Technology & New Media Tools A-Z

Technology and New Media Sites (for Internet Search skills-see Search Engine page)

Accessibility Help | For UDL type lessons and interactive web pages see also my Pinterest board

See Also Free Text-to-Speech tools & other useful links from udtechtoolkit

For Audio on Internet pages :

The CLiCk Speak extension is an easy to use talking browser add-on for Firefox. At the press of a button, CLiCk Speak will read the contents of a web page that you have highlighted, or it can read the contents automatically. You can choose to access CLiCk Speak through the context menu, or via the CLiCk Speak toolbar. Visit here for more information on how to download it for your computer. http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/

Also see FireVox which is a more advanced free talking browser extension for Firefox.

Accessibility Help for Different Operating systems

Accessibar Features available for downloading at: http://accessibar.mozdev.org/installation.html:

* Web page fonts and background colors can be changed from a selecton of 70 colors on current session

* Full Page Zoom interface now available (for Firefox nightly builds only).

* Icons with configurable shortcut keys to increase and decrease Font size.

* Line spacing can be increased or decreased to five different spacing settings incrementally.

* All images (including Flash) displayed on a web page can be selected as being hiden or shown.

* All changes made to web page display can be restored to original page settings by pressing “Restore Page“.

* Changes made to the currently displayed web page persist until “Restore Page“ is selected.

* Integrated Text To Speech reader. Reads out strings hovered over as well as focused elements.

* Reader settings can be configured allowing the selection of the voice, volume, speaking rate, pitch, and

* voice range.

* Toolbar functions have configurable Hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts).

Audio Tools | Vocaroo - super easy to use online recording tool - record homework, email or post to internet.

Blogs | Wordpress | Non-traditional uses for Wordpress |

Brainstorming | Bubble.us is a very cool and super easy tool to get your students brainstorming. Here's a quick lesson idea.

Let's say you want students to map out the important elements of a book, such as the characters, setting, and plot.

Navigate to Bubbl.us.
Click Start Brainstorming and a new sheet opens.
Click Start Here in the middle of the sheet and type the title of the book in the bubble.
Next, press the TAB key and a new bubble is created.
Type Characters in this bubble.
Press CTRL+ENTER to add a new bubble that is connected to the previous bubble.
Type the name of a character from the book.
If you need to connect bubble, hover your mouse over the bubble until you see a menu that includes color, size, connect and delete.
Click and drag Connect until you hover over another bubble. Release the mouse and the connection is made. In no time, you'll have a mindmap of your book.

Bubble Comment - using a webcam, this allows teachers to make comments on web pages, a useful teaching tool.

Others

Angry Birds Maze

Blockly Games is a free Google program designed to teach students about if-then logic through a visual interface. Blockly features jigsaw-shaped pieces containing commands that you snap together to create an application. The pieces can be dragged, dropped, and rearranged as many times as you’d like. Blockly offers three working challenges for students, and kids can also create their own activities.

BotLogic is an educational puzzle game that challenges kids and adults to tackle complex logic problems while teaching valuable programming concepts. Using simple commands (and eventually code), players program their bots to navigate through progressively challenging mazes. As their skills improve, players earn rewards by using the fewest number of commands and go head-to-head with friends in programming tournaments. It's smart. It's fun. BotLogic.us is all about helping children and adults to develop and maintain strong logic and spatial reasoning skills that will benefit them for a lifetime.

Codecademy

What happens when you combine the knowledge and talent of a handful of techies that want to make a change in education? Visit Codeacademy and articipate in the teaching and learning experience of the future! Codeacademy has set out to create an online social instructional experience that teaches programming to people around the world. Learn the fundamentals of various programming languages, participate in online coding language labs, and learn how to start a coding academy at your own school. Grades 6-12. Tip: At the completion of the Codeacademy course, have students build their own websites with the code they have learned.

Code Avengers Learn how to code games, apps and websites with fun and effective HTML, CSS and JavaScript tutorials for beginners.

