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1 | Digital Learning Resources List | |||||||||
2 | The following list contains digital education resources and tools that can be used to provide contiunious learning during the COVID-19 response. Please also note this is simply a compiled list; we have not vetted this list for all content and highly recommend thorough review and the considerion of highlighted resources in particular, many of which are also available offline and for low-bandwidth use. This list can be filtered by level, Area (STEM, Litereacy, or other), and by language. Yellow indicates content we've directly used in low-resource contexts. | |||||||||
3 | TITLE | SITE | Level | Area | Language | DESCRIPTION | NOTES (Costing) | |||
4 | 100 Educational YouTube Channels for Home Schooling | https://wheredmysanitygo.com/educational-YouTube-channels-for-homeschooling/?fbclid=IwAR3tUpsqLgnwnBGxAHTMo-0129W9ZP4P4uCVQwPeutR6ZONfO3V5UebbHcw | Primary | OTHER | English | YouTube channels across many different subjects for at-home learning. | free | |||
5 | 1001 Nights Curriculum | http://www.bigbadboo.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Big Bad Boo produces children’s media that leverages entertainment as a tool to engage and teach children. We are the producers of 1001 Nights, an animated television series that airs in 80 countries and 25 languages on premier channels like Disney, Cartoon Network, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel. It’s one of the top 2 children’s programs on television in a majority of the countries it airs. While uproariously funny, the cartoon also teaches civic education lessons like non-violence, empathy, diversity and other citizenship values. Big Bad Boo just signed a partnerships with UNICEF Jordan to provide refugee children with animated episodes, 500,000 illustrated books, and 50,000 activity books for refugee children in Jordan to support their Makani initiative that provides services to refugee children that cannot access formal education. The 1001 Nights program will provide psychosocial support in these centers. The total value of this program is roughly $500,000. | 1001 Nights is an animated cartoon for 6-9 year olds that teaches Civic Education through story telling. A curriculum of 40 lessons and 10 comic books accompany the animated shows to further teach Psychosocial support and social emotional learning skills. The curriculum and show are used in educational spaces across the MENA region- in formal schools, UNICEF child friendly spaces and after school programs as an enhancement to a civic education curriculum. | |||
6 | 2Simple | https://2simple.com/blog/using-purple-mash-when-school-closed/ | ECE, Primary | OTHER | English | Purple Mash is a website designed for children aged 3-11. It contains many creative tools ie: coding, animation, publishing, art and also applications for math, spelling and grammar. Teachers can ‘set work’ for children easily then view / comment on completed files. It also contains thousands of topic based activities. Serial Mash gives you a whole library of e-books and corresponding activities. Both can be used on any tablet or computer with a web browser. | ||||
7 | 3asafeer | https://3asafeer.com/ | Primary,Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Arabic Learning Resources | Free | |||
8 | 3P Learning | https://www.3plearning.com/distance-teaching/ | Primary | OTHER | English | 3P Learning offers a suite of learning resources is designed for schools and families, covering mathematics, spelling, literacy, science | ||||
9 | 450 Ivy League MOOCs | https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/?fbclid=IwAR1a29FaGltRZ1KZlcD2uG6O1nnDftCC7ZrDm4ZkO0L4r8wbUGFSbYwFH4I | Tertiary | OTHER | English | A free list of over 400 Massive Open Online Courses from top universities. | free | |||
10 | Abdulla Eid Network (العربيّة) | http://www.abdullaheid.net/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | بكة عبد الله عيد هي شبكة سعودية تزود المهتمين من المتعلمين الكبار وفي المرحلة الثانوية المهتمين بالبرمجة بمجموعة من الدورات المختلفة في استخدام أنظمة جافا و HTML و الأندرويد وتطبيقات الأندرويد و جافا سكربت دوم وغيرها. تتلاءم الكثير من هذه الدروس مع مناهج الدراسات العليا لكثير من الجامعات العربية كما أنّ البعض منها ملائم للمرحلة الثانوية | free | |||
11 | Abser | http://abser.org/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
12 | Absolute | https://www.absolute.com/company/press-releases/2020/absolute-enables-customers-to-seamlessly-repair-vpn-applications-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Absolute is the first and only company to offer uncompromised visibility and near real-time remediation of security breaches at the source. | Absolute is offering free access to Application Persistence for VPN for all of its Visibility and Control tier customers through August 31, 2020. | |||
13 | Academics | https://www.arcademics.com/ | Primary | OTHER | English | Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more! | Always Free. | |||
