Easel.ly
Infographics
Using Easel.ly, infographics can be one more option when students are asked to research a topic and share their findings, analyze story elements, etc. It is an alternative way for them to creatively communicate knowledge or an idea using a combination of visuals and small snippets of text.
Smore
Digital, Interactive Posters
Smore allows you to create posters and collages from your photos, and from albums on Facebook (even your friends' albums). They provide background art and easy to use tools to make professional looking posters fast and easy.
Play Posit
Interactive Video Assessment
Play Posit takes already existing videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, etc. or upload your own. Enable self-paced learning with interactive lessons, add your voice and questions along the video. Know if your students are watching your videos, how many times and see the answers they give.
Quizziz
Interactive Quizzes
Quizziz is a game-based classroom response system you can play on any device with a web browser! Create and play quizzes in a variety of formats.
Poster My Wall
Digital Posters
PosterMyWall allows you to create posters and collages from your photos. They provide background art and easy to use tools to make professional looking posters fast and easy.
ThingLink
Visual Storytelling
ThingLink is an interactive media platform that empowers publishers, educators, brands, and bloggers to create more engaging content by adding rich media links to photos and videos.
Use ThingLink to create interactive news photography, maps, posters, family albums, and infographics!You can keep track of how people interact with your content as it spreads across the web.
Canva
Web/Print Design
Create beautiful designs and professional graphics with Canva. Whether it’s a photo editor, pic collage, logo, invitation or poster maker you’re looking for — Canva makes graphic design easy. Canva is available on your iPhone, iPad and computer so you can create, edit and share your designs when it suits you most.
Storyboard That!
Digital Storyboarding
Break down lessons and keep the kids engaged while they learn with storyboards!
Freckle
Reading/Math Comprehension
Personalized math and reading comprehension practice your students will love.
By addressing student weaknesses and building off strengths, Front Row is designed to increase confidence and promote growth in ALL students, regardless of their ability level.
Epic!
Digital Library
Read and Learn on Epic! Anytime. Anywhere. Epic! on any device. Unlimited access for teachers and students including books, videos, quizzes, Spanish & more.
Kiddle
Kid-safe Search Engine
Kiddle search results satisfy family friendly requirements, as we filter sites with explicit or deceptive content.
Most Kiddle search results are illustrated with big thumbnails, which makes it easier to scan the results, differentiate between them, and click the most appropriate results to your query. Thumbnails serve as visual clues and are especially beneficial to kids as they don't read as fast as adults.
StoryJumper
Storybook Creation
StoryJumper is a site that gives teachers, students, parents, and authors a fun set of intuitive tools for writing and illustrating stories. StoryJumper gives teachers an interface to manage and review students' work. Students can add both graphics and audio to their digital story books then share them with others.
Padlet
Digital, Interactive Artifact Board
Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate on.
It works like a piece of paper. You have an empty page - a padlet - and you can put whatever you like on it. Drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents. Make it even more beautiful by choosing custom wallpapers and themes.
Padlet is different from other blogging tools and inspiration boards because it’s flexible. Create a Venn diagram, a discussion board, a group greeting card, a portfolio, or a business plan, all in one app.
StoryWeaver
Digital Library and Book Creation
StoryWeaver is an open platform designed to be innovative and interactive. It invites both, the weaver of stories and the reader to connect and share the fascinating world of words and illustrations. Browse StoryWeaver, where you can read, create, translate, or download an endless stream of stories.
Edulastic
Interactive Assessment Tool
Edulastic's formative assessment tools automatically grade while students work on the assignment, giving you immediate feedback. Teachers can clear up misconceptions, decide what to teach next and differentiate instruction. Track progress, growth and mastery learning over time and download everything for your gradebook.
Book Creator
Storybook Creation
Book Creator is open-ended, creative and cross curriculum. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins.
Combine text, images, audio and video to create interactive stories, digital portfolios, research journals, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, ‘About me’ books, comic adventures, etc.
Read Theory
Online reading activities for all levels. Improve your reading ability using this fun, interactive, educational tool in school or at home. Passages include optional written responses and student progress reports.
Flipgrid
Student Engagement and Formative Assessment
Bring the back row to the front and engage all of your students. Together! Flipgrid has the most powerful, quick, and easy-to-use recorder. The video response player is as natural as Instagram with custom reactions and student-to-student replies. Most importantly, it works on every device or browser your students use inside or outside the classroom!Think of it as the best parts of Instagram and Snapchat, but your control! Finally, students can add a title and linked file to videos to verbalize their project-based learning. Your Grid transforms into a shared, community portfolio!
Prodigy
Interactive Math Instruction
Prodigy has content from all major math topics and will seamlessly cover Grades 1 - 8 to help ensure your students are ready for standardized testing. With a diagnostic test to place students in the correct grade, embedded assessments, and automatic differentiation, Prodigy ensures that each one of your students succeed at their own pace.
Animoto
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Create in 5 easy steps by selecting a slideshow style, uploading photos and video clips, choose music, add text and captions to tell you story, finalize and share with family and friends or on social media.
Storybird
Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.
National Geographic for Kids
The highly interactive apps from NatGeo supplement leveled text with photos, audio, and video in different ezines about animals and nature topics. Children can read the text themselves or use the read-to-me function. It’s a fantastic way for children to develop reading, writing, and listening skills while learning about the fascinating world of animals.
Webjets
In Webjets, users create boards where they gather items on cards, placing these on a desktop that feels like a bulletin board.
A card can contain an image, an embedded video, a live Google Doc, an attached file, or a table containing a variety of elements organized into columns. Probably the best feature is that cards can be collected into folders, where the items are listed along the left, and the selected item appears in a larger window on the right. You can keep multiple folders on one board, and all cards can be collapsed or expanded, making it easy to neatly collect large amounts of resources all in one place.
EVERFI
From kindergarten to retirement, we know it is the progress of individuals that moves society forward. EVERFI’s engaging, effective and research-backed online education curriculum is designed to do just that. By connecting education to the real world, we’re making sure your learners are set-up for success in the 21st century. Free courses include topics within social & emotional learning, health & wellness, and STEM & career readiness.
Great Big Story
Great Big Story help us discover the world’s magic is through video: short, professionally produced videos about people and phenomena all over the world, stories that will pique your curiosity and give you the sense of wonder about the world. Videos can be browsed by themes like Human Condition, Planet Earth, and Flavors (yep, all about food), or in curated playlists.
Slides Carnival
Slides Carnival has free Powerpoint templates, Google Slides themes and Canva templates for your presentations.
Google Slides Templates
Google Slides Templates offers free Powerpoint and Google Slides templates.
Parlay
Instructional Tool. Content Creator. Parlay helps teachers inspire meaningful and inclusive discussions in their classroom.