Classroom Tools
- Wabisabi—An online community for lesson planning, real-time reporting against standards, media-rich student portfolios, and sharing a vibrant collaborative learning experience with students and parents.
- A Web Whiteboard—The perfect tool for class brainstorming sessions. This is an online whiteboard app for computer, tablet, or smartphone.
- Articulate—A great tool for creating online learning courses. 19 of 20 top-ranked universities currently employ this platform.
- Artsy—This is a beautiful resource for art collection and education. Lots of tools make it an ideal resource for art classes.
- Coursera—What do you want to learn? Whatever it is, it’s likely on Coursera. They’ve got over 16 million learners taking over 1500 courses right now.
- Unicheck—This is one of the most powerful plagiarism checkers on the Web today. Unplag is a safe secure tool with lots of educator features.
- Edpuzzle—A big booster for flipped learning teachers. Customize regular videos with engaging interactive learning tools. You can even track students’ actions and progress with this tool.
- EdX—Another bank of online courses for personalized learning. This tool features content from many top universities around the world.
- Focus Booster—This is a time tracking and productivity app. It works off the Pomodoro technique. It features instant timesheet recording and visual progress graphs.
- Veed—A screen recording tool that's so simple you can use it immediately without taking any training or learning about effects.
- Formative—This is an amazing formative assessment app. Create an assignment and get live results from students. Present them with real-time feedback in an instant, too.
- Homeroom Mom—A unique online support community. They share tips and tools for working with parents and teachers. They’ve also got ideas for all sorts of class projects.
- Lightsail—An e-reading program that helps teachers support independent reading in students. You can monitor progress and give assessment and feedback in real time.
- Notability—Note-taking was never this much fun. It’s a feature-rich tool available for Mac devices. Write, sketch, and interact with your notes.
- PearDeck—A wonderful interactive presentation tool. Engage your whole class with presentations you control from your computer. Students respond to your built-in questions using a wide range of tools.
- Plickers—This is a simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data. This happens without the need for student devices. It’s for everything from quick checks to measuring deep understanding.
- Pocket—A bookmarking tool for teachers on the go. Save articles, videos, images, and lots more for later viewing. You can also save from Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.
- Rescue Time—This is a non-intrusive time tracker program. It shows you how much time you spend on your websites and apps. You get detailed reports of where your time is going online.
- Schoology—A powerful K–12 and higher ed learning management system. Create content, design lessons, and assess understanding with this tool.
- Socrative—Socrative lets you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. There are tools for real-time quizzing, generating results, and visualizing progress.
- Teaching Channel—This is a video resource for professional development. It covers the core subjects and all grades. There are also 15 professional development topics to explore here.
- TEDEd—TED’s tradition of excellence continues here with this teaching resource. Watch videos, explore lessons, and view learning series compilations of all kinds.
- TurnItIn—This is an interactive rubric for analyzing the quality of Internet sources students use in writing. Sites are evaluated based on authority, educational value, intent, originality, and quality.
- VideoScribe—This tool lets you create whiteboard-style animations—no design or technical experience needed. You can add images, text, music and voiceover to your animations.
- Wolfram Alpha—Whatever you want to calculate or research, this electronic genius can do it. Enter a topic or choose from a wide range of knowledge fields. Go Pro if you want even better results.