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CamStudio - Free Screen Streaming Software - CamStudio
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): video (263)
In the Classroom
Use CamStudio to record instructions for using websites. Share how to perform problems, step by step directions for any project, and much more. Leave a video message for a substitute teacher or even the class! Create a video message to share with parents about current projects, clips from field trips, and more. Share on your class website for students to view at home. Allow students to record a video sharing their favorite websites or tips for solving math problems.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Fun English Games for Kids - FunEnglishGames.com
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): preK (267), printables (36), worksheets (69)
In the Classroom
Share links to games and activities on your class website for practice at home. Create a link on classroom computers for students. This site is perfect for differentiation, assign games and activities based on individual student needs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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KidLit TV - Julie Gribble
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): authors (105), book lists (165), literacy (120), podcasts (104)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many features of this site to educate parents on literacy and motivate students to enjoy reading. Share podcasts and book trailers on your class website to recommend books your students may enjoy. Use the podcasts as an example, then have cooperative learning groups create podcasts as book talks for books they enjoy. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here, for student podcasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Noplag - Noplag LLC
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): copyright (46), evaluating sources (28), plagiarism (33), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Teach students about plagiarism and how to avoid it; it is a critical skill in all the content areas. Noplag is an easy place to introduce the concepts and have students check their writing without registering. Demonstrate how to use the tool to the whole class using a projector or interactive whiteboard. Have students register for additional options. Emphasize to students that they have the ability and the obligation to check their work for honesty.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Freepik - Alejandro Blanes, Pablo Blanes, and Joaquin Cuenca
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): clip art (11), graphic design (49), images (261), vectors (16)
In the Classroom
These graphics and templates are free to download and use (with appropriate credit). This site is great if you need some clever clipart to jazz up student handouts, classroom bulletin boards, or PowerPoint/Keynote presentations. Special Ed, speech/language, or ENL/ESL teachers may find these images helpful when working with non-readers or non-verbal students. There is also web clipart that you can use for your blog, class webpage, or wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Airtable - Emmett Nicholas, Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad
Grades
K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (44), collaboration (96), curation (34), DAT device agnostic tool (146)
In the Classroom
Use Airtable to collaborate on lessons with other teachers, both local and across the world. Share with students to use when collaborating on projects or to create study guides. Use the provided templates to catalog your books or share study guides with students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Carrd - carrd.co
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): blogs (65), communication (139), multimedia (48)
In the Classroom
Use this site for students to post simple projects such as stories, poems, and art projects. For easy access, collect a master list of links to student pages on your classroom website, wiki, blog, or create an interactive Google doc or form for collecting these. If students are creating pages, be sure to check with your district's policy on publishing student work. Each website created has a private URL. Students can use this tool at home for presentations and email you the URL for their completed work. Compile the presentation URLs on your class blog or wiki, or a Google doc so all students have access. Integrate all subjects into Carrd. The simplicity of this site would make it an easy tool for younger students to create eportfolios with links to and explanations of their various projects located elsewhere on the web.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PicFont - Picfont.com
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): DAT device agnostic tool (146), digital storytelling (155), editing (92), images (261)
In the Classroom
Use this easy tool to replace paper posters and add captions to images, create memes, or posters for your bulletin boards. Use this easy tool with students during back to school time as a way for them to get to know each other. Have students upload a picture of themselves doing their favorite activity and label it with amusing text or a favorite quote (or song lyrics?). Have them upload images that represent their interests and character traits. Print the images with text for a back-to-school bulletin board. Use after a field trip for students to write captions on the photos they took. Be sure to share the photos on your class web page, blog, or wiki. Haven't started blogging yet? Check out TeachersFirst's Blog Basics. For other uses, have students practice new words in a world language class by labeling and identifying images in that language. Create writing prompts using several annotated images. Have students create annotated images to explain key terms in science class. In ELA class, make homophone or vocabulary images to show the correct word along with a picture that explains it.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ribbet - Ribbet Inc
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): editing (92), images (261), photography (119)
In the Classroom
Use Ribbet anytime photos need to be edited on class blogs, wikis, or sites. Encourage older students to use this tool themselves on images for projects or presentations. Use Ribbet to edit pictures to look "old" when doing historical reports or to set a mood. In primary grades, use this tool to edit pictures from a field trip, science experiments, and more. Share the editing process with younger students using an interactive whiteboard or projector, and edit the project together!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thought Plan - Max Schmitt
Grades
K to 12tag(s): gifted (66), organizational skills (89)
In the Classroom
Use Thought Plan to plan and organize your yearly schedule. All students will appreciate having an online time management account, but learning support students and disorganized gifted students need one. This is also a great tool for ESL/ELL students to help learn organization skills with very simple features. You may want to model using this online tool to help middle and high school students learn personal organization. Share this site the first week of school to get students started on the right foot! Make a demo account for a mythical student and organize his/her daily schedule together so students can see how it works. Share the steps on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Alternately, this idea will work with group projects where students need to learn to manage their project time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Edulastic - Snapwiz
