MyStudyBar has mindmapping capabilities, electronic sticky notes, highlight text with the T-Bar, text to speech capabilities that can be saved as an MP3 file, Word prediction, a screenreader, and a dictionary with speech capabilities.
This tool lets a student to exchange text messages between fictional or historical characters. Students can make the exchange as long as they like. To share the conversation, students can the embed code, use a direct link or QR code.
Tes Teach is a free service that allows you to create and share collections of educational material with your students. The "canvas" part is where you arrange videos, links, images, and files. You can also create online quizzes on your "canvas." Students must be 13 years old in order to sign up for their own account.
This website allows you to create interactive worksheets for your students to complete and students can receive instant feedback. You can link to other websites for students to use and online videos for students to watch. You can also create fill in the blank, multiple choice, matching, and open-ended question activities. Sign-up is free.
This free software allows you to record and edit multiple tracks. You can record your voice and add music. If this program is not already on your school computer, then simply go to your g:drive (Apps). Install the software by double clicking on the Audacity Folder, double click on the Win 7 folder, then double click on the headphones icon.
Create charts and graphs from static data or collect information. You can make pie, bar, line, ring, 3D pie, 3D bar, 3D line, candle, scatterplot, and timeseries diagrams.
Evernote allows you to keep information in a single place. From your computer to your moble device, you can store text notes, documents, web pages, images, presentations, voice recordings, etc in one place.
This is a free online tool you can use to create videos and presentations. You can insert video clips, pictures, text, music, and spoken words. Inserted video clips can be trimmed to length (30 seconds max). You can also record voice and music over the inserted video clip. Projects can be downloaded or shared by a public link.
Create mindmaps, interactive quizzes, flashcards, take online notes, and set study goals. Both teachers and students 13 years or older can create accounts.
Attach interactive sticky notes, annotate, and highlight text on webpages and then share with others. You can also bookmark webpages as well as capture and annotate screenshots and images.
This website allows you to create collections of notes that can include text, videos, links, and pictures. You can also create sections within a collection.
Web Poster Wizard allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Images and links can be added to the posters.
Record up to fifteen minutes per screen capture or webcam. Screencasts can be published to YouTube or in FLV, AVI, and MP4 movie formats. No software to download.
Flubaroo lets you create and grade online multiple choice and short answer quizzes and assignments. It works in conjunction with Google Docs. The program also computes average score, average score per question, flags low scoring questions, emails students their grades and if they have not taken an assignment or quiz.
The website contains a variety of quizzes, tagged according to topic: just select a topic that interests you from the sidebar, then select a quiz. You can also create your own and email a link to students.
Playposit (formally EduCanon) allows teachers to create online lessons using YouTube, TeacherTube, and Vimeo videos. Teachers have the ability to require students to answer questions about video clips before they are allowed to move forward in a lesson. Teachers can create multiple choice questions, free response questions, reflective pauses, and use and equation editor in their lessons. Web content, images, and audio can be inserted into the lessons. Teachers can also give answer feedback immediately. Teachers can monitor student use and performance and set due dated for lessons.
Users can create multiple choice or True/False quizzes and games with instant teacher feedback. It also provides detailed class and student-level data.
This student response system has a computer and a mobile app. Use it for quick exercises, true/ false, multiple choice, short answer, quick quizzes, exit and entrance tickets, and games. It will create reports for you.
This is a free resource, formerly HSTRY, that allows teachers to create interactive timelines and share with a class. Students must have parental permission to set up their own accounts. You can add video, images, forums and quizzes to the timelines.
This website lets you create interactive timelines in which you can embed different types of media including, text, videos, visuals, charts and much more.
There you will find Re/sound: Songs of Wisconsin, Meet the Lab, Wisconsin Biographies, Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case, The Ways, Wisconsin First Nations, and Climate Wisconsin. There are a lot more videos and electronic resources on the website as well.
Word clouds can be interactive using rollover effects, linking to google searchs. You can use text or a url link to make the tags. Twengy clouds per user allowed.