Code Monster, by Mozilla, contains 58 short lessons, taking students from basic actions like resizing objects to complex animation. They can work through the lessons in sequence or jump to any one. Because the code that kids write is displayed next to the outcome of that code, users get instant feedback on their work

Code.org

Scratch Create stories, games, and animations. Share with others around the world

Computer History | History of Computers/Internet | Internet History Timeline | Internet 101 |

Digital Photography | Digital Camera Reviews and News | Digital Camera Tips | Digital Video Resources for Teachers

Digital Storytelling | Animasher-allows you to make animations and to animate the pictures. | Animata-you can create animations and backgrounds. | Animoto-lets you create your videos less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest. | BigUniverse-You can read a book online or you can create your own and publish it. | Bookr-you create online books using Flickr pictures. you can decide on the number of the pages and embed it or send the link to others. |BubbleJoy-allows you to place yourself inside an interactive video greeting card that you can send to others. | Bubblr-create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story! | BubbleSnaps-lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show. | DandeLife-you can keep record of the events of your past and present. You can add videos and pictures. It’s a great timeline and a online journal! | Imageloop- lets you create slide shows with different animations, skins, transitions. You can add music, create a guestbook and embed it. | Our Story - Create your story! Our Story permits users to develop and save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards. | Phrasr-you write anything you want and it finds images that match with each of your word. You can send the links to others. | Slideshare-lets you upload your powerpoint presentations and share it with others. You can add podcast to your ppts as well. You can embed it. It’s also a great site for improving yourself. There are good ppts ready for you to learn and get inspired. | Storybird- Everyone can become an author now using Storybird. The illustrations are beautiful and inspiring; use them to write a story yourself or join with friends and family to write a book about anything. A sign-in is needed to keep track of your stories. Imagination is needed to create them! | StoryTools - 50+ Ideas for Web 2.0 ways to tell a story. | Story Creator for Myths & Legends | Slide-you can create your slide shows with different skins, animations and transitions. You can also create guestbooks for your sites. It allows embedding. |Toondoo | Create your own comic books! | TopTenTools Digital Storytelling Sites | Voicethread- is the most famous digital storytelling tool. You add pictures or your videos and let others comment on it. |Voki-is a site where you can create your speaking avatar. You can record your voice, or you can use text to speech.| Writeboard-is a shareable web based text that shows you every edit and let you go back anytime. It’s a great tool for collaborative storytelling. | ZimmerTwins-the best way to create your digital cartoon and tell a story with it. I’m sure you and your students can create wonderful cartoons. | 280slides-Create your beautiful slide shows and share them with the world. | 100 more possibilities |

Dipity create a timeline or sequence a book.

Edmodo Get Started Webinar

Etherpad | Etherpad EtherPad is a web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.

Ethics | Teaching Kids about Cyberethics | Ethics in Computing

Glogster-While referred to as an "interactive poster," Glogster is, in effect, a personal Web page complete with embedded media links, sound, and video capabilities. Students can work with Glogster individually or as a group to create presentations, share information, and interact with their peers. Sign up for the "EDU" version, which prevents other users from viewing class-specific "Glogs."

Kerpoof Studio-Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation. Users can choose from a range of preset characters and environmental options, or they can create their own. The site offers drag-and-drop simplicity coupled with advanced animation and editing capabilities that open the platform up to a range of curricular applications.

iPhone Apps | 50 to get kids reading & learning |

More New Media Tools

Loose Leaves. This site does not require any signup at all so it's perfect for classroom projects. The concept is simple; add text and images to a page…done! You are given two URL's, one for viewing the page and one for editing. In the classroom, make sure your record both of these URL's for every student because if they are lost, they're lost forever.

In Focus is a very simple tool for highlighting webpages. It works great for research projects or for any time you need your students to focus on a certain part of the page. No signup is needed. Simply enter the URL of the site you want to highlight. Then, drag the highlight area. You will get a custom URL of the page with the highlight area visible and everything else greyed out. This works great when you want to show your students a web video without the distractions of suggested videos and ads.

padlet

Padlet, formerly called Wallwisher, makes posting things on the Internet as easy as pinning notes on a bulletin board. Using the idea of a blank piece of paper, you can put whatever you want on your wall by dragging and dropping documents and images from your desktop, copying and pasting links to websites or videos or just typing notes on your page. When you finish posting things to your wall you will be able to collaborate with others using a unique URL as well as through a variety of social networks. Grades 4-12. Tip: Use Padlet to brainstorm ideas for group projects or to collect and showcase student work.