Grades
K to 12tag(s): assessment (152), commoncore (74)
In the Classroom
Create and use short quizzes to track mastery of concepts by all students in your class. Use this site to pretest gifted students. If the gifted students already know the material, allow them to advance to another topic. The quick feedback allows greater opportunity to focus on students who need additional help. Use Edulastic to monitor your teaching of Common Core Standards as well as focusing on student proficiency of content. Since student registration is via email, for young students consider using a "class set" of Gmail subaccounts, explained here; this tells how to configure Gmail subaccounts to use for any online membership service. Using Gmail subaccounts will provide anonymous interaction within your class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poetry By Heart - poetrybyheart.org
Grades
K to 5tag(s): creative writing (125), poetry (194)
In the Classroom
Be sure to use this site as inspiration for poetry writing for your students. Take advantage of the activities offered with each poem. Allow students to record themselves reading poems, perhaps let them try several times to develop fluency. When your students are ready to write their own poems, use Ourboox, reviewed here. Ourboox creates beautiful page-flipping digital books in minutes, and you can embed video, music, animation, games, maps and more. View all of TeachersFirst's Editor's Choices for Poetry Month here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Postcard Creator - ReadWriteThink
Grades
K to 6tag(s): digital storytelling (155), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Use Postcard Creator to send quick reminders to students or parents of upcoming events. Have students send you a postcard as a simple book report or preview of a class presentation. Send parents a weekly postcard with a summary of class events; better yet, have students create the weekly summary! Challenge students to create postcards to respond to characters in literature. Create postcards as a thank you for school staff or a simple gift for Mother's or Father's Day. Make postcards to announce events in the school library or sponsored by school clubs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Marq (formerly Lucidpress) - Lucid Software Inc
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): digital storytelling (155), posters (43), social media (53)
In the Classroom
Have students collaborate on any kind of document using Marq (formaerly Lucidpress). Collaborators can view, edit, and comment as they work together. The possible uses are only limited by your imagination! Create your own story page for parents and students where they can stay updated about what is happening in your classroom. Have students create a visual story to accompany books read in class, tell about social studies events, or display images for different science terms. Make flyers for upcoming events, to share book reviews, or as campaign posters for class elections.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Alphabetimals - Patrick O'Toole
Grades
K to 2This site includes advertising.
tag(s): alphabet (52), alphabetical order (8), preK (267)
In the Classroom
Share a link to Alphabetimals on classroom computers for students to explore during computer centers. Print a copy of each student's name for use with literacy displays or as a desk label. Share a link on your class webpage for students to explore at home. Take advantage of the other free options to print coloring pages and flash cards for student use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills - Kent State University Libraries
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): assessment (152), digital citizenship (89), media literacy (109)
In the Classroom
Students can be evaluated in four separate grade-level tests. You must create accounts and new sessions to save student work and have it graded. Individual codes are assigned to students allowing teachers and students to review performance and teachers to generate reports. Questions have been aligned to the Common Core standards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What Do We Do All Day? - Erica (MomandKiddo)
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): blogs (65), cooking (32), printables (36), puzzles (143), STEM (288)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this blog to find many ideas for classroom use. Take advantage of the free ideas and printables offered for projects across the curriculum. Browse through the many book lists for additions to your class library. Take pictures of classroom finished projects, then use Ourboox, reviewed here. Ourboox creates beautiful page-flipping digital books in minutes, and you can embed video, music, animation, games, maps and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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HTML 5 Crossword Generator - Class Tools
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3 to 12tag(s): crosswords (19), puzzles (143)
In the Classroom
Create puzzles for any subject or topic for review or introduction to new materials. Allow students to create puzzles for other students to solve. Add a puzzle to the classroom newsletter or blog to create interest. Share puzzles on an interactive whiteboard for students to solve together.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ePubEditor - ePubEditor.it
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): assessment (152), digital storytelling (155), ebooks (42)
In the Classroom
Create books together, as a class, as you move through a unit or topic. Enhance student learning by adding images and ideas your students suggest. Use in a flipped classroom to deliver course information. Assign several student groups a different topic and extend and redefine their learning and technology use by having each group create their own multimedia versions as they learn more about the topic. Students can combine their books later as a class book. Make a digital bookshelf of all the versions for all to use. Challenge gifted students to modify the "standard" class text with the additional material they discover, by going deeper and learning about related topics. In lower grades, create teacher-made e-books for your young readers, perhaps adding audio - your own voice reading the text.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TypeDrummer - Kyle Stetz
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K to 12tag(s): back to school (62), musical instruments (49), rhythm (20), sound (72)
In the Classroom
Catch your students' attention and type a short message to students on TypeDrummer to read as they enter the class. Create and share TypeDrummer messages on your class web page - suggestions might be reminders of due dates of upcoming tests, tips on completing homework assignments, or the daily school lunch menu. Allow students to create a TypeDrummer message as part of a presentation including the title and a summary of the presentation content. Create a list of instructions to share with students. Use TypeDrummer as part of your Back to School activities, have each student type their name and a sentence about themselves. Spice up lessons and have students type their answers using TypeDrummer.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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