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Zeeik - Compeprice LLC
Grades
K to 12tag(s): search engines (62), video (278)
In the Classroom
Find how-to videos or videos on a curriculum topic in this tool. Create a Zeeik for your class to use to view videos selected by you for any topic and in any subject. In primary grades, create a Zeeik for students to access as a center and answer questions or complete a drawing about the topic. Create a class account for students to curate videos for the rest of the class to comment and rate them. Share your Zeeik with students and parents by placing the link on your web page. ESL/ELL teachers will like the ease of collecting videos to reinforce language skills.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Geokov - Geokov.com
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): environment (325), landforms (49), landmarks (27), maps (298)
In the Classroom
Take a virtual field trip through the map maker. Explore landforms and other terrain features from Google Earth and topographic maps. Easily create maps for field trips, presentations, classroom activities and more. Create a shade relief topographic map of any region. Doing an environmental study of an area or region? Find the region in this tool first and add the necessary information for classroom discussion or presentation. Use one of the many TeachersFirst Presentation Tools to present information learned. Tie information from literature, stories, history, and other sources to add value and interest to the maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Spigot - spigot.org
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): media literacy (65), news (262)
In the Classroom
Use these articles to discuss the future of education and the use of technology both in high school and higher education. As students are the most important stakeholders in education, many of these articles are relevant to them and their future. Students will especially be interested in the Practice and Alt. Culture sections of this site. Discuss current events in your classroom and ask students to investigate an angle on technology and/or education for a persuasive writing piece or debate. Students have incredible insight into their own learning and technology use. Keep this link bookmarked on your classroom computer or linked to your blog, wiki, or class page. Use examples from this site to look for bias or editorial slant as part of an information literacy unit. Select articles for experience with informational texts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sheppard Software: Free Online Learning Games - Sheppard Software
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (227), alphabet (86), alphabetical order (19), animal homes (61), animals (322), capitalization (18), capitals (24), cells (99), colors (80), continents (51), counting (113), countries (81), decimals (125), dinosaurs (55), division (161), elements (33), endangered species (41), equations (151), estimation (48), fractions (228), geometric shapes (173), grammar (212), integers (40), landforms (49), life cycles (24), measurement (175), money (185), multiplication (211), number lines (32), number sense (96), numbers (197), oceans (165), order of operations (40), parts of speech (67), patterns (87), periodic table (51), place value (54), puzzles (203), states (165), subtraction (187), time (141), vocabulary (321), vocabulary development (124)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for computer center games and activities throughout the year. Share curriculum-related resources on your interactive whiteboard or projector. This site could work well in a BYOD or 1:1 classroom. Share with parents as a resource to use at home or as a summer skills review and refresher.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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1000 Math Problems to Enjoy - 1000problems.org
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): area (73), charts and graphs (197), equations (151), fractions (228), functions (69), geometric shapes (173), mean (26), mode (16), number lines (32), numbers (197), percent (82), pythagorean theorem (33), ratios (63), statistics (127), symmetry (51)
In the Classroom
Use 1000 Math Problems for homework, in-class practice, or anytime throughout the school year. Problems are not typical "rote" problems and are ideal for extension activities, as well. Have students create instant blogs using Throww, (reviewed here,) to provide explanations about how to solve problems.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Hangout - Google
Grades
K to 12tag(s): chat (51), DAT device agnostic tool (179), video (278)
In the Classroom
Start a Hangout and invite others from your Circles or Google contacts. Connect whole classrooms across the country for book clubs. Connect experts such as authors and scientists to classrooms of children. Create connected learning experiences with other students, especially those in older grades. Connect world language classes to classes in other countries. Students interested in graphic design can connect with an expert or artist far away and share current work in a virtual critique. Connect students with mentors or older students for help with homework. Teachers can hold "office hours" for homework help and asking questions. Whole buildings can collaborate and share professional development with others in their own district and beyond! Be sure to connect with other educators on your own and enjoy the professional development that also exists within the Hangouts! Be sure to create Circles within Google Plus to meet any concerns with your administration regarding privacy.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
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Otter - Scurry Labs
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): calendars (47), classroom management (159), homework (42)
In the Classroom
If your school does not provide such a space, Otter is perfect for teachers to create a simple class page for interaction with parents and accessibility by students. Manage your classroom with this tool. Use as a class hub to manage documents, photos, and files. Be sure to share your link so students and parents can access both in and out of the classroom. Use Otter in teacher ed programs to show future teachers how a website can enhance instruction.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be shared by URL
