Technology in your Classroom
Tool
Level
Fee
Description
Secondary
Free website
Upper
elementary/
Secondary
All levels
Free
$30/yr- 50
accounts
Free website (30
second clip)
Free download
Create cloud based zooming
presentation
Create online interactive posters
Creation
Prezi
http://prezi.com/
Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com
Animoto
http://animoto.com
Google Sketch Up
http://sketchup.google.com
Thinglink
http://www.thinglink.com
Voki
www.voki.com
Piktochart
https://magic.piktochart.com
Powtoon
https://www.powtoon.com/eduhome/
Upper
elementary/
Secondary
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Turn photos, video, and music into
masterpieces
3D drawing tool
ThingLink helps you create and discover
rich images. Make your images come
alive with music, video, text, images and
more!
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service that
lets you create customized speaking
characters.
Piktochart is a free, web-based tool that
allows students to create infographics.
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Create animated videos and
presentations.
Notes
Digital Storytelling
Zooburst
http://zooburst.com
ToonDoo
www.toondoo.com
Storybird
http://storybird.com
Little Bird Tales
https://littlebirdtales.com
Story Starters
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers
/story-starters/
Elementary/ Free website
Secondary
Secondary
Free website
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Elementary Free website
Elementary/ Free website
Secondary
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that
lets anyone easily create his or her own
3D pop-up books.
Allows student to create their own comic
strip and/or book
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories
students make to share, read and print
Digital storytelling. Student creates and
records story
This interactive tool creates quick writing
prompts to help young students delve
into creative writing
Digital Books & Newspapers
Storyline Online (Online Stories)
http://www.storylineonline.net
We Give Books
http://www.wegivebooks.org
Elementary
Free website
Google News- Newspaper Archive
http://news.google.com/newspapers
All levels
Free website
Google Books
http://books.google.com/
All levels
Free website
Newseum
www.newseum.org
Secondary
Free website
CK-12 (Free online textbooks)
http://www.ck12.org
All levels
Free website
Elementary/ Free website
Secondary
Videos featuring famous people reading
children’s book aloud.
Create a free account and get access to
electronic versions of Children’s Books.
Would work great to project the book on
an interactive white board!
In GoogleNews archive you will find
hundreds of newspapers that have been
digitized for reading online. You can
search for a specific newspaper by title
or browse for articles by date and title
Search and preview millions of books
from libraries and publishers worldwide
using Google Book Search. Discover a
new favorite or unearth an old classic.
View the front page of more than 800
newspapers worldwide
CK-12 Foundation provides a library of
free online textbooks, videos, exercises,
flashcards, and real world applications
for over 5000 concepts.
Student Response
Poll Everywhere
www.polleverywhere.com
Socrative
www.socrative.com
http://t.socrative.com (teacher)
http://m.socrative.com (student)
Nearpod (can use with iPad, iPod,
iPhone)
www.nearpod.com
Zaption
https://www.zaption.com
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
All levels
Free (up to 10
lessons)
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary
Survey Monkey
www.surveymonkey.com
Upper
Free (paid
elementary/ versions
Secondary
available)
Kahoot!
https://getkahoot.com
All levels
Free website
Real time response system using cell
phone or web.
Student response system that empowers
teachers to engage their classroom
through a series of exercises and games
via smart phone, laptop or tablet.
An all-in-one solution for the
synchronized use of iPads, iPods and
iPhones in the classroom.
Zaption allows you to take videos from
passive tools to interactive ones where
you can add links, questions, surveys,
and so much more.
SurveyMonkey is the most popular
online survey tool. It’s easier than ever
to send free surveys, polls, and
questionnaires.
Like an interactive game show with
music and timers, Kahoot! allows
teachers to check for understanding
using dynamic item formats.
Collaborate/Communicate
Google Docs
https://docs.google.com
Google Form with Flubaroo
Wiggio
http://wiggio.com
Edmodo
https://www.edmodo.com/
Upper
Free
elementary/
Secondary
Upper
Free Add-on
elementary/
Secondary
Secondary
Free website
All levels
Free website
Create and share your work online and
access your documents from anywhere.
