Tech Tools!
Learning Systems
(Lesson Planning, ELL, Video Resources, Management)
Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.
Schoology is an innovative learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content. Sign up today.
Google Classroom is a blended learning platform for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way.
Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch.
ClassDojo’s mission is to reinvent classrooms by bringing teachers, students and parents closer together. Teachers use ClassDojo as a communication platform to encourage students, and get parents engaged too.
Remind is a private mobile messaging platform that enables teachers to send Reminders to students and parents via text and email.
eduCanon is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any YouTube, Vimeo, or TeacherTube video content (screencasts, Khan Academy, Minute Physics, TED, NOVA, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students.
Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content.
Storify helps make sense of what people post on social media. Our users curate the most important voices and turn them into stories.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative idea.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere". The organization produces micro lectures in the form of YouTube videos.
ShowMe is an open online learning community where anyone can learn and teach any topic.
| Gaming | Comics |
If you want to make games, what are you waiting for? With GameSalad Creator you can learn the basics and start making games in about an hour.
Comic Life is perfect for engaging reluctant readers and teaching visual literacy. Easy to learn and fun to use, Comic Life is a great tool for any student.
Adaptive Learning Games that anyone can create, share, and play.
Teach anything to anyone from anywhere.
FunBrain for educational online games for children. Subject related arcades in math and reading, online games, books and comics and more fun.
Research
You are the content you publish.
Discover, curate and publish great content to get visibility online.
Get started for FREE.
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.
| Mind Maps | Graphic Organizers |
Piktochart is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics.
Easel.ly is a simple web tool that empowers anyone to create and share powerful visuals (infographics, posters).
Create the best looking mind map online and share it with others. Enjoy mind mapping by brainstorming collaboratively on ideas and projects.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source.
Social
Virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.
The World's most popular education blogging service.
TodaysMeet helps harness the backchannel and turn it into a platform that can enable new activities and discussions, extend conversations beyond the classroom, and give all students a voice.
Free classroom response using mobile cell phones instead of clickers. SMS, text voting, and Web Polling for schools is affordable and easy.
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Quiz Review
FlipQuiz™ provides educators with a quick way to create quiz boards for test reviews in the classroom that can be saved for later use.
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to login. Socrative runs on tablets, smartphones, and laptops.
Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!
Study Tools Quizlet's flashcards, tests, and study games make learning fun and engaging for students of all ages.
Captivated learners connect in real-time to create a social, fun and game-based learning space.
Presentation Software
Prezi is cloud-based, meaning you can present from your browser, desktop, iPad, iPhone, or Android device and always have the latest version of your work at your fingertips. Create or edit on the go, then auto-sync across all your devices with ease.
Windows Live Movie Maker is the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share -- for free.
Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos.
VoiceThread is a totally web-based application that allows you to place collections of media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of an asynchronous conversation.
https://whps.ed.voicethread.com/
Voki is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character.
YouTube is a video-sharing website.
GarageBand for Mac has everything you need to learn, play, record, mix, and share great-sounding music, even if you’ve never played a note.
iMovie for Mac lets you organize all your clips, turn them into your favorite films or trailers, and then premiere them on iMovie Theater.
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows.
One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE!
Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, and more..
Discover, Share, and Present presentations and infographics with the world’s largest professional content sharing community.
Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes.
emaze is the next generation of online presentation software. emaze features a proprietary state of the art HTML5 presentation maker that will create the slideshows, video presentations and even 3D presentations that you always dreamed of.
Picasa can transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date.
Haiku Deck is the simple and fun new way to create stunning presentations – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.
Listen to Podcasts from across the world in various categories. You can also create and edit your own podcasts to share!
In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually.