Presentation/Storytelling Tools:
Prezi: Customize your next presentation; zoom in & out, insert photos, illustrations, videos. Alternative to PowerPoint.
Animoto: Free 30 second videos. Can purchase school/private accounts to create longer videos. Use their music or import your own.
Voice Thread: Permits narrated presentation. Single educator subscriptions are free. Uses: book reviews, demonstrations.
Glogster: Interactive, colorful posters. Can embed videos & incorporate music. Useful for any subject matter.
Easel.ly: Create infographs. Visual way to share information.
Piktochart: An easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce simple & high quality graphics.
Audacity: Make a podcast.
Diigo: Free educator application. Allows users to highlight web material,”sticky note” it, share websites of interest with others.
Timetoast: Create Online timelines. Excellent for social studies, but other uses include ELA, biography timelines, & cultural timelines.
Blabberize: Fun method for biography presentations. Animals, human faces, any surface can “talk”. Short “blabs” are free.
Scratch: Developed at MIT, Scratch allows users to create online videos using original artwork.
50 + Ways to Tell a Story: 50 different free web based tools that allow user to tell a story with a click of a mouse. Endless applications—ELA, history, science, technology, art, & music.
Spicy Nodes: Similar to Prezi, in that a user can present information in an organized manner that is NOT PowerPoint. The sections of the presentation resemble “sticky notes”, creating a web of information.
Wordle: Create word clouds.
Photostory: Create slideshows using your digital photos to tell stories digitally. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then , personalize them with titles and captions. (Note: ONLY for Windows XP)
Prezi: Customize your next presentation; zoom in & out, insert photos, illustrations, videos. Alternative to PowerPoint.
Animoto: Free 30 second videos. Can purchase school/private accounts to create longer videos. Use their music or import your own.
Voice Thread: Permits narrated presentation. Single educator subscriptions are free. Uses: book reviews, demonstrations.
Glogster: Interactive, colorful posters. Can embed videos & incorporate music. Useful for any subject matter.
Easel.ly: Create infographs. Visual way to share information.
Piktochart: An easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce simple & high quality graphics.
Audacity: Make a podcast.
Diigo: Free educator application. Allows users to highlight web material,”sticky note” it, share websites of interest with others.
Timetoast: Create Online timelines. Excellent for social studies, but other uses include ELA, biography timelines, & cultural timelines.
Blabberize: Fun method for biography presentations. Animals, human faces, any surface can “talk”. Short “blabs” are free.
Scratch: Developed at MIT, Scratch allows users to create online videos using original artwork.
50 + Ways to Tell a Story: 50 different free web based tools that allow user to tell a story with a click of a mouse. Endless applications—ELA, history, science, technology, art, & music.
Spicy Nodes: Similar to Prezi, in that a user can present information in an organized manner that is NOT PowerPoint. The sections of the presentation resemble “sticky notes”, creating a web of information.
Wordle: Create word clouds.
Photostory: Create slideshows using your digital photos to tell stories digitally. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then , personalize them with titles and captions. (Note: ONLY for Windows XP)
Organizational Tools:
Livebinders: Your 3-ring binder for the web. Collect resources: web pages, pdfs, images, videos. Organize resources neatly.
Evernote: Remember everything with Evernote.
Dipity: Find, create, & embed interactive timelines.
Museum Box: This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
Netvibes: Students can create a group of personalized pages, each one for a different topic. Pages can be shared with others.
Symbaloo: Colorful, unique tile format for websites you find & visit often. Teachers: create a Symbaloo of websites you want students to visit on a regular basis for your class. Free, of course.
Delicious: Social bookmarking. Find or create collections of websites on any topic.
Toodledo: Primarily a personal organizer, this free internet application can also be shared with your smart phone & computer. Allows you to organize your tasks, import existing jobs, & collaborate online.
Shelfari: Allows users to share what they read through a virtual bookshelf. Get ideas of what to read next, satisfy your inner critic, & find ideas for classroom reads.
Open Office:Free software office suite. ( word processor, spreadsheets, database, powerpoint, and compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Libre Office: Free software office suite. ( word processor, spreadsheets, database, powerpoint, and compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite. For Windows, Macs, and Linux.
Livebinders: Your 3-ring binder for the web. Collect resources: web pages, pdfs, images, videos. Organize resources neatly.
Evernote: Remember everything with Evernote.
Dipity: Find, create, & embed interactive timelines.
Museum Box: This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
Netvibes: Students can create a group of personalized pages, each one for a different topic. Pages can be shared with others.
Symbaloo: Colorful, unique tile format for websites you find & visit often. Teachers: create a Symbaloo of websites you want students to visit on a regular basis for your class. Free, of course.
Delicious: Social bookmarking. Find or create collections of websites on any topic.
Toodledo: Primarily a personal organizer, this free internet application can also be shared with your smart phone & computer. Allows you to organize your tasks, import existing jobs, & collaborate online.
Shelfari: Allows users to share what they read through a virtual bookshelf. Get ideas of what to read next, satisfy your inner critic, & find ideas for classroom reads.
Open Office:Free software office suite. ( word processor, spreadsheets, database, powerpoint, and compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Libre Office: Free software office suite. ( word processor, spreadsheets, database, powerpoint, and compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite. For Windows, Macs, and Linux.
Survey Tools:
Doodle: Planning a meeting or looking for opinions? Use Doodle to quickly, easily, & for free schedule a mutually convenient meeting or gather opinion.
Poll Everywhere: Online polling that can utilize a smart phone or web browser.
Survey Monkey: Free online survey generator.
Doodle: Planning a meeting or looking for opinions? Use Doodle to quickly, easily, & for free schedule a mutually convenient meeting or gather opinion.
