Teacher+Resources

**Teacher Resources** These resources can be used for projects in the classroom media type="custom" key="9418064" media type="custom" key="6476833" media type="custom" key="6482033" media type="custom" key="6530133"



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 * __50 Digital Story Tools__**
 * __Math Tools__**

__**Resources for Teachers**__ > [|freetech4teachers]
 * [|Wordle]
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 * Cool Tools for School
 * [|Classroom2.0] For teachers who want to join a world-wide professional learning community
 * [|Raid my files] ! (Kevin Honeycutt's site with lots of different classroom tools)
 * [|Web2.0 Key Ring In Excel] (To help unlock educational resources and to keep key-learning in the palm of your hand
 * Ed heads Educational games including virtual surgery.
 * StudyStack Create study tools including flash cards and games.
 * Discover Education Clipart Clipart from Discovery Education.
 * [|Google Earth] Any teacher who is teaching geography, measurement, math, history and more (download)
 * HotShot Business Business game.
 * Mystudiyo Create online quizzes to insert in a blog or website

__**Art/Drawing**__
 * [|ArtSnacks] For any teacher who wants to let kids draw while learning aligned curriculum concepts in science, writing and more.
 * [|Cooltext.com] Free "Graphics Generator" to make logos and website buttons; fun fonts you can download.
 * [|Download Comic Life] (download) Any teacher who is teaching writing concepts and wants to add a creative twist
 * [|digimi:] Create avatars.
 * [|gliffy] You can create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.
 * [|goanimate] You can create your own animated content for free. All you need is an account!
 * kerpoof create original artwork, animated movies, and stories (take the time to review how to use, some students had a problem with movies not saving)
 * sumopaint Online image editor
 * Tuxpaint Drawing program
 * [|TheHeroFactory] Design superheroes for stories
 * [|//http://picfont.com///]//- create text on pictures//

__**Audio/Sound/Music tools**__
 * [|audacity] ([|tutorial]) A tool for creating audio files that can be for local consumption or become podcasts
 * [|Gabcast] A podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content.
 * imeeb Online music player
 * [|Impro-Visor] Free music accompaniment software to improve improvising skills
 * [|itunes] (download) Podcasts: (Any teacher who could use additional aligned curriculum resources in audio or video for their kids.)
 * [|Musescore] Free music notation software
 * Pandora With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go.
 * [|Audioboo]

__**Calendaring**__
 * [] Helps a group of people schedule a meeting time when everyone can attend
 * TimeToast Create timelines.
 * googletimeline


 * __Converting Tools__**
 * mediacoder Convert media to other formats.
 * [|any-video-converter]: Convert video into any format.
 * [|any-audio-converter:] Convert audio into any format.
 * mediaconverter Audio/Video Converter.
 * [|zamzar] (Free online file conversion, turn that Youtube video into a video you can add to a powerpoint)
 * [|Real Player] - free video downloader that also allows you to convert it to different file types; great for Flash video conversions!.

__**//Math Resources and tools//**__
 * DimensionM Online video games to learn math.
 * [|Google Sketchup] Any teacher who wants to give kids a hands on experience while learning measurement, geometry concepts and creative design (download)
 * [|Math Lesson Creator] Any teacher looking for a tool to create new math lessons
 * [|Math Snacks] Any teacher who wants to let kids review key math concepts in a non-threatening way
 * Minyanland Game to help kids learn about money

__**//Science/Geography//**__
 * [|Celestia] (free download) For any teacher who is teaching space science or the solar system and wants to engage kids
 * Stop Disasters Disaster simulation game

__**Writing and History resources and tools**__
 * [|ePals] (For teachers who want to encourage reading and writing while connecting their kids to kids around the world)
 * [|Intel Teach to the Future tools] (Ranking items and provide reasoning to why, investigate relationships by comparing/contrasting, develop well reasoned arguments.)
 * noodletools The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.
 * bibme.org
 * [|protopage.com] free news reader and start page- really easy!
 * [|Story Chasers] (A multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists.
 * [|Story Creator] Any teacher who is looking for a creative way to inspire reluctant writers to create narratives
 * [|Visuwords] (online graphical dictionary)
 * [|Newsmap.jp] Presents "treemaps" in realtime of most popular news headlines using an algorithm. Can view treemaps by country.

