EDTECH at Boise State University

present pdf files as flipping book pages on website--- Oops! Just noticed some body else recently posted this same site...

Flipsnack is a free and easy site to make attractive flipbooks by uploading images or video and adding text. It can be personalized and would be great for an online art portfolio for students.

Book creator from PDF file, book pages flip similar to real book. Free and embeddable.

This site allows users to write a letter to themselves, to be delivered in the future. Nice idea for goal setting at the beginning of a year (or semester or unit), to be sent back to students when the time period is over to see if they met their goals! Note: I would avoid having students visit the public section of this site, as letters there may be inappropriate.

A listing of social networks used in educational environments or for educational purposes.

collaborative mind mapping tool.

another site that lets you create a sequence of websites for your class to explore.

According to Scribd, "Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing company. " Scribd has over 75 million readers each month making it "the largest book club".

Online tool for creating classroom layouts. From the site, "This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting!"

web-based screen recorder

As English takes over the world, it's splintering and changing -- and soon, we may not recognize it at all. This article is excerpted from the new book, "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" from Farrar, Straus and Girous

Mendeley is a free reference manager for organizing your research. Upload your document and Mendeley helps you organize it. You can also share your research with others and get suggestions on readings similar to what you keep in your Mendeley library.

A great list of web tools to use in your classroom for drawing, mapping and charting.

A simulation game about the capture / recapture of fish. Its goal is to teach students about Hypergeometric distribution as well as other basic statistical concepts like estimation and confidence intervals.

3D tour. Really neat!

This article has some up-to-date resources on ways to teach Internet safety, including games and more!

An excellent resource for creating venn diagrams.

A variety of interactive map games for kids of all ages.

A tool for older students to create short comic movies with short dialogue. No sign in required, quick and easy to use!

"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes. Use "Fakebook" to make a fake Facebook page for a historical or fictional character or chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!