Teacher Resources

Videos & Copyright

Audio

Avatars and Animations

Avatar Maker
Make and download custom avatars
Powtoon (requires flash)
Animation tool for presentations that are great for teaching or student products.
Mini-Mizer (requires flash)
Use minimizer to create a lego-like avitar.
Voki
Use Voki to create an avatar and animate a short video.

Bookmarking, Journaling, Content Sharing

Delicious
Use Delicious to collect and organize your favorite web sites. Access these anywhere online.
Live Binders
Collect, organize, and share information with live binders. Can be used as a shared storage and collaboration location by granting rights to collaborators.
Penzu
Penzu is a tool for online journaling.
Diigo
Use Diigo to collect, highlight, and organize anything online.
weblist
Create a lists of your favorite sites.
Google Docs
Create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online with Google Docs.
Seesaw
Student digital portfolio

Graphic & Video Libraries

Graphic Editing Tools

Media, Videos, or Other Visual Products

Adobe Spark
Create impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos with Spark’s free graphic design app
Animoto
Create video slideshows by uploading photos or videos.
Eduglogster (Paid Subscription)
Create online, interactive posterlike designs with glogster.
PhotoPeach
Create online slideshows.
Prezi
Use Prezi to create an interactive online presentation that can include video, photos, and other objects.
Snapguide
Find, create, and share tutorials
Slide
SlideRocket is an online powerpoint alternative.
Storybird
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
SWAY
Create and share interactive reports and presentations that can be shared with an embed code
Voice Thread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Zoho
Zoho is the online tool for making powerful presentations.Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation, you have come to the right place. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use.
Thinglink
Create interactive images with links to content for a fun visual presentation.

Organizational Tools, Graphic Organizers, Timelines

Bubbl
Bubbl is brainstorming and planning made simlpe
Create A Graph
Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to create using this online tool.
Creatly
Creatly is a diagraming and collaboration tool is perfect for brainstorming, planning, and communicating with a team.
Ekpenso
Use Ekpenso to create and share mind maps online. Brainstorm, plan, and collaborate with this tool.
Exploratree
Use templates found on Exploratree to map organize information.
Map Myself
Map Myself is a free online graphic organizer / mind mapping tool.
Mind Map 42
Mind Map 42 allows users to brainstorm, organize, and share ideas.
Diffen
Compare any two concepts with images.
Instagroc
Create an interactive concept map.

Response Systems

Poll Daddy
Create online polls, surveys, and quizzes with Poll Daddy
SurveyMonkey
Use SurveyMonkey to create and share online surveys.
Kahoot
Use this game based response system along with BYOD.
Mentimeter
Create quizzes or polls in this easy to use response system.
Poll Deep
Create polls and analyze responses. Polls and response graphics can be shared through social media or with an embed code.
Plickers
Use free student response system by printing a card for each student. Students hold the cards different ways to give different responses, and the teacher uses his/her phone to record answers.

Resources

Destiny
Destiny is the district library automation system. This resource allows individuals to search for books, ebooks, and databases
Map Maker by National Geographic
View and customize maps by National Geographic.
Atlapedia
Atlapedia® Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Bartleby
Find famous quotes or the source of a quote at Bartleby.
Quotation Page
Search for quoatations by author, title, or phrase using Quotation Page.
Word Central
Word Central is a free online dictionary by Merriam-Webster.
Britannica
Britannica online encyclopedia is a subscription service provided district library services. See your campus media specialist for passwords.
Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a free online library of newspapers, magazines, and the suggested websites.
ERIC
ERIC is a government provided database of journal articles available free online.
Speeches by the History Channel
Browse through or search for the text and audio version of famous speeches.
GALE
GALE is a research database of magazines, periodicals, and other useful research tools. This is available for grades 7-12.·
Infoplease
Infoplease includes free online encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus, timelines, biographies, etc.

Tools for schools

irubric
Create and share rubrics with irubric
Flash Card Exchange
Create and share flash cards online with Flash Card Exchange.
Rubistar
Rubistar allows teachers to create rubrics using easy templates. Browse rubrics created by others.
Vocagrabber
Use Vocagrabber to create vocabulary lists. Paste in a text and the will create the vocaulary list for you.
Citation Machine
Citation Machine helps users create MLA and APA style citations.
Flippity
Create flashcards that can be displayed online.

Graphics, Video, and Screen Casting

Screen Cast-o-matic
Create free screen cast videos.
Jing
Use this tool for screen capture and video casting.
Smore
Create online flyers.
Wordle
Create a graphic based on words of your choosing.
Educannon
Customize online videos and create interactive quizzes.
Tube Chop
Shorten Youtube videos to show only the content you want. Will be available only to staff.

Web Design and Widgets

Scribd
Embed widget for PDF documents with links
Surfnetkids
Embed codes for daily content such as "did you know...", jokes, educational quotes, etc.
Wonderopolis
Use this embed code to add a "wonder of the day" to your website.

Other

Lino
Use this for sticky note sharing.
Check Short URL
Find the original address of a shortened URL. This is helpful if a filter is blocking a shortened URL.
Wayback Machine
Visit archived versions of websites that no longer exist or that have changed