My Favorite Technology Resources
Classroom Management
weebly: the easiest, most powerful, and affordable website-building experience.
edmodo: Edmodo is transforming the way that teachers and students connect, engage and learn both inside and outside the classroom. classdojo: classroom management site. Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students – and Google has listened to educators saying that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. PDF to Word: is a fantastically simple site that allows you to do just what the url suggests: Convert PDF documents to fully editable Word documents. |
socrative: Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Gmail+: Great way for students to have an email address when they need it for registrations but they do no have an email account. http://teachingall.blogspot.com/2012/05/gmail-trick.html learninglab: Internet Safety and More netsmartz: Internet Safety SweetSearch is a safe searching site for students. Nearpod - For ipads Peardeck - for chromebooks Readlist: http://readlists.com/ this lets you create a digital textbook out of web articles. my storybook https://www.mystorybook.com/ make a childrens book with pictures and words online. |
Online Projects
Read Write Think: Cool interactive graphic organizers.
Story Jumper is a wonderful site that allows children to create their very own books. You can create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the StoryJumper clipart gallery, too. Prezi: Applies a whole new approach to presenting by taking a perspective view rather than the linear slide view we are more familiar with. http://prezi.com/ http://prezi.com/hgjm18z36h75/why-should-you-move-beyond-slides/ Tiki-Toki: is for creating beautiful interactive timelines. http://www.tiki-toki.com/ Glogster: is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for "graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with it. http://edu.glogster.com/ With Printing Press students can create a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper fairly easily. |
Slide Rocket: SlideRocket is a hosted web app designed to take presentations to the next level with graphical prowess and multimedia integration. It is a great transition for anyone familiar with PowerPoint, but who is tired of dull presentations in over used templates.
www.sliderocket.com Drop Mocks is perhaps the simplest tool I’ve seen yet. All you do is just drag your image file on to the web browser screen and…. viola! Your presentation is born. Each Drop Mock generates a URL for easy sharing. I appreciate the simplicity and recommend Drop Mocks when you need to create an image-based slide show on the fly http://www.dropmocks.com/ http://animoto.com/sample-videos: Create videos with pictures and movies, kind of like iMovie Draw Online http://www.sumopaint.com/start/ Voki Marvel Comic Creator Storyboard that |
Web 2.0
Kidblog: Classroom blogging
http://kidblog.org/home/ Wonderful Web organization tool http://www.symbaloo.com/ Anyone can post comments on a wall http://wallwisher.com/ Students can respond verbally to pictures and videos. http://voicethread.com/ |
PodOmatic:Free Podcasting Website
http://www.podomatic.com/login Popplet: Interactive graphic organizer, students can collaboratively work on the same graphic organizer. http://popplet.com/ Easily create animated conversations http://goanimate.com/ CoSketch is a collaborative drawing site which requires no joining, logging in or registration. |
Math
Great Class math practice
http://www.sumdog.com/ Calculation Nation: Fun Math Games http://calculationnation.nctm.org/Games/ Interactive Math Activities www.nlvm.usu.edu Cool Math is “designed for the pure enjoyment of mathematics.” This interactive site features a plethora of fun games, puzzles, calculators, and lesson plans. Math TV is an amazing collection of how-to videos in a variety of math subjects. Checking it out, I watched a video on how to multiply fractions and I (a teacher) learned a new method. Imagine what your students can learn. https://www.prodigygame.com/ |
dimensionu.com: DimensionU is a video game-based learning resource for K–12 students. In DimensionU, students can access 3D multiplayer educational video games that help them hone their math and literacy skills, connect with friends, and compete and collaborate while learning.
Graphing Sight http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx Math Problems by Dan Meyer https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjIqyKM9d7ZYdEhtR3BJMmdBWnM2YWxWYVM1UWowTEE#gid=0 ted talk math http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html Illustrative Mathematics http://www.illustrativemathematics.org/ |
L.A.
Author Study with Dr. Seuss
http://www.seussville.com/ Character Generator http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/english/characters/index.htm ***Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/about/: Great for vocab practice. ***Kahoot: Rhymes.net is a simple search site that returns rhyming words to whatever you enter in the search field. Google Lit Trips Take a virtual tour of the setting of a book in google earth! Punctuation Paintball at I Know That "Teachers have been amazed at the 'allure' of this on-line game. Visit the site and you'll find a fun way to work on the 6-Trait area of 'conventions.'" |
Penzu: Online Class Journaling (Does cos $50 a year for class, free for your own journal)
http://penzu.com/content/products/classroom http://www.snappywords.com/: It’s an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. http://ohlife.com/:Write in private about your life. Elementary School Reading http://www.starfall.com/ 60 Second Recap: With the 60second Recap, teens finally have an alternative to the boring, text-based study guides. SpellingCity.com: An impressive web site for spelling and vocabulary. Read down the column on the right side of the page to read what this site has to offer, along with links to teacher training videos to show you how to effectively use the site. |
Lesson Resources
PBS: Collection of Lessons and Activities
http://www.pbs.org/teachers Smithsonian Collection of Standards and Lessons to go With Them http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators http://handsonmath.blogspot.com/p/about-this-site.html: Really nice project based math lessons http://www.eduhound.com/: Provides valuable ed tech resources to incorporate into your curriculum. Educational topics, templates, technology tutorials, and practical tips are featured. NeoK12 is a fantastic collection of videos arranged by subject that have been individually reviewed by K-12 teachers. |
TED ED: You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lessons on TED
http://ed.ted.com/ Technology Integration Matrix: 125 videos of teacher using tech in their classrooms. http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/ Online Ready Made Smartboard Lessons http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html#tab=0 http://www.globaltechschool.com/6-12.htm Kubbu is an e-learning tool designed to facilitate teachers’ work and enhance the learning process. Teachers can create games, quizzes, or crosswords; make them available online for students, and then view and analyze the results. |
Simulations and Gaming
Make a Blueprint
http://www.smallblueprinter.com/sbp.html http://www.icivics.org/ iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials. http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Merriam-Webster Word Games is a nice collection of games that gets students thinking and improving their lexicon. There are crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, jumbles, and a plethora of other brainy games. interactive simulations. From Glaciers, to Natural Selection, to Circuit Construction; these simulations really show students how things work. https://www.prodigygame.com/USA/: With Prodigy, learning is a whole classroom experience. Unlike other websites, students can play and learn through an ever-expanding world with their friends. Their progress is automatically saved, so students will run home at night to continue playing with their classmates! |
http://gamestarmechanic.com/teachers/what_is_gamestar: Gamestar Mechanic is a game and online community that teaches kids how to design their own games!
