Links for All Teachers 

 

TypingClub School Portal gives you complete control over your students' typing progress. You can setup your classes, engage your students with the typing lessons of your choice, and track their progress. (5/30/14 08:04)

 

Gridzzly is a simple tool for anyone who uses grid, graph, or ruled paper. Fine-tune the pattern you need for printing: choose the shape (dots, lines, squares, or hexagons), move the slider to adjust the spacing, and print. The ruler at the top helps with the sizing. (3/29/14 10:37) 

 

Stoodle enables real-time collaboration on a virtual whiteboard with infinite pages, real-time communication through voice conferencing and text chat, permanent storage of all classrooms for later access, support for image uploading, and access to basic drawing tools and colors (2/28/14 17:50)

 

Timeglider is web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history, project planning, and more. Create, collaborate, and publish zooming and panning interactive timelines. It's like Google Maps, but for time. (2/7/14 10:42)

 

MindCipher is a social repository of the world's greatest brain teasers, logic puzzles and mental challenges. (11/30/13 09:59)

 

ThatQuiz is a free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing. An online grade book provides fast analysis of class and individual student progress.  An exchange allows teachers to share the resources they create. A skills site for students, is especially useful for math practice and testing. (11/2/13 10:10)

 

The Cram.com web-based flashcard maker can be used to create, share, export and print flashcards for your studying convenience. Cram also has a large app store so you can find mobile flashcards for your Android or iPhone device. (8/24/13 10:38)

 

Slid.es is a simple web app to make presentations. It’s simple to use and easy to make beautiful presentations with. Think Google Docs, but with a minimalist look and its own approach. All of this freely available, although you can upgrade to a Pro version to get more storage and private sharing. (8/10/13 09:52)

 

GoodCharacter.com If you work with kids, and are implementing character education, this is where to go for additional ideas and materials. Guides are packed with discussion questions, writing assignments, and student activities that you can use to create your own lesson plans. (7/27/13 10:13)

 

This Anticipation/Reaction Guide is used to assess a class's knowledge before they begin a lesson. Students respond to each statement twice: once before the lesson and again after reading it. (7/12/13 10:09)

 

 Problem-Attic Get instant access to 30 years’ of well-respected, proven questions for Math, Science, Social Studies and English. Search by topic or exam. Select, arrange, and format questions the way you like. Create beautiful classroom materials in quickly and easily. (6/15/13 09:55)

 

Copyright Kids The goals of the Copyright Society's Kid's website are to provide an educational tool to define, explain, and apply copyright issues in language understandable to middle school students, an educational resource on copyright issues for teachers and parents, and instructions about how to protect your own creations by registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office. (6/8/13 10:30)

 

eQuizShow is a free online tool designed for teachers to create and play their own free educational quiz show templates. No Powerpoint, no registration required. There have been 2179 templates created. (6/8/13 10:18)

 

ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. (2/9/13 10:41)

 

SAGrader improves student learning by providing immediate feedback on their content area writing. Perfect for knowledge-based writing in high school and college courses like biology, psychology, and history. (11/30/12 10:35)

 

Common Curriculum is an online option for developing lesson plans tied to the Common Core State Standards. (10/20/12 10:21)

 

Teachem allows anyone to create a class from YouTube videos by adding time stamped flashcards and review questions. Creating a class on Teachem is simple, it only take 30 seconds to get started. (10/6/12 09:50)

 

Nanoogo is an online platform, enabling the 21st century classroom. Students will have fun using our technology to create and share their assignments with the rest of the class. Teachers can even create their own private “channel” for their classroom and specific projects. (9/8/12 11:27)

 

PlagTracker.com A plagiarism checker is essential for protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers, students, website owners and anyone else interested in protecting their writing. This service guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by plagiarism software to insure that your texts are unique. (8/11/12 10:55)

 

Three Ring is a website that allows you to securely upload photos of student work from your iOS or Android device. With Three Ring, you can sort by class, student, or custom tag to easily find the artifact you're looking for. You can pull up a student's work for parent-teacher conferences, administrative meetings, formative assessment, or use as exemplars. (7/21/12)

 

