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Web-based services and software resources:

These are web based tools and resources.  To explore how to do digital catechesis and remote learning, go to the page  entitled  Distance Learning
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  • Sr. Carolyn Cerveny's (RIP) blog,  CyberPilgrim, is a collection of ways to use digital media in the classroom and for catechesis.  
  • Teaching Religion in the Twenty-First Century: A great example of a blended lesson using online tools, including many of those mentioned below.
  • A  great collection of tech tools for the classroom
  • Graphite    reviews and sort educational apps for you, helping you to find apps and sites that might be helpful
  • Devolver Moviemaker - Makes animated movies to tell a story. (Note that there are six lines of dialogue possible, with three scenes per movie. There is no pause or rewind function. )
  • Animoto - create your own 30-second videos
  • Educreations - Make white board lessons with recorded voice over that can be shared. Easy for students to use.
  • VoiceThread -  a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
  • Quizlet - an online service to make quizzes, flash cards and study aids for your students.
  • Quia - make online questionaires and homework assignments. Subscription needed.
  • Glogster - a way to create interactive, online, collaborative 'posters' for class projects. There is a basic, free version, as well as subscriptions.
  • Blabberize - a tool to add a voice over to any picture.
  • Kidsblog - a way to create blogs for your students. Here's an example of  how to use it for RE homework.
  • Boomwriter - ways for kids to create and share stories.
  • Classbadges - create badges you can award to students as rewards or incentives.
  • Create your own bar or QR codes
  • How to   make gifs
  • A  tool to make flashcards
  • Sigil - a tool to make .epub books that can be read on devices
  • Digital Storytelling with 30 Hands - mobile device app
  • Free software to creating infographics and presentations.    Think of ways older students can use these to design a project showing what they have learned.  Here's an example about sacraments, done for adults.
  • Kahoot is a great interactive game creator.  Your students will like that they have to use their phones. Games are easy to create.
  • Using   Classflow  to create learning units and assessments.
  • How to   print on post-it notes.
  • Build a word search that uses clues with to review vocabulary and concepts.
  • Build a crossword puzzle with your own clues to review vocabulary and concepts.
  • Online Jeopardy game builder
  • Moving classes online - tips and links

GOOGLE TECHNIQUES - BEYOND THE BASICS

  • Making a Google Form template​
  • Get more  value out of Google Classroom
  • Creating  Drag and Drop assignments and study tools in Google Slides
  • More ideas for digital assignments in Google Classroom
  • More tips and tricks for Google Classroom
  • Some other tips for organizing your Google Classroom
  • ​Fun add ons for Google Slides
  • Adapting physical teaching aids to digital uses
  • Quickly and easily turn a physical document into  digital  format for assignment to students.