Online Learning- Learn just about anything online, at your own pace
www.khanacademy.org Incredible resource. Small online video tutorials for every subject. A must see!!! Learn Zillion does just that through asynchronous video lessons organized by the Common Core Standards. http://academicearth.org A collection of the best online lectures Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. Atomic Learning- Geared toward teachers, this site has all kinds of tutorials on using tech. Ask the AISD librarian for the password. Lynda.com Geared toward intermediate users this is an absolutely great site for learning software programs. Einztein is a new service for locating online collegiate level courses and corresponding materials. 60+ Open Courseware Collections to Help You Be a Better Teacher 50 Excellent Online Communities for Lifelong Learners Free Video Lectures is a library of more than 18,000 video lectures from more than 700 courses offered by some of the world's top colleges and universities. Learn It In 5 is a relatively new site that features short how-to videos for teachers. Moodle Tutorials from Free Technology For Teachers blog http://www.teachparentstech.org Great how to videos from Google! MIT OpenCourseWare Russell Stannard's Teacher Training Videos.
Russell Stannard's videos are screencasts in which he walks viewers
through the process of using software and web applications from
beginning to end. Kids Teaching Kids
has developed a free service that will ultimately allow any kid with
access to a cell phone or computer to watch a video teaching how to
solve every problem in every textbook Fraboom is an online children’s museum packed full of games, interactive books, creativity, learning and-are you ready for this-LIVE online teachers! http://teachertechvids.com Great video tutorials on the most popular Web 2.0 Tools.
Collaboration Tools
ClassChats.com ~ Connecting Students Worldwide This site connects teachers to other classrooms around the world.Yogile - Easy photo sharing!www.stixy.com A virtual bullet board with interactive collaboration voicethread.com A site with amazing interactivity. You can include audio, video, text, and have people leave audio comments. wallwisher.com A virtual post-it bulletin board. Leave everyone a sticky note! Dabbleboard – Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration – Interactive whiteboard softwareEtherpad is a free tool that allows users to collaborate in real real time ShareTabs Add a list of links to the form below and submit it to get a single link to them all, conveniently displayed in tabs. Great for sharing in Email, IM, Twitter, or SMS. en.linoit.com Interactive bulletin board for stickies, pictures and even video Board800 is a simple service that enables anyone to create a collaborative whiteboard space in seconds. crocodoc Share and review documents online. Invite anyone to collaborate on PDFs, Word Docs and PowerPoint Slides Lifeyo is a free service for creating great-looking websites and blogs. Weebly for Education includes all of the intuitive website-building and blogging tools found on Weebly plus features built specifically for education. Present.io allows users to set up a free webinar or video conference with just two clicks. Web Conferencing, Video Web Conferencing, Web Conferencing Services, Web Video Conferencing Solutions | InstantPresenter.com SignApp Now – Simple Sign Up Sheets http://carbonmade.com An online digital portfolio platform. Wetoku is a free video conferencing system Ning Ends Free Networks - Try These Alternatives Join Me is an incredibly simple way to share your computer screen with others. Vokle is a free service for hosting and recording live web conferences. Phile is a fantastic new way for communities to “create a useful, lasting body of knowledge just by talking about the stuff you love.” Phile makes it easy for groups of people work together on building collections and discussions based on shared passions. Enter the Group
is a fabulous online tool that makes it simple to work with, and
organize, groups online. The tool has similar functionalities to Wiggio. Enter the Group
includes shared calendars, site email, file sharing, instant chat and
message boards, the ability to create private groups and classrooms,
tasks and assignments, polls, blogging, Twitter, and question/answer
forum, and best of all: it is totally free! DropEvent allows you to create an event and it provides a unique email address. Minus (Min.us)
provides a simple way to share files with anyone. To use Minus just
drag a file onto the blank Minus canvas. Once your file is on the canvas
Minus will provide you with links to share your file with others. Everloop is a social networking site designed for use by tweens and their parents. IDroo is an educational multi user whiteboard that lets students instantly collaborate online. Remind101.com sends email and text alerts to remind students of impending test and assignment deadlines. Fakebook and Twister
These two teacher created tools are fantastic. They produce results
that look like the real deal and were obviously created by teachers who
understand that the focus should be learning and not the tool. Popplet allows you to create a wall of multimedia sticky notes that you can share with others.
