It is a personal learning network in twitter. Teachers can learn from each other in this platform. There are lots of resources. Teachers can follow others, read the tweets, and learn from other teachers. you can use educational hashtags to direct your feeds to other people.
There are interactive math games for ages from 5-12. Bright colors, animations, and effects made the website more attractive for especially young children.
This is a website for painting and drawing. There are very cool patters and colors that you can use to design. There are anchored, free draw, and active options that give the objects 3D look.
This software is great for Elementary, Middle school, and High School students. You can purchase the package starting from $26.97. You get a code for each module and start creating animated and hands on projects for your students.
It is a visualization laboratory. There are several projects that you can see and get a sense of it. For example; virtual museum projects, visualization of mask project (It is created by laser, then work to get a 3D image, and last an actress wore it in her performance. Your students can visit these virtual museums in Europe from their desks. Amazing!
This is a virtual math library. It is created by Florida State University. There are 55 department web servers from all around the world. There are lesson plans from the '100th day of the school' to '21st century problems'.
It is an online chat platform to exchange ideas for the educators. It offers a collaboration tools. You can learn new ideas, get solutions to your classroom management problems, learn from the experienced ones.
Teachers connect with other teachers around the world and have video conferences with their students. Teachers can meet with new teachers, share ideas, and create lesson plans collaboratively.
It is a writing activity which generates creative writing prompts. Students can chose the right tools according to the genre of their book (from adventure, fantasy, and science fiction) to start their writing with step by step directions.
You can keep files, save email attachments and back-up photos directly to Drive. The amazing part is you can reach your files from anywhere in the world.
This is a free word processing software. You can read and write, and share with others easily. This software has built in spelling checker for 30 languages. IT has merging and replacing documents capability. It is an open source for the desktops.
Through ePals your students can create an email account which is easy and safe to use. Your students can write to another student in the world. There is a section caleed, I think it is very cool! Under the "challenges" tab you can choose the Smithsonian Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge. The students are expected to address a real world problem, research a solution, test possible solutions, and create an invention to improve the real world obstacle. Students really experience something very special.
Teachers are talking about important topics in this platform. Sometimes they share their videos too. There are lesson plan or professional development videos that you can watch. You can join this group to extend the discussion of edchat topics.
It is a mind mapping software. It is a digital graphic organizer. It works with Java. It is said it is easy to download and use. However, I think it is mostly good for educators and older kids.
It is a digital graphic organizer software. You can organize your ideas and thoughts and create well written papers with this tool. You need to sign up for this website.
Tux Paint is a free drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. Tux Paint is a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kidspiration is a visual way to explore and understand words, numbers and concept. This software serves children from Kindergarten to 5th grade. This program develops elementary reading comprehension, writing, and math skills. It helps students to strengthen their writing, reading, and math skills.
This website has several resources in reading and language arts instruction. There are lesson plans that teachers created. The good thing about the site is, there are key words right underneath the lesson plans which help you to understand if it is a kind of source that you are looking for. The bad thing about the site is, lots of resources can not be reached, out of date.
There are quiz builders, exercises and tests. The quiz builder can create quizzes on multiplication, spelling, fractions, vocabulary, Spanish, and more.
With this program you can generate your own e-learning quizzes and games. Quizzes can be created as multiple choice, dragging, or yes or no options. I found the quizzes fun, since it is like playing a game and I wanted to win the game. Therefore, students may feel like they are playing a game but they are actually learning.
This site directs you to online quiz generators. I found http://smartypins.withgoogle.com/ which is helping students to practice the locations of states in America.
Kathy Schrock created this website. IT gives guide for educators. There are several teacher resources, lesson plans, teachers experiences, and other websites that are helpful for educators.
It is a web-based survey tool. There are professionals who can help students to design their survey, get the most out of the technology, and support their efforts.
This is an online survey software. It creates free online surveys, polls, and quizzes. This website is merged with surveymonkey. It is a simple way to create a poll. It helps students to do in-depth market research. Students can create any type of survey from simple to sophisticated with this powerful and easy-to-use survey builder. For more advance options, there are some pricing plans. Depending on plan you pay have to pay from $26 to $780.
Students can draw graphs in a coordinate system. This program is good for especially high school students. The program makes it very easy to visualize a function and paste it into another program. Students can do calculations on the functions.
This is an excellent tool to learn how to solve math problems. Students type the story problem. And the software is giving the answer in step-by-step solution. All the steps and explanations help students to understand how to look at a problem, see the key words, and reach to solutions. I think this can help parents to help their children in math as well.
In this website simply you can enter your technology (one of the Texas Instrument tool), content area (science, math, etc), and topic. The system finds the activities that other teachers or students created. You can download the activity and use it if you like.
This data collection system is designed for high school and college level students. It has step by step instructions to integrate technology into their learning. However, each book or lab software needs to be purchased. Students or teachers can enter the data easily, use sensors, do experiments and graphing with this software. LabQuest 2 engages students with hands-on science projects.
With this software students enter their variables, and the software converts the data into a graph. Again, this is a good software for high school and college students.
It is a great mathematical software for children from third grade through college. Students get better understanding of some abstract things about math. There is a section you can try it free and get a feeling of it. Students can start making sense by making connection between numeric and graphic representations.
To get sketchpad non expiring license you need to pay$70 for 1-4 computers, but it gets cheaper as more computers are added. There are free webinars. There are also workshops and courses they offer.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.
It is a reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products. Students can investigate pollution topics, such as agriculture, health hazards, air, water, environmental justice, and pollution.
Students can find information about popular facts, such as population, income, other information about their community. And they use these data in their projects to compare and contrast places.
Wiki is for anyone in education including teachers, students, and parents. The teachers can create their wiki pages and assign home work to the students, create discussions to get the students opinion. Students and teachers can add and edit the pages. It is a wonderful way to create student centered collaborative learning environment.
It is free to join. Player choose an avatar to represent themselves. Once they are sign in they can interact with other avatars, places or objects. They can explore the world, socialize, create, shop and trade things with another avatar. It is a platform that principally features 3D-based user-generated content. Avatars can use Linden dollar to shop. This program is intended for people aged 16 and over. It is created by its own users. There is no set up objectives. It is not a game either.
It is a software. Users can create their own wiki workspaces here. They can share files, projects, and ideas. They can use it for storage space as well. It can be private or public.
It is great website for young children to discuss global issues and make connections with their own communities. They have programs for middle school and high school students and as well as for educators. There are professional development programs for educators; and critical thinking, problem solving, cross cultural education, social action campaign, digital media production, and more.
There are lots of good resources about social studies in this website. There names of the association that are related with social studies. Also they are all reliable resources. The lessons are also focusing on assessment. In another page there are offering seminars to students to learn how to teach social studies. There was one that took my attention called “Creating Student-Centered Social Studies Classroom Using Socratic Seminar.” It cost $125.