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1 Student Application List and s Animoto Videos Share your life through the magic of video Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto s free app! Parties, holidays, trips and family events - you've got a ton of photos on your phone just waiting to be turned into something incredible. Choose your photos, video clips, music, and video style. Within minutes, you'll have an amazing video slideshow you can save and easily share with everyone. Blendspace The easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content. The easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content. Brain Pop Learn something new every day with BrainPOP's free Featured Movie and quiz. The BrainPOP Featured Movie app in the Chrome Web Store is your go-to resource for free digital content that ties in to current and historic events. Watch the daily animated movie and test your knowledge with the interactive quiz. Learn something new every day; both the movie and quiz are always free!

2 BuzzMath Middle School Math Practice for Proficiency. IT'S *NOT* A GAME. BUZZMATH IS A RICH APP FOR PERSONALIZED MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH PRACTICE. IT'S ENGAGING THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND FAMILIES BY EMPOWERING AND CHALLENGING THEM. BuzzMath is free with an option to upgrade to premium features. Calculator Calculator for Chrome! Features: Use your keyboard to control the calculator Choose from a light or dark calculator Open Calculator as an application or in browser Memory functions; plus, minus, set, recall, reset Chromebook compatible Number Pad Support Fully offline application Camera Take crazy pictures with your web camera. An easy-to-use Camera app for taking hilarious photos!

3 Discovery Education Explore your curiousity! Transforming Teaching & Learning Discovery Education offers free student and teacher resources that bring learning to life both inside and outside the classroom. Make use of our free interactive games, videos, contests, virtual labs, lesson plans, homework help and activities designed to create active and engaged students. In addition, students and teachers can take a virtual field trip anytime, anywhere via a number of continually updated webinars that bring the world into the classroom from places like the NY Stock Exchange to learn about finance to the Gulf of Mexico with Phillipe Cousteau to learn about oil spills and our environment. And, access our unique partner programs that provide contests, sweepstakes, and programs that provide opportunities to be awarded with educational trips, scholarships and more. Flashcards The perfect Study Companion for mobile devices, now for your desktop. The #1 study companion for mobile devices is now available for Chrome. Learn languages faster. Prep for exams anywhere. Teach your kids anytime. Even entertain yourself with fun trivia. Versatility is it's middle name. Google Calendar With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place. Organizing your schedule shouldn't be a burden. With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place. Google Classroom Classroom helps teachers save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. Google Docs Create and edit documents Docs keeps everything and everyone on the same page. Add artichokes to a shared shopping list, or put the finishing touches on your business plan from the lobby before the meeting, right from your mobile device.

4 Google Drawings Create shapes and diagrams Add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy to create charts and diagrams. Google Drive Google Drive: create, share and keep all your stuff in one place. With Google Drive, you can now access your files, even the big ones, from wherever you are. Share them with whomever you want, and edit them together in real time. Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. Classroom helps students organize their work in Google Drive, complete and turn it in, and communicate directly with their teachers and peers. Google Keep Quickly capture what s on your mind and be reminded at the right place or time. Capture what s on your mind Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep no matter where you are. Google Sheets Create and edit spreadsheets Sheets is more than just columns and rows. Track your fitness plan, do fancy financial calculations with your team, or manage your fantasy league stats. Google Slides Create and edit presentations Slides is good for shiny 6-pagers or 600 page snoozefests. Not only does it have everything you need to pull together an awesome presentation, but you ll never have to hit save again. IXL Engaging, adaptive K-12 math and language arts practice. Discover the joy of learning with IXL! Explore over 3,000 standards-aligned skills with IXL, the world s most popular math and language arts practice program. From perfecting probability puzzles to completing compelling compound words, learning has never been so much fun! As students earn enticing awards and certificates for reaching learning milestones, you can track their progress with real-time data reporting. You ll be amazed as your students light up with enthusiasm for learning!