Sprixi is a new searchengine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. artpad.art.com Draw and paint in this simple creation tool. Bomomo lets creativity run wild with a new kinds of painting tools. www.onlinesketchpad.com A very basic and easy to use drawing program Draw.to anyone can quickly create a freehand sketch and share it with the world. aviary.com This is like a VERY easy to use Photoshop program. piZap - fun easy photo editing - free photo effects edu.glogster.com Great online poster maker and collaborator. mugtug.com/sketchpad A simple and easy to use drawing program AutoMotivator provides an easy way to create your own motivational signs or posters for your classroom or office. http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php Motivational Poster - This web site allows you to create a motivational poster. You just need a photo to get started. http://bighugelabs.com/captioner.php Comic Photo - This web site allows you to create a comic out of any photo. www.istockphoto.com great place for photos. Soundation is a free service that allows anyone to create and remix sound tracks online. http://www.jamendo.com/en/ A place to download legally FREE music. http://www.soungle.com/ A search engine for finding the perfect sound effect. Totally free! http://www.stockvault.net/ Make sure and use the “free stock photos” tab on the page. Pictures can be downloaded for free. http://www.imageafter.com/index.php Totally free webpage with the ability to search for pictures and textures, either by keyword or category. http://www.freepixels.com/ Lots of free, high quality images to download. Easy to search by keyword or category. http://www.kavewall.com/stock/index.html Free stock photos, images, and textures from Kave Wall. These are very good artistic looking images. Veezzle is an image search engine that only shows copyright free photos. Simple Diagrams offers a free tool that anyone can use to create diagrams using a combination of clip art, text, and free hand drawings. http://blabberize.com - You can take any photo and make it talk. You can embed it in your wiki. http://www.xtimeline.com - Easy to create timeline that you can embed in your wiki. Vocaroo is a free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need to install any software. Wondersay is a simple tool for creating animated text displays. Noun Project and it is trying to collect universal images that can be used in universal design projects. http://www.postermywall.com make posters easily and powerfully. Draw Island is a new free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Awesome Screenshot is a great Chrome and Safari browser extension for capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots. uJam and allows a person to create a FREE account to make FREE songs Diagram.ly offers a drag and drop interface for creating diagrams using clip art and pre-drawn shapes. Lovely Charts
Lovely charts is a truly lovely webapp that lets all you visual types make simple charts and diagrams in a flash. JellyCam is a free program for creating stop motion movies.
Games (Brain science confirms that games are a great way to learn)
Neo K12 Study guides, help, educational videos and even games! Click Here for 35 great games ClassTools.net Create your own classroom games www.proprofs.com Make your own classroom games, flashcards, quizzes. beta.sharendipity.com Create and share simple video games. www.purposegames.com Create, share and play games. nobelprize.org/educational_games Games in all kinds of disciplines inspired by the Nobel Prize. 25 Sites for Games www.physicsgames.net Physics games. Great site! www.jeopardylabs.com/ Make your own Jeopardy games EASILY! (and without PowerPoint) www.fitbrains.com Fit Brains is a site which offers a range of games to help develop thinking skills. 10 Sources of Educational Science Games Engineering Interact is a site for elementary school students. Engineering Interact offers five games designed to teach students physics concepts. Game for Science has to be one of the coolest virtual worlds for kids. This virtual world is dedicated to getting kids excited about science and technology. Bubba Brain is a simple site packed with review games for students preparing for the SAT and AP exams. On their games page, Big Picture Small World links to dozens of educational games built around science and social studies concepts. Samarost is an intriguing flash website where students are dropped in the middle of a strange new universe where they must solve a variety of challenging puzzles Goldburger to Go! Rube Goldberg designed machines that made simple, every day, tasks into complicated activities with the help of his contraptions (think Wallace and Gromit). : Chess Kid is a fantastic way for kids to learn to play the game of chess and then practice their game against kids from around the world. www.superteachertools.com lots of flash templates from Jeopardy to Who Wants to Be A Millionaire GeoGames games for geography Fraboom is an online children’s museum packed full of games, interactive books, creativity, learning and-are you ready for this-LIVE online teachers! Zondle is a provider of free games designed to help students practice recalling information. www.arcademicskillbuilders.com great site for elementary basic skills.
