Educator Tools:
Explain Everything: 3 free; A Digital Workspace for Interactive Learning
Grammarly: Free; Compose clear, mistake-free writing that makes the right impression
Mural: not free; Real-time collaboration from across the table and around the globe.
Nearpod: student engagement platform with ready-to-run interactive lessons for K-12 teachers
Trello: not free; for easier coursework planning, faculty collaboration, and classroom organization
Whereby: not free; Enjoy the freedom to live and work where you thrive with easy video meetings
Wordsift: Toolsuite for visualizing and exploring passages of text
Resource Websites:
Curation Process:
Diigo: Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community.
Facebook: Create an account or log into Facebook. Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates.
Instagram: Create an account or log in to Instagram - A simple, fun & creative way to capture, edit & share photos, videos & messages with friends & family.
Pinterest: Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try.
SeaSaw: Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication.
TeachersPayTeachers: World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
Twitter: From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
Content-Creation Web Tools
AdobeSpark: Create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories – in minutes
Animoto: cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows
Book Creator: simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks.
Canva: FREE unlimited (better than piktochart); Easily create beautiful designs + documents.
Padlet: 3 free; From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show
Piktochart: 10 free; web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates.
Popplet: 10 free; Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually
Powtoon: Web-based animation software that allows you to create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs.
Prezi: presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
Screencast-o-matic: free online screen capture tool. This tool records a designated area of your screen as well as audio and webcam input.
SoundTrap: Music making, audio editing, loops, autotune, beat maker, all you need to create music free. It's online and collaborative
ThingLink: Seamlessly make your images, videos, and 360 content interactive with text, links, images, videos and over 70 call to actions, creating memorable experiences ...
VoiceThread: collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
WeVideo: online video creation and editing platform.
WriteAbout: Engaged students write more! Write About is a classroom writing community and publishing platform built by teachers.
Challenging Problem or Question: Parlay Ideas, Advanced Google Search
Sustained Inquiry: Insert Learning and Webjets
Authenticity: SketchUp/AutoCAD and Nepris
Student Voice & Choice: Flipgrid, Padlet, Voicethread, Glogster, ThingLink, and backchannels such as YoTeach.
Reflection/Critique & Revision: SeeSaw, Write About, and Kaizena.
Philpot education - English material
Socrative - Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.
Showme - ShowMe is the easiest way to create & share lessons on your iPad, Android tablet or Chromebook.
http://dplukas.weebly.com/creative-literature-project-ideas.html
Cool Tools for Schools - Resource
UDL Tech Tool- Kit - Resources
Content-Creation Tools
Piktochart - only 10 free
Canva - unlimited amount; far superior to piktochart
Padlet - virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online whiteboard where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, together with anyone, from any device. You do not need to download an app to use Padlet but it is specifically designed with a mobile friendly user interface.
Popplet - Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual organization
FlipGrid - allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Prezi -
Grammarly - Compose bold, clear, mistake-free writing with Grammarly’s AI-powered writing assistant.
Hemingway - highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors
Readability - Readable will quickly test the readability, spelling and grammar of your text and show you how and where to make improvements.
TOOL/ RESOURCE TYPETOOL/RESOURCEDESCRIPTION
Multimedia Libraries
A collection of over 3000 videos that K-12 math, biology, chemistry, physics and some of the social science. Each video is about 10 minutes long and many include interactive components to check understanding.
A collection or free learning materials in multiple formats organized by traditional curriculum standards.
A free, subscription-based service that contains quality multimedia on all subjects for all grade levels. Once subscribed you can tag and annotate your favorite resources for future reference.
Teaching with Primary Sources: Inquiry Kits
Explore this collection of inquiry kits that allows students to select a research topic of interest and evaluate themed primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Teaching with Primary Sources: Research Modules
Learn the research process through these four self-paced student modules. Follow step-by step as you define and analyze sources, write an argument and ultimately create a research project.
A paid, subscription-based service that contains video, interactive lessons, real-time assessment and other virtual experiences for students and teacher professional development. (Many schools have subscriptions, check to see if your school does).
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
Over 5000 free educational audio and video titles including famous speeches and lectures around the world.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT’s subjects available on the Web, free of charge
Gooru allows you to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games, and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community. You can save and customize your resources with an account and share your content with others in the community.
Applets and Interactives
BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. There is a limited collection of free material and a wealth of material with a subscription.
National Library ofVirtual Manipulatives
A library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).
Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics.
Free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.
Digital/ Interactive Texts
A collection of free electronic books, many with accompanying audio.
A collection of free audio books, featuring human narration, from the public domain.
Useful Websites
Remind (www.remind.com) is a free, quick, and easy way to stay in touch with regard to assignments, due dates, homework, special events, etc. You can use it to quickly send simple messages, or even to send documents and photos.
Tool Name
Use
Description
Evaluates the accessibility of any web content
With a WebAIM product called WAVE, you can test the accessibility of any website that you wish to include in your course to make sure all of your students will be able to access it.
Deliver information in multiple mediums
You can register for a free account to VoiceThread here and access a free iPad app as well.
