Presentation Tools
(Be advised not all tools are free and some require email validation)
PowToon - This site allows for the creation of web-based presentations that include animated videos and amazing content. ****
Haiku Deck - Haiku Deck started as an app and is now a website that makes presentations simple, beautiful, and fun.
Thinglink - Make your images completely interactive by adding links, videos, text, and more with your computer, smartphone, or tablet.****
Canva - Create dynamic flyers, presentations, banners, infographics, graphics for social media, and other designs incorporating vibrant stock backgrounds, photos, graphics, and fonts, as well as images you upload.
VideoNotes - Allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. (connects w/Googledrive)
Prezi: A fun alternative to Powerpoint that allows you to organize your information visually
SlideRocket: Import your Power Point or Google presentations to store in the cloud or build presentations that include audio, video, and visual components
Mixbook: Create custom photo books, scrapbooks, or cards
Voicethread: Online meeting and collaboration tool that allows a group to meet, share, or edit together using written, typed, or voice notes for each other******
Timeline: Create digital timelines that can include content from a variety of online reseurces including YouTube, Flikr, Google Maps, etc.
Voki: Create a digital avatar to deliver your message in the classroom, on a blog, a website, or as part of a presentation
Tikatok: Allows students and teachers to create their own books and add their own words and illustrations
Yodio: Create, produce, and share presentations with a voice narration, visual components, and production options
Zooburst: Creat your own 3D, interactive, digital pop-up books
ToonDoo: Create custom cartoons and comic strips
SlideShare: Upload and share presentations, documents, and videos
Glogster: Create interactive digital posterboards and presentations
Animoto: Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music
Popplet: Create digital idea webs, collect materials related to a subject, or create a digital posterboard ***
Lino: create and organize your sticky notes digitally on a computer or smart phone, or post and share thoughts and pictures
Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually
Wordle: Create word clouds with a variety of color and formatting options to print, save, or share
Piktochart: Create easy, fun infographics to convey information visually
Script Buddy - Write a movie script using this tool that uses correct formatatting
GoAnimate - Create an animated cartoon of your writing
Makebeliefscomics - Create a comic strip
Digital Storytelling
Glossi - Glossi is a powerful digital media publishing tool. Add links, images, PDF files, animations, videos and audio files. Mix and remix to create a range of digital publications such as magazines, brochures, rich and interactive research presentations, even a digital book fair!
Recite This - A wonderful resource for bulletin boards, classroom walls, door decorating contests, Power Point and other online based presentation tools.
Meograph - Meograph, a multimedia storytelling tool, allows users to pull video and photos from the web, from social media, cloud-based storage, the computer's hard drive or webcam. Easily add narration and music then embed or share.
Metta - Metta is a media storytelling tool for both students and teachers! This tool allows one to create or tell stories using YouTube and other types of videos, creating presentations for teaching and learning. Polls and quizzes can be embedded for more student participation and interaction.
Figment - Figment is more than an app or a tool. Figment is a community of readers and writers, creators and artists, using the internet to share ideas and stories. In Figment, one can search for particular types of texts/writing, by genre or by tags.
Manage and Organize
Droptask - DropTask is a task management tool that provides a colorful visual of the user’s task at hand that resembles a Venn Diagram.
Gibbon - Gibbon is a community of people who collect and share information about the web in easy to use playlists for learning. Think Spotify, Pandora, or Netflix but with websites, videos, and other links for education.
Kaizena - Kaizena is a quick and easy tool that offers users the ability to embed voice comments, text comments, and links to student work. Instructors or peers simply highlight the text they want to comment on and then click to embed comments or links.
Pictures and Images
Pics4learning: Free educational images with no copyright restrictions
Wordle: Create word clouds with a variety of color and formatting options to print, save, or shareT
Tagxedo: Word clouds created in a customizable shape (faces, countries, letters) that can be printed on shirts, mugs, etc.
Animoto: Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music
Photo Story 3: Downloadable software to create photo slideshows, edit photos, and add special effects
Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually
Piktochart: Create easy, fun infographics to convey information visually
Audio Resources
Soundbooth: Adobe software for audio editing and production
Audacity: Free audio editing and recording
FreePlayMusic: Copyright-free music to download
Websites and Online Classrooms
Stoodle - Looking for a real time collaborative white board with unlimited pages? Then Stoodle is the site for you! Communicate with other teachers and librarians via video conferencing and text chat, use Stoodle Boards for brain storming and come back to the boards later to peruse your ideas.
MixedInk - Mixed Ink is a collaborative writing platform where students, teachers, administrators, or librarians can work together to put great ideas and language together into one text.
EduCanon - This site supports flipped instruction by allowing teachers to embed multiple-choice questions into YouTube, TeacherTube, or Vimeo videos. Videos can also be chopped so students view a portion of a film.
Schoology: Classroom management system that organizes lesson plans, helps create and manage tests and quizzes, and provide online access to students
Edmodo: Create online class groups to push assignments, questions, and upcoming dates to students and to solicit online feedback from them by class
Remind 101: site that allows teachers to safely text students homework, project, and test reminders, and stay in touch with parents
Zunal: Free, online WebQuest maker
ClassJump: Free teacher website maker that allows for class-by-class individualization and online work submission by students
Wix: Website creator with a variety of templates and tools for a professional-looking site
Jing: Create videos of what you see on your computer screen to share with others
Screencast-o-matic: Create videos of what's happening on your computer screen to share with others
Discovery Education: Lesson plans and resources for teachers and administrators sorted by grade level and subject
The Flipped Class Network: A professional learning network for teachers using screencasting in education
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations
QuikQR: Free QR Code generator
Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually
Widgetbox: Create your own mobile web apps and web widgets
Tinyurl: Create short, customizable, easy to remember web addresses in place of long, unwieldly addresses to easily direct students to a site
Content Resources
Media History Digital Library - The Media History Digital Library is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording. The Magazine Collections currently have over 800,000 scanned pages with more pages being added frequently.
Why Files - Created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the auspices of the National Institute for Science Education, the Why Files web site provides scientific information to explain and expand on current news stories.
Remix-T - Remix-T is a site created to aid teachers in developing engaging activities that incorporate images, video, and sound. Take a look at the project gallery to get ideas and then browse the tool collection.
MuseumBox: Add items, including text, images, and video, to a digital box to make a point or describe an event or person
Quizzes and Polls
Survey Monkey: Create and distribute your own survey, then analyze the results
Polldaddy: Create surveys, polls, and quizzes, then generate reports on the results
Polleverywhere: Create quick polls that collect responses via text, web, or Twitter
Quizlet: study site that allows students to create customized learning tools, games, and digital flashcards
Conversion Tools
Zamzar: Free online file conversion service. No longer converts YouTube videos.
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations
Study Tools
Quizlet: study site that allows students to create customized learning tools, games, and digital flashcards
Diigo: Highlight and add sticky notes to webpages.
Arcademic Skill Builders: Skill building games
Jeopardy Labs: Online Jeopardy template to create study games
USA Test Prep: Online resources that allow students to join a class, study for a specific test, and view their results
Mnemonicizer: Mnemonic device generator