Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your screen & voice, and share the link.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing. The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those stories back together again. It keeps track of which paths you’ve finished, and which still need to be written. There’s no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams.
Storify helps making sense of what people post on social media. Our users curate the most important voices and turn them into stories.
Create lessons in 5 minutes! Collect web resources in one place and share with just one link Measure student understanding with built-in quizzes Monitor student progress and adapt to student needs in real-time
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history. Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories. Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.
At Planboard, we recognize the difference an inspiring teacher makes. We understand the profound effect a great teacher has on a student, and our job is to help teachers focus on what matters. Planboard helps teachers and educators simplify their lesson planning. Best of all, there is no software installation necessary. It's easy to get organized with Planboard. Planboard eliminates the need for bulky physical books by centralizing everything onto a computer. Ranging from broad yearly scopes, to weekly overviews, down to detailed reminders, you can gain access to personal plans anytime, anywhere. Not only will you be saving time, you'll be saving trees too.
Use Learnist to share what you know. Create a Learn Board on a subject you understand and add 'learnings' by pointing to existing web videos, blogs, images and documents. Anything. In fact, you're on a Learn Board right now.
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.
Play, design, and share sorting and labeling puzzles! Stick Around comes with an assortment of puzzles, including ordering decimals and classifying rocks. It's the player's job to drag the stickers from the tray to their correct spots on the background before time runs out. The best feature of Stick Around is that you can create your very own puzzles in just 3 steps: 1. Use drawing tools and/or import photos to make a background. 2. Add stickers with text, images, and/or drawings. 3. Indicate where stickers belong by making an answer key. Teachers can make puzzles for their students to practice content. Students can program their own study aids. Parents can design customized puzzles for their children.
Smart Notebooks to save, share and act on what's important to you. Create notebooks for recipes, books, movies or anything else that matters to you, together with friends, family and co-workers. Save ideas and info from anywhere, access them whenever, and start getting more from life.
Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research
Watch and read thousands of fascinating timelines, or create your own. Complete with text, video and pictures to create a dynamic timeline mashup. Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage. All completed timelines can be embedded into your blog and websites for maximum exposure. myHistro for Education Archive with several hundred professional historical timelines to choose from Great collaboration tools, ideal for creating homeworks Private & secure content management
A great and simple tool that allows for instant student input. No fumbling around with individual student accounts and passwords. Just provide a "room number" to a group and they are all in, using an Android or iOS device or a desktop/laptop computer. The shiny: + simple/kid-friendly interface + create multiple choice quizzes that can be used as interactive games + automatically create random teams + EXCELLENT for exit cards - students can summarize what they have learned in a lesson and answer a question provided by the teacher + reports e-mailed to you (as a spreadsheet) that is easily opened by Excel or imported into Google Docs The dull: - multiple choice quizzes can take time to create - question and game formats can be a little restrictive - not too much customization The final word: Definitely worth a shot. Head to t.socrative.com to create a teacher account, get a room number and play around. There are a few good video tutorials on Youtube as well
Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Be engaged for the entire class with educational exercises and games. See all your classmates' ideas in real time and interact with the responses. Provide your instructor feedback on the lessons and how well you understand the material. Ask your own poll questions for the entire class or build a premade activity for your whole class. Have Fun!
Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music.
Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.
Timeline Maker helps you in a very easy and fast way to display a list of events in chronological order. Timelines can be shared by email, saved to Photo library and printed. Timeline Maker is very flexible and gives you the power to create any timeline. You can stack up to 8 events per timeline entry four different event designs combine image and text Year, Month and Day based timelines additional you can create timelines based on your own base and sort order choose background image from photo library
Timeline 3D is the most simple way to create beautiful multimedia timelines. Make and present timeline charts from your events for school, work, or home. Timeline 3D uses award-winning visual design to help you understand and present chronologies and historic events with new perspective. It's simple to get started, because Timeline 3D will make a timeline automatically from your events. Then, tell your story and wow your audience with interactive motion graphics that let you fly over your timelines with a 3D perspective! Please note: Timeline 3D is built with Apple's latest technologies and requires iOS 6 or above. FEATURES Universal app designed for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch—buy once and use everywhere! One touch turns your events into an interactive timeline Present your timelines full-screen and with 3D perspective Use AirPlay to present your timelines on large screens and projectors (Apple TV required) Add images or movies to events Quickly enter events with dates and times in any global format Include optional information such as notes, web links, and tags Choose from different background themes Share your timelines by email Import your timelines from Timeline 3D on your Mac, including media files and custom backgrounds Use AirPrint to quickly print your timelines, formatted for your paper size
Create your own Glog. Simply put, a Glog is a kind of poster —fully designed by you! A Glog is a unique creation made up of text, images, music, and video. It can be colorful, edgy, emo, or rock—it's up to you to make your Glog stand out. Glogs are a perfect way to express who YOU are! Make new friends and share your Glogs with the world!
Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime. Quickly and easily! People use Popplet to: Explore Ideas: Brainstorming, Mindmapping Plan Projects: Diagrams, Process Charts Record Thoughts: Journals, Notes, Lists Collect Inspiration: Mood Boards, Scrapbook, Travel Plans Create Galleries: Photo albums, Portfolios, Presentations Study: School Projects, Class Notes
What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service that lets you: Create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources. What is Voki Classroom? A classroom management system for Voki Students do not need to sign up! Add and manage your Classes & Students! Lesson pages automatically created! Customized appearance & instructions! Get unlimited email support!
Make amazing animated videos! Use our Video Maker to create videos for free. Make a viral video. Create an animated lesson for your class. Make a demo video of your product, a promotional video for your business or a training video for your staff. GoAnimate is the fastest, easiest way to make a video!
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
YouTube.com/Teachers was created to help teachers use educational YouTube videos to educate, engage and inspire their students. We know how busy teachers can be so we've worked with a group of teachers to put together playlists of partner videos that align with common core standards. Why Use YouTube in your classroom? Increase student engagement Start your class off with an engaging video clip that brings a lesson to life and sparks a lively discussion. No longer will students be late for physics class when you begin the class with an engaging clip. Make the subjects applicable to your students' everyday lives by showing culturally relevant YouTube clips. Teach students video production and editing skills through projects and upload the videos to your classes YouTube channel.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
What is Quizlet exactly? We start with flash cards. Students can make their own, or choose from millions of flash cards sets created by others. But that's just the beginning - once you've got flashcards, you can use several study modes including multiple choice tests and study games. You can add images and listen to audio, and even study on the go with one of dozens of Quizlet-compatible mobile apps.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