WordItOut lets you transform your text into word clouds. You can then save and share them, so everybody can find and enjoy them. WordItOut gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required. (7/14/12) 

 

National School Forms offers a wide selection of eduction related form in over a dozen different categories such as Transportation, Guidance, Discipline, Maintenance, Nurse and Health, and many more. (5/19/12 10:42)

 

QwertyTown was born out the realization that there was a glaring need for a keyboarding web app that provides an environment where students learn how to communicate on the Internet. Fluent keyboarding is an essential component of literacy for today's students. (5/19/12 10:05)

 

Engrade unifies all of the people, tools, data, and curriculum in your schools on one user-friendly platform. All teacher services are free and a large number of school services are free. (4/14/12 13:47)

 

SideVibe is a simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page. It is simple to use, saves you time... and students will love your Web assignments. Students remain focused on both the screen and your concepts. (4/14/12 13:44)

 

instaGrok is a search engine that finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic, presented with interactive multimedia interfaces (4/14/12 13:09)

 

 MentorMob is bringing sense to all of this disorganization of valuable information on the Internet. Creating and editing Learning Playlists is a free and easy process. It opens your knowledge to people who share your skills so they can help you refine it by adding and editing your Learning Playlist. Each Learning Playlist can be rated, bringing the best ways to learn to the top of the charts. (4/7/12 13:51)

 

Kikutext is a service that makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging, so students perform better. (4/7/12 13:35)

 

Cornell Method PDF Generator will allow you to create custom notetaking sheets for any or all of your classes. The custom sheets can be blank (Cornell Style), ruled, or graph style. They can be set to output with your name, the name of your class, and the date. (4/7/12 13:28)

 

Teachbuzz is a project of Open Equal Free, an organization that spreads open educational resources to the entire world. Teachbuzz is designed to provide teachers everywhere with the resources they need to provide great lessons. (3/24/12 09:21)

 

Goalbook helps teams of educators, students, and parents collaborate around personal learning plans, allowing all the involved people to unite in regard to their students, to fine tune their individualized needs and progress. (3/17/12 10:36)

 

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site (which will launch in April 2012) will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools. (3/17/12 08:21)

 

Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting. (2/4/12 08:59)

 

TeacherCast is designed for both the seasoned teacher who is searching for some great resources as well as the teacher who is a unsure how to start incorporating newly developed 21st-Century skills.  (2/4/12 08:57)

 

 remind101 allows teachers to text message or email students and parents. It's a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. (1/28/12 09:31)

 

Sophia is a social teaching and learning platform that taps the teacher in all of us and enhances the learning process by providing access to a wealth of knowledge, help, instruction, standards-aligned content, and expertise available to learners everywhere. (01/21/12 10:30)

 

Mugeda is a cloud based HTML5 animation platform, where you can create, share, and publish organic HTML5 animation contents, all in your browser, without any download or installation. (01/21/12 10:17)

 

PhotoPin helps bloggers find photos for their blog and makes adding them to their post fast and easy. Search for any topic using the search box, preview the photo, and click "get photo" to download the photo as well as the proper attribution link. (1/14/12 10:03)

 

The WiFli Student Response System is a way for a classroom teacher to use Google Forms to collect instant student data and have it displayed automatically to assist in data-driven decision making. (1/7/12 09:33)

 

Marker.to is a yellow highlighter pen for webpages. You can highlight text on the webpages with the mouse. Point out important information and share the highlighted pages with others in Twitter and Facebook with the special link. (12/31/11 09:42)

 

Use Juno to create your own online tests and worksheets. Your students work on laptops, tablets, iPods, etc. Then their grades are submitted directly to any compatible grade book. Create a curriculum library for your whole school to share. (12/31/11 09:34)

 

 A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed. (12/24/11 09:23)

 

Avery Design & Print Online It's easier than ever to print your favorite Avery products such as labels, cards, ID badges, and more. Start a new project by entering an Avery product number or by browsing for your product by category. Compatible with PC, Mac® and Linux® systems, with no download required. (11/26/11 09:13)

 

Rubric for Assessing Technology-Enhanced Projects Assessing a technology-rich project may seem daunting at first. With a little planning on the front end, you will be able to assess not only the curricular content, but other aspects such as use of technology and creativity. (11/26/11 08:31)

