Discovery EducationDiscovery Education is concept-level videos, video-clips, and lesson plans owned by the discovery channel.
Go to www.discoveryeducation.com (or log in to the portal) Great News this year! Discovery Ed is rostered! That means your classes are already built in DE and you can assign things to them. You may need to sign in the first time with Clever using your FISD email address and pw, but after that you can probably just click sign in with Google. If you have trouble, contact Kimberly Howard. |
WeVideoWeVideo is an online video editing tool with green screen capabilities and the ability for students to collaborate. In order for students to use this in your class, Kimberly will need to activate licenses for them. Send her a list of student email addresses, and she will send them an invitation by email to join. If you want students to work in collaborative groups, be sure to specify which addresses go together and Kimberly will set that up and send specific invitation codes to the students which will enroll them into that group.
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NearpodNearpod is both a presentation tool and a formative assessment tool. You can start a Nearpod from scratch or select from thousands of existing lessons (searched by content and standard). If you have a Google Slides Presentation, you can add Nearpod as a Tool to use during or after it is created. Nearpod has the ability to add many many digital tools to any digital presentation (think EdPuzzle movies with embedded questions, multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, Padlet, Polls, etc.)
Great news! Nearpod is rostered this year, so students can login using Google accounts and you can track student progress more easily! |
KamiKami is a tool used to annotate on PDFs and google Docs.
It saves your items in a folder on your Google Dashboard. Kami can also be used as an external tool in Canvas. I went to a great presentation this summer about Kami, and learned how Check out my notes about what it can do here. |
BulbBulb is a platform for students to use and maintain an ePortfolio. It’s a way for students to create pages and/or collections of their digital work. All items on a Bulb ePortfolio can be shared with the teacher with a link. Also, Teachers are welcome to use the classroom features to view classes.
Students log in through the portal. Click on Bulb and login using FISD username and password. |
CanvaCanva (not to be confused with Canvas) is a fantastic design tool for creating posters, presentations, flyers, infographics, brochures, collages, certificates, social media graphics, and more!
Canva now offers Canva Pro access, plus a bunch of add ons for the classroom, free to teachers and students globally. All you have to do is apply here. |
RemindRemind is a messaging platform that allows teachers to “text” entire classes and parents using a text-like platform. (it does not share your phone number). The messages with the paid Frisco ISD remind account are monitored to appropriate use. Messaging students via your actual phone number is a very real concern. Remind is Frisco ISD-approved option.
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MackinViaMackinVIA™ is a program that makes it easy to access your school’s digital resources (such as databases and eBooks.) You can use MackinVIA on any desktop, laptop, or mobile device with Internet access.
To learn what resources are available for middle school, the list can be found HERE. Staff login is your FISD username (without the @friscoisd.org) and your FISD password (case sensitive) Students will log in with their Student ID and password. Questions? Email Kim Taber. |
SoraSora is the district's platform for fiction ebooks and audiobooks.Books are purchased using district library funds and selected by a committee of librarians.
Students access their Sora account using their student ID number (no password). Staff can access Sora with their district username. NOTE: Staff usernames are case sensitive. The direct URL for our Frisco ISD account is https://soraapp.com/library/friscoisdtx |
MegaTraxMegaTrax is a service pad for by Frisco ISD that has royalty free music and sound effects for students to use in projects.This is a fantastic and easy to use resource but it is extremely important that students pay very close attention to the login. There is one login account per school, and if students enter the login incorrectly too many times, it could lock down the account making it inaccessible for a period of time. You can find the login here as long as you are logged in to your FISD Google account.
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Office365Office 365 is available for students and staff in Frisco ISD. This should NOT be installed on any district computer but you can access applications from your webmail.
Students who are interested in using Office 365 should go to the FISD website and search for Office 365. That will take them to this page which has all the information they need. They need to pay very close attention to the email address used to sign in since it is a dummy email address with a specific pattern that is used specifically for this purpose. |