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 The bad thing about the site is, lots of resources can not be reached, out of date.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.