Faculty Development: Edu Tech Resources

"free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. "--(site)

Video OverView: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSR1OWjhis&feature=youtu.be

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cF77X6VRG0&feature=youtu.be

Free. Students get double storage capacity.

Highlight, annotate via 'sticky notes', and share websites that you've bookmarked. Get a browser bookmarklet for IE, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, then just click the bookmarklet to launch the menu of bookmarking tools. It will be saved how you altered it.

No registration. Just drag and drop the files you want to share (pdfs, docs, jpegs, ppts, etc.). You get a url to share. It lasts for 2 weeks.

Any Meeting is a nice service for hosting and recording live webinars without installing any special software. When using Any Meeting as a webinar host you can share your screen, use your webcam, and use text chat all at the same time. As the webinar host you can invite others to talk to the group using their webcams. You can have up to six webcams active in a webinar at any one time. You can record all or part of your webinar for free too. If you have people that just want to participate in the au

Big Marker is a free service for conducting online conferences. Big Marker is a great option for conducting online tutoring sessions, brainstorming sessions, and other online presentations. Big Marker allows you to create your choice of a private or a public online meeting room. If you make your room public anyone can join. If you make your room private you have to give participants a password to enter the room. Once in your Big Marker conference room you can share screens, chat via text, chat via audio, or turn on your webcam so that people can see and hear you. Your Big Marker conference room comes with a white board that you and your participants can write and draw on. As the creator of a Big Marker conference you can control who can and cannot be heard or seen in the live audio and video chats.

"join.me free allows you to hold an unlimited number of meetings with up to 10 participants per meeting (one organizer plus nine viewers). You can chat with participants, transfer files, join the audio part of any meeting by internet (VoIP), and allow participants to control your computer."-(site)

There is no sign up or login required. (Although you can sign in for free to customize rooms and schedule sessions.) Just start a room and share the link to invite. You can have five video participates at once.

You can watch videos together from YouTube and other sites. There is a collaborative notepad, text chat, file sharing and you can even share your screen with other 'room mates.'

Click the button and start sharing your screen in under 5 seconds! (Java required to share)

View from the browser of any PC, tablet, or smartphone. No software download or installation required.

Allow as many people as you like to see your computer screens at once without needing to set up an account.

"Enjoy all that your computer has to offer –
remotely from your mobile devices. For your tablet, phone, PC or Mac!"-(site)

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

Online meetings – have up to 25 participants

Can upload files, use as a whiteboard, chat, etc. Like a smaller and easier version of Blackboard's Collaborate.

"Hangout with your colleagues, share videos (up to 9) and conference for free. Join the call with your browser, Skype or your phone directly. No long distance charges, our number is toll-free, really.

More? In the US, you can even get called by the conference on your landline or mobile directly !" --(site)

"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."--(site)

visual collaboration tool

"Easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more!"--(site)

create interactive charts: bar, pie, line, and matrix

Free. "Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.
"--(site)

create objects with text, links, free-hand drawing, and images from your computer or the web, and video from YouTube or Vimeo.

"Draw flow charts, wireframes, mind maps, org charts, UML diagrams, and more with just a few clicks. Collaborative."--(site)

motion charts, timelines, geodata, and comparative data.

Turn Any Webpage Into a Comic

Free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips

templates for comic strips and comic books, including backgrounds, characters, and special effects.

Choose free version.

Costs $34.95 for the Teacher and $19.95 for Students and Alumni. Their Website has a nice quick video on how it works, which seems very straightforward

Presumes (Interactive Resumes)

Turn your work, drawings, photographs, etc into both a streamlined website and a downloadable app. Can also share portfolios via social networking sites.

Open Source

Enter your occupation. It provides sample phrases to enter-just click and choose. Then select from many style types...

Enter a URL above and hit “go” to shorten your link and create a QR Code that with
FREE registration comes complete with QR Code Tracking and NFC Tag Tracking.

Alternatively, select a service to create mobile-friendly pages that can include
video, images, and call-to-action links for your campaigns.