Help with organization,
staying on task, and meeting goals
This site allows you to create visual, linear checklists for student projects as a simple alternative to rubrics.
Response
This free video response tool, recently acquired by Microsoft, allows students to respond to questions through video. Students who may not be comfortable participating in whole-group activities may be more inclined to participate via pre-recorded video. Students can also leave video comments for classmates and engage in deeper discussion
Multiple uses
Bubbl.us is a free online graphic organizer tool that you can use to help scaffold information or that your students can use to help them brainstorm.
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
Various collection of materials and resources offered by the Library of Congress. Listing of several recent materials and downloads of braille and audio books
The Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) is a web-based service that provides access to thousands of braille and talking books, magazines, and music scores available from NLS. BARD is available to registered users of the braille and talking book program through their local braille and talking book library.
Braille and talking books and magazines may be also downloaded through the BARD Mobile app, which requires connection to a refreshable braille display via a Bluetooth connection. The BARD website and mobile app are password-protected, and all files are in an electronically downloadable form of compressed audio or formatted braille. BARD is available to registered users of NLS through their local braille and talking book library.
Audio books for visually impaired or aural learners
This a collection of audio books in the public domain, narrated by human voices.
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
Visual Dictionary
This visual dictionary can help students who are allowed to use a dictionary in class and during assessments (and is great for English Language Learners as well).
ZacBrowser (under construction)
For students on the autism spectrum
A browser made especially for students on the autism spectrum. Please note this site is under construction, but hopeful it will be updated soon.
Immersive Reader
Free Tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability
PRODUCT - TOOL - DESCRIPTION
Multimedia Interactive Poster
Express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video and text on one digital canvas.
Presentation
Organize, present, and share your ideas in a fun visual way.
Personalized Video Lessons
Take any video you find on the web and turn it into an interactive lesson.
Personalized Video Lessons
A free tool to embed rich, dynamic questions with explanations inside video. Browse their library for some examples.
Mobile friendly, screencasting
Record your voice and iPad screen to create dynamic video lessons that students and colleagues can access any time.
Screencast
Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly.
Video
Create presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text.
Comic Tools
Create comics, picture albums, how-tos, and more.
Books
Create, share, publish, and read digital books.
Digital Storytelling
Makes mixing video and images together for digital storytelling projects easy. Explore some We Video examples.
Digital Storytelling
Create visual stories using curated artwork from illustrators and animators. Explore Storybird
Animation
Provides animation tools to make it easy to create your own professional-looking, animated explainer videos and animated presentations. For examples, explore the education blog.
Concept Maps
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 your own desktop to use as you wish.
Moovly
https://www.moovly.com/
Animasyonlu slaytlar hazırlamanızı sağlayan bir araçtır.
Thinglink
https://www.thinglink.com/
Varolan posterlerinizi dijital hale çevirin. Posterlerin üzerine imlemeler yaparak dersin anlaşılmasını daha kolay hale getirin.
Canva
https://www.canva.com/
Büyük boyutlarda poster tasarımları yaratmak için harika bir araç. Dışa aktarma özellikleri paralı olduğu unutulmamalıdır.
Tellagami
https://tellagami.com/
Dersiniz için videolarınızı hazırlayın. Karakter konuşturma özelliği ile oldukça baskın durumda. 30 sn ile limitlidir.
Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org/
Astronomi alanında uzay gözlemlerinizi bilimsel bir şekilde gerçekleştirebileceğiniz profesyonel bir araç.
GeoGebra
https://www.geogebra.org/?lang=tr
Geometri ve matematik alanında TI hesap makinesi kıvamında işlemlerinizi gerçekleştirebilirsiniz. Fonksiyonları oldukça yoğun kullanılmakta.
Desmos
https://www.desmos.com/
Matematiksel fonksiyonları kullanarak kendi sanatınızı icra edin.
Google for Education
https://edu.google.com/
Google'ın tüm araçlarını eğitim amaçlı kullanın. Entegre özellikleri ile vazgeçilmez araçlardan biri konumunda.
Mathematica
https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/
Matematiksel fonksiyonları kullanarak hızlı bir şekilde sonuç elde edin.
Skype Translator
https://www.skype.com/tr/features/skype-translator/
Skype üzerinde yaptığınız görüşmeleri dil problemini ortadan kaldırın. Anlık olarak çeviri işlemini gerçekleştirir.
Skype Classroom
https://education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom/overview
Sınıfınızı Skype ile başka sınıflara bağlayın.
Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/
Dersinizi uçtan uca ders materyalleri ile dijital olarak planlayın.
Duolingo
https://tr.duolingo.com/
İngilizce öğretimi için son derece ideal bir öğretim yolu sunan aracımızdır
iMotion (Stop Motion)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imotion/id421365625?mt=8
Dersiniz için stop motion tekniğiyle jenerik videolar hazırlayın.
Kahoot
https://getkahoot.com/
Sınıf ortamında ölçme ve değerlendirmeyi eğlenceli hale getirin.
Classdojo
https://www.classdojo.com/
Classdojo ile sınıfınızdaki öğrenci davranışlarını oyunlaştırılmış yol ile eğlenceli halde değerlendirin.