14 | Accurate Learning Systems Corporation | http://www.mathscore.com | Primary | STEM | English | Individuals that sign up for free home version accounts can master their math facts for free. This is an important area of focus often neglected by schools. Teachers that want free full access to all of the topics for the remainder of this school year can inquire here: http://www.mathscore.com/products/online-math-practice/signup/quote/ | ||||
15 | Acessibyte | https://www.accessibyte.com/stay-safe | Primary, Teachers, Tool | OTHER | Vision Impaired, English | Accessibyte Online is offering free access to its entire cloud platform of apps for blind, low vision, deaf and reading impaired students. Highly visual and fully audible typing tutor, games, flash cards and study apps. | Free Access | |||
16 | Active History | https://www.activehistory.co.uk/ | Primary, Secondary | OTHER | English | Amazing resources for history teachers by the British educator Russell Tarr including interactive simulations, quizzes, games that can easily be used for online learning. | 1 month free trial because of school closures upon request (contact form) | |||
17 | ActivEd, Inc. | http://info.activedinc.com/covid | ECE, Primary | OTHER | English | ActivEd, Inc. offers Walkabouts, web-based lessons for pre-K to second-grade students that integrate movement with language arts, math, and reading content and correlate to your state’s standards. | To support your efforts to keep your students moving and learning outside of school due to closures related to COVID-19, we have decided to make the Walkabouts platform temporarily available at no cost to any classrooms impacted by school closures and remote learning needs. | |||
18 | Actively Learn | https://www.activelylearn.com/post/remote-learning | Primary | LITERACY | English | Actively Learn is a web-based reading platform that helps students read deeply and think critically, with thousands of texts and associated instruction in ELA, Science, and Social Studies. | Free | |||
19 | Adduroos Al-Musawarah | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeW65lIctwlk85F4Mghe-eg/featured | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
20 | Adem Web | http://www.ademweb.com/2016/08/blog-post_11.html?m=1 https://www.facebook.com/Chamkha1980/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
21 | AdmitHub | https://learn.admithub.com/content-covid19support/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | AdmitHub developed the first student communication platform powered by artificial intelligence, specifically designed for higher education. | To support the higher education community during the Coronavirus outbreak, we are offering free access to the AdmitHub platform so you can provide clear, immediate answers about the outbreak. | |||
22 | Adobe Connect | https://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2020/03/adobe-connect-extending-support-in-the-wake-of-covid-19.html?scid=5478ab78-1af5-479e-8bd3-6e8cebd0c285&mv=social&mv2=owned_social | Teachers | OTHER | English | Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that enables collaborative experiences that include video, audio, screen-sharing, polls, chat, Q&A, document sharing and much more. There's nothing for participants to install or configure, Adobe Connect works in any modern browser. | Starting this week, we are providing free 90-day access for Adobe Connect, until July 1st, 2020. Individuals and business who aren’t customers can now use Adobe Connect rooms with up-to 25 participants for free for up to 90 days if they sign-up for a trial license between now and July 1st. | |||
23 | Aflatoun | https://www.aflatoun.org/goals/sustainable-development/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjcfzBRCHARIsAO-1_Or6NCWssIVdP3G6jJctjDxy1hfsbIIOoFu-k9TSwkKoKBIvyjzEhK0aAkZREALw_wcB | Secondary | OTHER | English, French | Aflatoun International offers social & financial education to children and young people worldwide empowering them to contribute to a more equitable future. | free | |||
24 | African Storybook | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | Primary, Secondary | LITERACY | Multiple | 43 Languages. Open access to picture storybooks in the many different languages of the world. For children's literacy, enjoyment, and imagination. | free | |||
25 | Age of Learning (ABCMouse, Adventure Academy, ReadingIQ) | https://www.ageoflearning.com/schools | Primary | OTHER | English | |||||
26 | AirDeck | AirDeck.co | Teachers | OTHER | English | Narrated Presentation Platform | Online platform that allows you to create narrated presentations. AirDeck is giving educators a free Pro license ($400 value), using coupon code: FRIENDS. | |||
27 | Al Hakawati | http://al-hakawati.net/english/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | al-hakawati is a free educational resource and reference, made possible by the Arab Cultural Trust. Our goal is to reach as wide a readership as possible, to provide each visitor to the website with a virtual library of Arab heritage, to make learning and knowledge about the Arab world available to all, and to promote understanding of Arab culture in the Arabic speaking world and in the West. | ||||