Check out Stixy, the amazing online bulletin board site that works perfect in the classroom. Add all sorts of media including images, sticky notes, calendar events and even documents. Not only is Stixy great for projects, give it a try as your classroom homepage.

For your next multimedia project, try Flixtime. Students have a blast creating their very own videos. Upload images, add text, blend in music and Flixtime does the rest. The application mixes everything into an awesome video production. Skip the boring project presentation and have your students create a multimedia masterpiece

Photosharing or Presentation Tools

Animoto is an automated presentation generator that focuses on using images to communicate a message and it is easier than using PowerPoint.Two versions of the platform are currently available: a paid version for general public use and a free education version offering unlimited use for teachers and students.

Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos and more. This short movie demonstrates the use of templates in Comic Life.

edcanvas

Edcanvas is a connected space where students and adults can organize, present and share information. Gather, annotate and share presentations easily by dragging and dropping images, movies, maps, audio and text and embedding hyperlinks onto a blank canvas. Use multiple frames on each canvas to pre-teach a topic, provide 1:1 and differentiated instruction, and share pathfinders and explore connections. Use your own content or searching on the Internet, without leaving the Edcanvas page to create collaborative projects. Older elementary and secondary students can create collaborative projects by copying individual canvases to make a complete dynamic canvas. Grades 6-12. Tip: Use themed canvases to share how-to videos with students and staff.

Glogster for Education - can register 200 students, more private and secure than plain Glogster for creating web pages, also supports videos from SchoolTube.

HaikuDeck Haiku Deck started as an app and is now a website that makes presentations simple, beautiful, and fun. Users have access to over 35 million free images and six free themes. Share work online or download final work as a Power Point or PDF for offline presenting. Haiku Deck’s simple interface reinforces more “zen-like” presentations, encouraging more use of visuals than text in basic presentation templates. Grades 4-12.

ImageChef - add words to photos, etc.s to create custom made images. Skitch is a fun, easy-to-use photo editor that can be used for highlighting and making tutorial screen shots.

Instructables - upload explanations, create how-tos

Marqueed

Marqueed is an easy-to-use, collaborative, web-based platform for annotating images. Simply drag-and-drop images from the Web or add from your computer. PDF files can also be added. Type or draw annotations. Collections of annotated images can be created and shared publicly or kept privately. Best of all, multiple students can collaboratively annotate an image. Grades 3-12.Tip: Analyze a historical photograph to deepen students' thinking about a historical event or period. Upload a poem for students to discuss.

PhotoPeach

Photosnack

VoiceThread - The end of the boring slide show! VoiceThread allows users to share images, documents, and videos with added narration by the authors and others.

xtranormal - this is a text-to-moviemaker where one can make cartoons or 3D movies for free.

Other New Tools for Learning - blogs, wikis, etc.

Podcasting | Podsafe Music Network | Magnatune | Garageband | Royalty Free Music

Polls | Strutta-online contests too | Obsurvey has a wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys with different styles of questions, such as multiple choice, true or false, etc. | SurveyMonkey is one of the best online sites for creating surveys. The free version offers 10 questions per survey, up to 100 responses, and real-time results. | PollDaddy is similar to SurveyMonkey, with a nice user interface. |Vorbeo is an easy-to-use site that lets users embed a poll directly into their blog or website. |TextTheMob is a good site site to use with a large audience. Allows users to text in their responses via a mobile device. Built-in filtering soon to come, which would be ideal for schools. | insightify is agreat collaborative website for creating online surveys. | Yarp is a fun site to use for creating simple surveys or invitations that generates a unique URL. |

Productivity Tools - Stixy is a virtual post-it note website

Professional Development | Cybersmart |

Royalty-free Stuff | Many | More from Larry Ferlazzo | see bottom of this page

Screen shots | How To | Screen Capture Images & Video |

Skype-This tool not only has the potential to improve class participation and collaboration, but it can also help cut costs by providing free voice and video calling to other Skype users worldwide. Some uses of the platform include multi-class and cross-district collaboration, professional development, and virtual field trips.