 

YourListen.com is a user generated site specializing in audio. On the site you can upload, download, listen, share, and discuss any audio file for free. It is also a social platform where you can add friends, communicate with them, and see what they are listening to, uploading, and downloading. (11/19/11 11:00)

 

File Lab Video and Audio Editors An easy tool to edit your videos online: edit, enrich, personalize, and share your movies. Rework your audio files online and get a completely new refined and enhanced with effects output track. (10/22/11 09:13)

 

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists. (10/22/11 08:55)

 

Graphic Organizers from TeacherFiles.com A variety of graphic organizers to help your students communicate their comprehension of text. (10/22/11 08:47)

 

Dice Simulator Here is a useful dice simulator for traditional six-sided dice which can be used for playing your own games. Choose the number of dice you want to simulate: 1 to 6. (10/15/11 09:05)

 

Written Décor believes that the power of words can have a significant positive impact on peoples’ lives, especially young people. They will make a one-time donation to every teacher of $50 of Written Décor lettering to be used in their classroom and provide them with a “Teacher Discount” of 50% on future classroom lettering needs. (9/17/11 09:49)

 

BigMarker is a free web conferencing community. Use the desktop sharing system, interactive whiteboard, instant messaging system, and live audio and video chat to conduct online web meetings and classes that are as collaborative and productive as in-person events. (9/10/11 08:39)

 

ClassConnect was engineered from the ground up to meet the specific needs of educators. Use ClassConnect to manage your files or to build a full online learning community. (9/3/11 10:21)

 

ClassDojo is an in-classroom tool that helps you manage behavior and boost engagement in class quickly and easily. ClassDojo enables you to recognise specific behaviors and accomplishments in real-time, with just one click of on a smartphone or laptop. (9/3/11 09:51)

 

QRals is an easy-to-use QR creation tool. Supply content for the QR code to link to - text, a URL, an email address, etc. Then download the file and place it wherever you want. (8/27/11 09:28)

 

CiteThisForMe is a free generator tool designed to help students prepare their whole bibliography or reference list quickly and easily. It uses the Harvard referencing style, one of the most common referencing styles in academia. (8/27/11 09:19)

 

Survey Creation is an online survey creation tool that allows you to quickly and easily get the answers you're looking for. The free option allows up to 100 responses and a maximum of 10 questions a survey. (8/27/11 09:10)

 

SchoolsWorld Through engaging videos, practical resources and an active online community, SchoolsWorld supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field. (8/20/11 12:26)

 

Easy Notecards is an online studying tool that uses interactive notecards to makes it quick and easy for you to learn new material. Easy Notecards is a great tool for both students and teachers. (8/13/11 13:08)

 

Scrumblr is a collaborative note taking space not unlike WallWisher. Students and teachers can fill out notecards together and organize them in a space. This easy-to-use web tool that allows colleagues and classmates to work together to capture and organize ideas. (8/13/11 13:04)

 

Wave Editor is a fast and easy digital audio editing software for Windows. It provides powerful and user-friendly editing environment which suits beginners especially and perform basic editing capabilities like: cut, copy, paste and delete parts of recording. (7/29/11 14:05) 

 

SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool that lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online. (7/29/11 13:58)

 

HappyClass is the first-ever online seating chart maker for teachers that automatically determines optimal seating arrangements based on your students’ needs and relationships and creates seating charts just like you do: with students’ happiness and productivity in mind. (7/29/11 13:51)

 

Boxify.me is a simple web tool that allows users to upload multiple files to a "box" that can then be shared with a single URL. (7/16/11)

 

Lessoncast  Quick how-to overviews meant to inspire and support teachers looking for effective resources. Lessoncasts feature one lesson idea or management strategy in 2:30 or less. Lessoncasts include teacher-created downloadable resources to help implement the ideas. (7/14/11)

 

Teacher Jet Hundreds of quick, free teacher resources to help speed up your day! Signup for free lesson plans and worksheets via email. (7/14/11)

 

Educaplay You can create your own multimedia teaching activities with attractive professional results. (7/9/11)

 

 Celly is a free service that creates mini cellphone-based private social networks called cells that connect people. Cells can be set up for entire classes, groups of students, parents, or even a whole school. (7/9/11)

