Classroom+Resources

Below you will find easy to use, free internet resources to use in the classroom. You don't need any special equipment for most of them, and all of them will help ease your classroom into the world our student's live in.

A Little Prep - Register as a teacher. Enter your word lists for students to choose from. Just enter the words, spelling city finds definitions and sentences for you. ||
 * Title || Website || What it does ||
 * Animoto || http://animoto.com/ || Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy. ||
 * AnswerGarden || http://answergarden.ch/ || AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming. Students can choose words from a word wall type list or put in their own answers. ||
 * Art Snacks || http://essdackartsnacks.ning.com/ || Students can post art work for feedback from a community of student artists. ||
 * BigHugeLabs || http://www.bighugelabs.com/ || BigHugeLabs allows you to create several different projects using your own photos. Students can create magazine covers, trading cards, posters, and more. Once a teacher account is created, you can upload your student names and BHL will create User ID’s and passwords for your students to use. No email addresses are needed. ||
 * Blabberize || http://blabberize.com/ || Web site that takes pictures and makes them speak the audio you have uploaded. Easy to use/create. ||
 * ClassTools || http://classtools.net/ || Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! You can also find a random word/name picker on this site. ||
 * Classtools || http://classtools.net || Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! ||
 * CopyPasteCharacter || http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ || Copy and paste all kinds of symbols into a Word document or any other program. You will find fractions and web symbols and more that will make your pages pretty. ||
 * David Pogue's Blog for NY Times || http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/ || David Pogue is a writer for the New York Times who reviews and comments on current technology. Not only is he intellegent and full of good, understandable information, but he is also very funny! ||
 * Edmodo || [|www.edmodo.com] || Edmodo is an online classroom that works and looks similar to Facebook. Among other things, you can post assignments, ask pole questions, have children help each other with homework. Everything is visable to the teacher: students are not allowed to converse privately. ||
 * Geo Gebra || http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ || A geometry package that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, and statistics. Includes the program and worksheets for download. ||
 * Google Custom Search || http://www.google.com/cse/ || This is a place for teachers to list approved web sites for the students to use. The search works and looks just like a Google search, but the only thing that will be searched or show up to choose from are web sites that the teacher has already deemed appropriate and valid for information like when doing a research project. ||
 * Google Docs || https://docs.google.com || No more need for Jump Drives, no more emailing it to the teacher! Now students can create and share a variety of online documents, from word processing and spreadsheets to forms and presentations -- all with mobile access. ||
 * Google Lit Trips || http://www.googlelittrips.org/ || Take an online field trip with your students as you read a novel. Let them 'experience' the places and time periords that the characters are experiencing. ||
 * I am Lodge || http://www.iamlodge.com/ || Songs for academic content created by a teacher. ||
 * ICE Conference wiki || http://www.icewiki.info/ICE-Conference-Wiki.html || Illinois Computing Educators is an organization that has been around for 25 years. Their mission is to teach teachers to use current technology in effective ways to enhanse the classroom experience. ||
 * Imagination Cubed || http://www.imaginationcubed.com/ || A GE product, Imagination Cubed allows a child to free handdraw any image. They can also invite friends to draw with them. ||
 * Jamstudio || http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm || Online music creator, similar to Garage Band but all online. ||
 * KidBlogs || http://kidblog.org/ || Designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Allows students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. ||
 * Lino It || http://linoit.com || A virtual cork board where student will be able to post a note on your wall. Similar to Wallwisher without the character limits. ||
 * Magnetic Poetry || http://www.magpo.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm || Magnetic Poetry, just like playing with word magnets on the fridge, kids can play a game while doing creative writing. ||
 * Multiplication.com || http://www.multiplication.com/ || Not necessarily free math resources. ||
 * My Avatar Editor || http://www.myavatareditor.com/ || Create an Advatar to accompany a story, inspire creative writing, or simply add an image to enhance any project. ||
 * MyFakeWall || http://www.myfakewall.com || With Myfakewall.com you can easily create fake profile pages that will bring historical figures to the modern world of social networking. ||
 * Odosketch || http://sketch.odopod.com/ || This allows students to create pencil and paper type sketches on line. ||
 * PollEverywhere || www.polleverywhere.com || Use cell phones and text messaging to have kids respond to questions in class similarly to using the mini-white boards. ||
 * Prezi || www.prezi.com/ || Prezi is a web-based presentation tool using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships. It makes a much more exciting presentation than PowerPoint. ||
 * Scratch || http://scratch.mit.edu || Scratch is a programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online. Similar to Garageband's style of using blocks to create the big picture. ||
 * Search Stories || http://youtube.com/user/searchstories || As premiered during the Superbowl, Search Stories from YouTube lets you show the path that research takes from beginning to end. It's a fun way to summarize a story/research by highlighting the most important points. ||
 * Sliderocket || http://www.sliderocket.com/ || Create PowerPoint-type presentations on-line. ||
 * Spelling City || http://www.spellingcity.com/ || No Prep - Students type in their spelling words and can then play games with spelling and word definitions.
 * Story Jumper || http://www.storyjumper.com/ || Create and publish your own children's stories. ||
 * Tagxedo || http://www.tagxedo.com/ || Tagxedo turns words into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. ||
 * Visuwords || http://www.visuwords.com/ || This is a very cool online, visual dictionary. Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. ||
 * Wacky Web Tales || http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ || Students practice parts of speech using this tool to create “Mad Lib” type stories. ||
 * Wallwisher || http://wallwisher.com || This site is a free collaborative tool that allows students to make comments on a "wall" on "post-it" notes. It is very easy to use and fun at the same time! There is a character limit of 160 characters on this site. ||
 * Wordle || http://www.wordle.net/ || Wordle is for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Wordle will give you a frequency list so that you can talk about variety of words. ||
 * Worksheetworks || http://worksheetworks.com || Pre-made worksheets and customizable worksheets for all occasion. ||
 * XSquared || http://xsquared.wikispaces.com || This wiki is created for and maintained by an Algebra 1 math class. The purpose of this wiki is to collect, analyze, and share information about parabolas and quadratics from around the world. ||
 * Zamzar || http://www.zamzar.com/ || Online file conversion, covering a wide range of different image, document, music, video and compression formats. ||