5 Kaizena for Google Kaizena saves teachers time assessing digital student work in Google Drive while improving the quality of feedback students receive. Kaizena makes it easy for teachers to give high quality feedback on student work - simply highlight and speak to give verbal feedback, or attach reusable resources for common problems. Lucidpress Layout and Design Lucidpress enables anyone to create stunning content for print, mobile or web. Newsela Newsela - Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly. Newsela publishes daily news articles at 5 reading levels from grades 3 12 to Newsela - Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly. Newsela publishes daily news articles at 5 reading levels from grades 3 12 to drive gains in literacy. Explore a library of high-quality, engaging nonfiction that you need to meet the new, rigorous demands of the Common Core. Newsela s constantly expanding archive helps students develop a love of reading while they expand their understanding of the world. Padlet The easiest way to create and collaborate in the world Padlet is the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. It works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device (pcs, tablets, phones), together with anyone.

6 PowToon Education PowToon lets you create awesome presentations and animated videos Deliver Awesome Presentations, Create Amazing Animated Videos PowToon is an easy to use web application that allows you to wow your audience. Use PowToon to create: * Sales presentations * Landing Page Videos * Educational Videos * Product Demos * Explainers * Media Clips * Social Content Quizlet Quizlet makes simple tools that let you study anything, anywhere. Raz-Kids Where K-5 students go to read anytime, anywhere! Welcome to Learning A-Z s app for reading ebooks from Raz-Kids! If you already use Raz-Kids, this app lets you access ebooks and equizzes for the 400+ titles on Raz- Kids! Don t have Raz-Kids and don t know what it is? Raz-Kids.com gives you hundreds of interactive, leveled books spanning 27 levels of difficulty, covering a wide range of subjects. In addition to engaging kids at their reading level and in their area of interest, this award-winning website gives kids 24/7 Web access to the practice they need to become better, more confident readers. At the same time, teachers can customize assignments, view reports, and track student progress every step of the way. All student activity in the app is captured and reported to teachers at Raz-Kids.com, thus helping teachers monitor student progress and determine the instruction needed for each student.

7 Read&Write for Google Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Scholastic Classroom The online companion to Classroom Magazines brings you a digital version of each issue along with videos, skills games, and more. Now subscribers can use their classroom technology to teach with Scholastic Classroom Magazines. Activate your online account to start using these incredible online resources on any interactive whiteboard, classroom computer, or tablet! Magazines If your students like the magazines, they ll love our online resources. Exciting videos expand on the topics in each issue and get even your most reluctant learners excited about reading. Plus, our learning games provide a fun way to review the issues and reinforce important academic skills. Screencastify Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software (aka. screencast recorder) for Chrome. It is able to record all screen activity inside a tab, including audio. Just press record and the content of your tab is recorded. So you can easily create a screencast for video tutorials, record presentations etc. It also supports desktop capturing, allowing you to record anything on your screen (not just tabs).

8 Scribble Maps Create and share custom google maps with scribblings and more! Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to create and share custom maps, even without an account! features include: - Create widgets for embedding on your website or blog - Save jpegs (images) of your customs maps - Save in other formats such as KML and GPX - Pick from various providers including Google and Open Street Map - Permalink(s) for your maps to share with friends - Place over 2000 different markers from our large library - Export your maps to Google My Maps and Google Earth - Create custom styled maps - Supports a multitude of languages Socrative Student Socrative Student Chrome App Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary! Features Visualize student and whole class understanding Multiple choice and True/False questions Open-ended questions and vote on the results End of class Exit Tickets Play games with our Space Race! Class, Question and Student level reports Storybird Creative digital story-building tool for readers, writers, and educators.

9 Typing Club Master touch typing using this free game / educational program. This online program will assist you with learning and improving Master touch typing using this free game / educational program. This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed! Practice each lesson over and over to at least get all three stars. It really doesn't take much to learn touch typing, a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro! Vocabulary SpellingCity VocabularySpellingCity offers learning activities and tests based on word lists that are created and saved by teachers or parents. VocabularySpellingCity offers learning games and activities including spelling tests and flash cards for students to use to practice spelling and vocabulary words entered by their teachers or parents. WeVideo WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere. GENERAL Supports 8 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, Japanese and Arabic)