Educational Technology Tools
Storytelling/writing/presentation tools
Apricot - Teachers can share writings that students have written to parents through this online classroom.
Blubbr - Create an online comic strip with Flickr images
Boomwriter - Writing tool that students use for writing prompts about their vocabulary
Canva - Online Poster and Powerpoint maker
Comic Creator - Online comic strip/story
Easel.ly - Online informatiional flyer, poster maker
Go Animate - Online animation video creator
Littlebirdtales - Digital storytelling for Elementary classrooms
Lucidpress - Create your own newspaper article or publication
Make belief comic strips - Online comic strips that tell a story
No Red Ink - Help your students improve their grammar and writing skills. Works well with common core.
Penzu -Online journaling and writing
Piktochart - Online Picture chart, informational flyer, poster
Powtoon - Bringing presentations to life
Presentme-edu - Record your presentations. You can create a video recording of yourself, a voice over, or a looping slideshow.
Prezi -Presentations hyped up.
Scholastic comic strip - Create an online comic strip
SOAPstone - Reading and writing strategy
Storybird - Write your own storybook
Story board that - Create storyboards/ stories online
Story Starters - Broken into 4 themes there are starters for different writings. (k-6)
Tellagami - App that creates narrated animations to created animated scenes in a matter of minutes.
Toasted Cheese - Has writing prompts for everyday listed on a calendar.
ToonDoo - Create a story book with cartoons.
Toontastic - create your own cartoon with iPads
U tell story - A multimedia storytelling and sharing community that let people from different age and background to easily tell stories and share topics with photo, video, voice, music and words.
Wideo - create animated video presentations
Wix - Create your own website/portfolio/blog
Review Activities/Games, Vocabulary and Assessment Tools
Boombox - create online polls and quizzes
Classtools.net - Check to see if essays use the most important key words.
Dotstorming - Mixture of padlet and polling tool
Flashcard Monkey - Vocabulary Review (SAT)
Flashcard Stash - Creates vocabulary flashcard sets that are printable or online
Fodey - Generates different responses that are more interesting ways to have bellringers and exit tickets
Kahoot - Review Game (how to edit a public kahoot)
Knoword - Vocabulary Review (Elementary)
Lino - Online Sticky note organizer that shares discussions, images and ideas between people.
Quizlet - review flashcards, games and quizzes
Padlet - Assessment prompts, exit tickets, bellingers
Poll Everywhere - Bellringer, exit tickets and assessment prompts
Prepfactory - A review for ACT/SAT prep Tests
QR Treasure Hunt Generator - Create QR codes to scan and use in the classroom.
Socrative - Online Clicker review
Turn-o-phase - game identifying colloquial phrases
Vocabulist - Find Vocabulary words in a document and looks up meaning. (Adds to quizlet when finished.)
Wheel Decide - Review game with a spin the wheel
Graphic Organizers, Classroom management, SmartBoard tools
Bubbl - Brainstorm and mind map
Canvas - Online Classroom where assignments are created, completed, and graded.
Coggle - Create a mind map/ graphic organizer online
Create a Graph - Online Graph maker
Edmodo - Online Classroom where you send and receive assignments
Exploreatree - Online mind maps, and graphic organizers
Fakebook - Allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.
Go Formative - create discussions, quizzes and more through online classroom
Graph Chooser - Create your online graph of choice
LucidChart - Mind mapping chart used on the iPad or as a Google add on
Mindmeister - Online Mind map that other computers and people can come together and collaborate.
Plickers - Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices
Popplet - Online graphic organizer that can also be printed out
Remind - Send notes to parents through text messages
Smart Exchange - Review games on SmartBoard for any subject or grade
Tagul - Create a word cloud online
Teacher Scholastic whiteboards - Several different smartboard activities in all core subjects
Text2mindmap - Organize your thoughts from outline style to mind map
Too Noisy - Help control the noise in the classroom
Tools for Smartboards - Lots of free tools for smartboards
Twister - fake twitter - allows students to make fake tweets
Webwhiteboard - draw, write just like on a white board. Information can be sent to other devices
Wordle - Create a word cloud online
Research, Course Specific Tools
Algodoo - An app that gives you the opportunity to play with physics. Use your own hands and simple drawing tools to design, construct and explore the world of physics.
Conjuguemos online workbook for your Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin language students.
Cube Creator - research information and put it on an online cube that can be printed out.
Depression Quest - Educate people about depression- Health or Counselor area
Desmos - online scientific calculator and activities
EdHeads - Interactive science experiments and learning experiences
GCF learn - Tutorials on Microsoft Office and in other subject areas
GregTangMath- http://www.gregtangmath.com/
Hello Talk - Learn to speak another language
Histography - Online timeline with dates and history from 1600’s to present with history broken down into 15 categories.
Liquidtext for IPAD - Improves the way you read, annotate, and research on the IPAD. Allows you to make notes on PDF and annotations.
Math is Fun - math games, tutorials, puzzles
Nearpod - Presentation tool that students can link to through device. Interactive with the teacher’s presentation. Can take quizzes, answer questions or just draw.
NewsELA - Current News articles that students can read broken down by lexile levels - English, Social Studies
Ref me - Reference tool that sites references for your bibliography- will scan a barcode too
Schoolwide Zing - Students log in and read online books and site keeps reading log for teachers. Lots of free books for students to read.