28 | Al Manhal | http://www.almanhal.com, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGL40N_aNKS-CxO81tER4_Q/playlists | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Al Manhal is an Arabic electronic information provider. They are the provider of full-text searchable databases of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa & Asia's. Fee based. | ||||
29 | Al-Masdar | http://www.arabicalmasdar.org/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
30 | Alawael | http://awa2el.net/ar | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | This is an open platform that hosts free online video lessons for grade 12 in Jordan. However, there are a few lessons found in different subjects for upper middle and lower secondary grades. | ||||
31 | ALBERT | https://www.albert.io/try-albert | Secondary | STEM | English | Albert.io has resources for both middle and high school, through AP level. | Schools forced to shut down can get a free, extended pilot for as long as they are impacted. | |||
32 | Alchemie | https://www.alchem.ie/ | Secondary | STEM | English | The Mechanisms app allows students to learn and practice reaction mechanisms by moving and manipulating individual bonds and electrons. Instructors can assign specific puzzle problems through the Epiphany Dashboard. Students will be able to access those puzzles through the App on their phone or tablet. Demos of the Mechanisms and Epiphany Dashboard are available for free. | Alchemie is offering the Mechanism App for free from now until the end of the spring semester. June 30th | |||
33 | ALECSO | http://store.alecsoapps.com/site/index.php | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
34 | Alephbeta | https://www.alephbeta.org/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Bring the Torah to life with Aleph Beta's videos. Be excited by learning Torah, and find relevant meaning for modern-day life. | Aleph Beta is temporarily offering free subscriptions with access to hundreds of educational videos, audios, and podcasts. | |||
35 | Aliim | http://aliim.org/ http://aliim.org/smartphone-schools-program/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Smartphone Schools Mobile Learning Program. Targets Syrian refugee girls aged 12-18 living in Jordan & Lebanon or migrating to other regions of the world, to continue their education and access better economic opportunities through technology and a global network of mentors. They have developed a theoretical framework to contextualize curriculum in order to better address the specific needs of Syrian refugees–with a focus on girls–and adapt to the resources available in a particular conflict-affected setting. Program participants will develop basic numeracy, literacy and life skills, including English, citizenship, and entrepreneurship skills. Also emphasizes conflict resilience and life skills. The project is still in its early stages, but it has developed curriculum in partnership with Syrians, created the pilot program plan, and developed the app wireframe and user experience design. | ||||
36 | Alison | https://alison.com/ | Tool | OTHER | English | Online courses from experts | Massive Online Open Course Platform | |||
37 | Aljazeera/ Learning Arabic | http://learning.aljazeera.net/en | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | This is Aljazeera's initiative for providing resources for Arabic as a foreign language learners. | ||||
38 | All Kids Network | https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/ | ECE, Primary | OTHER | English | We offer FREE educational resources, worksheets, writing prompts, themed coloring pages, craft and snack ideas for parents, teachers & caregivers. | FREE educational resources | |||
39 | Almo7eb | https://www.kids.almo7eb.com/m7b-243.html | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
40 | Amaly Center- Social emotional learning program | http://www.amalycenter.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
41 | Amazon | https://stories.audible.com/discovery | All levels | LITERACY | English | Free access to Amazon stories for kids of all ages | Free stories | |||
42 | American Archive of Public Broadcasting | https://americanarchive.org | Teachers | OTHER | English | The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 110,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 130 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 52,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org. | Access to thousands of historic public television and radio programs. | |||
43 | American Chemistry Society | https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/articles-by-topic.html | Secondary | STEM | English | The American Chemical Society has ChemMatters magazines, targeted for high schoolers, available online. In addition to chemistry, there are article that are biographies of chemists, and historical articles. | Free All The Time | |||
44 | American Panorama | https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/ | Secondary, Teachers | OTHER | English | Digital Atlas of America uses online GIS to explore and visualize data with maps. | Free | |||
45 | Antura and the Letters | http://www.antura.org/en/app/ | Primary, Secondary | LITERACY | Arabic | “Antura and the Letters” is a smartphone game for iOS and Android that mixes the best entertainment technology with specific Arabic pedagogical content in order to offer an engaging learning experience to Syrian children who are out of school because of the conflict .Winner of the EduApp4Syria prize competition | free | |||
