This is resource my school has recently been suggesting with the new changes to more computerized testing. Great tool to help students/adults learn how to type.
Virtual Classroom Management is a collection of free online tools gathered by the Technology Resource Teachers of Frederick County, Maryland. Tools include timers, noise monitors, point trackers, random name generators, charts, and more. Online Stopwatch includes analog and digital timers as well as an egg timer, stopwatch (count up or down), talking clock, metronome, chess clock, an interval timer, and split lap timer.
Inspiration® encourages deeper, more critical thinking and improves students' creativity, comprehension and retention. The software helps students create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing.
"Inspiration Software® uses research-based principles and strategies to develop and support our visual thinking and learning software for students and educators."
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
We love to know who's using Tux Paint and how they're discovering it! Please take a moment to answer this short survey. (All questions are optional.) Tux Paint is completely free software, released as "Open Source" software, under the provisions of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
This website helps people who aren't completely familiar with using the wiki space software. It provides help for educators who are creating curriculum pages, how to edit the homepage and navigation, adjusting your settings, and much more.
"Websites can bring a classroom to life. There are so many different worlds you can visit. Of course the Internet also brings you to a lot if information that is not age appropriate for school students so it is important to be safe and smart when you share websites with your students."
""i Tell a Story" allows children to narrate and record their stories. But as a complete audio recording and editing tool, there are countless other uses, such as having adults record stories and messages for the little ones in their lives to listen to. Add funny sounds and music if you want, plus a picture, title, and your name, and send your audio book"
A 47 page annotated, categorized list of (mainly) free online tools to support technology integration into the K12 classroom leading to blended learning.