Educators
PowerSchool
Schoology
GoGuardian
Nearpod
Create interactive slide decks that incorporate formative checks such as multiple choice, short answer, draw it, student discussions, polls, and more.
BRISK
An education-specific AI platform that supports teachers with creating resources and activities for students. It also provides students with a chatbot experience to use AI in a safe and secure way with teacher oversight.
Kami
Annotate pdfs by highlighting, drawing, and typing directly on the pdf. Users can open pdfs directly from Google Drive.
Adobe Express (Spark)
Create simple videos, presentations, websites and more. Products have a professional aesthetic look, but the tool is easy enough for elementary students to use!
Canva
Collaboratively curate information onto virtual bulletin boards. Users can add videos, text, links, documents, and images to the board and organize it, like a page full of Post-it notes.
Loom
Record videos or screencasts with the push of a button. Educators can sign up for a free upgraded account to have unlimited recordings and unlimited length.
Slides
At it's core, create collaborative presentations that incorporate links, images, videos, and text. Looking to level up? Use slides to create Hyperdocs, ebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure projects, and so much more!
WeVideo
Online video creation and editing tool. Create professional-looking videos using over a million stock images, audio files, and videos or create your own clips.
Keep
Create "notes" that contain checklists, images, drawings, and text. Save information from a website directly to a note. Organize learning and research (and your life!) with Google Keep.
Padlet
Collaboratively curate information onto virtual bulletin boards. Users can add videos, text, links, documents, and images to the board and organize it, like a page full of Post-it notes. Free version only. No district license.
Edpuzzle
Pull videos from video sites such as Youtube, Khan Academy, Ted Talks, etc. Add questions to the video. Students will watch the video and must answer your questions to continue viewing. (You can also do this in Nearpod's Interactive Video feature.) Free version only. No district license.
Digital Citizenship Resources
Information Literacy Resources
Screen Time Resources
Student-Friendly Podcasts
*Approved podcasts that ECSD students can access on district devices
ECSD One Card
*Collaborative partnership between ECSD and local libraries
Bright Arrow
*Communication platform for email, text, calls to parents
HMH Into Reading
*Elementary Language Arts curriculum resource
Bridges in Mathematics
*Elementary math curriculum resource
Chromebooks / Chromeboxes
PWDs (Portable Wireless Displays)
Google Chat
ECSD EdTech Blog