46 | Arab Online and Computerized Exams | https://www.arab-exams.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
47 | Arabia Readers | http://arabiareaders.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Arabia Readers is a six-level reading program for young learners of English in the Arab World. | ||||
48 | Arabic Resources from Center on the Developing Child | https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resourcecategory/Arabic-resources/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
49 | Ardor Math | https://www.ardoreducation.com | Teachers | OTHER | English | Math practice system. Web, iOS, Android. Teacher dashboard and student practice app. | We are giving 7th and 8th grade teachers who work in school affected by the coronavirus free Unlimited subscriptions. Just email us and we will set you up. contact@ardoreducation.com | |||
50 | Artrageous with Nate | www.youtube.com/artrageouswithnate | Primary | OTHER | English | |||||
51 | Artusi | www.artusi.xyz | Primary | OTHER | English | Artusi is a suite of digital workbooks to help students learn the fundamental skills of music theory faster, better, and more accurately than before so they can spend more time pursuing the creative mission of music making and music study. | Free | |||
52 | Asafeer | http://3asafeer.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
53 | Asecend Math | https://ascendmath.com/coronavirus-offer/ | Primary, Secondary | STEM | English | Ascend Math is a K to 12 math instructional resource Ascend Math offers award winning math instruction that provides an individual study plan for each student. Ascend Math's study plans are unique to each student, prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned. Teachers also have the ability to assign standards to an entire class or grade to meet pacing guidelines. | Free Service Offered: Now until the end of April for schools new to Ascend Math. | |||
54 | Ashabona | https://www.ashabona.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Elementary educational games (level 1 + Grades 1-6) plus introductory Arabic for non-native speakers). online resource that benefits teachers and students. For teachers it is a resource that helps engage students in higher order thinking skills, offers differentiated activities, and links Arabic to other subjects like Science, Georgraphy and Social Studies. Can be used for parental engagement; since students can access it from home. Teachers can use our online resource to cover the four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). Fee, not free (6 months, $20, one year $40) | Ashabona website is a rich online resource that benefits teachers and students. It has won Sheikh "Mohamad el Maktoom Award" 2 years ago, it has won in Beirut as excellent content and we took the prize from the ministry itself. For teachers it is a resource that helps engage students in higher order thinking skills, offers differentiated activities, and links Arabic to other subjects like Geography and Social Studies. It is a great tool for parental engagement; since students can access it from home. It is an assessment tool that teachers can use in class to assess students' learning. It can also be used to assign a homework; without needing to spend long hours marking students' work. As for students it is a way to connect in Arabic, today's generation like to be connected and like competitions. This online resource engages students with Arabic outside the classroom. Students are practicing their reading and comprehension skills when they visit it, and at the minute they choose the communicate, they are practicing their writing skills. | |||
55 | AskZad | http://askzad.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
56 | Astrostem | http:/www.astrostem.org | Primary, Secondary | STEM | Multiple | Astrostem.org is an online education platform that includes astronomy lessons, astronomy applications, astronomy workshops, space games, current astronomy and space science news and allows users to produce their own content. | All resources free with creation of online account | |||
57 | Audacity | https://www.audacityteam.org/ | Tool | OTHER | English | audio editor | ||||
58 | Auditory Sciences | https://streamer.solutions/COVID-Academic/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Auditory Sciences is partnering with academic institutions who are preparing for prolonged absences and/or campus closures due to COVID-19. They are creating for your school a free captioning, note-taking and translation website that you can use to facilitate off-campus communications with students and faculty. | A private and secure Streamer captioning, translation and note-taking website configured specifically for your school. Students and faculty can use the website to caption and/or translate all conversations and lectures and do this anytime and as often as desired. | |||