prezi.com This is a great site for making presentations in a brand new and easy way. Click Here for templates Present.me is a web service that lets you create effective presentations through your PowerPoint files. www.slideshare.com Share your Powerpoint or Keynote presentations with the world. www.animoto.com Quickly and easily make stunning slideshow from your pictures. www.stupeflix.com Quickly and easily make slideshows from your pictures. Less frenetic than Animoto. flixtime.com Quickly and easily make slideshows from your pictures and video clips. edu.glogster.com Great online poster maker and collaborator. http://compfight.com Download copyright friendly images 7 Places & Ways to Find Copyright-friendly Images http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ Download copyright friendly images Simple Booklet could be a good tool for students to use to publish multimedia stories. Yudu and Issuu. Both services allow users to turn their static documents into page-turning online documents. Poster Street is a collection of free posters for classroom and office display. AutoMotivator provides an easy way to create your own motivational signs or posters for your classroom or office. Read Write Think's flip book maker provides a template for students to use to create and print a ten page flip book.
Graphs and Data Visualization
Google's Public Data Explorer draws on data sets from the World Bank, the US CDC, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other sources of public data. prettygraph.com Make great graphs and charts easily on the web. Chart Go is a free service that allows users to quickly and easily create pie charts, area charts, bar graphs, and line graphs Chartle.net Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations – offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity online chart generator. Online Chart Generator The best online chart and graph generator tool, Generate amazing 3D graphs instantly in few seconds.
Mind Mapping
Wise Mapping is a free collaborative mind mapping tool. Slatebox is a slick tool for collaboratively creating mind maps and organizational charts. Bubbl.us is a free mind mapping/ graphic organization tool that allows users to collaboratively create and edit mind maps. FlockDraw is a simple service that allows people to quickly and easily collaborate on the creation of a drawing. Cacoo is a feature-rich collaborative diagram creation resource. Board800 is a simple service that enables anyone to create a collaborative whiteboard space in seconds. Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Mind Meister it has by far one of the most intuitive interfaces of any web-based mind mapping tool out there.
Social Networking
http://www.ning.com/ Create secure education friendly networks. Lefora as a free alternative to Ning for creating your own social network.p Jabbster is a free service that allows families and groups to create private online communication networks. ShoutEm allows you to make your own public or private network. Edmodo is a microblogging system designed specifically for teachers and students. http://www.readwritethink.org/ A great site with lots of resources for teachers. Togetherville is a social networking for kids Dippo.com a new social network available for educators. Sophia is a social
network of sorts that connects everyone in meaningful ways so that
knowledge, help, instruction, standards-aligned content, and experts are
available for learners everywhere. YapTime is a new entry into the "create your own social network" market.
Study Guides
www.schmoop.com Absolutely fabulous site for study guides. Great for everyone, espcially ESL and SST kids. Neo K12 Study guides, help, educational videos and even games! Study Boost is a really useful application for studying. Study Boost makes studying easy and convenient by delivering study content using instant messaging, text messaging, and more. Study Blue
is a very handy study tool for high-school and college students that
works the way they do. Students can use it to store notes and create
flashcards. Plagiarisma is a free tool that teachers and students can use to detect possible cases of plagiarism. Open Study is a free service that allows students to create online study groups.
Test/Quiz/Review Creation
Best Online Quiz Maker | Zoho Challenge Quizinator is a free service designed to make the process of creating quizzes, exams, and other printable activities a more efficient process for teachers. www.mystudiyo.com Create truly interactive tests and quizzes online. www.studystack.com Flashcard creator. memorize.com Flashcard creator. quizlet.com Online quiz and flashcard generator RCampus is a free, web-based, platform for creating and conducting courses online. www.proprofs.com Make your own classroom games, flashcards, quizzes. Flubaroo is a free script that you can use grade the quizzes that you administer through Google Docs.