"When you shorten a link with Goo.gl a QR code is created for it too. To find the QR code, click the "details" link after your shortened URL has been made. The details page also shows you how many times your link has been used."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com)

"A clever QR code generator that lets you change the link behind the code, add expiry dates and password protect links."--(site:Scout Report)

"free tool that allows you to create QR codes that when scanned will play a short audio message. To create your message and QR code you can record a voice message by clicking the microphone icon on QR Voice or you can type in your message. Either way you're limited to 100 characters. QR Voice is offered in Spanish, English, Japanese, and Portuguese."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

A useful QR code generator site for quick linking to text, contacts, links and much more via a QR code reader.

Tag your document. People scan the QR code to get a virtual copy. People can comment and follow your documents.

Create images merged with QR codes. Choose an image, enter the QR code details, drag into place and download the result.

For more info, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzJmHvMwlaY

import an image and create a prompt. Share the link. Collect the data.

"Classmint lets anyone create annotable, audible, beautiful notes that can be folded like a paper. It also maintains automated revision list to aid in timely revision.

Students/Teachers can keep their notes private or publish them."--(site)

Don't let the elementary style look of the website fool you. There are MANY games templates to choose from, including arcade style, 'Fakebook,' SMS Generator, and more.

"No programming required. Create beautiful games with Construct 2, the HTML5 game maker.

Download the Free Edition and discover your creative potential." --(site)

Has some free materials

Cross Word Puzzles, Sliding Puzzles, Brain Teasers, Hangman, etc.

"Create and play your own free quiz show templates! Show students questions and answers to review! No Powerpoint! No registration!"--(site)

Free vocabulary flashcard service for teachers and students. Can add images. Ability to create games and quizzes with them, too.

"Teachers can create and manage multiple class lists within their accounts. Sharing class lists can be done by inviting students to view the flashcards via email or by posting a password-protected link to the lists on a class blog. The second method requires students to remember the password that you have created to access the list. Word lists can also be embedded into blogs or websites."--Richard Byrne from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Free. Easily create Jeopardy style review games.

Instructions to many games-- classroom, ice-breakers, etc. Searchable.

Create quizzes based on images.

"Creating a quiz on ImageQuiz is an easy process. First, give your quiz a title and then upload a picture or copy and paste the URL of an online image into ImageQuiz. Then draw outlines around the parts of the picture that will be the answers to your questions. Finally, write your questions and try your quiz. To share your quiz just give people the URL of your quiz."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/create-image-based-quizzes-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29#.USuP6Fee4zI)

Free. Works with any Internet connected device. Multiple choice, T or F, short answer, as well as create a drawing or diagram.

online quizzes/ surveys that can be answered on any device (iPad, Android, Chromebook). Your questions can include images and videos.

You can set time limits for each question. Students get points for correct answers and see a timeline of their answers. The teacher sees a scoreboard on his/her screen.


Students do not need to have a Kahoot account; they just visit Kahoot.it and enter the PIN code that you give to them to join the quiz/survey.

Free. You must register, but students don't need to in order to take the quiz. Embeddable!

Lets you creating sets of flashcards on any topic, with image and text prompts to help the learning process. But has built-in very cool quizzing features, such as spelling prompts with an audio cue, drag and drop eliminators, and more.

Create iOs and Flash games without code.

Create your own wheel for content overview, questions, etc.

"Create interactive quizzes based on YouTube clips. Viewers watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.

Start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you,trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like."--Richard Byrne http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

free and easy-to-use polling tool. Registration is not required! Enter a question, type some answers, then click "create new poll." Your poll(s) can be embedded.

Very similar to Google Forms. Different Plans, ranging from FREE to Pro 3 ($99.95 per month)

Free service for quickly gathering feedback from your students through a laptop, iPad, or any web enabled device. Can do a 'check-in' or a multiple choice question, etc. Shows students names.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQp1XQ6UaK8#t=223

"allows you to have your audience respond to questions through their laptops, tablets, and phones.

The Polls tool allows you to survey your audience by having them select an answer choice in response to a question. The Discussions tool allows you to have audience members reply to open-ended questions.

The Confusion Meter allows members of your audience to simply say, "yes, I get it" or "no, I don't get it." The Confusion Meter, like all of the GoSoapBox survey tools, can accept anonymous feedback."-- (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

"free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops."--(Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers, http://www.freetech4teachers.com)

allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.

Get instant feedback through cell phones, tablets, and any other Internet-connected device. It doesn't have has many features as Socrative or Poll Everywhere, but it is free and very easy to use.