59 | Avaya Spaces | https://www.avaya.com/blogs/archives/2020/03/avaya_spaces_cv/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Our free Avaya Spaces offer provides a cloud meeting and team collaboration solution that enables people and organizations to connect and collaborate remotely – and goes beyond integrating chat, voice, video, online meetings and content sharing. It gives users all the meeting and team collaboration features needed, including voice and video conferencing for up to 200 participants. | Free | |||
60 | Backpack Sciences | https://www.backpacksciences.com/science-simplified | Teachers | OTHER | English | This is a free video series on how to teach science without the overwhelm. | Free Video Series | |||
61 | Bard University - Al Quds Language and Thinking Program | http://languageandthinking.bard.edu/about/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Offered through Al Quds Bard, in Arabic so content can be used if requested | ||||
62 | Barmej.com | www.barmej.com | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
63 | Bayt | https://www.bayt.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Find jobs in middle east and gulf; helps with CVs, etc. but for a fee | ||||
64 | BBC Learning | http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/course search/ | Secondary | OTHER | English | This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV license required except for content on BBC iPlayer. | ||||
65 | Be Strong Online | https://www.vodafone.com/our-purpose/operating-responsibly/child-online-safety/be-strong-online | Secondary | OTHER | English | A new set of peer to peer resources to teach students how to use the internet safely and be digitally resilient. | free | |||
66 | Beanstalk | https://beanstalk.co/ | ECE | OTHER | English | Beanstalk Interactive, a Denver-based interactive educational pre-school children's content company, announced today that it will be offering free membership during the Coronavirus outbreak. | Free membership! | |||
67 | Bedtime Math | http://bedtimemath.org/bedtime-math-for-families/ | ECE | STEM | English | Bedtime Math is striving to help families introduce math as a fun part of their daily routine, as common and beloved as the bedtime story. We make it easy to roll math into the day, whether at bedtime, bath time, or snack time. | ||||
68 | Beed | https://www.beed.world/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | BeED is a Finnish certified pedagogically-focused platform designed to meet your school’s curricular and teaching needs. Some of the BeED features include a mobile experiential learning app, multi-blocking Curriculum Builder and interactive mapping for an engaging and flexible learning experience. A mobile platform enables educators to move beyond the closed walls of schools to conduct lessons remotely, giving students the support they need, through continual learning. Through their own mobile devices, students and teachers can carry on with their lessons, grading and personalized interaction, all from the comfort and safety of their own homes. | In light of more schools being closed throughout the region, BeED would like to extend its' support and services to schools affected by Covid-19 with a complimentary free 6 months' subscription to the mobile learning platform. During this process, the BeED team will provide on-going support from the on-boarding training to the uploading of content materials and more. | |||
69 | Better Chinese | https://www.betterchinese.com/pages/coronavirus | Secondary | LITERACY | Chinese, English | Better Chinese is a leading publisher of Mandarin curricula for students from pre-kindergarten to college. Better Chinese materials have been officially adopted by nine states in the United States and are used in 1400+ schools worldwide. | ||||
70 | BFW - Bedford, Freeman & Worth HS Publishers | https://www.bfwpub.com/high-school/us/content/covid19 | Primary | LITERACY | English | BFW is the premier Advanced Placement publisher. | ||||
71 | Biblotech | https://www.biblotech.com/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | An interactive platform for teaching psychometric skills to prepare high-school Arab students for the psychometric exam prior their application process to universities. | ||||
72 | Big History Project | https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive | Secondary | OTHER | English | Always Free. | ||||
73 | Bigger Brains | https://getbiggerbrains.com/coronavirus-help-free-microsoft-teams-training/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Online training courses, especially Microsoft Teams | Free courses posted to YouTube for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Forms, discounts on general subscriptions, free subscriptions for school teachers (email sales@bigger-brains.com to confirm credentials). | |||
74 | Biology Simulations | www.biologysimulations.com | Secondary | STEM | English | Simulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics. | All materials are free | |||
75 | BiteScis | https://bitescis.org/ | Secondary | STEM | English | BiteScis integrates current scientific research into NGSS-aligned lessons aimed at introductory high school level courses. Most lesson are easily modified for remote learning. | Lesson plans and all corresponding materials are always free. | |||
