L’Auberge Casino
March 22, 2025
Location:Sycamore A/Time:8:55a-9:45a
Dr. Shonda Garner Brooks
aka TechDiva
337-381-3366
LACUE To You: Technology Resources to Support CKLA, Knowledge, Amplify, & You
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You
Rationale: A teacher's effectiveness as an educator is significantly enhanced by any strategies or resources that simplify their life. Whether it involves practical tips for financial savings or advice on maintaining personal health, a smoother personal life allows teachers to dedicate more attention to their teaching responsibilities and their students' needs. When teachers can manage their time and well-being more effectively, they are better equipped to create engaging learning environments and foster meaningful connections with their students.
🧑💻Principal Jared Lamb https://www.facebook.com/share/1BddW1vktU/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Over his 15 years as principal and current adminsitrator of BASIS Baton Rouge–Materra, Jared Lamb is known for going viral due to trading out his traditional office for a rolling cart
Site uses the QR code image as the initial image and the control image, which allows users to generate QR Codes that blend in very naturally with one’s provided prompt. Short tutorial https://www.facebook.com/reel/2006485316490367
🧑💻iLovePDF https://www.ilovepdf.com/
Every tool needed to use PDFs. 100% free & easy to use. Merge, split, compress, convert, rotate, unlock and watermark PDFs with just a few clicks. I used it to convert Dibels practice test to word so I could copy and paste the reading fluency words into a random name generator.
🧑💻TinyWow https://tinywow.com/
Free Tools You'd Usually Pay For. No Limits, No Sign-Up. User friendly site that offers AI created PDF, video, image and other online tools to make your life easier.
🧑💻Portaportal https://guest.portaportal.com/vrwarehouse
Welcome to portaportal, the original online bookmarking utility! Store bookmarks on the web for easy access anywhere. Share your links with guests through a read-only url. Add links for use through a school year, but only show students the links currently being studied.
Under “pages & files” I have my presentation handouts for LACUE from 2009! Click download at the top of the screen.
Join my calendar for a hotlist of today’s resources. Share the link with your faculty & your social circle.
TimeTree is a communication app that makes it surprisingly easy to share and coordinate calendars with others. You can share events with anyone! Getting forgetful of various school events and tasks? Keep the printouts from school easily accessible in the app and make those deadlines! Try it out as a diary! Ideas on how to use Time Tree https://guides.timetreeapp.com/en/usages/
🧑💻Genius Scan (Android & Apple) https://thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/
Genius Scan enables you to quickly scan documents on the go and export your scans as JPEG or PDF with multiple pages. Genius Scan integrates with Box, Dropbox, Evernote or any other cloud service app installed on your Android & Apple phone to let you export your scans wherever you want. I use this on my phone to store pictures; PDFs are considerably smaller files than jpegs.
🧑💻Eat This Much https://www.eatthismuch.com
Site creates personalized meal plans based on your food preferences, budget, and schedule. Reach your
diet and nutritional goals with our calorie calculator, weekly meal plans, grocery lists and more. Create a FREE meal plan in seconds.
🧑💻Too Good To Go (Android & Apple) https://www.toogoodtogo.com
This app is the world's largest marketplace for surplus food. The developers help users rescue good food from going to waste, offering great value for money at local stores, cafes and restaurants. In the past 3 months, I’ve used this app in Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Beaumont, Houston, and Colorado Springs, saving hundreds of dollars! This service isn’t what you think.
🧑💻MyFridgeFood https://myfridgefood.com/
Find easy recipes using what you ALREADY have in your kitchen (always for FREE). Check off what you have and the site will generate recipes with those ingredients!
🧑💻 Hey, Its Free! https://www.heyitsfree.net/birthday-freebies/
Many of these birthday deals and coupons are via e-mail, so sign up in advance to your birthday. In fact, for that reason alone, I strongly suggest creating a new gmail account for these birthday freebies.
🧑💻OceanofPDF https://oceanofpdf.com
Online platform that provides a vast collection of downloadable eBooks across various genres, catering to readers worldwide.