Poll Everywhere: Online polling that can utilize a smart phone or web browser.
Survey Monkey: Free online survey generator.
Visual Tools:
Morguefile: Free, copyright free images from around the world. Great for insertion into presentations such as Prezi & PowerPoint.
Avairy: A suite of creative tools for photo editing, music creation, & more.
Learn360: The premier website for K-12 multimedia educational resources.
Safari Montage: SAFARI Montage provides K-12 school districts with a comprehensive solution for their digital media distribution & visual instruction needs.
TeacherTube: A free community for sharing instructional videos & content for teachers & students.
YouTube: YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch & share originally-created videos.
SchoolTube: Free K-12 Video community.
PBS: Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS shows, explore music & the arts, find in-depth news analysis, & more.
Wikispaces: Website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize content in a collaborative manner and post it to the internet.
Google Earth: Use Google Earth to tour places or build your own tour, or that of historic places, or catalog events in books. Make your own quizzes at the end.
Book Builder: A UDL(universal Design Learning) tool that lets users create books, learning questions, and read the book out loud.
Gflash: Flashcards from Google! Use Googledocs to make flashcards for you iDevice.
Weebly: Easy to make websites with. Powerful but simple tools to make a website.
Moodle: Can create interactive lessons with media content(video, audio, ect.) do lesson plans and modules, students can also complete their work from those lessons within moodle and store the grades from said lessons.
Morguefile: Free, copyright free images from around the world. Great for insertion into presentations such as Prezi & PowerPoint.
Avairy: A suite of creative tools for photo editing, music creation, & more.
Learn360: The premier website for K-12 multimedia educational resources.
Safari Montage: SAFARI Montage provides K-12 school districts with a comprehensive solution for their digital media distribution & visual instruction needs.
TeacherTube: A free community for sharing instructional videos & content for teachers & students.
YouTube: YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch & share originally-created videos.
SchoolTube: Free K-12 Video community.
PBS: Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS shows, explore music & the arts, find in-depth news analysis, & more.
Wikispaces: Website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize content in a collaborative manner and post it to the internet.
Google Earth: Use Google Earth to tour places or build your own tour, or that of historic places, or catalog events in books. Make your own quizzes at the end.
Book Builder: A UDL(universal Design Learning) tool that lets users create books, learning questions, and read the book out loud.
Gflash: Flashcards from Google! Use Googledocs to make flashcards for you iDevice.
Weebly: Easy to make websites with. Powerful but simple tools to make a website.
Moodle: Can create interactive lessons with media content(video, audio, ect.) do lesson plans and modules, students can also complete their work from those lessons within moodle and store the grades from said lessons.
Educational Websites:
Khan Academy: An extensive collection of instructional videos on a variety of topics. Math, especially, is well represented. Can be used for instruction by teachers, or review by students.
Blekko: Spam free search engine.
Instructify: Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas & cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom.
Common Sense: Reviews & ratings for Family movies, TV shows, Websites, Video Games, & books, along with policy & advice for parents & teachers.
Grammarly: Grammarly is an automated proofreader and plagiarism checker.
Teachscape: Teachscape increases student achievement by improving the knowledge and skills of principals, teachers, and other instructional leaders.
Brainpop: Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, ...
Geogebra: Mathematics software for learning and teaching with Interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet From elementary school to university level Free learning materials.
4Teachers: Provides tools( like trackstar and others) for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom.
AR Ideas: Internet Delivered Education for Arkansas Schools: a workshop portal that will evitudally replace ESCworks SHOEBOX. It has lots of professional development training videos and online courses on it.
Khan Academy: An extensive collection of instructional videos on a variety of topics. Math, especially, is well represented. Can be used for instruction by teachers, or review by students.
Blekko: Spam free search engine.
Instructify: Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas & cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom.
Common Sense: Reviews & ratings for Family movies, TV shows, Websites, Video Games, & books, along with policy & advice for parents & teachers.
Grammarly: Grammarly is an automated proofreader and plagiarism checker.
Teachscape: Teachscape increases student achievement by improving the knowledge and skills of principals, teachers, and other instructional leaders.
Brainpop: Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, ...
Geogebra: Mathematics software for learning and teaching with Interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet From elementary school to university level Free learning materials.
4Teachers: Provides tools( like trackstar and others) for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom.
AR Ideas: Internet Delivered Education for Arkansas Schools: a workshop portal that will evitudally replace ESCworks SHOEBOX. It has lots of professional development training videos and online courses on it.
Brainstorming and Mind Mapping:
Padlet: Online post-its. Good for brainstorming ideas.
MindMeister: Online mind mapping.
Edistorm: User adds ideas on virtual post-it, drag ideas around to reorganize, & invite others to collaborate.
Bubbl.us: Brainstorming & mind mapping online. Create flow charts of linked ideas. Can share & collaborate with others.
Digital Mapping Resources: Tools to help with digital writing.
Popplet: Colorful, easy to add photos, video text tool. You can invite collaborators to share your Popplet.
Stixy: For flexible online creation, collaboration, & sharing.
Thinglink: Make your images & videos interactive..
Padlet: Online post-its. Good for brainstorming ideas.
MindMeister: Online mind mapping.
Edistorm: User adds ideas on virtual post-it, drag ideas around to reorganize, & invite others to collaborate.
Bubbl.us: Brainstorming & mind mapping online. Create flow charts of linked ideas. Can share & collaborate with others.
Digital Mapping Resources: Tools to help with digital writing.
Popplet: Colorful, easy to add photos, video text tool. You can invite collaborators to share your Popplet.
Stixy: For flexible online creation, collaboration, & sharing.
Thinglink: Make your images & videos interactive..
