Monday 9 January 2012

Teacher Tools

 


Teacher Tools

4 Teachers
Website for locating lesson plans and ready-made technology activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
Audacity
Create audio files for presentations and digital stories.
Badge Maker
Create a badge in less than 30 seconds. Great idea for student of the week, teacher’s helper, etc
Be Funky
Allows you to access your photos from various websites and apply special effects to them.
Bubble Snaps
Add thought or speaking bubbles to your digital images.
Busy Teacher’s Café
K-6 resource site for busy teachers includes ideas, lesson and printables.
Children’s Picture Book Database
Resource for teachers to design literature-based thematic units using picture books.
Cool Iris
It’s just that…a cool way to catalog your images.
Crappy Graphs!
http://crappygraphs.com/
It's a website you can use to make very simple line graphs or venn diagrams. Nothing fancy about it.
Create A Graph
Online resource for creating various graphs (bar, pie, XY, line and area).
Discovery Education Classroom Resources
Puzzlemaker, lesson plan library and more.
Donor’s Choose
Teachers create an account and make a wish list. Donors search through the requests and choose the project they wish to support. It’s that easy.
Education World
Variety of lesson plans and resources for all grade levels.
Florida Center for Reading Research Activities
Lesson plans and materials for student center activities addressing comprehension, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and fluency.
Freeplay music
Free audio files to be used for digital storytelling.
Fun Photo Box

Online photo editor with humorous effects.
Graphic Organizers
A wide selection of graphic organizers to enhance learning.
Google Classroom, The
Overview of the many free tools offered by Google.
Holiday Insights
This day in history…bizarre celebrations…holidays around the world…
I Love That Teaching Idea!
Creative, ready-to-use ideas for the classroom.
iRubric
Free site of pre-made rubrics for all subjects/grade levels or create your own.
Jamendo
A community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Common licenses.
Jam Studio
Create audio files for presentations and digital movies.
Jing!
Allows you to do three things: screen capture, record what is happening on your screen and instantly share it via email, IM or websites.
Next Vista for Learning
A free online library and teacher and student made videos to support the curriculum.
Online Stopwatch
A variety of online timers including egg timers, a stopwatch and a bomb countdown.
PBS Teachers
Lesson plans, multi-media files and more for all grade levels and subjects.
Picnik
Edit photos online.
Pics 4 Learning
A library of copyright-free images to use in presentations or digital movies.
Pivot Stickfigure Generator
A downloadable application that allows you to easily create animated stickfigures.
Primo PDF
Convert any printable file to PDF format.
Power Point Games
Templates for “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Twenty Questions, Guess the Covered Word, Hollywood Squares and Concentration.
Quizlet
The end of flashcards, pre-made or make your own.
Ring Clock
It’s just cool…a clock with a twist.
Rubistar
Website for creating rubrics for all subjects.
Simple Diagrams
Desktop tool that helps you express yourself quickly and creatively.
Smilebox
Create slideshows, ecards, scrapbooks, photo albums or postcards with your own photos.
SnipIt
Insert a youtube link and shorten the clip to your favorite part.
Superkids
Math worksheet creator.
Tag Galazy
A cool way to search for images on the Internet.
Teacher Tube
Like You Tube, but its content is created by and for teachers.
Thinkfinity
Free standards-based educational resources for all grade levels.
Time Me
Online timer, virtual stopwatch.
Tiny URL
Changes long website addresses to a shorter version that is more practical for emailing.
Zamzar
Convert files to fit your format without needing to purchase software.

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