Scientific calculators online 8 different alternative sites to buying scientific calculators. These are excellent tools that could be used instead of calculators
Scoop it - research topic and compile into one group
Son of Citation - Online bibliography citing
Soundtrap - make music online with your instrument
Speedcrunch - Free Scientific Calculator application for Math
Storify - Find collect and share what people are saying all over the web. Different stories from all the different websites that are going on at that time such as twitter, facebook, etc. Good for current events and research...
Tiki-Toki - Create online timelines
Trading Cards - Allows students to create trading cards about people, places, and events both real and fictional.
Voki - Create fun and unique Voki characters that speak in many languages.
Wolframealpha - Find concise summaries of topics, in depth data bases- known for math but can be all subjects
Wonderopolis - Research questions you wonder about
World Digital Library - more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world.
Group Tools, Teacher Tools, and Planning Tools
81dash - Online Collaboration between students and teacher with use of sending images, videos, chatting and much more
Best of the best for teachers - best sites for free for teachers..
Calendly - Scheduling tool that integrates with Google Calendar and Office 365 to create appointments
Ck12.org - Onine books, lessons and activities for any subject and grade
ClassDoJo - Encourages students, shows timeline of student progress, and students enjoy it. Parents can see progress as well.
Doodle - A Polling to Schedule a group meeting based in the input from all group members
Educreations - an App that allows teachers to teach to students on the go.
EDpuzzle - Create video clips from searchable database of videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, TEDEd and more. Add voice overs, audio notes and questions
Essay Tagger - Common Core Rubric creation Tool
Groupting - Easy to organize group events by keeping track of who is attending and what they are bringing.
HelloSign - A way to legally sign a document without having to print it off.
JoinMe - To create and have an online meeting with other colleagues or people
Livebinders - A way to keep all of your documents, lesson plans and such together.
NearPod - Presentations that allow you to gather evidence of student learning and create differentiated lessons based on the evidence you have gathered
PBLchecklist - Creates a printable checklist for Project Based Learning
Portfoliogen - Teachers create professional portfolio with their lesson plans and media they have created, and any other information that can be found on a resume.
Stoodle - Online way to show others how to do something like a math problem at home that maybe you do not understand that is shared from one device to another.
Study Island - Any subject is linked with standards, games, lessons, videos, tests, and printable worksheets
Symbaloo - Bookmarks your favorite websites all in one place
Taxedo - A tag cloud generator that allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogue
Volunteerspot - Free scheduling service to coordinate volunteers and links to your calendar.
Youcanbook.me - Allows people to book fixed blocks of time for a meeting that adds to your google calendar.
Zaption -Online videos into interactive learning experiences
Google Apps - with youtube tutorial linked to each app
Choice Eliminator in Google Forms - Removes choices from your form as the choices are used up. Good for groups or meetings for sign ups.
Duck Duck Go - Search Engine that does not track your search results
Flubaroo - Used for grading in forms like your Gmath’s for example.
Gmath in Google docs - create math questions and then past to forms for a test/quiz
Google Add ons for teachers - gmath, add reminders, online rubric, flubaroo, form
notifications, auto text expander for google chrome, stay focused, dayboard, cloud generator add on, easy bib- bibliography, and easy accents are all in this link.
Google Books - research a topic with online free books- also will find the pages of the topic you are looking for.
Google Drawings - Create mind maps, drawings and much more
Google Images Advanced Search - Advanced settings for finding images
Google Photos - Holds all of your photos in one place which is like Drive that holds your docs in one place.
Google Scholar - Research articles- similar to Google Books
Google Voice - Transfer voice to text
VexTab - Google Documents Add-on that lets you write music notation in Google Documents. With the Add-on installed you can write standard music notation, drum notation, and guitar tablature
Word Cloud - Add a word cloud to a document
Video/Sound/ Digital Tools
Academic earth - Video Depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States
Audioboom - Allows partners to embed playlists onto their sites and apps
Blabberize - Make an online picture talk
Clarisketch - take a picture and talk and draw on picture
Flickr - Online images
Go Animate - Create professional Animated Videos
Loopster - Online Video Editor
Nextvista - Nonprofit, advertising free video sharing site run by google certified teacher
Mit app inventor 2 - create your very own app on an android phone
MOOCNOTE - Time stamped notes that pop up during any selected times during a video.
Pixlr - Online photo editor go
Pizap - Online photo editor, collage maker and design tool
Schooltube - sharing videos created by students and teachers that can be on their own channels.
Slidestory - Tell a story, use your own pictures, edit in your own voice
Speakerpipe - Receive voice messages from your audience directly on your website. Website visitors can contact you or leave you feedback. No phone calls are required.
Thematic - A simple service designed for creating and sharing picture stories. Thematic allows you to display up to twenty pictures organized around a theme of your choosing.
Teachertube - Provides videos for teachers by teachers and have sharing lesson plans in action.
Twistedwave - Audio recording tool in which you can create and edit spoken audio recordings from scratch. You can export to google drive or soundcloud.
Vocaroo - Easy to use, create free audio recordings
Zaption - turns online video into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding