5/5/21 Wednesday Website: Kami

This week’s Wednesday Website for May 5th, 2021 was shared by Michaela Ott, who shared out about Kami. Kami is a Google Chrome extension that can be easily added to your student’s desktop or laptop to edit or work off of PDFs, images, workbooks, etc. to draw, add text, images, or other creative elements for seamless virtual instruction.

Feel free to check out the other cool features of Kami by clicking on the link below:

Kami Presentation

3/31/21 Wednesday Website: Sworkit

This week’s Wednesday Website for March 31st, 2021 was shared by Sheila Gottschall, who shared out about Sworkit. Sworkit is an application that can be used to engage students and adults in physical education and activity.

A few other features:

  • Teachers can easily monitor student activity and make PE grading easy
  • Administrators can organize students into classes, sports teams, and even competitive school groups
  • Provide feedback for student physical activity journals
  • Verify students are meeting weekly or monthly physical activity requirements

4/14/21 Wednesday Website: NOVA

This past week’s Wednesday Website for April 14th, 2021 was shared by Julia Lombardo, who shared out about PBS NOVA. NOVA is a great resource for all ages and includes many interactive and engaging activities for all students.

A few other features:

  • The site has resources about space including various episodes, articles, and videos
  • You can search resources by topics such as: planet earth, space & flight, physics & math, body & brain, tech & engineering, nature, and evolution
  • Search from different labs and activities to include in your classroom along with tons of other educational research.

3/3/21 Wednesday Website: Blooket

This week’s Wednesday Website for March 3rd, 2021 was shared by Jenna Figliano, who shared out about Blooket. Blooket is an educational game website where students can compete with each other by answering questions based on teacher-created Blooket decks. The Blooket decks can be created from scratch or choose from several pre-created decks from other educators! After the game is finished Blooket even provides educators with a score summary with ability to see student’s scores and which questions were answers correctly/incorrectly.

A few other features:

  • Hundreds of pre-created decks!
  • Choose from any subject!
  • Choose from the different games that Blooket has created to assess student knowledge
  • Assign Blookets for homework
  • Fun and exciting for students of all ages!
  • Turn off/on student names for the game

2/24/21 Wednesday Website: The Kindness Rocks Project

This week’s Wednesday Website for February 24th, 2021 was shared by Brook Santy, who shared out about The Kindness Rocks Project. The Kindness Rocks Projects is an organization where people of all ages can paint/decorate rocks for others to find on their school’s campus or community that has kind or inspirational messages on them. A few other features of this organization are:

  • Podcast – Kindversations
  • Tons of free downloads
    • Can be found on the website
    • Downloads include: social skills classes, social-emotional learning worksheets, etc.
  • Coaching opportunities