Free for teachers - requires download
Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you.
quick free and super easy. Take a Youtube URL and paste it in the space and bang you have yourself an audio file!!! No more hassels with youtube fails or even worse network issues!
Joomag is a FREE service for creating digital magazines, photo albums, catalogs and e-books. All this is possible right from the website using our innovative online editing tool. Could be a good tool for having your students make a magazine or even making a magazine yourself.
The easiest shared video editing platform for business owner's education programs and individual personal use. Loopster Video editing platform is so easy
We are always looking for video editing tools so I'll check this one out for sure! Although the free account is limited, it may work for some projects.
Prezi Is a great tool for doing a presentation. Not an everyday tool because it is time consuming but in the end could really wow the students and catch their attention.
Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue... conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites - anywhere with internet. Its easy and can be done in under 2 min
One of the first, and best, and briefest TEDTalks, ever! The TAKE-AWAY? Just because we've done "it" this way forever, does not mean that there is not room for improvement ... Enjoy!
It takes just seconds to publish your article and share it with the world
Pen.io is a simple resource for creating a personal website. Groups of students or even family members can keep in contact with one another easily through text, pictures and videos.
Interesting that you don't create an account! This could make it easier for some projects or could create some new challenges. I want to check this one out. It could have great potential.
Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.
This resource is likely designed for elementary school students, however there are games available for any age or subject. Poor spelling skills are quite common among all walks of life and spellingcity offers a fun way for anyone to practice their spelling and vocabulary skills. For teachers spellingcity offers the capability to access spelling and vocabulary lists other teachers have uploaded to the site so professional sharing is encouraged.
lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas. lino is a completely free service that runs on all popular web browsers.
Lino can create a virtual pin board for multiple students/people to use at once. This resource was designed to assist teachers/people who use a large amount of sticky notes in their lives so they can now make the sticky notes digital. Teachers can use lino as a way for groups of students to access a unit and pin comments or helpful tips to other students.
Celly lets you instantly group people and topics into cells. Cells function as chatrooms where people communicate instantly via text-based messaging. Cells can include messages from the web or other social networks to capture your interests.
This resource allows for all phone numbers to be kept private during communication. Celly offers a handy tool to communicate with parents, students, and groups of any kind. A teacher or leader of any kind can mass text a group of people and receive individual responses while remaining anonymous. This tool is great for sending schedules, reminders and even in class polls.
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Aurasma is an app in which you are able to take photographs and video and tie the two together through a channel. When the app is downloaded on a phone, you can hover your phone over the picture and the video linked with it will automatically come up.
Cold Turkey is a free productivity program that you can use to temporarily block yourself off of popular social media sites, addicting websites and games so that you can get your work done!
It is great that you found resources that tied a classroom initiative to coaching. I enjoyed reading the author's observations. Coaching is teaching after all! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I'm just starting to explore this. I found several magazines and newsletters of interest to me. Now I'm considering applications for the classroom? Could this be a place to post newsletters for parents?
Although this website is geared more toward elementary age students, I have been able to get a lot of great ideas for posters, organizers, class charts, etc. The site includes a variety of resources for teachers to organize their classrooms and help students to better understand concepts. The website offers a free site and a paid membership site. Although the free site does not allow access to some of the resources that the paid site does, there are still a great deal of resources available to the free site users.