Educational Video
www.watchknow.com This is a database of educational videos on YouTube. You can search YouTube via WatchKnow without getting all the silly hits that are not educationally relevant. learner.org This is the Annenberg educational video site. It includes lessons plans and excellent resources. movieclips.com Find your favourite movie clip from Hollywood movies(requires HotSpot Shield, so ask Leon) vidque.com This site makes organizing and sharing your videos with your students from YouTube, or Vimeo, etc. easy Blinkx If you need video for the web, this handy video search engine is a POWERFUL tool. Explore.org produces and hosts high-quality documentary films and photographs. The films and images focus on exploring the world and the work of non-profit organizations around the world. documentaryheaven.com Lots and lots of documentaries. SnipSnip.it is a new service that allows you to easily clip a section from a YouTube video and share that section with others. Snag Films The collection of free high-quality documentary films on Snag Films continues to grow every month. Movie Clips: This site will allow you to search for movie clips on a specific topic that you are going to cover in class. This is the best site for finding topic specific movie clips for your classroom. Click here to go to MovieClips
Digital Story Telling & Movie Making
ddguild.org/index.html Digital Directors Guild, a great place to start. Teacher's Guide to Digital StoryTelling A great "how-to" from a teacher. A Guide To Digital Story Telling This is from Microsoft A Simple Guide to Movie Making. This is a great resource to guide you and your students on making movies. Stage'D! Stage'd is a digital toy for creating animated comics. ZooBurst is a new website that offers an exciting free service. ZooBurst allows users to create 3D pop-up books using nothing more than public domain clip art and ZooBurst's web-based editing tools. Stage’d is a tool that helps students to tell digital stories in a new 3-d way. Students can create a stage full of characters and dialogue as if they are directing their own digital play. Yudu and Issuu. Both services allow users to turn their static documents into page-turning online documents. www.kerpoof.com Quickly and easily make digital stories and movies. (http://www.kerpoof.com/teach?c=lesson_plans) memoov.com Great site for making animated movies. Chogger is a free comic strip creation tool offering a good selection of editing tools. Chogger allows you to draw images from scratch or use your existing images. You can even connect your webcam to Chogger to capture pictures for use in your comic strips. storybird.com Another great place for young kids to start digital storytelling. www.pictorymag.com turn your digital photos into a story. www.xtranormal.com Make animated movies easily. Mixbook, possibly my favorite online digital storytelling application. voicethread.com A site with amazing interactivity. You can include audio, video, text, and have people leave audio comments. www.zimmertwins.com Makes it very easy to make story animations XtraNormal.com This easy, fun and free site helps you to instantly create movies. Includes sets, actors and sounds. JayCut – Online video editing MakeBeliefsComix Make-your-own comics Story Top is a simple comic strip creator. Yudu Freedom provides free hosting and web publishing of your PDF files. My Ebook allows users to create ebooks that contain text, images, and videos on each page. Fotobabble is a free service that allows you to quickly turn a picture into an audio picture story. At Lego City you can create a comic strip that feature Lego elements. FlipSnack lets students turn PDF documents into embeddable Flipbooks quickly and easily.
www.dipity.com Kids can create a truly interactive timeline. (Free account limited to 3 timelines) Time Toast is the simplest of these timeline builders. www.xtimeline.com can include text, images, and video. Student can collaborate on a single timeline like a Wiki. Mnemograph offers some very nice layout features over X Timline, but is not quite as intuitive to use as X Timeline. Preceden – The Easiest Way to Make a Timeline Tiki-Toki is an absolutely GORGEOUS multimedia timeline creator. The results are truly a work of art-no joke!
Programming
Alice.Org:
A animated story creator. That also teaches programming. Students really get into programming after using this application.
SumanasAn excellent resource for (mainly) biology animations. This link will take you directly to their Animations Gallery, but have a look at Science in Focus as well.
