Activity & Materials Creators
- Awards Certificates:www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#awardCertificates
- Bookmarks and Book Plates:www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#book
- Calendars & Classroom Organizers:www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#book
- Flash Cards – Create Your Own at StudyStack (have to register):www.studystack.com/CreateStack.jsp
- Flash Card Exchange (register for adv. functions):www.flashcardexchange.com
- Form filler (have to register): www.fillanypdf.com
- Holiday & Seasonal Worksheets:www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonal/
- Puzzle Maker (lots of types – word search, math squares, mazes, much more!): puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
- Word Search Puzzles (lots of them): www.thepotters.com/puzzles.html
- Worksheets (lots of preformatted worksheets):www.superteacherworksheets.com
Communications Tools (Print & Electronic)
- EducationWorld Newsletters & Parent Communications: www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#newsletters
- TeacherFiles: www.teacherfiles.com/resources_newsletters.htm
Course Management Systems & LMS alternatives
(You have to register to use these tools, so you can save your own personalized content. Note that these tools are generally more involved than many of the other resources on this page. Some of them offer both paid and free functionality)
- Blackboard’s “CourseSites”:coursesites.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
- EctoLearning: www.ectolearning.com
- MyiCourse: www.myicourse.com
- rCampus:www.rcampus.com/help/about/course_and_learning_management_system.cfm
- Schoology: www.schoology.com
- SchoolRack: www.schoolrack.com
Clipart
- DiscoveryEducation: school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart
- School-Clipart: www.school-clipart.com
- TeacherFiles: www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
Educational Videos
- A Dozen Free Online Video Lecture Sites:www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/a-dozen-great-free-online-video-lecture-sites
- Watchknow: www.watchknow.org
Interactives (for White Boards, or Powerpoint)
- 4 Free Digital Whiteboard Apps for the iPad
- ABCTeach: www.abcteach.com/directory/interactive
- Promethean Plant (have to register): www.prometheanplanet.com
- SMART Exchange: exchange.smarttech.com
- TopMarks: www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx
iPhone, iPad, and Android Apps
- 100 free iPhone Apps for Educators
- Free iPad Apps for Educators (and Parents)
- Attendance (for Android)
- Grade Book (for Android)
- Grade Rubric (for Android)
- Grade Ticker (for Android)
Lesson Plans
- AtoZ Teacher Stuff: atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/index.shtml
- Discovery Education: school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans
- LessonPlansPage: www.lessonplanspage.com
- Scholastic: www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplans.jsp
- Teacher.net: teachers.net/lessons
Open Educational Resources
- OER Consortium: oerconsortium.org
- OER Commons: www.oercommons.org
Quizzes & Tests
(These types of sites require sign up)
- Easy Test Maker: www.easytestmaker.com
- Quizstar: quizstar.4teachers.org/indexi.jsp
Rubrics
- 4TEachers: rubistar.4teachers.org
- Rubrics4Teachers: www.rubrics4teachers.com
- iRubrics: www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm
Social Learning & Collaboration
- Edmodo: www.edmodo.com
- Edutopia: www.edutopia.org
- Room21: room21online.com
- TakingITGlobal: www.tigweb.org
- The Schools United: www.theschoolsunited.com
OTHER/Miscellaneous
- EmergingEdTech’s 2011 Free Education Technology Resources eBook
- Google Apps for Education
- Microsoft Live@EDU
- OnlineCollegeClasses.com: Searching for online courses
- FreeTech4Teachers (Richard Byrne’s excellent blog, with lots of free resources that featured daily).
- The Definitive Source for Information About IT Issues Effecting Higher Education
GENERAL RESOURCES (not intended just for educators)
Animation
Blogging
Document Management
File Management
Group Projects
Literature Summary/Analysis
Mind Mapping
Online Interactive White Boards
Picture, Photo, & Image Editing & Organizing
PowerPoint
- Watch this video to learn about creating your own Custom Animations, and learn about many other free resources.
- This tutorial from Online Tech Tips explains how to create slide transition automations using easy pre-configured tools in PowerPoint.
- Click here to access a preconfigured search of Microsoft’s Office Site, set up to return dozens of articles with hundreds of free templates for PowerPoint.
- PresentationMagazine.com provides tons of tips, articles, PowerPoint templates, and more
Screencasting & Presentations
Other/Miscellaneous
- Random.org (a true random number generator that some teachers have said they find useful).
- Read it Later
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