🧑💻Libby by Overdrive (Android & Apple) https://libbyapp.com/
Calcasieu Parish Library card required. Borrow up to 10 audiobooks or eBooks per library card, with unlimited magazine checkouts. A library card, PIN, and email are required for holds. Use “Deep Search” to discover more titles and “Notify Me” for availability alerts. The Libby app is available for Iphones, Android phones, Fire tablets (2020 or later), or use the desktop URL.
🧑💻Sobrief https://sobrief.com
Read any book in 10 minutes. 73,530 book summaries with audio in 40 languages. Read for free, listen for $3.75 (USD)/month
🧑💻Hoopla http://www.hoopladigital.com/
Calcasieu Parish Library card required. Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, music, movies, TV shows, and comics. Enjoy BingePass for unlimited 7-day access to streaming collections and Bonus Borrows, which don't count toward the monthly limit. Collections include Craftsy, read-alongs, Scholastic eBooks, sign language resources, and DC Comics. Parents/guardians can use a PIN to lock and unlock Kids Mode. Available apps include Amazon, Chromecast, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, and Roku.
🧑💻CashApp Offers https://cash.app/help/1014-how-to-add-offers-to-your-cash-app-card
Cash App Offers (formerly Boosts) are instant discounts that you can activate on your Cash App Card and use at participating merchants like coffee shops, restaurants, and other stores. Cash App subtracts the discount from your qualifying purchase for instant savings. My current “offers”: 10% off: Temu. 5% off: McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Uber, Lyft, CVS, Wendy’s, and Family Dollar Chase, Chime, & Capital One have similar deals but Chase & Capital One savings aren't instant!
18. 🧑💻Family Tree Now https://www.familytreenow.com/ Run a quick background check on volunteers and others.
CKLA
19. 🧑💻Wheel of Names https://wheelofnames.com/
A free, easy to use, and highly customizable website that you can use to pick a random item from a list. It's easy: type in your entries in the textbox to the right of the wheel, then click the wheel to spin it and get a random winner. Customize the colors, sounds, and spin time. Ideas for using a random name picker? Visit https://wheelofnames.com/how-to-use-in-the-classroom
20. 🧑💻Speechmatics https://www.speechmatics.com
Speechmatics offer the most accurate AI speech technology - with AI transcription & real-time translation components. Try our Speech API today! For inquisitive early finishers.
Knowledge
21. 🧑💻Emmett Hoops https://www.youtube.com/@emmetthoops4740/videos
Teacher, Grade 1, Moriah Central School, Port Henry, NY. Every story in the Kindergarten and Grade 1 Knowledge strands posted on YouTube. These videos are only the stories themselves, not the full lessons. Using these recorded stories can free a teacher up to pause when needed, and to focus on student attentiveness.
22. 🧑💻 Wordwall https://wordwall.net/ Wordwall is an online platform where teachers can create interactive activities for online or face-to-face classrooms (for printables). Wordwall provides teachers with a variety of templates, ranging from the common multiple-choice quiz like Kahoot! Or Quizizz to matching pairs, anagram, sorting out, or cloze questions. Teachers can create resources and host activities by sharing an assignment link with students. Students can do the activities as an interactive in-class part or as homework. Teachers can track students’ activity results when they finish. How many times does a struggling student need to practice a skill? Up to 400? You can edit user created content & make it your own (for free)!
Five Senses https://wordwall.net/resource/4081045/five-senses
Build CVC words https://wordwall.net/resource/67949177/ela/build-cvc-words
Digraphs https://wordwall.net/resource/72321922/kindergarten-fun-phonics-unit-4-digraphs
t, b, f sound sorthttps://wordwall.net/resource/60606507/phonics/t-b-f-sound-sort
Amplify
23. 🧑💻Google AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/
Constructs a prompt (image, text, video) by combining the instructions with the examples you provide. As you add more examples, these get added to the text sent to the model. Depending on how long your examples are, you may start hitting the model's token limit (after limits are reached more tokens may be purchased).
24. 🧑💻Riddles.com https://www.riddles.com/quiz/alphabet-riddles
Collection of riddles for kids & answers begins with each letter of the alphabet from A to Z. (challenge your advanced students)
25. 🧑💻Weareteachers.com https://www.weareteachers.com/
Free classroom resources, inspiration, and support
I have many jokes
about my time back in a classroom—
sadly, there’s nothing funny
About teaching kindergarten!!
God bless the kindergarten teacher.