76 | Black Box Education | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jnDsvkKgLBAYSLJO7KrioOKpZj34JesJqneFrypGKo0/edit | Primary, Secondary | OTHER | English | Digital and interactive resources for drama, dance and theatre. | 6 free resource packs for digital, online schooling. | |||
77 | Blackboard | https://www.blackboard.com/ | Tool | OTHER | English | Resources and tools to transition and deliver quality teaching and learning online | ||||
78 | BlockCAD | https://www.blockscad3d.com/distance_learning | Primary, Secondary | STEM | English | BlocksCAD builds math and computer science skills by using a specialized 3D CAD (computer-aided drafting) software. A block-based coding platform allows students to create and manipulate 3D objects while using geometry and computational thinking skills. | We'd like to support teachers by offering anyone in a closed school the chance to have access to BlocksCAD for Education Premium for free until the end of the school year. | |||
79 | Blockly Games | https://blockly.games | Secondary, Tool | OTHER | Multiple | 56 Languages. Seven levels of gamified coding and logic projects in multiple languages, produced by Google to nurture young programmers' critical thinking skills. | ||||
80 | Bloom | https://www.sil-lead.org/bloom-accessible-books | Primary, Tool | LITERACY | Multiple | Bloom enables teachers, parents and children to easily create leveled and decodable children’s books in any language. Books can be adapted from shell books, or new resources created using Bloom software’s templates for basic books, picture dictionaries and wall calendars, with images available from its free illustration library. | Free, Access to library or creation of books | |||
81 | BluPoint | https://www.blupoint.org/ | Tool | OTHER | English | BluPoint delivers vital information and services to offline and off-grid remote communities. BluPoint's patent-pending offline Internet solution comprises cloud based services, content conversion software and resilient low energy servers. BluPoint uniquely enables our customers to distribute their content to all mobile devices (including radios and basic phones), incredibly quickly and on-demand, without data charges to the end user. BluPoint overcomes the barriers of no electricity, no Internet, high costs of data and uniquely leverages the high prevalence of basic mobile devices accounting for 75% of handsets in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015. We do this by automatically adapting the content and making it available within the location via Bluetooth, FM radio, and Wi-Fi. The BluPoint solution is founded on five key principles: The content will work on devices that people have in their pockets. Even devices which don’t support Internet connectivity. Today, in sub-Saharan Africa seventy-seven percent of mobile devices are basic phones, unable to browse the internet. BluPoint bridges this digital divide. It allows even basic phones to display digital content. BluPoint will work even in areas where the Internet doesn’t exist. BluPoint takes a slice of the Internet, as chosen by our customers, and offline it onto BluPoint hubs. Deployed as a single hub, or a collection of hubs that form a wireless network. BluPoint hubs will work in areas with intermittent or no electricity. The efficient hubs can be solar powered or run off other renewable sources. A car battery will even power a hub. This enables easy mobility, hubs can travel to the remotest communities. The digital content on the hub will be completely free at the point of use. Anyone can access, browse and download the content with no charge. Removing barriers caused by expensive data and broadband. BluPoint hubs are faster than mobile providers, delivering multimedia content faster than 4G. Content on the hubs is safe, secure and focused. BluPoint hubs deliver a walled garden of content, focused to the needs of the community. This increase’s focus with limited resources to browse. Users will not be subject to harmful content or marketing agendas. | ||||
82 | Boardmaker | https://goboardmaker.com/pages/activities-to-go | Primary | OTHER | English | Boardmaker is a collection of standardized picture symbols used for communication with students who are strong visual learners. This includes those with autism spectrum disorders, Down Syndrome, speech and language disorders, and behavioral disorders. | ||||
83 | Boddle Learning | https://www.boddlelearning.com/ | Primary | STEM | English | Boddle is a math platform for 1-6th grade that makes learning fun and personalized. Teachers are able to track student progress remotely and quickly identify learning gaps. | ||||
84 | BombBomb | www.bombbomb.com/education | Teachers | OTHER | English | Video messaging tool that can be used in gmail, Outlook, or any messaging app that teachers may use to communicate with students or parents. | The full platform is now free for all teachers ($588 value) | |||
85 | BookCreater App | https://bookcreator.com/2020/03/support-for-schools-affected-by-coronavirus/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | |||||