__**E-mail sites**__
 * Gaggle Free filtered email for students and teachers
 * GMail- Free email from Google
 * Yahoo- Free email from Yahoo

__**Photos**__
 * [|Bighugelabs] (cool tools for digital photos)
 * Flickr Photo sharing.
 * [|Image Mosaic Generator] (Recreate cool versions of pictures as mosaics)
 * Mixbook Create photo books online.
 * [|Paint.net] - free photo editing software
 * Photobucket Free photo sharing.
 * [|Photopeach] - Create photo slideshows with captions for digital storytelling.
 * Photostory 3
 * [|piclits.com]
 * [|picnik.com] This is a great photo editing site and easy for kids to use.
 * Pics4Learning Free clipart and photographs for education.
 * [] (Photo effects)
 * Splashup: []
 * One True Media: []
 * Animoto: []

__**Surveys/Polls**__
 * PollDaddy Create polls for your class.
 * PollEverywhere Create polls for your class. May contribute via cell phone text or website.
 * [|surveymonkey]
 * Google Docs Forms - create surveys, quizzes, etc for the classroom or your school. Here is a video on how: []

__**Video**__
 * [|animoto] ([|tutorial]) For any teacher who wants to create of let kids create a quick video presentation. (Education account [])
 * any-video converter Convert videos for free.
 * [|camstudio] Free streaming video software
 * [|Joost] Like cable TV with some good nature and science content (teacher should preselect shows to share)Hulu (Movies and video resources, should be previewed by teachers as there are mainstream titles and themes here)
 * [|Kick Youtube] (Teachers can convert Youtube videos into videos you can use)
 * [|MovieClips] - delivers more than 12,000 Hollywood movie clips
 * Teachertube Educational videos
 * [|Telavision] Create a Video-Vision using photos, music, effects and transitions. Share on the web.
 * Viddler Video sharing.
 * [|Livestream] (free video broadcasting with embeddable player and ability to use multiple camera feeds. Does provide optional application to download and stream from.
 * Youtube Video sharing.
 * [|WizIQ.com] Teach live and online with free, easy-to-use virtual classroom
 * [|U Stream] Live streaming video. Great for virtual lectures!
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 * [|www.mediaconverter.org]
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__**Screen Capture**__
 * screencast-o-matic Screen capture that is web based. Can record longer than 30 minutes.
 * [|Jing] Still and moving screen capture. Instant e-mail, web and IM share.
 * [|Screenr] Create instant screencasts. Uses twitter login
 * [|Screen Castle]

__**Presentation**__
 * Prezi Zooming presentations. Blocked for students?
 * [|Glogsterforeducation] - Online collage maker suitable for any subject. Art tools, graphics, pictures, video and audio can be inserted. Innovative, collaborative, sharing-ability. Log in to use. Also premium membership available.
 * [|vuvox] Allows you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from many sites
 * [|Alice] Computer programming in a 3D environment
 * [|bubbl.us] Free and simple web application that lets you brainstorm online
 * [|classtools.net] Free, customizable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites.
 * etherpad.com free page for group editing simultaneously
 * [|Go2Web20] Web application index, you can watch for new tools here
 * NVU Web design software. Free.
 * Open Options Open Source and web base resources for teachers
 * Webnotes Annotate the web.
 * [|Weebly] Create a free website & blog with an easy drag and drop interface
 * [|Zoho Notebook] You can create content of type text, image, audio, video and embed content of any type from multiple applications.
 * [|Tiny URL] Can copy and paste your long, assigned URL from a blog, wiki, or website and get a tiny, easy-to-type one instead. Blocked for students, but staff can override filter.
 * [|Voki] allows you to create a personalized speaking avatars
 * [|Wordle] 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.
 * Annotate Online document review.
 * [|authorGen]
 * authorstream Share slides and presentations.
 * [|drop.io] Use drop.io to privately share and collaborate in real time be web, email, phone, mobile and more.
 * [|elluminate] Learn Central offers a FREE vRoom for up to 3 people to meet online; great for sharing, planning or just collaborating; and can have a group of people in one school meet and share with 2 other groups in another school by just using the internet, a computer, projector and screen
 * slideshare Share Powerpoints
 * [|Skype] Any educator who wants to collaborate or let their students collaborate with authors, experts or other teachers and students in remote locations.
 * [|wiggio] Makes working in groups easy. Organize your groups and create and manage chats with the group.
 * TeamTreks Teamwork adventure. $10/student/yr
 * Voicethread Create collaborative projects in which people can add voice comments to posted video, audio, pics, docs, etc.
 * yackpack Connect with groups by yacking over the Internet with the cloud technology
 * [|mindmeister] Mindmapping and brainstorming. Like Inspiration, but free and you can work simultaneously with others in real time, too.
 * [|MyWebspiration] Like Inspiration, but free and you can work simultaneously with others in real time, too.
 * [|wallwisher] Online notice board maker - make post-its, drag and drop to organize, post announcements, etc. Blocked for students.
 * [|**Site with great list of mindmapping tools**] - this site lists 15 concept maps, mindmapping and graphic organizer tools. Way cool! Check out the comments for more!
 * [|//http://museumbox.e2bn.org///]


 * __Search Engines__**
 * [|Yolinkeducation.com//] //- free downloadable plugin//
 * [|SweetSearch.com//] //- a Search Engine for Students that searches only 35,000 curated sites. Yolink is integrated.//
 * [|SweetSearch4Me.com//] //- new K-8 version of SweetSearch.//
 * //edmodo////- free, private social platform for education//
 * [|//http://bingle.nu//] //- Bing and Google search at the same time//
 * [|/http://www.google.com/squared//]
 * [|//http://www.doink.com/clips/mgamson/774370/teachers-should-doink//]//- Doink//