50 Fun Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning
Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy.
Apple products inspire creativity and hands-on learning with features you won’t find anywhere else. And they’re easy to integrate into your curriculum. Once you do, you’ll see teaching — and learning — in a whole new way.
Apple products inspire creativity and hands-on learning with features you won’t find anywhere else. And they’re easy to integrate into your curriculum. Once you do, you’ll see teaching — and learning — in a whole new way.
Design your own video game.
Free online sound creator and editor
Allows users to create music and manipulate using the image editor, vector editor, audio editor, & music creator.
Bay District Instructional Technology and Media Services
First time here? Welcome! We have a lot of fun stuff to play with like our Motivational Poster maker, Magazine Cover maker, Warholizer, and much more! Play as much as you like—everything is free. We also sell awesome custom-made posters.
Got a picture? Blabberize it!
Welcome to Book Builder!Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.
Help students search the web
Brandon Lutz: "I created this blog to share my ideas and thoughts about teaching technology to children and adults. I will share my struggles, cool web 2.0 sites, and any other things I find interesting about technology and life."
Brainstorming made simple.
First design your human self. Then, choose your favorite animal parts and go wild.
Create online diagrams and use real-time collaboration.
ClassConnect simplifies everything from sharing files to creating & delivering interactive lectures. Create. Organize. Search. Share. Assess. Faster than ever before.
Create a chat while teaching a lesson and revisit chat after class to see what students said.
CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
Collect and highlight, then remember
Create animations, make friends!
Online file storage that syncs to other devices. Share files online in a secure environment. Free easy was for students to access files in multiple locations.
The free automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker.
Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser. Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.
Free private microblogging in the classroom.
The free and easy way to teach and learn online.
Online storytelling tool.
Remember everything.
Florida Department of Education's You Tube
The Florida Department of Education's official YouTube channel is here! Our videos include parental involvement tips, winning student PSAs, educator professional development and a lot more! Check out our playlists to find videos by audience. We will be uploading videos often, so be sure to check back with us.
Welcome to Florida on iTunes U! This service offers an additional way to access the valuable educational content available from Florida's school districts, state agencies, and non-profit organizations. Florida on iTunes U brings together teaching, professional development, and cultural resources for educators and students.
Find free music to use in podcasts and other projects.
Teachers and students can make games that teach to content areas.
Organizational diagrams in a creative way.
Simply put, a Glog is a kind of poster —fully designed by you! A Glog is a unique creation made up of text, images, music, and video. It can be colorful, edgy, emo, or rock—it’s up to you to make your Glog stand out. Glogs are a perfect way to express who YOU are!
Make your own animated videos.
Visit art museums from all over the world.
ipadio takes any phone call and streams it live on the web, makes phonecasts and phlogs simple and immediate.
Free online video editor.
Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!
Create instant screencasts and screen shots. Share easily via download or online.
Learning through creativity.
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace.
The internet for kids.
Safe and simple blogs for your students.
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Live Binders is a web tool that allows you to create an online binder with tabs and sub tabs. You can use this to share and annotate images, websites, google docs and more. This would be a good site to create an online portfolio for students and professionals.
Free standardized test prep.
Create online graphic organizers
Share multiple links quickly and easily in a group of 50 or less.
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. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie.
A really fast online dictionary.
E-mail based journal, reply to e-mail and Oh Life stories it for you.
Access your bookmark anywhere, anytime Imagine having your entire bookmark collection in one place. Access it from your home desktop, office laptop, airport lounge or using our optimized iPhone interface. Access your links anywhere, anytime.
PDFmyURL.com is a free online tool to easily convert and save any web page to PDF.
The best way to share and organize, discover and share the stuff you like.
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.
Create slideshows using your digital photos. 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. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.
Instant Audience Feedback.
Popplet is a platform for your ideas.
Quick and easy blog, post from mobile devices. Communicate with students on the run, Travel Journal, & List homework.
PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.
The best way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything P.S. It’s fun, it’s free, and you can share with friends!
A web based research engine that speaks about the search topic selected.
Converts text into spoken words.
Free tool to teachers to create quality rubrics.
The place for students and teachers to share videos online.
Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!
Annotate any web site with notes, formatting, highlighting and more. Easily share with others via e-mail and save in your library.
Lively learning guides by Experts and Educators.
SideVibe gives teachers the ability to turn any Web page into an online activity to enhance student critical thinking and online learning.
Screen capture, crop, resize, sketch…then share with people… Fast.
Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page.
Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
Create amazing greeting cards, scrapbooks, slideshows, birthday cards, and more using your photos, videos, and music with Smilebox. Email, blog or print.
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback.
Online Image Editor
Create an organized interface of frequently visited websites.
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
A fun world where kids create and share their own books.
Create timelines, share them on the web.
Shorten long urls.
Create a quick and easy backchannel without a log in.
World's fastest way to create cartoons.
Interactive Teaching resources that provide count down clock, student selector, and much more.
News articles written by kids, for kids. Your students can blog their replies, and you approve their comments.
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
Everybody is a creator. Build your own social network.
An online notice board maker.
Free educational videos
Designed for teachers and students in grades 5-12, Webspiration Classroom™ provides a safe and reliable online learning environment that helps students improve their writing and thinking skills.
Web creation made easy.
Find data in all content areas. Check math problems and all kinds of calculations.
Transform your text into word clouds!
Learn Spanish online.
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 text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Timeline creating
Make your own 3D movies in minutes. Xtranormal offers a wide variety of characters, sets, and animations that you can easily add to any movie you create.
File conversion.
Kids create and share their own animated stories.
Online presentation maker.