Mexia Independent School District

Poll Everywhere – Live Audience Participation. Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class in real time.

Today's Meet – Give everyone a voice.

EdPuzzle – The easiest way to engage your students with videos. pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding.

Educreation – Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use.

Nearpod – Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons.

Formative – Formative runs on any internet connected device and is optimized for any 1:1, BYOD, flipped or blended classroom. Beyond multiple choice: Students can type, show their work with drawings or submit images. Formative Everything: Frequent formal and informal checks for understanding guarantee student growth. Real-Time Intervention: Know exactly what each student needs as they learn and take immediate actions.

Quizizz – Avatars, leaderboards, themes, music and memes! We're always working on new ways to keep things interesting! Create quizzes in minutes!

Quizlet– Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free.

Jeopardy Labs – Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

Seesaw: The Learning Journal– Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. Available in Chrome Web Store

CK-12 – CK-12 is an app to help students, and teachers improve K-12 learning globally by providing self-pace learning content & tools. Available in Chrome Web Store.

Read Write Think – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Pinterest – A pinspiring place for teachers to find and share creative ideas.

Discovery Education – Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging interactive content and services that measure and improve student engagement.

Teachers Pay Teachers – The world's first and largest educational marketplace with more than two million original teacher-created resources available for use today.

Cool Tools for Schools –

Mimio Connect – MimioConnect is a community site for teachers that use Mimio interactive products.

Smart Exchange - Lesson plans and resources for your SMART Board. These lessons can be imported into Mimio Notebook.

Easybib – Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA. Available in Chrome Web Store.

Live Binders – LiveBinders is your digital binder on the web, create an online binder for content curation.

Evernote – Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync.

Google Drive – Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

Educlipper – Clip items from the web, upload your own work, or find and re-clip content from others to customize and maximize your learning.

Symbaloo – Access your bookmarks and online favorites with Symbaloo. A free social bookmarking service in the cloud.

PicMonkey – Editing your photos is easy with PicMonkey! Add filters, frames, text, and effects to images with our free online photo editing tool!

Animoto – Make great videos. Easily. Available in Chrome Web Store

Screencastify – A simple video screen recorder for Chrome, Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. Available in Chrome Web Store.

ClassDojo– Classroom Management tool to help build wonderful classroom communities with parents and students.

FlippedClassroom.org – Learn to use the Flipped Classroom model to bring a more engaging learning experience to your students with high quality, expert training and resources. The key to flipping a day is to have the lower-level congitive content presented on the video, and an engaging activity planned during class time.

Hyperdocs – HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning. It’s not about teaching technology, it’s about using the technology to TEACH.

Safeshare.tv – Provide a safe environment, where YouTube and Vimeo videos can be seen without any distraction. In order to do that, we have implemented a platform where you can create a "SafeView", which are minimalistic versions of YouTube videos. With these SafeViews, you will be able to share videos with children without being afraid that they can get to potentially inappropriate content.

Viewpure.com– Watch YouTube videos without comments or distractions.

Watchkin.com– Watchkin is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. Watchkin can be used in a few ways. You can enter the direct URL of a video into Watchkin to have the sidebar content removed. You can search for videos through Watchkin and have family-friendly results displayed (if a video appears that is not family-friendly Watchkin has a mechanism for flagging it as inappropriate). Watchkin also offers a browser bookmarklet tool that you can click while on YouTube.com to have the related content disappear from the page.