Biology Animations A source of extremely good quality biology animations, highly recommended to me.
BiologyMad.com Written for the UK AQA A level syllabus, but worth a look whatever syllabus you are studying at this level.
BiologyGuide.netWritten for UK AQA A level Biology and Human Biology, this is a set of revision notes plus the ability to comment and ask questions. Non-AQA students could usefully have a look as well.
Online Biology BookWritten for first year college students in the US, but A level (or equivalent) students might find something useful. Not being a biologist, I have no way of knowing!
More animations Mainly biology, but some chemistry and physics as well.
Life: The Science of BiologyBeautifully produced tutorials (including animations) based on a textbook with the same name.
Math & Science
Click Here for the best of Math and Science sites according toLarry FerlazzoTeacher Zone is a compilation of more than 1,000 mathematics tutorials videos created by Ten Marks tutors. http://prettygraph.com Make graphs and charts easily! http://www.physics4kids.com/index.html Tutorials and quizzes on physics. Cell Biology VideosMath Live has a collection of animated cartoons that teach students math concepts Wolfram Alpha for Educators. great Math stuff. The Japanese Science and Technology Center offers nine outstanding science lessons. The Science of Music, created by the folks at Exploratorium, is a fun series of lessons and activities about music. Physics Central is produced by the American Physical Society for the purpose of educating the world about physics. Sumanas is a provider of animations of science and statistics concepts. Sciyo - Hundreds of Free Science Books and Journals Fuel the Brain is a nice collection of online mathematics games, interactive lessons, and printable materials for teaching mathematics. Encyclopedia of Life Incredible resources are emerging at the scientifically vetted and created Encyclopedia of life. DNA Tube is a nice
site for watching and sharing videos about topics in science. While
most of the videos seem to be about topics related to biology there are
also videos about chemistry, physics, and computer science. Science Fix is a fantastic video blog that I learned about from my friend and PLN colleague Kyle Pace. The videos are all recorded science experiments and demos from middle school science teacher Darren Fix. The Molecular Workbench is an excellent site produced by the Concord Consortium with funding from the National Science Foundation. Manga High allows teachers to register themselves and their students to play mathematics games. Maths Master. Maths Master offers short instructional videos for learning basic arithmetic and algebra. Healthline Body Maps provides interactive three dimensional models for learning about human anatomy. PSToM is an online portal for math classes. With PSToM parents can follow their child’s progress and know exactly what their child is learning in math
47 Alternatives to Using YouTube in the Classroom www.zamzar.com Convert from one kind of document to another. Great for Publisher files to Word files. Convert PDF to PowerPoint will then email you when your new PowerPoint file is available. Free online OCRSo, someone gives you a massive document and can't find it to email it to you and you have to retype whole pieces. This free OCR (optical character recognition) is a great tool to try to keep from having to do all that typing. http://ge.tt is a great site to share large files with people rather than attaching them to emails. Go Pileus is a simple free service for quickly sharing files. To use Go Pileus just drag a file from your desktop to the Go Pileus page in your browser. We Transfer allows you to send large files (up to 2GB) to your friends and colleagues without using your email account. Minus you simply "drag and drop" your files to share them todaysmeet.com This is a backchannel site. Backchanneling is chatting during a lesson or video. www.freshbrain.org A site for great technology projects. Learn and share your tech projects. scribblemaps.com Lets you draw right onto Google Maps. http://worditout.com Make word clouds! Map A List is a neat tool that combines the power of Google Spreadsheets and Google Maps or Google Earth. http://web2educationuk.wetpaint.com a list of tons of free tech available online--usually with some sort of review or screen shot. Read the Words converts your text (word, pdf, html, websites, and more) into spoken words. Simple Timer + Clocks is a Firefox add-on that offers count down timers, stop watch settings, and a clock reminder. Twurdyis
a search engine (powered by Google) that indicates the reading level of
each page in a search result. Pages are given a reading level score,
and results are color coded to make it easy for a user to recognize
which results are likely to be most helpful. http://embedit.in/ This site is great for embedding PDF files and other webpages into your exiting website.