Cool Tools
New Additions
Create Custom QR Code - this site allows you to even make them in different colors
IGNITED 2019
Microsoft Office - Office.com - Student signs in with their school email
Gimkit - Gaming site - announced at ISTE that it will be free for educators
GCFLearnFree - was established to build your future by learning and developing the skills needed to advance in work and life.
Mobile Doc Scanner Lite - PDF scanner for Phone, available on Google Play and Apple Store
Digital citizenship game from google - game https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland
Lessons to go with the game - https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/resources
Teacher resources - https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/digital_citizenship/preview
Nitro Reader - The free version of Nitro PDF Reader allows you to add comments to documents before sharing them with others.
Word Cloud - Create online word cloud art and it enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease.
Note Anywhere - Google extension, make notes on any web page, any position that looks like a post it note. When you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically.
Quizizz - free game-based tool you can create fun, multi-player quiz games using your curriculum that can be used both in the classroom as a quick formative assessment and out of the classroom for homework.
Quizlet - Engage your students in and out of the classroom, with interactive study material, learning activities and games.
Password Checkup Chrome Extension - This extension allows you or your students to check for data breaches. It reinforces what we teach students about unique and secure passwords.
Pear Deck - transforms presentations into classroom conversations by allowing teacher to add interactive questions
SoloLearn - Learn to code online!
TINKERCAD - basic 3D modeling design tool that allows students to create 3D objects, download them and print them on a 3D printer.
Peergrade - Students can peer review other students work without knowing whose assignment it is.
Free online digital breakout box games
https://sites.google.com/site/digitalbreakoutjb/sandbox
https://www.breakoutedu.com/freegames
https://sites.google.com/view/tomsdigitalbreakouts
Blaberize – convert a picture into a talking picture
Class tools - -Teacher something that you create your own games
Quivervision - The VR sheets where you color, draw, upload to website and view as VR
Super Teacher Tools - Super Teacher Tools hosts several interactive tools where teachers can add their own content.
Flipgrid - have students create and upload videos
Tell you what they learned, introduce themselves set to monitor
Formative - real-time formative assessment can be taken on any device!
Canva - Create presentations, logos, newsletters, etc
Adblock - Adblock for Youtube™ blocks all ads on Youtube™! The enhanced Video Adblock removes any ad videos shown before your video as well.
Artsonia - Educators can use this popular website and app to safely share original work created by students
Screencastomatic- a teacher or student can record what is on their computer screen and save as a video, Free version, or the paid version is $18 a year
Survey Monkey - Survey Monkey can be used to collect data from your staff or students. It could also be used as a quiz.
AutoDraw - - drawing tool that pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast.
Jeopardy Labs -create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint.
Pinterest - allows you to search for lesson plans, bulletin board ideas, games, organization etc
Kahoot! - a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!
Kahoot Jumble - Jumble questions challenge players to place answers in the correct order rather than selecting a single correct answer.
Avataaars - With this app, you can create avatar illustrations.
Bitly - Bitly is a free link shortening and QR code service that allows you to take long links and make them more easy to type out, write down, or remember.
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Canva - Canva is an easy-to-use digital design website that allows you to use pre-made templates, or start from scratch, to create professional presentations, documents, logos, etc.
Class Tools - Class Tools is a collection of game generators as well as an assortment of other useful classroom tools.
Unsplash - High Quality free use images
PhotoPea - Free photo editing software to challenge PhotoShop
Duo Lingo - Duolingo is the free website to learn to speak a different language. Use it for your Spanish class or to learn a second language yourself.
Factile - Create an online quiz game board quickly!
Flipgrid - is a video discussion platform that promotes fun and social learning by giving every student a voice in discussing prompts. Also a great way to have students introduce themselves!
Flipgrid Certified Level 1 and 2 - Currently Get level 2 by August ! And get Flipgrid tent
Flippity - Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards, scavenger hunts, crossword puzzles and Other Cool Stuff.
Book Creator - Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad or Chrome browser. With over 30 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for students or teachers to make all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photobooks, journals, textbooks and more.
Class Tag - Discover a simpler, easier way to communicate with parents and students. You can also organize events, ask for and organize volunteers, request items, organize parent-teacher conferences and much more! This program lets parents decide how to receive the messages and translates them in 50+ languages.
ClassDojo - classroom management tool that helps to create a positive culture, give students a voice, and share classroom moments with parents, great for elementary
code.org - Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities.
Common Lit - s a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th-grade classrooms. Search and filter our collection by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.
Desmos Online Calculator - Desmos is an online graphing calculator.
