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Favorite Websites
Go Noodle - Keep kids motivated, active and focused with these free brain breaks!
EDpuzzle allows you to trim a video to show only the part you need. Embed questions to hold your students accountable during the video.
Class Tools has fun and free resources for your classroom! Here are a few of our favorites:
- Fakebook
- QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator
- Venn Diagrams
- Random Name/Word Picker
- Countdown Timer
- Arcade Game Generator
- Burger Diagram
Safeshare.tv - Watch and share YouTube and Vimeo videos without the ads
Pete's PowerPoint Station - Tons of PowerPoint presentations organized by subject area
Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids. Searches the web for images, news and videos.
The High Tech Verbs home page includes verbs that are representative of what is found in the student expectations for the state standards. Each of the verbs are linked to the corresponding level of Bloom's Taxonomy. When you click on one of the verbs, you will find Web 2.0 tools that can be used to teach that skill. Many of the tools include student examples. Thanks to ESC. Region 12 for this awesome wiki!
Vocaroo allows you to create voice recordings and send them through email. No need to install any software!!
- Click to record.
- Click to stop recording.
- Record again or listen to the recording.
- Students can email their recording to parents or the teacher. Click QR Code to create a code that links to your recording!
Ideas:
- Students record their original story or poetry and email to the parents.
- ELL/ESL students enhance reading/listening skills by listening or emailing their video to the teacher or their parents.
- Students in foreign language classes record themselves and listen or email to the teacher.
- Speech students record their speeches and email to the teacher instead of having every student give their speech in class.
- Easy method for curating digital content
- Webmixes (curated sites) are saved in the cloud, so they are accessible anywhere
- Visually engaging for students and educators
- Symbalooedu Tutorial Webmix
- Kindergarten Webmix
- National Geographic Webmix
- Ebook - Read to Me
- B&N Online Storytime
- E-Book #1
- E-Book Set 2
- Starfall Books
- Apps for Autism
- Reading & Technology
- Virtual Field Trips
- Grammar/Spelling
Wizer - Don't freak out when you see the word 'worksheet' on this website. We think of these as online lessons. You can can create your own, interactive and engaging lesson or you can search for 'worksheets' other teachers have created. Click here for a great tutorial on searching Wizer. Check out one of our favorite Wizer lessons here.
Apps
Prisma (free) - Turn your photos into cool artworks with a variety of photo filters.
Tinycards (free) - Flashcards over tons of topics or you can create your own.
Photomyne - (free) - Scan your photos by positioning the camera directly over your album pages or a few photos scattered on a table and start taking photos, one after the other. (Google Play Store)
Peep and the Big Wide World - 9 Free Science and Math Apps are available from this site (links to App Store and Google Play Store). Includes Spanish!
Math Duel ($2.99) - Math Duel is a split screen game that pits two players against each other on the same device! Change settings for each player to level the playing field. Also available in single player mode. (Google Play - $4.99)
Collins Big Cat Book Apps (free)- Build reading and writing skills with these 8 free book apps.
Charades! Guess Words with Kids - Play this fun game with your kids! Add your own cards that are content-related.
Pic Collage for Kids (free)- Kid-friendly version of the popular photo collage app
PicPlayPost - Create a collage of videos and images
Quiver Vision - Augmented Reality Coloring Pages that come to life when you use the Quiver Vision App.
Printables
School Express contains an online tool that allows you to take the weekly spelling words or vocabulary words and easily create your Word Wall cards or Flashcards
Classroom Freebies - a collection of free stuff from teachers
Classroom Freebies Too - a collection of free stuff from teachers
Rockin Teacher - Tons of elementary printables
Lego Star Wars - Print and fold these Star Wars characters
FREE Printables for Back to School - A collection of free printables
Free Printable Teacher Resources - Organized by categoryCertificate Street - Certificate templates for education