Tips, Tools and Tech for the Busy Teacher: Online games, Citation apps and Curation Tools

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Kahoot is an online game and mobile app that you can use for defining terms, improving vocabulary and reviewing concepts learned in the different content/subject areas.  https://kahoot.com/ 

Cited is a mobile app that guides you in following different citation formats for various resources and sources of information. It is free in the iTunes App store.    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cited/id630292792  

Remember the bookmarking tools in the late 90s and early 2000? Really Simple Syndication (RSS),mailing lists and list sers? Well,  Scoopit is all that and more. It is a curation tool that you can manage per topic of interest. The free web app has a limit of articles and content for curation so if you are serious in sharing curated info and knowledge, consider getting the premium account. Scoopit is also a tool to brand and market your expertise or grow a professional learning network.  https://www.scoop.it/ 

How can you annotate or take notes while watching a video on YouTube of Vimeo? Use VideoNotes. It can be an extension app in Google Chrome so, your notes can be saved and shared on Google docs.    http://videonot.es/