Favorite Web Tools
Socrative- student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. There is an ipad app
ScreenR - Instant screencasts: Just click record.
Instagrok - innovative search engine that finds age appropriate multimedia materials.
Wordle - creates word clouds. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Tagxedo - creates word clouds with images you can select. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Glogster - The glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Educreations - Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser
Evernote - Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving
Penzu - is a free online diary and personal journal focused on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary or a private journal of notes and ideas securely on the web. This has an ipad app
pen.io - fast way to publish online. Instantly creates webpages.
sophia - place for anyone to share what they know. Share your knowledge and make it available to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. There are student and teacher entry points. A great place for flipping a classroom as students take responsibility for their own learning.
tiki toki - makes interactive and beautiful timelines
Capzles - another timeline maker - This has an ipad app
blabberize - a very easy application that allows you to speak through a picture. Students can manipulate the picture to say what they want it. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Reflection - allows you to WIRELESSLY connect your iPad to your computer and control either.
Class Dojo - online behavior management system.
Kidblog - a secure place for students to blog. Teacher has access control content.
Text Compactor - For struggling readers. Take a piece of text and copy and paste it into the compactor. The student can adjust the reading level so they can understand the content.
Cruxbot - Similar to Text compactor without the cut and paste. You drag a tab onto your bookmarks and then click on the tab and the website ( or doc or wiki) and then the student can adjust the reading level. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
No Red Ink - a fun place to practice grammar. You can set up and manage classes, even giving them grammar homework.
Paperrater - This site will check essays for plagiarism, spelling, grammar, word choice, style,vocabulary level and even give it a grade.
Citation Maker - This site creates citations in a variety of formats for research papers.
Learnzillion - Great resource for lessons curation
Edpuzzle - Allows teachers to edit, crop and add questions to videos that students will view.
Kahoot - Game-based check for understanding too. There are THOUSANDS of already created kahoots.
ScreenR - Instant screencasts: Just click record.
Instagrok - innovative search engine that finds age appropriate multimedia materials.
Wordle - creates word clouds. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Tagxedo - creates word clouds with images you can select. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Glogster - The glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Educreations - Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser
Evernote - Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving
Penzu - is a free online diary and personal journal focused on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary or a private journal of notes and ideas securely on the web. This has an ipad app
pen.io - fast way to publish online. Instantly creates webpages.
sophia - place for anyone to share what they know. Share your knowledge and make it available to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. There are student and teacher entry points. A great place for flipping a classroom as students take responsibility for their own learning.
tiki toki - makes interactive and beautiful timelines
Capzles - another timeline maker - This has an ipad app
blabberize - a very easy application that allows you to speak through a picture. Students can manipulate the picture to say what they want it. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
Reflection - allows you to WIRELESSLY connect your iPad to your computer and control either.
Class Dojo - online behavior management system.
Kidblog - a secure place for students to blog. Teacher has access control content.
Text Compactor - For struggling readers. Take a piece of text and copy and paste it into the compactor. The student can adjust the reading level so they can understand the content.
Cruxbot - Similar to Text compactor without the cut and paste. You drag a tab onto your bookmarks and then click on the tab and the website ( or doc or wiki) and then the student can adjust the reading level. DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD.
No Red Ink - a fun place to practice grammar. You can set up and manage classes, even giving them grammar homework.
Paperrater - This site will check essays for plagiarism, spelling, grammar, word choice, style,vocabulary level and even give it a grade.
Citation Maker - This site creates citations in a variety of formats for research papers.
Learnzillion - Great resource for lessons curation
Edpuzzle - Allows teachers to edit, crop and add questions to videos that students will view.
Kahoot - Game-based check for understanding too. There are THOUSANDS of already created kahoots.