Approved Sites
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| Name of Application | Purpose | Approval Level/Grade Level |
|---|---|---|
| Aspen | School information database. | Yes: K-12 |
| Biblionasium | Purpose: Kids connect with friends, parents and teachers to share and recommend their favorite books | Yes: K-8 |
| Blogger | Blog to share ideas, photos. | Yes: Conditional (must turn off comment feature or make private only to members of group). |
| Brain Pop | Animated videos discussing educational content. Quizzes & educational materials that align with the Common Core. | Yes |
| Class Dojo | A space for communication between parents, students & teachers. | Yes: with parental release. |
| Daily Read | An online newspaper with tiered reading levels. | Yes |
| Digital Passport: Common Sense Media | An online platform to teach digital citizenship. | Yes |
| Diigo | A platform to bookmark and add notes to webpages. | Yes |
| Dreambox | An online Math support program. | Yes |
| Duo Lingo | This is a language learning program. It covers many different languages & can involve communicating with other participants. | Yes: with parental release. |
| EduPuzzle | An online program that allows teachers to pause videos to add questions for clarity of content. This also lets teachers crop videos. | Yes |
| EduBlog | A blogging environment specific for educators and students run by WordPress. | Yes: conditional: No comments allowed if public. |
| Flocabulary | Educational music videos to dance along with around certain subjects. | Yes |
| Gamestar Mechanic | Allows students to create their own games. | Yes |
| Geogebra | An online math app that helps teach concepts of Algebra, Geometry, spreadsheets, and graphs etc. | Yes |
| Google Apps for Education | Applications such as Google Slides, Documents, and Forms, that are used for instructional activities and to demonstrate learning. | Yes |
| GoReact | A video recording/feedback app that can be used to provide assessment. Sometimes used in World Language classes or ASL classes. | Yes |
| History Unfolded | A website with collected materials of newspaper articles on the Holocaust. Students can contribute articles they find as well. | Yes: Parental Release |
| IXL | Intervention tool for Language Arts, Math and Social Studies. | Yes |
| Khan Academy | Personalize learning on educational topics. Students are provided instructional material in the form of hints, videos, and have practice problems to help reinforce learning. | Yes: Parental Release |
| Learning Ally | Online audiobooks and support for students and parents that have dyslexia. | Yes: Parent Release |
| Lexia, Core 5 | Online reading, and literacy web tool that allows for differentiation. | Yes |
| Listen Current | Online radio clips with lessons that can be used in class. | Yes |
| Lucid Chart | Online tool to create diagrams and information sheets etc. | Yes |
| MIT App Inventor | An application that allows students to create their own apps. | Yes: Parental Release |
| NaNoWriMo | For a month in November student’s can participate in a writing challenge “Novel November” writing every day. | Yes |
| Naviance | Naviance is a college and career readiness solution that help districts and schools align student strengths and interests to postsecondary goals, improving student outcomes and connecting learning to life. | Yes |
| Newsela | An online news article resource that allows for tiered reading levels as well as articles available in different languages. This site also allows for common core based assessments based on the articles read. | Yes |
| Overdrive | Online library catalogue that allows access to audiobooks and eprint materials. | Yes |
| Padlet | An online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. | Yes |
| Pearson | Many online platforms are run by Pearson such as Q-Interactive, AimsWeb, TestNav etc. Most of these are test-based applications. They also provide digital textbooks as well. | Yes |
| Piktochart | An infographics/flyers creation program. | Yes |
| PodOMatic | A place to create, listen and share podcasts. | Yes |
| Prezi | A presentation software that can zoom around a space to provide the information. | Yes: Parental Release |
| Read & Write | An extension to Google to help make websites and text accessible. | Yes |
| Reading A-Z | Online leveled reading program. | Yes |
| Recap | A place for student reflection on their work–they can do so verbally and written. | Yes |
| Scratch | An online programing tool created by MIT that allows students a chance to use programing language to create presentations and games. | Yes: Parental Release |
| Skybrary | Skybrary is a carefully curated, ever expanding interactive library of digital books and video explorations designed to engage young readers and foster a love of learning. | Yes |
| SNO: Student Newspaper Online | SNO is an online student newspaper hosting site for scholastic news programs. | Yes |
| Socrative | An online classroom management environment. | Yes |
| Splash Math | Math practice site. | Yes |
| STAMP Assessment | Used for assessment in world language courses. | Yes |
| SUMdog | Math practice site. | Yes |
| Symphony Math | Online Math program that differentiates based on skill. Students interact with puzzles and math questions. | Yes |
| TinkerCAD | 3D Printing | Yes: Parental Release |
| Tumblebooks | Online animated ebooks. | Yes |
| Typing Club | Online typing instruction application. | Yes |
| VoiceThread | Visual interactive tool using webcams, screen recordings etc. | Yes |
| WeVideo | An online movie creation tool. | Yes |
| Wikispaces | An online space to publish ideas. | Yes: Parental Release |
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