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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Talky - talky.io
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): chat (51), microblogging (40)
In the Classroom
Use Talky to host tutoring for small groups of students from any computer! Share with students as a resource for collaborating on group projects from home. Use Talky to set up an online interview with authors located across the country, veterans who can discuss their personal experiences with war, or experts to discuss careers in their field. Also use this site to meet up with absent students as needed. If a parent can't make a conference, meet online using Talky to share student work, progress, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NicerTube - NicerTube.com
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use NicerTube anytime you wish to share YouTube without all of the "clutter" or just spice up a presentation! This is great to use for your more easily distracted students! Share the link with your students for sharing their videos in presentations. Use your NicerTube created links within your classroom presentations to spice up video presentation at any time!Edge Features:
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Tour Builder (Beta) - Google
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (153), maps (298), timelines (58)
In the Classroom
Create a simple tour to share (or find one in the gallery). Share the tour on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Create tours of events from history, famous battles, scientific discoveries, biographies, and much more. The possibilities are endless. Create a timeline of famous people or a hub of locations related to a topic such as toxic waste sites or habitats for a certain animal. Tour settings for Shakespeare plays or an author's life. Tour Van Gogh's painting sites or map landforms such as glaciers. Have students who have Google accounts build a Tour of important events in their lives (or use a teacher-controlled account). In world language classes, create cultural tours in your new language. Scroll through the gallery for ideas on how others have used Tour Builder. You may just find some neat tours to share in the gallery.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Twitter Magnets - twittermagnets.com
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3 to 12tag(s): creative fluency (7), microblogging (40), poetry (219), twitter (45), writing prompts (93)
In the Classroom
Create a message or "poem" of the day as a class to send from your class Twitter account. Use as a center activity or have student groups create their own messages about what you have learned today in any subject area class. Have ELL students create simple messages to reinforce language skills. If you don't have a Twitter account, just have students create offline messages. Take a quick screen shot, then write, illustrate, and share on your classroom bulletin board! Generate creative messages as a class to use as writing prompts. Have students tell the story (or nonfiction news account) about what caused the message. Looking for more ways to use Twitter in the classroom? Read more about Twitter at TeachersFirst's Twitter for Teachers page. You can also use this site as a tool to teach about digital citizenship and the etiquette of tweets.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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RADCAB - Steps for Online Information Evaluation - Karen M. Christensson
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): evaluating sources (16), internet safety (118), media literacy (65), rubrics (31)
In the Classroom
Share this site and content on your interactive whiteboard or projector as you begin a project involving research. Demonstrate how to use this site before allowing students to explore on their own. Print and use the rubric available on the site. Require that students (or groups) complete the rubric on their chosen sources for research. Share a link to the site on your class website and classroom computer for easy student (and parent) reference at any time. Another idea: assign cooperative learning groups one part of the acronym. Each group could create a presentation to share with the class about what they learned about their part of the evaluation process. Have students create online posters individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here. Students will LOVE finding and sharing examples of "bad" sources!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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EngageNY Video Library - New York State Education Department
Grades
K to 12tag(s): commoncore (99), professional development (164)
In the Classroom
This is a great site to share during professional development days. Share the parent video during your Open House or Meet The Teacher night. Bookmark and view videos to help understand implementing Common Core in your classroom. Check back frequently to see what has been added. Find ideas for specific lesson ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Community Science Workshop Network - Community Initiatives
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K to 12tag(s): engineering (129), gravity (46), inventors and inventions (92), musical instruments (51), plants (174), sound (105), STEM (173)
In the Classroom
Use these activities to create contraptions for students to manipulate in class. As students use a manipulative, collect their questions about what they observe or wonder about the contraption's motion and characteristics. Students can research the science behind the object or motion. Use class discussion to create understanding about basic scientific principles. Be sure to include a link to this site on your classroom computer or website. Students can use these activities to teach concepts to other students in their class. Many of these activities make great demonstrations as an introduction to a science concept and for uncovering student misconceptions. Expand what you ask students to do by using creative writing, reading, creating Infographics, or learning correct ways to research and report findings about the subject matter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pocket - Read It Later, Inc