 

Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community. With Showbeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites. (6/25/11)

 

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. (6/25/11)

 

webdoc is a social platform empowering people to express themselves and interact with others online in ways that haven’t been possible until now. Put almost anything into a webdoc: pictures, videos and music from all over the web, but also interactive applications like games, polls, slideshows or web services such as Google Maps and Twitter. (6/18/11)

 

The Tutors' Association began in 2007 and has since welcomed many tutors to the asscoiation, developed a website that links to hundreds sites offering free teaching resources, and has generated funds for various charities. (6/18/11)

 

Tildee is a free tool to help you instantly and easily create and share tutorials on any subject. Every tutorial has its unique short URL. (6/18/11)

 

Pegby Come to the board with friends, family and/or coworkers and get stuff done. Make your plans by pegging up cards to your board or boards. It's simple and fun. (6/18/11)

 

19Pencils is the website of parents who want to provide tools for teachers but they're also seasoned Silicon Valley technology veterans with more than 15 years experience. 19Pencils provides teachers help in sharing online resources with the class. (6/11/11)

 

Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell. Foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to take charge of their own learning with high quality, engaging, relevant tools designed for today’s busy teachers and parents. Explore our programs and contests, interactive games, puzzles,  lesson plans, videos and more. (6/4/11)

 

Carryout Text A Simple way to convert text to speech. No software needed. Import text from a document or Copy / Paste text to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. (5/28/11)

 

Puzzle Monster Puzzle games online for free! Free puzzles, trivia, word games, brain teasers and more puzzles and games every day online. Kids can play our puzzles and games too! (5/14/11)

 

FlipSnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. It's the ideal solution for those who wish to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio or any other kind of document into a website or blog. (4/30/11)

 

Diagramly is a free online diagram drawing application for workflow, org charts, network diagrams, etc. No login or registration are required and features include the ability to save locally, a range of stencils, Visio import, and real time diagram sharing. (4/30/11)

 

My Resource Cloud is an education support site for educators and learners with two main areas: My Events and My Resources. Both sections contain free and paid resources, including blogs, downloadable resources, images, videos, polls, news-feeds, templates, quizzes and educational games. (4/30/11)

 

Present.Me a simple, easy to use, low cost application that splits the screen and allows you to record your PowerPoint presentation and display you and your slides at the same time, in the same place and then share the results online with whomever you want. (4/22/11)

 

The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom Increasingly, educators globally are transforming their classroom using Skype to create powerful, authentic, motivating learning experiences for their students. (4/22/11)

 

igotta is a personalized one-stop workspace for students to find, analyze, organize and use information for reports, writing assignments, presentations, studying and project work. From netTrekker. (4/16/11)

 

Piazzza is redesigning the way students and instructors ask for and provide course help online. With a clean and efficient interface optimized for per-class Q&A, Piazzza will finally let you say goodbye to all those clunky forums and newsgroups of the past. (3/26/11)

 

SchoolWAX TV Educator-approved videos so everyone can learn in a safe and comfortable environment. The perfect resource for students who just need a little extra homework help on any given subject. Teachers can use the animations and videos to capture their students’ attention and enrich classroom lessons. (3/19/11)

 

TikiToki is a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in a browser. A basic account is completely free. (3/19/11)

 

High Def Teacher is a totally free community of teachers dedicated to finding the best resources on the web! (3/19/11)

 

JogTheWeb is a simple solution which allows you to create, read and share a new online media: the WebBOOK; the necessary tool to providing real turnpage briefs or binders including both personal input and dynamic pages from the web. (3/19/11)

 

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources. The Awesome Library provides only resources that have been reviewed and found to be of high quality for their users. (2/19/11)

 

Plagiarisma is a free online plagiarism checker and duplicate content finder that will allow teachers to see if student work is original. Paste plain text into a text box, type a URL into a form, or upload TXT, HTML, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, or PDF files. Press a button and wait for the results. Yellow is for unique content, gray is for duplicated content. (1/29/11) 

 

WordStash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flash cards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT. (1/21/11)

 

