Searchable Sorts are a Great Way to Find Tools

One of the biggest questions I receive from teachers in my role is:  Do you know any new digital tools on ________________ (fill in the blank with your subject matter.)  Since I encourage the belief that, ‘Technology is personal’ I like to encourage my peer teachers to find tools that will give them long term tools.  Better then doing the search for my tools, teaching how to search for the tools is a more proactive skill.  I like the mantra, “Find the tool that works for you and become an expert in it.”

Here are some of my favorite ways to find tools:

http://powermylearning.org/ Can be used by students, teachers, or both.  It is like pulling all of the free sites and games online and being able to sort them by grade and subject.  My students love the zombie typing game.  I like the Cell Phone design game because it also has the students looking at the financial risk in creating a new item.

http://pbslearningmedia.org/ Is wonderful resource for appropriate videos for the classroom.  They have a storyboard tool that you can send the links to others.  My most recent search was for a class that was into spies and math.  Yup!  They had videos on that.

Are you trying to search for apps?  Try these
https://edshelf.com/ 
https://www.graphite.org/  They also have certifications available for contributors. 
 
Product reviews:
https://www.edsurge.com/ 

My list of tools isn't a searchable database, but it does try to break down some elementary recommendations that are popular at my school:  http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAAAUgvdx0AA41-4UGqDA==

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