Teacher Tools
Tools and resources to help teachers create effective instructional activities.
- Animoto- automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.
- Board Cam
- diigo- provides a browser add on that can really improve your research productivity.
- DropBox- A free cloud based storage service that lets you bring your photos, docs and videos anywhere and share them easily. Easy way to store, sync and share files online. There’s no complicated interface to learn.
- Evernote- Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear and things you see. Works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Great for classroom management.
- Flashcards by Cram- The world’s largest online library of printable flash cards.
- flubaroo- A free grading widget that works with Google forms.
- Gliffy- Online Diagram software and Flowchart Software.
- Graphic Organizers- From Education Place.
- Inspiration- Desktop application for visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations.
- iRubric: (free rubric tools)- A comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.
- Instructables- DYI projects for just about anything many of which can be used in the classroom.
- Lino- Sticky notes and photo sharing.
- Mentimeter- a cloud-based tool that lets you engage and interact with your students in real-time. You set the questions and your students can give their input via a mobile phone or any other Internet connected device.
- NEWSELA- Makes it easy for an entire class to read the same content, but at a level that’s just right for each student.
- Padlet- Good for both collaboration and classroom management. Plugins available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Kindle and Wordpress. App available for IOS & Android.
- Popplet- A tool for the iPad and web to capture and organize your ideas.
- Scribble Maps- An easy way to draw and share maps.
- smore- Free and easy way to design online fliers and infographs. Hundreds of templates or design your own.
- StudyStack (Flashcards)- Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards.
- Survey Monkey- create surveys.
- Wikispaces Classroom-
- VideoScribe- Create your own whiteboard videos like a pro.
- Viper - Turnitin Alternative- Free Turnitin Alternative, easy to use and quick to download.
- VoiceThread- a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos. Allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
- Voki classroom- a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars. You can use them on your blog, profile and in email messages.
- WorkFlowy- Although created for individual workflows, it can be used for syllabi, weekly homework collaboration and much more.
- WUFOO- Create and share online forms.
- Wunderlist- Great app to help you get things done.