Plickers is a new classroom polling system. All you need to get started is paper for your students and a single smartphone-- for you.

Now you can add images and Latex math equations!

Free. You must register, but students don't need to in order to take the quiz. Embeddable!

Free. "Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets." -(site)

"Great looking picture survey creator that can be embedded on to a site. Add a question, choose your images and share the link. The free account allows up to 100 responses."

"Vizaroo is a learner response system that creates graphic organizers from audience responses."--(site)

easy to use website that will allow you to create surveys/polls that you can embed in your class website or blog.

It is set up as blog so uses tags rather than categories for searching for infographics topics.

Create free infographics online. "Drag and Drop pre-designed themes and vector assets onto your canvas for easy creation and customization of rich infographics."--(site)

Interactive Infographics

"Create and share infographics and interactive charts in minutes"--(site)

sorts their infographics into categories for easy access to topics.

Create beautiful and informative infographics with this great, easy to use site. Just upload your images and drag them into place. The free account has 5 template themes.

"turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text." -(site)

"generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes."-- (site)

Create your own worksheets to visualize, interact with and explore the amazing world of mathematics. MathDisk is absolutely free for everyone.

"Annotary helps you bookmark pages, make highlights, take notes, and share with others."--(site)

"makes it easy for teachers to organize and share educational materials in a visually pleasing format. The "canvas" part of Edcanvas is where you arrange videos, links, images, and files around any topic of your choosing. Edcanvas has built-in search tools so that you do not have to leave your Edcanvas account in order to locate resources.

When you share a canvas of materials with your students they can give the materials a thumbs-up to show that they understand the materials or they can ask questions about the materials. You can also see if your students actually looked at all of the materials that you have shared with them."--(Richard Byrne http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

Web based note taking tool

Free. Curate the web. Use docs, images, videos, blogs, books, etc. and add it to your board.

Organize any website, article, video into a Learning Playlist

Begone static lists! "Explore the contrast between static list posts and using Listly on your blog/website.

Listly is all about letting you and your community collaborate to create and embed list content inside blogs. We build and play on the fact that people simply love lists. We help source feedback and aggregate opinion."--(site)

"Your 3-ring binder for the web

Collect your resources
Organize them neatly and easily
Make an impression"--(site)

"Pinterest is an online pinboard.
Organize and share things you love."--(site)

"Web tool that teaches organization of information that has been found and bookmarked or added to favorites. Students can get their own start page with Symbaloo. They can then collect bookmarks and favorites in different folders. Students can add new tabs and color code resources.

Symbaloo is free for creating a personal learning environment. SymbalooEDU for teachers has a low per year subscription rate."--(Magnus Keith, Edudemic http://edudemic.com/2012/12/4-web-tools-tech-savvy-students-are-using-right-now/)

Flash Player required.

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/trading-card-creator-30056.html

Enter a list of names, then hit "go." Once a name is selected you have the option of launching a two minute or seven minute countdown timer. You can also remove a name from the list after it has been selected.

http://join.chronozoom.com/teach/

Free. Giant canvas to scale of all history from the Big Bang to the present, and zoom into it. Students can create their own Timelines with videos, images, and text.

A four dimensional storytelling tool. Using Meograph you can build map and timeline-based stories. A nice plus is that you don't have to include locations in your story. So if locations aren't important to your narrated story you can simply build a narrated timeline. Better than Google Earth since you don't have to download any software.

"Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. Our first product combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when."--(site)

Learn how via video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn5CXhxTPVU

Take long urls and shorten them. If you sign up for a free account, you can track and analyze how many people have clicked on that link.

Bitly also offers an option for bundling bookmarks into one package that you can share with just one link.

For more info.: http://bit.ly/w3gcXU

Share a group of links with people. Just copy and paste the urls into the bundle box. You can also add comments after each link.

Rree service that you can use to quickly send a group of links as one url.

Shorten urls, share files and track visits.

Transform any YouTube video into a lesson worth sharing. Search YouTube below to select a video, add your own supplementary materials and share your lesson with your students.

Copy and paste the link to the video you want to download into the field on KeepVid and press the large download button. If you get asked about an "applet" go ahead and check the "Allow all applets..." box and click the allow button. If everything is working correctly, you should be presented with a list that contains links to your video. Download the MP4 version in the best available resolution (bigger numbers).