DocHub - DocHub is a free online PDF editor that lets you view, edit and sign PDFs in your browser.
Doodle - Make scheduling quick and easy with Doodle! Suggest times, invite participants, pick the final option.
Epic - This is a digital library for kids, with access to over 25,000 resources, including ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes.
Flat - Flat is an online sheet music editor that allows you to create and listen to your own music
Flip Quiz - A great and easy way to create a jeopardy style review online. You can create your own or choose from thousands that have already been shared. Great for K-12 and all subject areas.
Geogebra - GeoGebra is a free software program (available on Chrome and Windows devices as well as from the website) that lets kids create mathematical constructions and models.
Go Conqr - Teachers can create resources, such as Mind Maps, Flashcards, Slides, Quizzes, and more. Links to GoConqr projects can be shared with students via Google Classroom, emails, Canvas, etc.
Google Arts and Culture - Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture created by the Google Cultural Institute
Grammarly - help make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful. Adding Grammarly to Chrome means that your spelling and grammar will be vetted on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web.
GridPals - new version of pen pals!
Hour of Code™ - Join the movement and introduce a group of students to their first hour of computer science with these steps.
Kitzkikz - free printable flash card maker.
Listenwise - Listenwise is an award-winning listening skills platform.
Make An Animated GIF - GIFs can be used to add some spark to lessons, to illustrate a math concept, as a writing prompt and much more.
Math Learning Center - The Math Learning Center provides several free math apps that include virtual manipulatives.
Mind42 - Mind42 is a free online mind mapping software.
Musication - "Musication" is a private channel from Jan Vink, music teacher in the Netherlands (Primary education). He creates visual playalongs for boomwhackers, (body-) percussion and handbells for primary education.
World Book Kids Independent Research - World Book Kids Online is an online encyclopedia that can be used to teach independent research to K-4 grade students.
Zoom Conferencing - The power of Zoom Conferencing is connecting with others. For schools, this means connecting to professionals, to other classrooms, or taking part in professional learning.
Mystery Science - Mystery Science is an interactive online science tool for elementary.
PhET Interactive Simulations - The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations.
Planboard- Accessible from anywhere, you can plan lessons, align to curriculum sets, and upload all necessary files including presentations, handouts, videos, etc. in one place.
Plickers - Assess or poll the class without the need for student devices!
Popplet - helps students think and learn visually.
PowToon - Fight distractions in class and grab your students attention by making your education materials come to life with a Powtoon!
Prezi - a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
QBBuzzer - QBuzzer acts as a replacement for buzzer sets for academic quiz competitions.
QR Codes - QR codes are a helpful way to share links and information quickly with the use of technology
Quill - Quill provides 150 writing and grammar activities built from 42 Common Core language standards. Students learn these concepts by proofreading passages and writing sentences, and they receive instant feedback on their work.
Read & Write - Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.
Readtheory.org - Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels.
ReadWorks - Teaching time is valuable. That’s why everything on ReadWorks is thoughtfully designed to provide high-impact instruction that builds better readers. Readworks offers reading passages, question sets, vocabulary, ReadWorks Article of the Day, Paired Texts, Step Reads, Lessons and Units, ebooks, and Student Tools.
Recap - Recap allows learners to create short video responses to questions or prompts. It's free (for now).
Rewordify - Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.
Scholastic Daily Starters - Scholastic Daily Starters are short language arts and math questions, plus fun facts and teachable moments, packaged together in one easy-to-use page that changes every school day.
SeeSaw - Using SeeSaw, students capture learning with photos and videos of their work, or by adding digital creations. Everything gets organized in one place and is accessible to teachers from any device.
Student work can be shared with classmates, parents, or published to a class blog. Seesaw gives students a real audience for their work and offers parents a personalized window into their child’s learning.
Sketchpad - Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.
Socrative - Socrative is an interactive web-based student-response system (also available through iOS, Android, or Chrome apps) that can help teachers spark conversation and learning through user-created polls and quizzes.
Spelling City - SpellingCity is a great resource for spelling, phonics, and vocabulary games and activities
Sporcle - Sporcle is a trivia quiz website on which users have a set amount of time to complete their responses. Sporcle can be utilized as a study tool that covers a multitude of subjects. Teachers can create timed assessments for student-use.
Stop Motion Studio - "Stop Motion Animation is an excellent way to have students begin to explore the world of movie making."
Symbaloo - Symbaloo is a free social bookmarking service in the cloud. Because the information is stored in the cloud, these bookmarks are accessible from any device, anywhere!
t’es teach - Create digital lessons in five minutes using t'es teach. Collect all your digital content in one place, engage students with fun interactive lessons, and monitor student comprehension with discussions and quizzes.
