Nearpod is a FREE tool that works on any device and allows teachers to guide students through presentations and activities both synchronously as well as asynchronously. The EdTech Teacher blog has a helpful post with tips and suggestions for using Nearpod in your classroom.
21 Ways to Use Photos in the Classroom is a blog post from We Are Teachers and has some stellar ideas for integrating visual images in your teaching.
ThingLink Blog has twelve super ideas on ways to integrate this free web tool into the classroom.
Tackk is a web design platform easy for teachers and student to use in creating digital content. Teachers can create lesson visuals while students can demonstrate their learning and publish to the web.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Writing | Posted on March 3, 2015
From their web site — At Write About, we believe that writing should be fun for students. This starts with great ideas that spark student curiosity. Whether it’s a visual, a scenario, or a deep question, we believe kids will fall in love with writing when they can chase their curiosity and express their voice to an authentic audience.
This is part of why we use the term “idea” rather than “prompt.” It’s less about giving an assignment and more about inspiring students to write. The goal isn’t to limit student writing, but to expand their options.
Where to Find the Best Free Photos and Graphics is a collection from the Site Builder web site.
The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources is a post on the Edublogger blog. For those of you who maintain web sites, blog, update Facebook pages, etc. this is an excellent guide to finding Creative Commons images that meet Copyright requirements.
12 Great Web Based Image Editing Tools that do not Require Registration All the tools are free to use and do not require any software installation. Another great thing about these tools is that they are all very simple to use and have a user friendly interface. Students will definitely enjoy working on them.
Glitterfy is a free web site where you can find glitter images, animations, and text. Use it to spice up presentations, web sites, blog posts, etc.
You may be familiar with the Haiku Deck iPad App which is great to use for developing presentations. What you might not know is there is also a web application. Check it out at Haiku Deck.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Music | Posted on March 13, 2014
TelevisionTunes.Com is your one stop place on the web to find any theme song you can imagine. Might be fun in music class or even in language arts classes to go along with digital storytelling.
Have you ever needed to quickly edit a photo to post online but don’t have the correct software on your device.? Here are some great solutions from the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning blog: 6 Web Tools to Edit Photos Without Installing Software
Unsplash is a beautiful royalty free image site you can use with web design, blogs, publishing etc.
National Gallery of Art Images NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 25,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
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10 Video Projects Every Teacher Should Try Making classroom movies is easy and a great way to integrate CCSS in ELA for your classroom. Here are some great suggestions from We Are Teachers web site.
Biteslide was the EdTech Digest Award winner for 2013 and gives younger students an easy effective way to create online slideshow presentations that showcase their learning.
Sound Gator has free sound effects for presentations and web sites.
Pulp-O-Mizer The Pulp-O-Mizer allows its lucky operator to select from menus of backgrounds, foregrounds, and magazine titles and to add new and exciting text to them for use as web graphic memes, blog illustrations, Facebook posts, forum messages, or for any other non-commercial purpose.
26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for your Blog has links to free image, audio, and video sites.
Ookaboo has free public domain photos that students and teachers can use in presentations, blogs, web site, and more.
Image Base – Free Stock Photos has dozens of images that can be used in presentations and web sites. They even have a collection of PowerPoint backgrounds students can use.
Picture a Story allows students to choose a genre; create picture with backgrounds, characters, and props; and write (and narrate) a story to share online.
Movie Clips allows you to search by several key terms including themes. This could be the perfect way to preview and use short clips of video to emphasize an instructional objective.
Storybots is a place young students can create online books and videos.