Live Binder

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

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."

Prezi

Prezi: Tired of Power Point? Prezi is a great alternative presentation tool that 'zooms'! Great for teaching a lesson or for collaborative students projects (Prezis can be co-edited).

Library Orientation Prezi:

RJ Library Orientation 2011 on Prezi

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!

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. 

Math Videos

Math Videos – Free Technology for Teachers has put together a great collection of sources on the web to find instructional videos for math concepts.


Great to use in the class for complicated math lessons and a great way to incorporate visual learning into your lessons. 

GeoGebra

GeoGebra - GeoGebra is free software that math teachers can use to create visualizations of mathematics concepts.