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Anchor is an free podcast creation site. I use it to make podcasts for my students. It is free and easy to use.

Create podcasts

Community Classroom is an innovative and free resource for educators, offering short-form film modules adapted from ITVS's award-winning documentaries and standards-based lesson plans for high school and community colleges, NGOs, and youth organizations.

A free online tool to connect students and teachers.

Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!

I saved out the announcement of this special report & forgot to post earlier. Multiple articles include "Free online courses mean college will never be the same. No special sign-on needed.

This week on New Tech City we're talking MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses that major universities and newly formed education companies are offering for FREE (and that's no acronym). Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe are taking these classes. Could this be the future of higher-level degrees?

Tools, Technology and Techniques To Keep Your Online Students Engaged In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online.

A website button generator. Design your very own button or use one of the preset examples. Then download or hotlink the image, or get CSS code. Fast & free!

LinkedIn is offering courses one of the courses is Social media in the classroom

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Search peer reviewed open educational resources (OER), create Course ePortfolios, Bookmark Collections, and Learning Exercises, and build your own learning materials with our Content Builder.

Great easy to use.

You can develop your own questions, use their test bank, or import your existing quizzes. You can select the order of the questions, indicate scores for passing, will show you their score at the completion of the quiz and reveal the correct answer to the questions. Very easy to follow. Almost no learning curve. I would definitely use this in an online class to assess students understanding of concepts covered. I would offer it either as a review or as a quiz itself.

ProProfs - Knowledge Management Software for Quizzes, Tests, Training, Flashcards, Knowledge Base. Get started with our knowledge management softwares.

While many parents allow children free reign of the Internet at home, there is a debate on the pros and cons of digital devices at school. Let's take a look at some of the positives and negatives of electronic devices in the classroom for teacher and students.

Communication Skills. Confidence. Body Language. Stress Management. Social Dynamics. Personal Development. - Free Course

List.ly, according to co-founder Nick Kellet, is "true social curation with lists as a metaphor." List.ly is all about creating and curating lists. You can create lists of tips or lists of websites or lists of anything you can think of that your potential clients would be interested in.

List.ly is an excellent tool for curating web resources. You can then embed these lists into your blog, wiki, or content pages in your institutions learning management system. Other list.ly users can even request to add resources to your curated list. You can sign up for list.ly and it's free.

eLearning Brothers now offer access to over 9,000 professional PowerPoint graphics. Graphics are 100% editable and can export in nearly any software. They offer free templates for a wide variety of e-learning tools. added by Shelly LaFevers TT1631

Product blurb: Looking for fast and easy mailing lists? Get stylish, effective results in 5 minutes or less. Personal experience: I have found these posters to be great for interactive review materials and enrichment. It's a quick way to organize anything you can post using Google Docs (so Google Forms (quizzes), Slides, etc...), websites, images, YouTube videos, etc... and the first 5 or so posters are free. The best part is it is very user-friendly. I highly recommend trying it out!

This video explains how to use Screencast-o-matic, a free tool that allows you to record your voice and screen for up to 15 minutes.