Educational Technology Resources For Teachers

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.


ClipArt ETC provides students and teachers with over 71,500 pieces of quality educational clipart. Every illustration comes with a choice of image size as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. All images are appropriate for classroom use. You'll find no advertisements, pop-ups, or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 free clipart items in a single, non-commercial, school project without further permission. This free classroom resource is supported entirely by the fees received from the commercial users of the site.

https://telepromptor.com/ Free teleprompting software that works on any device.

http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/ bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students.

http://www.zaption.com/ Put your own movie or one from various sources (Youtube, TedEd, etc) and then ask questions, give information along the way. Movie stops while students answer the question. All results come to teacher. 

https://pixlr.com/editor/It is a free online photo editor. 

https://www.tales2go.com/Online audio books

http://www.powtoon.com/Create animated videos and presentations

https://www.screencastify.com/Video recording tool.

http://www.zimmertwins.com/The Zimmer Twins is a site devoted to kids and creative comic style storytelling.

https://kahoot.itVery easy online teaching tool. Data can be imported to Google Sheets.

http://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/ideas/plus-app/Take a photo of Post-its, app automatically detects outline of each Post-it and allows you to organize and present all Post-its, even export to Excel, etc.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tellagami/id572737805?mt=8 An app for students to record their voice and summarize a topic. Free version gives you a minute. Paid version gives you more.

https://getkahoot.com/Online quiz program. Easy to create games and quizzes and access.

https://www.wevideo.com/WeVideo is a video editing site. 

https://www.prodigygame.com/Good math games aligned with 1-8 curriculum

keep.google.com  Allows you to create notes with added functions like sharing, linking videos, and reminders for events.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free-make-books/id661166101?mt=8  The No.1 Book creation app for the iPad. Paid version  includes comic book creator. Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad.

http://www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse/List of Various websites - tested

www.finalsite.com Website platform that provides modern, elegant websites that are easy to manage and rich in functionality.

https://www.zaption.com/login Zaption transforms video-based learning with interactive content and tools that engage learners, deepen understanding, and track student progress.

https://www.geogebra.org/ This can be used k-12 to show visual models of different math concepts. By searching under materials, there are a number of elementary level virtual manipulativs that reinforce student learning. This can also be used at the high school level as a graphing calculator.

https://www.gooru.org/quality free curated content and activities, searchable by content area, grade level, etc.

www.diigo.comSave, Annotate, Organize and Share information online. Great research tool or for sharing favorite bookmarks, etc.

https://kaizena.com/give voice feedback in Google Docs

Plickers.comPlickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.

www.answergarden.ch Free, easy way to poll students, responses presented in a word cloud

http://www.socrative.com/online assessment tool

whatimreading.org create free reading posters for your classroom

http://quizizz.com/online assessment tool

www.duolingo.comLearn various foreign languages for free

www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/ Free online comic creator

https://www.peardeck.com/ Make your Google Slides interactive - poll students, check for understanding, etc.

https://codekingdoms.com/Learn how to program (Javascript) by drag-n-dropping coding blocks. Code Kingdom, has an abundance of lesson plans. Students can learn how to create their own Minecraft style game.

https://www.learn2earn.org/whooos_reading A digital reading log that gamifys reading.

https://www.thinglink.com/Make interactive videos & images

edu.buncee.com Buncee is a creation and presentation tool that allows students and teachers to combine personal and web multimedia with in-house design elements to create digital, shareable content. 

https://trello.com/organize and share online note cards for projects

http://www.activelylearn.com Scaffolding, peer learning, and assessment come together inside a text

https://www.blubbr.tv create video trivia games using videos found on the web, or uploaded from your computer 

https://www.mentimeter.compost a question and project the anonymous thoughts of all students

https://www.noredink.com Online activities to help your students improve their grammar and writing skills

https://todaysmeet.com digital backchannel (generate an online discussion) 

https://vocapp.com/create-flashcards online multisensory bilingual flashcards 

http://vocaroo.com/Free voice recording. It is Flash based, 

http://nearpod.com/Use it to "push out" a presentation to your students. Teacher "takes over" the device for the duration of the presentation. 
https://screencast-o-matic.com/homeCreate videos that can be used in class or for flipped classroom.

www.edpuzzle.comEasily create interactive video "assessments",

http://cloudlab.newvisions.org/scripts/formmule Google Sheets Add-on - E-mail merge utility that allows you to email everyone in a Google Sheet (including those submitted via Google Forms). 

http://cloudlab.newvisions.org/add-ons/autocrat Add-on for Google Sheets enables you to automate the creation of personalized documents and emails from the cloud. 

https://www.ujam.com GoogleApp - With UJAM, you can create music for all the things in your life, for free!
 
www.remind.comSecure way to message students, athletes, club members, etc. without the exchange of cell #s. Can control from any device and can receive messages as texts or emails.   

https://www.storyjumper.com/Students can MAKE A BOOK using text, images, and scenes.
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