Plickers
https://www.plickers.com/
Sınıf içerisinde öğrencilerden hızlı cevap alabilmeye yönelik çalışmalar yürütün.
Mind Meister
https://www.mindmeister.com/?r=324656
Dersiniz için zihin haritası oluşturmak isterseniz Mind Meister kullanabilirsiniz.
Powtoon
https://www.powtoon.com/
Powtoon ile birbirinden etkinli çizgi animasyonlar hazırlayabilirsiniz.
Socrative
https://www.socrative.com/
Socrative ile dersinizde eğlenceli bir şekilde ölçme değerlendirme çalışmalarınızı yürütün.
Wolfram Alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Wolfram Alpha, matematik ve diğer her türlü bilimsel süreçlere dair sorularınıza cevap veren arama motorudur.
Phet Colorado
https://phet.colorado.edu/tr/
Fen ve Teknoloji alanında ders veren öğretmenlerimiz için harika simulasyonlar sunan bir üniversite çalışmaları bütünüdür.
Algodoo
http://www.algodoo.com/
Algodoo ile fizik alanında yapacağınız çeşitli deneyleri eğlenceli yoldan simule edin.
Piktochart
https://piktochart.com/
Büyük boyutlarda poster tasarımları yaratmak için harika bir araç. Dışa aktarma özellikleri paralı olduğu unutulmamalıdır.
Wordcloud
http://www.wordclouds.com/
Wordclouds ile bir paragraf içerisinde en çok tekrar eden kelimeleri görselleştirmenize yarayan faydalı bir araçtır.
Toondoo
http://www.toondoo.com/
Toondoo ile dersiniz için etkili karikatür ders materyalleri hazırlayın.
Tagul
https://wordart.com/
Wordclouds ile bir paragraf içerisinde en çok tekrar eden kelimeleri görselleştirmenize yarayan faydalı bir araçtır.
Weebly
https://www.weebly.com/?lang=tr
Weebly ile dersiniz için kişiselleştirilmiş ve duyurularınızı yayınlayabildiğiniz mikro web sitelerinizi oluşturun.
Edmodo
https://www.edmodo.com/?language=tr
Edmodo ile dersinizi planlayın, duyurularınızı yayınlayın, sınavlarınızı gerçekleştirin. Sosyal medya ile LMS karışımı bir hizmet sunmaktadır.
Chatzy
https://www.chatzy.com/
Chatzy ile kendi sohbet kanalınızı oluşturabilir, sohbet kanalından sınıfınız içerisinde görüşebilirsiniz.
Todaysmeet
https://todaysmeet.com/
Todaysmeet ile topluluk grupları oluşturun.
Pool Everywhere
https://www.polleverywhere.com/
Bir sınıf veya topluluktan geribildirim almak için bu aracı kullanabilirsiniz. Daha çok topluluk için idealdir.
Animoto
https://animoto.com/
Elinizdeki fotoğraflarla slayt şeklinde video hazırlamanıza yarayan bir araç. Yakın zamanda ücretli olması ihtimal.
Padlet
https://padlet.com/my/dashboard
Padlet ile renkli ve poster çıktısı alabildiğiniz zihin haritaları oluşturabilirsiniz.
Popplet
http://popplet.com/
Popplet ile renkli ve poster çıktısı alabildiğiniz zihin haritaları oluşturabilirsiniz.
Schoology
https://www.schoology.com/
Yeni nesil bir LMS olan Schoology ile derslerinizi etkili bir şekilde uygulayın.
Goanimate
https://goanimate.com/
GoAnimate ile birbirinden eğlenceli çizgifilmler hazırlayabilir, dersinize entegre edebilirsiniz. Hazırlayacağınız video 5 dakika ile sınırlıdır.
Öğrencilerimizle paylaşmak istediğiniz çalışmaya yönelik eğitim aracını bağlantıdaki listede bulabilirsiniz: http://bit.ly/3cXBHNI
Bu araçlardan daha işe yarar olanlardan bazılarının kullanım kılavuzlarına aşağıdaki bağlantılardan ulaşabilirsiniz.
Educreations ile Derslerinizi Paylaşın: http://bit.ly/3aSeHhA
Blendspace ile 5dk İçinde Dersinizi Hazırlayın: http://bit.ly/33pwvhD
Tellagami ile Dijital Hikayenizi Oluşturun: http://bit.ly/2IH65OD
Socrative ile Online Sınav Oluşturun: http://bit.ly/3cR1XcV
Padlet ile Kendi Tahtanızı Oluşturun: http://bit.ly/39N6MSh
FlipQuiz ile Online Quizler Oluşturun: http://bit.ly/2w2BkB2
Edpuzzle ile Video Quizler Oluşturun: http://bit.ly/3cWV0qr
Moovly ile Animasyonlar Tasarlayın: http://bit.ly/39N8S4R
Flubaroo ile Google Formlarınızı Değerlendirin: http://bit.ly/2W7s3Co
Daha kapsamlı ders tasarımları yapmak isterseniz de The Understanding by Design şablonunu kullanabilirsiniz: http://bit.ly/2Blyq9b