Web Resources for Teachers, Students, Parents and Communities
WebList is a tool that gathers different resources and aggregates them under one main URL. Users
can collect different websites, images, documents, and videos in an editable list. Each resource
receives its own URL, but users can send the main URL to colleagues and share all resources in one
place.
TypeWith.Me lets users collaborate in real time in a chat-like format. One user creates a document
and sends the URL to others, and each user types in a different color. Users can import and export
text files, websites, and documents for collaborative learning, brainstorming, and editing. Students
can collaborate with one another on projects or group study sessions, and revisions are saved. A time
slider function lets users and teachers view the chat progression.
My StoryMaker, from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh, lets students create their own stories that
are archived for 30 days. Once created, a story is saved as a PDF and can be exported to a computer
for permanent access. Students can play with characters, shapes, colors, movement, and sentences.
Best for 1st and 2nd grade students.
Glogster EDU lets educators and students create online multimedia posters with text, photos, videos,
graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more.
A “Glog” is created using a drag-and-drop feature. Once projects are complete, a teacher can share
students’ work in a variety of educational settings. Glogs can be embedded in a blog, wiki, or
website, or shared with others using Glogster EDU’s presentation capabilities. The teacher easily
creates a private virtual classroom with students by registering for a teacher-administered account,
generating student accounts with safe logins and passwords, and monitoring all activities within the
account throughout the learning process. Student accounts can be created without providing eMail
addresses or other contact information.
Tagxedo turns words, including speeches, news articles, and student research papers, into a tag
cloud. Students and teachers can choose the shape of their tag cloud, and they can import a picture if
desired. The most frequently-used words appear the largest in the cloud. The site also features a list
of 101 ways to use the resource.
ViewPure is exactly what the name implies: pure video viewing. It gives educators the ability show
students YouTube videos without advertising, free from links to suggested videos that might be
inappropriate, and without user comments below the video. Users can copy the video’s “pure” URL
for future reference. In addition, teachers can opt to install a “Purify” button on their browser’s
toolbar. Instead of pasting a YouTube video’s URL into the ViewPure URL field, an educator can
simply click on the “Purify” button while viewing the YouTube video to instantly clear it of
questionable advertisements and materials.
(Editor’s note: M86 Security has created a free website that also strips YouTube videos of their
comments, links, and advertising. This website, called VuSafe, lets teachers create online video
libraries of their favorite educational videos from YouTube and other sources, but unless the school
uses M86′s web filter, YouTube must be unblocked on the teacher’s computer if he or she shows the
videos in class.)
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TubeChop helps educators avoid the hassle of skipping through videos to find a certain clip within
the video. Instead, users can select and “cut” just the portion of the video they would like to show or
share with others.
Museum Box is a presentation tool in which students put pictures, videos, and text into a virtual box.
For instance, a student researching a project on the Renaissance might identify artwork or important
documents from the time and place those into the box to show what life was like during the period
and what important discoveries or advances occurred.
Math educators looking for free and premium video and multimedia content for math should go to
http://www.media4math.com. They have an impressive and growing library of math media that
easily integrates into a lesson plan.
Academic Earth offers video lectures from elite universities, and it allows viewers to grade the
professors. Academic Earth also offers a “Playlists” feature based around themes such as “Laws of
Nature,” “Wars Throughout History,” or “You Are What You Eat.”
Curriki helps connect educators, parents, and students in the development of curriculum and other
educational materials. With its open-source curriculum format, Curriki allows anyone to post their
teaching ideas for others to view, download, use, reformat, and reshare.
Blio, a free eReader program, allows users to read more than a million electronic books on nearly
any computer or portable device, with the ability to highlight and annotate text, hear the text read
aloud, and more.
FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, is a U.S. Department of Education website
that compiles free teacher resources available from dozens of federal agencies. Educators can sign up
for the FREE RSS feed, which notifies users when new resources are added. Otherwise, they can
browse by topic, from music history to life sciences.
The NASA for Educators page includes featured articles with information about NASA’s various
missions; image galleries on a wide variety of topics; information about NASA careers, internships,
fellowships, and scholarships; NASA-produced multimedia materials; and more. An Education
Materials Finder will help teachers locate NASA resources that can be used in the classroom; users
can search by keywords, grade level, product type, and subject. With hundreds of publications and
websites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources, the agency says.
The National Science Digital Library is the USA’s online library for education and research in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It provides free math lessons and activities
aligned with the Math Common Core Standards, as well as STEM-related blogs and other free
teacher resources and lesson plan ideas. Targeted for K-12 teachers, higher-education professionals,
and librarians, NSDL also provides science literary maps and iTunes multimedia files.
Online professional development, TV programming and multimedia web content, lesson plan ideas,
and ways to connect with other educators are all things featured on the PBS Teachers page. The
website also features news and and webinars for teachers to view.
For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy-to-use resources for teachers,
including “Teacher Timesavers” to help educators better organize. The site also features 42,000-plus
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lesson plans, 9,000 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, web quests, and other free
teacher resources.
Thinkfinity is a free digital learning platform from the Verizon Foundation that offers comprehensive
teaching and learning resources created by content partners such as the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
American History, the National Geographic Society, and more. Its content includes interactive
student games, lesson plans focused on various themes, education blogs and online discussions, and
much more.
Togetherville is a kid-safe online social community for kids and grownups they trust. Targeted at
pre-primary and primary school children it has a large selection of games, videos, Art and social
networking all focussed at kids.
In a similar vein, Wall.fm is a free tool for creating custom social networks with easy setup and
complete feature set. Your project may have your own unique needs but if you need advanced
community features that are dead easy to use. With Wall.fm you can start: Social networks,
Photo/Video sharing site, Education projects, Fan clubs, Family site, ... and virtually anything else.
Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and
include videos, photos & podcasts.
Edmodo is a social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts. It provides free
classroom communication for teachers, students and administrators on a secure social network. It
provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links
and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices. Edmodo also stores and shares all
forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more. It is
accessible online or using any mobile device, including Android and iPhones.
Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm,
organize, and visualize your ideas. HOLT Graphic Organisers give a great range of printable graphic
organisers for use.
One of the best source of up-to-date webinars by experts and writers in the educational field must be
The Future of Education. I seem to catch up with one of these every week and they keep me thinking
about education in the 21st Century. They have a great library of past webinars and are worth keeping
track of.
Finally, Educators News on the Maths Ditto website is a collection or articles, free resources, and
links to some amazing web materials put together by Steve Wood, a retired primary school teacher.
Some of them are repeats of the above but there are heaps more.!
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