Free Productivity Resources for Educators | Emerging Education Technology

Free Productivity Resources for Educators | Emerging Education Technology:

RESOURCES DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR EDUCATORS

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

• GoAnimate
• Voki

Blogging

• Blogger
• Edublogs
• WordPress

Document Management

• Google Docs
• Zoho

File Management

• Dropbox

Group Projects

• EnterTheGroup

Literature Summary/Analysis

• CliffNotes
• SparkNotes

Mind Mapping

• Bubbl.us

Online Interactive White Boards

• 4 Free Digital Whiteboard Apps for the iPad
• Dabbleboard
• ImaginationCubed
• Scribblar

Picture, Photo, & Image Editing & Organizing

• Aviary
• FotoFlexer
• Photofunia
• Picasa
• Pixenate

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

• Fotobabble
• Glogster
• Jing
• OneTrueMedia
• Prezi
• Screenpresso
• Screenr
• Screencast-O-matic
• Slideshare
• ZohoShow
• Voki

Other/Miscellaneous

• Random.org (a true random number generator that some teachers have said they find useful).
• Read it Later

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