Teach Your Monster to Read - Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning series of games that’s helped over half a million children learn to read.
Ted Ed - Add interactive questions, discussion topics and more to your favorite TED-Ed Animations, TED talks or any video on YouTube. Easily share lessons with your students and track the results.
Teleprompter - This teleprompting web app allows the user to copy/paste text in. It automatically recognizes when a voice is reading the words on the screen and will begin going through the text to prompt students what to say.
ThingLink - ThingLink is a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic. Create multiple “hot spots” on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a multimedia launcher. Include video, record audio or provide a link to any website with the click of a button. Easily embed an interactive ThingLink graphic into any blog or website.
Timeline - Timeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line.
Trello - Trello lets students and educators stay organized by allowing them to create checklists, upload images, and assign tasks to other users. This is especially helpful with group projects. This can help everyone who is operating on a different schedule and page stay organized and on top of things.
Chrome extension to add questions to online articles
Minecraft for Education
MBEA Summer Conference 2015
Take Charge Today
· Free personal finance curriculum from the University of Arizona
· account needed to download materials, need administrator contact information verify you are a teacher
· https://takechargetoday.arizona.edu/
Learn Free
· free tutorials for technology, math and Microsoft Office
· many have a final quiz
· http://www.gcflearnfree.org/
Plagiarism checker
· free for documents up to 1000 word
· you can try it once free without an account, after that you need to create an account but it is still free up to 1000 words per document
· Copy text or upload file
· http://www.duplichecker.com/
Hootsuite
· check all social media at one time
· www.hootsuite.com
Student Scholarships.org
· videos on careers and colleges
· http://www.studentscholarships.org/videos.php
Free Cardinals tickets for a fundraiser
· Request tickets for nonprofit fundraiser
· http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/community/donation_request_form.jsp
BBB In Pursuit of Ethics program
· Ethical situations and lesson plans
· contact your closest BBB (they will even come in a do a lesson)
· Link for St. Louis region http://www.bbb.org/stlouis/bbb-ethics-program-for-students/?id=189535
Free New York Times provides K-12 classrooms
· free subscriptions to the Replica Edition NY Times.
· Read, search, print or listen to articals from past 30 days
· learn more and to apply
OpenEd
· a free service that offers a huge catalog of games and educational videos
· browse by topic, grade level, or Common Core standard
· Video to demonstrate how to create practice assessments on OpenEd.
Google Super Quiz
· graded tests through Google
· how to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7wQp7Yq_8c
Kahoot
· Create your own learning games
· Can play with students in other countries
· video to get you started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFFv6_6was4
· https://getkahoot.com/
Classflow
· if you have a 1:1 classroom
· excellent videos to get you started
· https://classflow.com/
Free tech for teachers
· Best resource ever
· www.freetech4teachers.com
MBEA Summer Conference 2014
Today’s Meet - https://todaysmeet.com/ go to the page, name the room CoolTools for 2 hours
Drive Of Your Life - https://www.driveofyourlife.org/main/index.html
- designed for middle and high school students
- Educational tool
- students answer questions about themselves to narrow career interest search
- students go on virtual drive to learn about those careers
- Indiana Specific career exploration
Design free business cards - www.vistaprint.com (this is not a constant offer but several times a year)
College exploration materials - http://dhe.mo.gov/publications.php
lesson plans for digital citizenship - http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
Convert a Google document to PDF - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/11/how-to-quickly-create-pdfs-in-google.html#.Unxjz-KKJrM
Quizlet - http://quizlet.com/
- sign in with google
- Create a class and add students, invite students or email link
- Create a quiz or test
Free Tech for Teachers - www.freetech4teachers.com
- daily post of free tools
- if he cannot use it in 7 minutes, he will not post it
Khan Acadamy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
short videos for math, science, business, career ed
Blabberize - http://blabberize.com/
upload a picture of Bill Gates to tell story or yourself for lessons
Take pictures with a whistle - http://www.androidauthority.com/whistle-camera-383364/
Code Academy - http://www.codecademy.com/learn
learn HTML code
TedEd- www.ted.ed.com add quiz to youtube video
Calculator for measuring what a dollar is worth during different time periods - http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/
enter years and amount and get full page on changes in purchasing power
QR Droid - http://qrdroid.com/generate/
- used to create QR codes
- sharing my contact information with parents on parent-teacher conference day
- will also allow you to share calendar information, chunks of text, and links to websites.
- Terri Eichholz wrote a great post here about using QR codes to create interactive bulletin boards.
