From Free Technology for Teachers: "Live Binder is a free online service that allows you to create online binders of webpages, images, and documents. Live Binders displays your collected content in a tabbed, book-like format. You can create binders for as many topics as you like. Adding content to your Live Binder can be done by manually typing in the url of a webpage, upload files from your computer to your Live Binder, or add content through the Live Binders browser add-ons for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer." This site is a great way to group resources for a class research project or for a department.
Example: Tools for World Languages
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Chronicle of the Revolution
The Chronicle of Revolution: A site created by PBS.org for their Liberty! series. On the site, students can explore timelines, read newspaper accounts (within each newspaper account are links to further reading about important people and places mentioned in the articles), and play the trivia game.
Econ Ed
From Free Technology for Teachers: "Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students about a wide range of topics in economics. Teachers can search the lesson plan index by grade level, concept, standard, or length of lesson (one class period vs. multiple class periods). Most of the lessons attempt to provide "real world" context."
Frozen Planet
From Free Technology for Teachers: "Frozen Planet: Explore the Polar Regions features an interactive display through which you can view the history of polar exploration and the science of the polar regions. The interactive display is created through the use of the Google Earth browser plug-in and a timeline. You can click along the timeline to see and read placemarks on Google Earth. You can browse through and click on a list of important places in both polar regions. For further investigation and analysis of the polar regions you can activate a number of Google Earth layers within the Frozen Planet display. The display also includes videos about each region although the playlist for the Antarctic region is much longer than the playlist for the Arctic region."
(Computers do need the Google Earth plug-in)
(Computers do need the Google Earth plug-in)
Wikispaces
Wikispaces - Start a Wiki for your class or for a specific project. What is a wiki? A wiki is a website created by one person, but where many people can add content and collaborate. For example, a teacher can post a discussion question to their Wiki and students can log on in class or from home to add to the discussion. Students can create Wikis for group projects, students can create Wikis to do lab reports, history classes can create a Wiki around one historic event or time period, and more!
Brainstorming / Concept Mapping / Flow Chart Tools
Brainstorming / Concept Mapping / Flow Chart Tools
- Bubbl.us: Brainstorming Tool
- Gliffy: Online Diagram Software
- Mindmeister: Real-time Collaborative Brainstorming Tools
- Wiffiti: Text to Screen Tool
Example: Bubbl.us
Jeopardy Lab
Jeopardy Lab: Create Jeopardy games online within minutes. This program is totally free and really easy to use.
Glogster
Glogster – Create online posters using images, videos, links, audio and more. A nice (less messy, more interactive) alternative to a traditional poster. See video tutorials at: Glogster Info.
Voicethread
Voicethread – Tool used to create online demonstrations or host conversations around an image, document, or video. The hosts post an image or video, and other contributors (i.e. students) can post text or audio in response to what they see.
VoiceThread Simply Speaking from VoiceThread on Vimeo.
Examples of Voicethreads in Education
VoiceThread Simply Speaking from VoiceThread on Vimeo.
Examples of Voicethreads in Education
New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic Kid Zone - Play games, explore current musicians in the Philharmonic, play with instruments, and more.
Read Kiddo Read
Read Kiddo Read – Booklists for various reading levels/age groups. A great way to help your students find the perfect book.
Current Events - Do Now
Current Event 'Do Now' Exercises - KQED Public Media's website has a small section of its Ed Space pages dedicated to short current events-based Do Now activities that teachers can use in their classrooms. Activities present a current events topic, some background information (both text and video), and a couple of discussion prompts.
Voki Avatars
Voki Avatars - A free service that allows your students to create personalized speaking avatars and embed them on a blog or wiki or send them via e-mail. This service provides numerous features to help students personalize their speaking avatar's voice, appearance, hair color, background, clothing, and more.
Example: George Washington Voki
Example: George Washington Voki
American History Videos
American History Videos – A collection of history videos created by McGraw-Hill. Topics range from the Civil War to modern times.
Timeline Tools
One great activity to do with students in all subject is to have them create timelines. This project involves research, analysis, critical thinking, and summarizing key points and events. Have students create a timeline for a history or science project, or even one for an IRP book!
Online timeline tools:
Online timeline tools:
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