86 | Bookshare | https://www.bookshare.org/loginhttps://www.bookshare.org/cms/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | An accessible online library for people with print disabilities; have 300 books in Arabic | ||||
87 | Boom Learning | https://wow.boomlearning.com/ | Teachers | OTHER | English | Boom Cards teaching resources are cloud resident and served, instructional mini-apps. Teachers create the resources for personal use, use with colleagues, and/or for distribution. Boom Cards can (but need not) process and report student performance data. The Boom Learning platform includes creation tools and data processing and reporting of student performance data. Boom Learning is privacy aware, is a signatory to several Student Privacy Data Consortium agreements, and in compliance with New York Section 2d. We offer a DPA for EEA customers. Contact us at legal@boomlearning.com if you need a document signed before you can begin. | New customers from schools that are closing can get free Ultimate subscriptions (allows authoring Boom Cards with sound and the ability to share with colleagues) good through June 30 to affected schools. Existing customer schools who do not have Ultimate subscriptions can get an Ultimate account per grade or subject team to share for authoring materials to share out school colleagues to keep learning on course. Send an email to help@boomlearning.com | |||
88 | Boromi | http://eepurl.com/gWfuJz | ECE, Primary | OTHER | English | We're a multi award-winning network of play libraries empowering families to connect, talk and play together at home | Free #dailyplay emails - an offline, home play activity using every day materials sent daily. Completely free and for any EYFS teachers or parents who will find it helpful | |||
89 | BrainPoP | https://www.brainpop.com/ | Primary, Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Has movies with subtitles in English, and in Arabic. Previously worked with UNHCR. | ||||
90 | Brave Writer | https://blog.bravewriter.com/2020/03/13/needing-support-due-to-covid-19/ | Primary | LITERACY | English | Free writing resources | Free resources, ready-made lesson plans, master classes | |||
91 | Bravo Bravo App | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015081990064 | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | |||||
92 | Breteau Foundation | http://breteaufoundation.org/ | Secondary | OTHER | Arabic | Breateau's purpose is to bring the best digital education tools to the world's underprivileged children. They partnet with local schools to deliver a package to compliment the curriculum. | ||||
93 | Britannica | http://bit.ly/freebritannica | Primary | OTHER | English | Britannica has made available COVID-19 emergency resources to every school in the U.S. Get free access to Britannica LaunchPacks, for social studies and science, being leveraged by schools across the world who are grappling with shutdowns, conducting virtual lessons, and working to minimize the impact on students, families, and staff. | Britannica LaunchPacks, for social studies and science. | |||
94 | British Council Montenegro | https://www.britishcouncil.me/en/english/mooc | Primary, Secondary, Tertiary | LITERACY | English | MOOCs for learning English language | Free | |||
95 | Broadway Plays to Watch Online | https://www.playbill.com/article/15-broadway-plays-and-musicals-you-can-watch-on-stage-from-home?fbclid=IwAR2vacy-XyZkD4Nz9_4R91eeT4biLoByJQBvHGyQfa9UVUFngCHVuj4ksKU | Secondary | OTHER | English | 15 plays and musicals that can be watched online | free | |||
96 | Bulb Digital Portfolios | bulbapp.com | Primary | OTHER | English | bulb is a digital portfolio used by students to build skills for the future, by teachers to measure competencies and by districts to meet learning goals. bulb is ad-free, meets data privacy policies and integrates with most LMS and SIS systems. | bulbEd, our flagship product for schools will be free to schools and districts closing through the rest of the school year and into summer, (July 31). A digital portfolio account has always been free to all educators, sign up here to get your account up and running: https://www.bulbapp.com/b/sign-up If you would like to know more how to get your classroom and/or school up and running in a matter of days with bulb please email: info@bulbapp.com and mention in the subject this resource - Amazing Educational Resources bulbEd Offer | |||
97 | Buncee | https://app.edu.buncee.com/ | Tool | OTHER | English | Supports the creation and sharing visual representations of learning content including media | Tool to create digital learning content | |||
98 | Bunk History | https://www.bunkhistory.org/ | Primary | OTHER | English | Digital archive of a variety of media produced about current events, public history and government. Bunk shows connection both spatially and across historic eras. | Free | |||
99 | Busy Kids Do Piano | https://busykidsdopiano.com/membership | Primary | OTHER | English | Free month of lessons with coupon code PIANOATHOME | ||||
100 | BWS Education Consulting | https://www.bwseducationconsulting.com/handouts.php | Secondary | OTHER | English | Students and parents are welcome to download and use any of these to help with test prep and college admissions. | ||||