Smart Boards | Great SMARTboard Sites | SMART Home | PBS Games

Social Bookmarking

Diigo - a very easy to use site that allows users to bookmark a site, define the site and then categorically organize your sites. The web interface allows you to tag all of your websites you save and access them easily by each tag. You can also create groups and add friends to share in all of your bookmarks. When you add a colleague you both will be able to share and exchange bookmarks. Highlight portions of web pages, create sticky notes, and even have access to your notes from your cell phone with this tool.

Delicious - Use this great bookmarking tool for research that you will be able to access again later or even share with others.

YoLink - yolink gives you a sneak peek into links so you can decide which ones provide the best match, saving you time and effort. And with our save and share feature you can save your links and share them with colleagues and friends for future use. Must download.

Zootool - your personal organizer, making it easy to collect and share your favourite images, videos, documents and links from all over the web. Watch the screencast and start your own zoo!

Software | SuperKids Educational Software Review | Atomic Learning Software Tutorials

xTimeline is an easy-to-use Web-based timeline creator that allows the user to include images and video; in addition, one can enter an RSS feed to automatically create a timeline.

Typing-see Keyboarding above

Video | TeacherTube - What could be better? You Tube – just for teachers and students! Teacher Tube offers videos solely for the field of education. Videos are created by teachers and students to be shared with other teachers and students.

Visual Presentations | A Periodic Table of Methods |

Voicethread-Voicethread is an audiovisual tool that gives users the ability to upload images or video files and then add audio or text comments. | Voicethread Video |

Voki - a text to speech generator that, according to Lovely, has a lot of very interesting applications. "This is more than just something cute that can be embedded in a Web site," she said, referring to the animated figure being projected on the screen. "What if the Voki was reading a list of spelling words? What if it was speaking another language? What if I had a Web site that had a Voki embedded to tell my kids what was going on so that the one's that couldn't read could hear it? What if kids used Voki to say something important?"

Web 2.0 Tools | Cool Tools for Schools | 20 that don't require student passwords | Web 2.0 Guru - many resources, also see the bottom of this page

Webquests - see Teacher Page

Website Evaluating | Credible Sources | Web page/ Multimedia Project Rubric | The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly | Evaluating Web Pages

Widgets | 3 Free ones | accepts a variety of input for generating clouds, including RSS feeds, tables, and of course regular text files.

Wikis | TeacherTube video explaining |

Woopid Technology Training Videos

WorditOut -

Word Clouds | 108 Ways to use Word Clouds in the Classroom | Tagxedo is a Wordle-esque site that allows students to create beautiful word clouds. The great thing about Tagxedo is where Wordle falls short is the ability for users to save their creations (without logging in) as either a jpeg or png.| Wordle - Do you like to play with words or create visual poems? A "Wordle" enables you to create a word "cloud," visually depicting the relationship between words based on their frequency of use. You can tweak your word "clouds" with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Tip: Teach students to create a Wordle to express their reading interests or their favorite book. Word It Out

Wordsift - WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language. WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we integrate it here with a few other functions, such as visualization of word relationships and Google searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. For teachers, the tool offers a quick way of assessing the text that he or she is using for instruction. Teachers assess students, and the most successful teachers use this information to guide their teaching. So why not assess the text as well? By using WordSift, teachers get a heads up on key vocabulary appearing in the text, and can line instruction up with what might be challenging for students.

Here are 20 Web 2.0 sites that do not require a student email address to create an account. This list is in alphabetical order.

19 Pencils - An excellent site for finding educational resources, creating online quizzes, and bookmarking sites for students. Teachers create student accounts for access.
Aviary Education - Great suite of tools such as image and audio editors, where a teacher creates student accounts and class ID for logging in.
BeeClip - A wonderful site for creating digital scrapbooks; teachers create student accounts.
Diigo Educator - Nice site for social bookmarking and annotating sites; teachers create or imports student accounts.
Flocabulary - A neat site where students learn through educational hip-hop videos. Teachers create one unique username and password for the class.
GlogsterEDU - An innovative site for creating interactive digital posters; teachers create student accounts.
GoAnimatae for Schools - A great site for making animated videos; teachers create student accounts.
Little Bird Tales - A wonderful site for digital storytelling where teachers create student accounts or imports them.
MentorMob University - An innovative site for creating learning playlists ideal for guided learning. Teachers create students accounts.
MusicShake Edu - A great way for students to create digital music online. A teacher can create or import student accounts.
PhotoPeach Class Premium - A nice site for creating digital slideshows/presentations; teachers create student accounts.
Pixton for Schools - A terrific site for creating online comics for digital storytelling; teachers create a class code for logging in.
SideVibe - A wonderful site for turning web content into online lessons; teachers create student accounts.
SpellingCity - A great site for teaching/learning Vocabulary & Spelling; teachers can create or import student accounts with a premium membership.
Storybird - A nice site for digital storytelling where a parent can create a student account.
StoryJumper - A fantastic site for digital storytelling; teachers create a class and student accounts.
ToonDooSpaces - Nice site for creating online comics for digital storytelling; teachers create student accounts.
VoiceThread - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites for interactive digital storytelling; teachers create student accounts.
Yacapaca - A nice site for teachers for creating online quizzes and lessons where they create an activation code for logging in.
Zimmer Twins - A cool site for creating animated movies for digital storytelling; teachers create student accounts.

Bonus site: The newly-released BoomWriter is an innovative creative writing website site for 3rd through 8th graders that does not require a student email for registration.

Published in Free eLearning Resources Thursday, 09 August 2012 14:30

Are you looking for free e-learning images, photos, cliparts or illustrations? In this post I will present you The Ultimate list of Free Stock Photos Sites for eLearning.

If you know another Free Stock Photos Sites that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you leave a comment with a link!

PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository forfree public domain photos. You can download high quality photos, upload your own pictures, earn money to charity, get exposure and gain popularity and improve your photographic and graphic skills.
FreeImages is not just another clipart graphic site!.... more than 6000 originalstock photos all for FREE! Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in their collection are free to use on websites and printed materials.
FreeFoto.com is made up of 132232 images with 182 sections organized into 3630 categories.
Free stock photos, easy to download, easy to browse. Use them for commercial or personal design projects of any kind! Some are even public domain, so you can use those for whatever you want. Whether you're looking for free stock designs for your project, free stock photography for your next big design or something in-between, freestockfor.us is your resource for quick downloads!
FreePixels offers free high resolution stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects.
Nearly 100% of their Royalty Free Stock Photos are Free Download. Every image is absolutely free, with some more options to buy individual higher resolutions. They can be used either for private or commercial purposes. In exchange, we only ask you to use the images according to our Licensing.
The SXC (stock.xhng) is a website providing free-to use stock photography and illustrations. The stock.xhng operates as a hybrid of a picture library site and a social networking site; registered users may set up a personal profile, upload their photographic works to share with other users, write a blog and participate in online forums to discuss and critique each others' work.
The 4 Free Photos is an online community of photographers who enjoy taking pictures and decided to share them with the public to use them for free in their private or commercial projects. They hope you will find the collection of free and public domain images useful.
Morgue File is an easy to use free photo site. Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!
From Free Digital Photos you can download royalty free photos and illustrations for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, iPhone applications, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work.
Turbo Photo offers Free stock images from 10 categories (3.4 GB). Stock images are in the public domain.
If you are a designer you can download high resolution RF stock images for free fromDreams Time. If you are a photographer you have the opportunity to achieve a great portfolio exposure by offering free images.
Image * After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.
In Public Domain Photos you can access 5,000 free photos, 8,000 free cliparts. All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial.
The photos in the Flickr Free Use Photos Group are available for use by anyone. There is no need to give credit or to fear rights infringement. These images are posted by their creators. By posting to this group, you're allowing freedom of use.
Free photos and clip art from Microsoft Office Online
Every Stock Photo is a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

You may also find the following lists of tools useful:

21 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers and Students
List of 13 Free Sticky Notes Tools for Teachers and Students
14 Best Online Bibliography and Citation Tools
28 Free Social Bookmarking Tools for educators
15 Free Web Conferencing Tools
List of 15 Free Google Tools for eLearning Professionals
23 Microsoft Free Teaching Tools for Educators
List of 18 Free Tools to Create Infographics for your Learners
15 Social Learning Tools Every Online Educator Should Know About
List of 17 Free Screen Capturing Tools
15 Free Podcast Tools
Ultimate List of 34 Free Music for eLearning Development
27 Free Survey Polls Quizzes Tools for eLearning
List of 32 Free Photo and Image Editing Tools
15 Free Testing and Quizzing Tools for Online Education
List of 72 Free Storyboard Templates for eLearning
19 Free Text To Speech tools for Educators
- 1001fonts.com - free downloads to make your projects pop a little more
- 4shared.com - free 5 GB online storage and file sharing
- Adobe Spark - a suite of tools to create presentations, posters, videos, and websites
- Awwapp.com - online interactive whiteboard
- Bighugelabs.com - do cool stuff it hour digital photos from posters to magazine covers and more
- Bingobaker.com - create and generate hundreds of random cards in PDF
- Blockposters.com- take your personal images and create a huge poster through segmentation
- Cacoo.com - timeline creator
- Canva.com - make beautiful posters, social media graphics and presentations
- Cell.ly - send text messages to students, parents and others without sharing your private number
- Citationmachine.net - help with citations including APA and MLA
- Classbadges.com - award virtual badges to students for their accomplishments
- Classtools.net - free games, quizzes and activities for classrooms K-12
- Code.org - create classes and teach students to code the easy way
- Commoncraft.com - explainer videos for teaching and a library of cutouts
- Commoncurriculum.com- online lesson planning where yu can attach files, re-arrange lessons, collaborate with other teachers
- Coursera.org - online courses from top universities
- Coverr.co- public domain stock videos. Seven new videos a week
- Croak.it - record voice messages in three simple steps
- Dipity.com - create, share, embed, collaborate on interactive timelines incorporating video, audio, image, text, link, social media and more
- Duolingo.com - language learning app
- Easel.ly- create infographics from templates or on your own
- Easybib.com -help with citations including APA and MLA
- Easypolls.net - create online polls for free. Save them hen you create an account
- Edweb.net - professional online networking via webinars for educators
- Edutopia.com - online community dedicated to bringing quality resources to the K12 community of educators
- Emaze.com - online presentation creator unlike standard presentation. Create attractive presentations with provided templates
- Todoist.com - manage task/projects on and offline. Share tasks in a collaborative environment. Works with many different platforms
- Everystockphoto.com- Creative Commons photos
- Evernote.com-save, share and work on documents across devices
- Flippity.net - use Google spreadsheets to create flash cards
- Fotor.com - create collages or seamlessly photo stitch images into one picture
- Geogebra.org - dynamic math software for geometry, algebra, calculus, and statistics Getkahoot.com - create interactive games, polls, surveys
- Pocket.com- save anything you want to see online for later. Includes social media apps so you can save from Twitter and other social media sites
- Goo.gl - shortens URLs that can be tracked for statistics
- Gosoapbox.com - student response system with integrated tools to check for understanding, play quizzes, and generate reports
- Grammarbase.com- free grammar checker
- Gutenberg.org - Project Gutenberg offers free e-books and audiobooks on works that are copyright free, most of which are classics
- Hstry.co - interactive timeline includes quizzes, did you know sections. Add images and videos. Allows students to interject via comments
- Imagechef.com - use photos and texts to create a myriad of different products Imgflip.com/meme generator - use images, add text, create memes
- Instapaper.com - save websites for future browsing. Perfect for research
- Join.me - screen sharing with anyone on the web
- Khanacademy.org -academic videos to learn almost anything
- Kizoa.com - create videos with a multitude of options and no time limit
- Knowledgehook.com- online game show that targets mathematics for all grade levels
- Kwiksurveys.com - create unlimited surveys and polls
- Libib.com -cloud based cataloging for beyond the library (think classroom libraries)
- List.ly - curate and share lists as well as allow others to add to them
- Makerbook.net - creative graphics
- Marinaratimer.com - three different types of timers to help with classrooms, presentations et al. Features pomodoro, custom and kitchen timers
- Meez.com - avatar creator
- Mentormob.com - online community creating and providing lessons for skills and hobbies
- Mindmeister.com - online software with great visualization
- Mindomo.com - mind map creator that can be used as a presentation tool as well
- Moovly.com - interesting and different approach to presentations based on cartoon images and hand actions
- Morguefile.com- free digital photos for projects that doesn't require citations
- Online-convert.com - convert most any type of file, videos, documents etc, into different formats
- Openbadges.me - create badges for websites and blogs
- Pablobuffer.com- use an image provided or your own, add amazing text, share with the world
- Panopen.com -open educational resources which include quizzes, videos, PowerPoint slides
- Photosforclass.com- Creative Commons images with attribution
- Photopeach.com- video creator with a twist-literally!
- Photopin.com- Creative Commons images with easy to find attribution
- Piktochart.com - create infographics that can be shared. Has a presentation mode and are downloadable
- Pixteller.com - create online posters
- Popplet.com- create a board to collaborate with others anywhere anytime
- Presentation tube.com - record and share quality presentations with free recording and video sharing platform
- Purple-planet.com - Creative Commons music for digital projects
- Quizzizz.com - create and play multiplayer games
- Quozio.com - create beautiful quotes
- Readwritethink.org - classroom resources for K12 classrooms created by NCTE
- Remind.com - send text reminders of class work to students and parents without sending your cell phone number. Create chats or send to individuals as well
- Ribbet.com - online image editor
- Scoop.it - web curation tool to share information
- Screencastomatic.com- captures your screen to create and share videos/tutorials
- Showbie.com- teacher creates account which allows students to upload their work
- Slidedog.com - multimedia tool that allows the user to bring in different types of media from documents to videos and more into one presentation
- Slides carnival.com - free templates for Google Slides
- Smore.com - create informational posters for organizations, schools, newsletters and more
- Snapguide.com - discover and create how-to guides
- Spiral.ac - suite of tools to make learning g more engaging. Includes student response quizzes (quickfire) , interactive presentations (discuss), and group work/collaboration (team up)
- Stich.it - copy and paste web sites into the box, this site will “stitch” or curate them into one web address
- Studyblue.com - crowd sourced site with academic flash cards and notes
- Sway.com- create and share interactive presentations, personal stories, reports and more
- Tackk.com - create pages for anything from online posters to presentations to specific pages you build by inputting information and links
- Teachwithmovies.org movie clips with lesson plans
- Thenounproject.com - downloadable icons of all types
- Timetoast.com- interactive timelines to create and share
- Tripline.net - interactive maps you create with images, dates, and descriptions
- Twiddla.com - web based, no sign in needed to collaborate online
- Tynker.com- programs games, Mindcraft Mods and more
- Visibletweets.com - display tweets during a conference or meeting via unique hashtag to see what others are sharing
- Voxer.com- text messages with voice, photos and videos to share with groups
- Videonot.es - synchronize videos with your notesto share. Click on the note to jump to that particular part of the video. Syncs with Google Drive
- Visme.co - only site that create infographics, presentations, reports, and web content
- Wevideo.com - create quick videos with the free version
- Whatshouldireadnext.com - type in a title and it will generate a list of similar titles and subjects Wordpress.com - create a blog with a website look
- Zaption.com - turn online videos into interactive learning experience you customize
- Ziteboard.com - collaborate, brainstorm, create and plan with a whiteboard