Middle+School+Resources

Animoto (www.animoto.com) http://animoto.com/legal/education_terms

Animoto is a video creation service that makes it easy and fun for anyone to create and share videos using their own pictures, video clips, words and music. Teachers in our team use a special Education account and create accounts for students using only their first names and district-gaggle email addresses (first name, last initial).

Edmodo (www.district96.edmodo.com) http://www.edmodo.com/corporate/terms-of-service

A free and secure online learning platform where teachers and students can collaborate and share content. This private learning environment is managed by the teacher and provides a safe and easy way to support learning beyond the classroom. You may sign up for a parent account on Edmodo, which connects to your child’s account. To sign up for a parent account, you need your child’s unique parent code. To find out more, visit http://support.edmodo.com and click on "I'm a Parent."

Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org) @http://www.khanacademy.org/about/tos

Khan Academy offers thousands of instructional videos and practice problems on a variety of subjects. Teachers using Khan Academy become the student's coach and create the Child Accounts with parental permission. In this way, teachers can monitor student progress and success. Child Accounts have special privacy considerations, including no access to the discussion forums.

KidBlog (www.kidblog.org) @http://kidblog.org/home/terms-of-service/

Kidblog is a school and classroom blogging service. Teachers set up a class account and assign each student a username (first name, last inital) and password. We will be using KidBlog to share our writing with other students in the class.

Quizlet (www.quizlet.com) @http://quizlet.com/tos

Quizlet allows users to create sets of flashcards and to view flashcard sets created by other users. Quizlet offers a limited feature set and website experience that removes certain social features for children under 13.