Grades
K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (68), DAT device agnostic tool (179)
In the Classroom
Use Pocket professionally to collect and share websites, videos, and images for lessons and units. Use Pocket to share sites with colleagues, parents, and students. Share this site with older students to use to save resources they find for research. Demonstrate how to use Pocket and share with students as a resource for collaborating on group projects. Be sure to talk about using tags to organize things so they don't end up with a giant "pocketful" of tangled "stuff."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Tutrr - Practice and Improve Math Skills - Tutrr.com
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): area (73), data (161), decimals (125), fractions (228), geometric shapes (173), percent (82), probability (141), problem solving (294), quadratics (31), statistics (127), symmetry (51), test prep (97), transformations (18), volume (53)
In the Classroom
Share Tutrr with students as an excellent way to practice and review concepts at home. Be sure to clarify any difference in terms so they can find what they need. There is a slight learning curve to using the site correctly. Demonstrate on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students practice the program in class (if possible) before trying it at home. Have students explore and share tips on how to input answers correctly. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. Be sure to include this site on your class web page for students to access both in and outside of class for further practice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Emaze - emaze.com
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Create a slideshow for any classroom presentation, with all grade levels. In lower grades, use teacher-created shows or make one together as a class on the projector or interactive whiteboard. Share it on your website or blog for students to review or for students who were absent. If they are allowed to set up personal accounts, have students create and collaborate on their own presentations. Alternatively, create a class account for students to use. Share students' work on your classroom website or blog. (Be sure to get parent permission first!) Use this tool in many different ways. Have students use this online tool as they would any presentation tool. Use this site for research projects about famous people from the past and present. Have cooperative learning groups create presentations about science or math topics. Have students create presentations to "introduce" themselves to the class during the first week of school. Link or embed the presentations on your class wiki and have others guess which student they describe. Share student projects with parents and others via URL. Use the infographics template to make quick and easy infographics about any subject. Report information from class polls, create infographics for reports on states, famous people, or any topic that would include multiple uses of data! Be sure to demonstrate HOW to use this tool on your interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Clipping Magic - clippingmagic.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): images (277), photography (157)
In the Classroom
Use Clipping Magic to create masks for classroom plays or activities. Share with students for use with projects to create and combine images without busy backgrounds. For example, create pictures of presidents, castles, or plants for use with any report or on slides for a presentation. Take pictures of students; then remove the background. Save images for use throughout the year in hall displays, bulletin boards, on reward certificates, etc.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Center for Game Science: Games - Center for Game Science, UNiversity of Washington
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): cells (99), dna (64), fractions (228), game based learning (138), gamification (86), STEM (173), vision (79), whole numbers (16)
In the Classroom
Choose games to play on your interactive whiteboard, projector, or through links on classroom computers. Share a link to the site on your classroom website or newsletter for students to explore at home. Have students create an online or printed comic using one of the tools and ideas included in this collection to demonstrate thought processes or ideas learned through game play. If you teach computer coding, this is a great site to inspire ideas for new learning games.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timeline JS - Northwestern University Knight Lab
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K to 12tag(s): timelines (58)
In the Classroom
Use your interactive whiteboard or projector to share timelines about historical events, research literature, learn about different decades and events throughout the world, and more. Have students create timelines for research projects. Use a whole class Google account or individual Google apps accounts if you have them. Use this tool to make a timeline of your school year. Create author biographies, animal life cycles, or timelines of events and causes of wars. Challenge students to create a timeline of the plot of a novel, interspersed with the ways themes appear throughout the novel. If you teach chemistry, have students create illustrated sequences explaining oxidation or reduction (or both). Have elementary students interview grandparents and create a class timeline about their grandparents for Grandparents' Day. Why not create a timeline highlighting students' family events for a special gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, or other holidays? You may need to assign students to do some investigative work first (years of births, marriages, vacations, etc.). In world language classes, have students create a timeline of their family in the language to master with vocabulary about relatives, jobs, and more (and verb tenses!). Students learn about photo selection, detail writing, chronological order, and photo digitization while creating the timelines of their choice. Making a timeline is also a good way to review the history and cultural developments.Edge Features:
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