Book Projects:
- Storyjumper - A place to create and discover stories for kids.
- Little Bird Tales - A fun,unique way to create,record and share stories online.
- Storybird - An easy book creation software.
Blogging for the classroom:
- 21classes - Safe blogging website for teachers and students.
- Classchatter - Safe blogging website for teachers and students.
- Blogger - Google's website for blogging.
Converting Files:
- Zamzar - Converts files into different formats.
- Keepvid - Downloads files into different formats.
- DocHub - Upload a PDF and annotate over the document.
- SmallPDF - Convert pdf files to word documents.
Games/Applets:
Mind Mapping/Storyboard/Word Displays:
- Mywebspiration Free online software for graphic organization
- Bubbl - Easily create colorful mindmaps to print or share with others.
- Wordle - Generate word clouds from a text or URL you provide.
- Tagxedo - Generates word clouds from a text or URL you provide into a shape.
- WordArt - Generates word clouds and puts it into a shape.
- Storyboardthat - generate 6 storyboard per sheet.
- cmap tools - mind mapping program that saves everything on a server.
- Easel.ly - Edit a mindmap template and save as a pdf or jpg
Music - Don't forget to check the terms of use!:
- Freeplay Music - Free music that can be downloaded and used for presentations. (Don't forget to check terms of use!)
- Incompetech - Free music you can download(several genres)
- Free Youtube Music - Free music you can use for projects on youtube
- Bensound - Free music
Online Collaboration/Learning Environments:
- Google Docs - Create documents online that others can look at and edit.
- Quicktopic - Create a last minute question and get student responses.
- Canvas - An online course development program
- Schoology - An online course development program
- Coursesites - A free online course development program
- EdPuzzle - Use a video and put questions throughout
Free Downloadable Pictures - Don't forget to check the terms of use!:
Chrome Extensions:
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Alice Keeler Gradebook split - automatically split your screen in two.
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EquatIO - Helps create math equations in google docs.
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Iorad - helps create web tutorials
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Web Paint - Easily draw over a website with shapes, text, or pen strokes and then save the annotations as a picture.
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Techsmith Snagit - Screenshot capture.
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Tag Cloud Search + Translate - Turn an article from websites into a word cloud.
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SpeakIt - Tired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
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Share to Classroom - Add assignments, notifications, and push websites to your google classroom.
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Screencastify - Simple video screen capture.
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Readability - Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.
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Hootlet - Quickly share web pages to all of your social networks using the Hootlet.
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Goo.gl URL Shortener - Quickly shortern URL's
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Google Tone - Share a website with students in your classroom with your speakers.
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Google Dictionary - Easily define any word from any website.
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Draftback - Lets you play back the revision history of any Google Doc that you can edit.
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Clearly - Make blog posts, articles, and websites clean and easy to read. Users can highlight text.
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Checker Plus(Calendar, Gmail, Drive) - View, connect, and interact with your google account through these extensions.
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Awesome Screenshot - Capture all or part of any web page. Add annotations, comments, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads.
Picture Editing:
- Dumpr - Mashes pictures together.
- Befunky - Makes real pictures into cartoon pictures.
- Flickr - Share your photos.
- 3D text maker - Create 3D text images to add to multimedia projects.
- Pixlr -Photo editing site.
Project Ideas:
- Animoto - A website that lets the user create a free 30 second video.
- Aurasma - An augmented reality website/app.
- Voicethread - A presentation tool that allows students to record a presentation.
- Blabberize - Create talking pictures with your own voice or mp3 files.
- Google Sketchup - Create, modify, and share 3D models.
- Go Animate - Users can create their own comic strip movies with animations.
- Glogster - Create online posters with pictures, text, videos, music, etc...
- Quizlet - Create online flashcards where users can use to learn word definitions
- BrainyFlix - Upload pictures to represent a vocabulary word and make a funny caption.
- Prezi - Zooming in and zooming out presentation software.
- Voki - Create talking avatars with text or your own voice.
- Linoit - An online wall where anyone can put post-it notes up.
- Padlet - An online wall where anyone can put post-it notes up.
- Movenote - A website that brings in a presentation and you attach your video from your webcam too it as you talk about each slide.
- Museumbox - A website where you decorate a 3D cube with text, pictures, movies, etc...
- Powtoon - A presentation animation software tool.
- Smore - Create an online flyer for an event.
- Emaze - An 3D walkthrough presentation.
- Jilster - Online collaborative magazine.
- Pixton - Comic strip, story board, and graphic novel site.
- Adobe Spark - Easily create a presentation, video, and web stories.
References:
- Easybib - A website that helps you create work cited pages in MLA or APA format.
Rubrics:
- Rubistar4teachers - A website that allows teachers to create their own custom rubrics for anything.
Scantron IOS Scanner:
- Quickkey - Use a smart phone to grade student scantron sheets automatically
- Zipgrade - Use a smart phone to grade student scantron sheets automatically
Screen Capture:
- Jingproject - A program that lets you take video or pictures of your screen.
- Screencast-o-matic - An online program that lets you capture your screen.
- Quicktime is a mac application that lets you capture your screen.
- Online Voice Recorder - online tool to record a podcast. Minor cutting at beginning and end of recording.
- Pixiclips - online whiteboard that captures audio and video as well.
Social Bookmarking:
- Delicious - creates an online account to save bookmarks.
- Diigo - Social bookmarking, can be used for students working on a collaborative project (need to create an account).
- FatURL - For a project this is a great site to combine links together.
Streaming Video/Audio:
- Learnerstv - A website that contains video lectures on math and science material.
- Thefutureschannel - A website with interactive activities and videos for math and science.
- Teacher Tube - An education site similar to YouTube where you can watch videos.
- iTunes U - A list of universities is available. Many podcasts or vodcasts of professor's classes are available. Explore MIT's Open Courseware , Stanford, Penn State, Vanderbilt or Yale courses. There is much to discover!
- PBS Learning Media - A website that has a huge library of videos and lesson plans for K-12.
- Study Jams by Scholastic - A website that has a library of videos for Math and Science.
- Viewpure - Paste a youtube link to site and it creates an ad free youtube link
- Tubechop - Paste a youtube link to site and select part of a youtube video and it provides link.
Student response systems:
- Kahoot - This web 2.0 tool creates exciting competitive review games.
- Quizizz - This self paced web 2.0 tool creates exciting competitive review games.
- Socrative - Instantly get feedback from students by using this tool.
- Nearpod - A great tool to have interactive presentations.
- Peardeck - A tool that integrates with Google Slides to have interactive presentations.
- Quizlet Live - A flashcard web 2.0 tool that creates a competition between groups.
Software Training:
- Thimble - Learn HTML and see changes instantly.
- Kyte Training - Tech Tutorials on Classroom Technology
Video Conferencing:
- Appear - Video conference with up to 8 people for free without setting up an account.
- Rabbit - Video conference and share your browser.
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