PodBean is a website that you can join to create podcasts and share them with other users. PodBean features statistics on your podcasts, customizable themes, and powerful analysis tools. PodBean also allows you to easily share your podcasts by giving embedded codes and links. Podcasts are applicable for any time of educational use, from teaching to student projects.
Visual bookmark website that adds customization to websites in the form of icons. Multiple pages to create specific bookmarks such as websites for a specific class. Integrated search engine, encyclopedia, and other useful tools.
StoryToolz is a source that can be used by those writing stories, or essays. Among other tools StoryToolz has a word count meter which you can use to monitor how your word count has increased as you have progressed.
Another great service to make surveys and take-home quizzes available to students after school hours. Because you can add pictures and videos to your questions, Kahoot! is a way to get students more involved in the learning process. Only teachers need to have an account, and students enter a PIN number given out by the teacher to access the content.
PictishPuzzle is a site in which you help to reassemble an archaeological find. Archaeologists actually haven't figured out how to reassemble it yet so students actions on this site actually have real life impact.
This website compiles videos from YouTube and Khan Academy, and offers 8-day courses and free lessons in Spanish. You have the option to buy lessons, books, and other tools to aid your learning of Spanish language. Students who are taking online Spanish courses can use this to supplement their learning.
With this piece of freeware you can pick a random person from a list of names. Ever needed to solve a dispute fairly? The answer is simple with the Hat! With the ability to save name sets, the number of lists of randomized names is infinite!
Coursera is a free online learning tool which provides free courses for a variety of different subjects. Coursera has 107 partners including top colleges such as Stanford and Duke which provided educational videos. It provides up to 536 courses and is used by over 5 million people.
Online compiler that adds audio to any professional document. This includes PowerPoint presentations, narrative essays, and still images. Useful for making videos and podcasts to upload online.
MindCipher is a site filled with riddles, brain teasers, and logic puzzles on subjects ranging from math to science. An additional feature is the difficulty level of each puzzle. Moreover, puzzles can be sorted by "most popular" and by difficulty level.
More than a learning management system, Blackboard Learn tools impact the entire learning experience to engage learners, streamline processes, manage outcomes and improve performance.
This website is used to focus on coding. It allows you to switch between design and view mode which allows you to see the automatic changes made in the code.This allows you to create websites easily. Google Web Design is also compatible with tablets, mobiles, and computers.
Canva is a newly launched service for creating elegant projects, such as flyers, infographics, photo collages, and greeting cards. Canva provides its own layout templates, text boxes, and backgrounds as well as a library with an abundant collection of both photographs and clip art. Finished Canva projects can be shared as links or as PDFs or PNG files.
This tool allows students who may not be technically aware of the need for security to create personalized and easily memorable passwords for future use in sites that teachers may utilize with their class. Password Bird uses a special name, a special word, and a special date to generate this case and number sensitive password.
Have you ever wanted to make an App? Well in the link above you can create an action App by coding. In the App you have to know a little about coding, but it is very fun to create.