes what it “sees”
• Reddit
• Band – Remind on steroids
• Venmo

Did we leave off one of your favorite tech tools? Add it in the comments below.