Create online quizzes that are
automatically graded
Wiggio is a great way for groups to
work/collaborate together online
Secure social learning network for
teachers and students. Similar to the
look of Facebook
Edublog
http://edublogs.org
All levels
Free website
Kidblog
http://kidblog.org
All levels
Free website
Todays Meet
https://todaysmeet.com
Secondary
Free website
Padlet
http://padlet.com
Hangout - Google
Safe and secure educational blogging
service. Include video, photos and
podcasts
Built for Teachers. Kidblog is designed
for K-12 teachers who want to provide
each student with an individual blog.
Students publish posts and participate in
academic blogging.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the
backchannel and connect with your
audience in real-time.
Padlet gives you a blank page (a wall)
and you put anything you want on it,
anywhere. Perhaps the easiest site for
children to use. Pose questions, get their
answers, and give them feedback – all on
the same page.
Would you like to see, hear, and share
information to your online learners?
With Google+ Hangouts you can have a
video group chat for up to 10 people for
free!
All levels
Free
All levels
Free download
All levels
All levels
Free (15 min)
website
Free download
All levels
Free website
Teacher and students resources
All levels
Free website
All levels
Free website
Travel the world for free. Get a 360°
view of locations from around the world
Search or create your own web quest.
https://plus.google.com/hangouts
Podcasting
Jing
www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Screencast-o-matic
www.screencast-o-matic.com
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Capture your computer screen as a
screenshot or short video (5 min)
One-click, online screen recorder
Audio editor for recording, slicing and
mixing audio
Classroom
Discovery Education
www.discoveryeducation.com
360° Panorama
http://www.panoramas.dk
Zunal
www.zunal.com
Pics4learning
www.pics4learning.com
Google Images (Advanced search)
All levels
Free website
Collection of copyright friendly pictures
All levels
Free website
Vocabulary and Spelling City
www.spellingcity.com
All levels
Free website
(Basic)
Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org
Interactive Games
http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/
Interactive Games
http://www.abcya.com/
All levels
Free website
PrimaryElementary
PrimaryElementary
Free website
One of the most comprehensive image
collections on the web today. Use
“Advanced Search” tools to find
copyright friendly images.
Website offers 25 different learning
activities, including spelling tests,
flashcards and unscramble
Library of over 3,000 educational videos
(mostly math and science)
Hundreds of interactive educational kids
games for interactive whiteboards.
Interactive games for elementary
students, works well with interactive
whiteboard
Tagxedo
www.tagxedo.com
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary

Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches,
news articles, and slogans into a visually
stunning word clouds
Wordle
www.wordle.net
Upper
Free website
elementary/
Secondary

This Day in History
All levels
Free website
The Hour of Code
http://code.org/
All levels
Free website
QR Code Generator
http://www.qrstuff.com/
All levels
Free website
Wordle generates “word clouds” from
text that you provide. The clouds give
greater prominence to words that
appear more frequently in the text. You
can tweak your clouds with different
fonts, layouts, and color schemes
Discover what happened today in
history.
The Hour of Code™ is an opportunity for
every student to try computer science
for one hour. You can also teach the
Hour of Code all year-round. Tutorials
work on browsers, tablets, or
smartphones.
QR Code (it stands for "Quick Response")
is a mobile phone readable barcode
Free website
www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Teacher Resources
Twitter
www.twitter.com
Pinterest
www.pinterest.com
Remind101 (Free and Safe Text
Messaging for Teachers)
https://www.remind101.com
Symbaloo
www.symbaloo.com
Teacher
Resource
Teacher
resource
Teacher
Resource
Free website
Teacher
Resource
Free website
Free website
Free website
A plethora of quick and to the point
information
Virtual pin board, look at the
“Education” section
A safe, free way for teachers to text
message students and keep in touch
with parents.
Access your bookmarks and online
favorites with Symbaloo. A free social
bookmarking service in the cloud. Pro
versions available for business &
education.