Free. Has over 9,000 videos. Great for flipping the classroom. There is also a free Knowmia Teach iPad app where you can create your own lesson video and submit it to the Knowmia library.

"Metta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation."--( http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

search for educational videos by category, organization producing the video, speakers, and length of video.

A search engine for video lectures. The site has over 28,000 lectures archived on a range of topics from some of the biggest lecture producers, including TED

Use engaging videos to create customized lessons.

You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

"To make a vialogue, upload a video. Then you can make it a private assignment by selecting and inviting discussants. Add comments, surveys and open-ended questions. Then embed and share vialogues on Blackboard, blogs, or websites."-(site)

Your Personal webpage. Good for CVs/ resumes...

Contains 3 elements:

1. Thimble: Make and share your own web page
2. X-Ray Goggles: Explore and remix any web page
3. Popcorn maker: Supercharge web video

"NewHive is your simple, drag + drop, online blank canvas."--(site) Get link and embed code. Make private or public. NO ADS!

Easily create links and buttons to connect multiple expressions (webpages) together.

"create a page for anything in 5 minutes."-(site)

create a simple single page poster with text, images, and videos. Once you sign up (it's free) you simply add the elements and then publish the final product.

It's supposed to be a service for creating online flyers, but it's more than that. These flyers are dynamic and changeable-- not single-use PDFs and can include videos. Uses drag and drop.

Free. Create a one page website. Good for events or showcase of digital work/ eportfolio. Can use templates. Includes analytics and contact info. Hovering your mouse anywhere on the template and select the edit button.

simple way to build a website. user interface is intuitive enough for first-time users to navigate on their own

Can include videos, 3rd party widgets, etc. Offers a wide variety templates and layouts to select from. For people with a low level of comfort with technology, Webs might be an ideal choice.

Go to http://www.howto101.co.uk/how-to-create-a-website.html for easy directions.

Offers lots of templates and provides good tutorials and forums for first time users.

Offers visually impressive themes and automatically makes your sites mobile-friendly.

Select a theme and arrange elements by drag-and-drop menus. You can even integrate a blog.

CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

Simple sharing
• Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in real time.
• One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc.

Zero hassle
• Runs in all common browsers without plugins or installation.
• Free and without registration.

"Create a sketch, share it with students.
They mark up their own and share it back.

No plugin, installation or app required!
Works on all modern computers, smartphones and tablets!

No Student sign up!
Teachers add students to their account."--(site)

"SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online!"-(site)

No sign-up required. "Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo."--(site)

A superb collaborative notepad site. Easily link to videos, audio, images, websites and other notepad pages.

Free and paid plans.

Create your own children's book.

write your own chapters, vote for the best version, then BOOM! get published.

"It begins with a story start. A story start is the first chapter of the book. The rest of the story is up to you.

The story start could be written by a professional writer, a teacher, you or your classmates, or maybe even a celebrity!"-(site)

"Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it."--(site)

Create your own free digital Magazine

Multilingual comic strip creation service with printable comic templates.

Create your own online newspaper

Unique checking algorithm
Fast and easy checking process
Huge database of academic papers
Easy and usable report
On-line tool. No downloads needed
Absolutely FREE

"Every day we provide a new prompt (like a question, or a challenge), and everyone gets a chance to answer.
It's simple to add photos, maps, playlists and more. You can easily share your Plinky answers on Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, and most major blogging services."--(site)

Interactive writing worksheets. The worksheets contain spelling and grammar errors that your students have to identify and correct. Students submit their corrections and Quill shows them how they did by showing what they did correct and what they should have corrected. An explanation accompanies each Quill correction.

"provides templates and artwork for creating digital stories. To use Storybird you simply select a theme (layout) then drag and drop the drawings you like into your story. Once you've selected drawings for your story, you then write in the text of your story." -(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

choose the type of the story you want to make ,then use the story creator tool. You can start from scratch or get a beginning to create your story.

online platform to write, illustrate and publish online stories.

"Word Mover allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.

FEATURES

6 poem categories, each with the ability to personalize
12 backgrounds for stylizing poems
Helpful instructions available throughout app
Viewing of finished poem for proofreading
Ability to save poem as draft or final version
Ability to print poem
Ability to send poem by e-mail"--(from site)

"Read online publications and self publish digital magazines, eBooks and more."-(site)