Goo.gl - http://goo.gl Google's URL shortening service.
easy way to share a link
Online crossword builder - https://crosswordlabs.com/
- allows you to email the crossword to your class and they complete it online
- You assign a password for the anwer key
- If you want an account to organize your work its $10 for lifetime
Simple Booklet - https://livebooklet.com/index-lb.php
- offers free online booklet creation and publishing
- sign-up for a free account and click create.
- Select the layout template that suits your needs
- add content click anywhere on the blank canvas and a menu of options will appear.
- add text, images, audio files, videos, and links to each page of your booklet
- may include SchoolTube, TeacherTube and YouTube videos
- you can copy text from Word
MBEA Fall Conference 2013
www.nearpod.com awesome! Create a slide show, have your kids sign in and it appears on their device
www.teachingobjects.net create and save lessons, link to Google, Common Core
www.freetech4teachers.com He has a website, blog, Facebook and Twitter. Gives daily hints of free online tools that he has already tested and he is a teacher.
YouTube Audio Library The music can be downloaded legally to use in projects online and offline. Students can listen before downloading and then download as a MP3 file. Students can search based on duration, instrument or genre.
Azendoo is great when you have students doing group projects. Students can assign responsibilities to individual members of a team and track each students work. Create a task by filling in the “task” field and pick a date. You can invite people to join a workspace and communicate with each other. You have access to unlimited workspaces, 10GB storage and it works with Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box so that your team can share materials from those accounts.
Credit Card Responsibility from Common Craft teaches students how credit cards work and how to manage credit cards and credit card debt.
Submrge promotes the use of games in education. They are also linked to Common Core. On Submrge you will find short reviews of a wide variety of games including games designed specifically for education and popular commercial games. Along with the description of the games you will find links to examples of how teachers have used the games in their classrooms.
Active Textbook allows you to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. You upload PDFs and add pictures, links, and videos that display when students read your PDF through the Active Textbook viewer. Students can also add comments to the documents, highlight text or add drawings.
creating digital portfolios. Dropr is a free service for creating portfolios of your images, videos, and audio files. You can have multiple portfolio pages. To create a Dropr portfolio start by signing up with a social media profile or with your email address. Start by uploading a cover image, then you can drag and drop media from your desktop to the Dropr website. Projects can include text, and media that you upload. Each project has a different URL but you can work on your project in private until you are ready to publish.
Read Write Think's Crossword Puzzle Generator makes it easy to create your own crossword puzzles, print blank puzzles and print answer keys. All you need to do is enter all your terms, it creates the puzzle and then you enter your clues.
Khan Academy - videos you can use for your classes, more than just math and science.
MBEA Summer Conference 2013
Presenter – Theresa Taylor [email protected]
1. Google Forms –create Self grading tests using forms - click Tools – Script Gallery Flubaroo (must install for each graded test)
2. Voki - www.voki.com A free service that lets you create custom avatars, add a voice and post them. (some avatars are paid site only)
3. The Answer Pad theanswerpad.com Free version for one group up to 36 kids, upgrade $10 teacher and $1 per kid (can use like computer 1 computer2 etc), self register works better than teacher entering everyone, Click go Interactive, Gallery has extra tools
4. Today’s Meet - Todaysmeet.com - Requires no account for teacher or student, very easy to use, get more students talking, click projector at bottom so it will clean up for the projections, Transcript – hard copy of discussion when finished
5. Remind101 www.remind101.com - text your students and you never have access to their phone numbers, anyone can join/monitor
6. TedEd: www.ed.ted.com - video: http://ed.ted.com/tour , create or use lessons based on any youtube video. Fantastic interface/tools. Tracks student progress
7. XtraNormal: www.xtranormal.com - Easily create animation by choosing scenes and typing text, announced last week they are shutting down
8. Go!Animate: www.goanimate.com example: http://goo.gl/hkcZZ (made by Ron Farrow, Technology Specialist at CHS) , easily create animation by choosing scenes and typing text
9. Voice Thread: www.voicethread.com Presentation creator where others can comment through text, voice, phone, or video
10. Thinglink: www.thinglink.com example: http://goo.gl/X0oxM Add links, videos, notes to any picture.
11. Paperslides: Create a slideshow using paper and a camera
12. Keepvid: http://keepvid.com/ Allows you to download videos from the web. Great for archiving YouTube videos
13. Knowmia: www.knowmia.com educational videos
14. Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org - educational videos
15. Free Tech 4 teachers www.freetech4teachers.com This teacher posts daily new things he has found and tested. His view, if he cannot figure it out in 6 minutes teachers do not have time for it.