Virtual Sistine Chapel is an amazing 360 degree interactive view of the Sistine Chapel e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun. Students click on their grade and then a list of games divided into subjects comes up. Games for Change is a non-profit organization which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. http://powermylearning.com/ http://pinterest.com/dkapuler/educational-online-games/ |
Web quest
QuestGarden is an online authoring and hosting system for WebQuests. Since 2005, over 20,000 WebQuests have been created on the site. QuestGarden members can download WebQuests created by other teachers and adjust them to meet their specific needs.
WebQuest.Org: the most complete and current source of information about the WebQuest Model. http://webquest.org/ |
Top 10 Best Virtual Field Trips
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/04/07/ten-of-the-best-virtual-field-trips/?ps=312597-00130000011vKVG-0033000001BOXU6 Zunal WebQuest Maker: The easiest way to create a WebQuest with more than 217.2 thousand users. It is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes. http://www.zunal.com/ |
Science
Science Bob is a fun, interactive site that has several different areas for kids to choose from. There are videos, experiments, science fair ideas, and a research help link with a plethora of fantastic links to other sites.
CELLS Alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research Who Pooped is a science site created by the Minnesota Zoo to help students to begin thinking like scientists. One way scientists learn about animals is by studying their poop — also called “scat” or “dung.” |
Animal Diversity Web is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology.
The educational goals of Catch the Science Bug are to increase science literacy and raise environmental consciousness by adhering to national standards and guidelines for content and use different teaching methods to engage all types of learners, and encourage life-long learning by featuring scientists who model this behavior. Science With Me is chalk-full of fun science projects. Active Science has 15 different scientific modules, each with interactive games and activities. Great for use with IWB. |
Social Studies
Google Earth Resources
http://www.socialstudiescentral.com/content/seeing-believing-using-google-earth-improve-learning Google Earth. The possibilities for using Google Earth in a social studies classroom are almost limitless. In Google Earth students can tour ancient Rome, explore WWI and WWII battle sites, learn about contemporary news stories such as events in Afghanistan, or use Google Earth as an almanac of facts. Students, of course, can use Google Earth to create digital stories. Students can create tours of military campaigns, trace the lives of famous people, or map the expansions and contractions of political borders. If you're looking for some directions to get started with Google Earth, please see Google Earth Across the Curriculum. National Archives Daily Document. Every day the RSS feed from the National Archives serves up a new primary document corresponding to that day in history. Along with the document teachers will find suggested classroom resources and suggested research links. The National Archives has also made available on Google Video hundreds of films from their records. US History teachers will find a use for just about everything in the National Archives' collection of films. The Avalon Project is a free resource produced by Yale University. The Avalon Project provides digital copies of hundreds of original documents from a myriad of topics in US History. The Avalon Project is a good resource for students that need to find digital copies of original documents. For example, all of The Federalist Papersare available on the Avalon Project website. X Timeline. Using X Timeline students can collaborate, just as they would when making a wiki, to build a multimedia timeline. Timelines built using X Timeline can include text, images, and video. X Timeline will accept dates in A.D./B.C. format. |
For teachers of elementary school students Kids Past has an easy to read online World History "textbook" for kids. Kids Past also offers five history games to which students can apply the knowledge the find in the textbook. The textbook and games correspond to each other.
History Animated provides animations of the American Revolution, the US Civil War, and the US Pacific Campaign in WWII. In each of the three series of animations you will see the animated movement of armies displayed on a map. Each animation is accompanied by captions describing the strategies of the armies as well as the results and consequences of each battle. BizEd is a great resource for economics lessons and virtual field trips. I started using BizEd a few years ago and it has been a valuable resource to me ever since.BizEd is a UK based website so some of the lessons and activities have to be manipulated a little bit for use in US classrooms, but the overall value of activities is fantastic. Some of the highlights for teachers are frequently updated lesson plans, a comprehensive glossary of terms, slide shows available for download, and fantastic virtual field trips. Playing History is a collection of more than 100 games related to topics in US and World History as well as civics and geography. The games come from a variety of sources across the web. Feedback on every game and suggestions for future additions are welcomed by the hosts of the site. Visitors to Playing History can search for games by using the tag cloud, by using the search box, or just browse through the entire list. Everyday CNN Student News releases ten minute news programs covering news stories around the world. To accompany your use of the video, CNN provides maps and discussion guides. |