Cool Tools, new ones added regularly. Try them out!
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Free music files for school
https://www.jamendo.com/en/welcome
No accounts needed. Download and save to computer. Free.
No accounts needed. Download and save to computer. Free.
Roobrix.com
Rubrics are great tools to help assess student learning. Teachers everywhere are using rubrics to guide teaching and learning. Yet even the most experienced teachers commonly misinterpret rubric scores! Unknowingly, they are short-changing their students. So, are you using rubrics properly? Click to find a great tool to convert your rubrics to the right percent grades.
PowerMyLearning.org
Easy LMS to set up and it is already full of curated activities you can start using with your students right away. Check it out!
Super Teacher Tools
Collection of teacher tools you will love, FREE, easy to set up. Jeopardy, Millionaire, Seating chart, Random name generator, and more. www.superteachertools.us
ClassBadges.comLooking for a new way to motivate your students? Award virtual badges just like they do with video games! Create your free teacher account and create your badges. Create your class and have students join.
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Google Cultural Institute--think of an online art museum on steroids!
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.
Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.
Poetica.com, free service for editing writing and collaborating online
https://poetica.com/ Need an email address to participate.
The Extra Reading Company Library: Digital Reading, Writing, Math, Puzzles, etc
Special Hardship Pricing during Teacher Appreciation Week, 19.99 for the year, use with all your students!
http://erclibrary.com/
http://erclibrary.com/
Noise Level Visual Monitor for classroom!
Bouncy Balls online using a microphone. Use during small group discussions to monitor noise levels.
http://bouncyballs.org/
http://bouncyballs.org/
Cool tech sites all in one place
FREE: Federal Registry for Educational Excellence
Currently 231,019 learning resources registered
You can search for anything you want. This has been around since 1997 and I just heard about it!
http://free.ed.gov/
You can search for anything you want. This has been around since 1997 and I just heard about it!
http://free.ed.gov/
Free source for videos and games on every subject, you will be amazed!
www.neok12.com
Get Clean Print added to your browser
Click here for Clean Print App
Makes web pages print much cleaner and with less paper
Makes web pages print much cleaner and with less paper
Free slides to go with your lessons on Common Core math and RLA...
Learnzillion.com is a free resource that might become your new favorite place! Check it out.
PBS Learning Media
PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators. Register today!
Kids.gov
A safe place where kids can create, share and learn. Tabs for all ages, including adults.
2012 WV Technology Virtual Conference recordings
http://wvde.state.wv.us/technology/resources/vconference/ Lots of great sessions, all 30-40 minutes in length.
Vimeo.com Find video tutorials on many subjects
https://vimeo.com/ Store your own vodcasts on vimeo. Free!
Audacity.com Download the software Free!
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Make podcasts, record lessons, add music and sound effects
Fun, glittery, and free graphics!
Free resources from the Fed Govt. http://www.free.ed.gov/
Content areas include math, science, language arts, history and social studies, art and music, and health and phys ed! The resources are drawn from other federal agencies. There are primary source documents, photos, and all sorts of things teachers might be able to use in their classrooms (and coaches or consultants might be able to use in PD).
Curiosity! from Discovery.com
New website sponsored by Discovery and Intel. Teacher tools and stuff for students and parents as well.
Cool Tools for Schools
Find a web tool for everything you could possibly want to do...
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home
Create your own avatar.
Use http://www.voki.com/learn.php for a speaking avatar and for teaching tips
Use http://www.doppelme.com/ for a quick and easy avatar
Use http://planetcreation.co.uk/createpic/ very easy to use
Use http://www.doppelme.com/ for a quick and easy avatar
Use http://planetcreation.co.uk/createpic/ very easy to use
Online rube Goldberg Site
http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/goldburgertogo/rubegame.html
Thank you to Ms. Double and her students for this link.
Thank you to Ms. Double and her students for this link.
Help your students save their work to the cloud
Use an online class format like Edmodo.com or Schoology.com. Both have an online space for saving work. Edmodo allows for student comments and quizzes. Schoology allows a teacher to set up numerous assignments ahead of time.
Scale of the Universe Interactive
Ideas for using the IPODS
Website with TONS of ideas for using ipods and ipads
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=36989
List of apps that we can order from the volume ordering program:
https://volume.itunes.apple.com/us/store
TWIG: free short science movies, or buy a subscription
Do Cool Stuff with digital pictures
Check out these websites where you OR your students can enhance and change digital pictures that you have taken. They will blow your mind!
ImageChef
PhotoFunia
Dumpr
BigHugeLabs
ImageChef
PhotoFunia
Dumpr
BigHugeLabs
See another's computer screen live...and free. or share yours!
_https://join.me/ Set up a joint session using your computer.
Or hold an online meeting with an interactive whiteboard and chat for free...http://www.twiddla.com/ Very easy to use.
Or hold an online meeting with an interactive whiteboard and chat for free...http://www.twiddla.com/ Very easy to use.
Collaboration for kids: Storybird.com and Crocodoc.com
Two language arts tools that are awesome. Set up a free account to see how they work. Crocodoc allows you to mark up and edit any document and share it among a group of people.
Storybird allows your class to write stories, illustrate them, and share them.
Storybird allows your class to write stories, illustrate them, and share them.
Get an app for free that normally is not free!
"Free App Price Watch" is a free app that will find apps for you that are on sale or are free sometimes for just one day. Search for it at the App Store. http://www.apple.com/ipad/
Visual, online dictionary. See word connections. http://www.visuwords.com/
Have your students make a word cloud with Wordle. Great for vocabulary! www.wordle.com
Intel has some neat teaching tools for helping students prove their point, ranking lists, investigating relationships. These online tools allow students to work in groups and collaborate. They are free! Here is the page where you can learn more...http://www.intel.com/education/teachers/