Recycle City is an interactive site from the EPA that allows students to implement recycling programs to transform "Dumptown" into "Recycle City". To make this simulation realistic, students must implement the programs within a budget. (12/11/10)

 

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples. (10/6/10)

 

Frontline TEACHER CENTER New classroom activities with streaming video, downloadable lesson plans and web-exclusive resources to accompany FRONTLINE programs in the classroom. (8/22/10)

 

School Clip Art Capture the attention of your readers by using fun clipart and pictures on your worksheets, lesson plans, and quizzes. You can make boring assignments fun! Using clipart images on your worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes, tests, exams, puzzles, and homework will motivate your students. (7/10/10)

 

You can use the interactive Bio-Cube from Read-Write-Think to summarize a person's life after reading or before writing a biography or autobiography. (5/26/10)

 

Open Clipart Library  for free Public Domain vector graphics. This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. (5/18/10)

 

Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you’ve downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and print it out. Each graphic organizer below includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom. (5/10/10)

 

Five Minute Lesson Plans   How many times have you finished a lesson, looked at the clock, and found you had about ten minutes left in the period--not have enough time to start a new activity, yet too much time to feel comfortable letting students sit and talk?  (4/20/10) KB

 

My Brochure Maker Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes. Choose a theme and then customize with your photos and text. It's a great way to create brochures and flyers that work. (4/20/10)

 

Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development (4/13/10)

 

 AppleEngine has scoured the web looking for the best free teacher resources out there.  Then, using Google Search technology, they've created this search engine which allows users to filter results by specific categories - including lesson plans, printables, videos, games, and online help and practice.(4/7/10)

 

Royaltyfreemusic.com offers a variety of FREE high-quality royalty free items, including royalty free stock footage, royalty free sound effects, royalty free clip art, royalty free images, royalty free photos, and of course, royalty free stock music. (3/27/10)

 

Kids' Vid is an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. It provides the tools and the means for students to create and display serious work in a new, exciting and engaging way that is appropriate for all age groups and abilities. (3/27/10)

 

Persuasive Writing Prompts is a way to integrate more writing into your curriculum. Here you can find a plethora of persuasive essay prompts for courses throughout the curriculum including business, fine arts, math, physical education, and social studies amongst others. (3/23/10, KB)

 

JavaScript QuizMaker a simple online quiz generator based on JavaScript that lets you create a quiz online without writing any code. You can begin by entering a question, up to 5 possible answers for it and a feedback for each answer. (3/7/10)

 

AdOut is a simple web app that lets you browse all kinds of websites without the clutter of ads. Just enter the URL of the website you want to browse and press enter. (3/7/10)

 

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Use a simple editor to get your game up and running. (3/5/10)

 

Neo K12 has cataloged the best free online educational videos from the Internet in one place.  Each video is watched and reviewed by k-12 educators to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness for students.  Subjects include physical science, life science, human body, earth and space, social studies, math, English (including phonics, stories, and grammar), and fun videos. (3/3/10)

 

Slidestory easy to use web tool that allows teachers and students to create simple picture podcasts by uploading images and recorded soundtracks. It is simple to use and can be a new take on the traditional slideshow presenation. (3/3/10)

 

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages. (2/27/10)

 

PhotoRem  is a photo sharing portal and video sharing community which provides you with an easy way to post and share photos online, and add meaningful metadata and comments to photos and videos. Upload all your photos, videos, and images for free. Make photo slide shows to share pics with friends. Host and share videos with us. Unlimited space. (2/16/10)

 

Squareleaf is a simple and intuitive virtual whiteboard, complete with all the sticky notes you'll ever need. Arrange your notes how you see fit, quickly and easily. (2/11/10)

 

MyStickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. (2/11/10)

 

Web-Chops is a fun and easy way to collect, organize and share any content found on the web. With web-chops you can save "chops" from web pages to your own custom topic pages. Instead of loosing your way through hundreds of meaningless links on your favourite list, why not create your own custom pages containing the content itself. (2/11/10)

 

Get high quality stock images, photos and graphics free of charge. 4 Free Photos offers a collection of public domain images free for personal and commercial usage (unless a model release is required) from contributing photographers.(1/19/10)

 

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. RefSeek offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine. (1/5/10)

 

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