The Internet Is Rich With Free Tools for Educators. Here’s A Bunch.
I’ve been meaning to put together this list of the many free apps that I’ve blogged about, and make it available as a tabbed section on the site. I’ve got the list mostly together now and realized it would make for a nice mid-week post.
All of the articles below reference free technologies and/or resources. The posts are simply listed in alphabetical order (I haven’t quite decided how best to organize them otherwise). I hope you find something fun and useful here!
- 10 Examples of Useful Second Life Resources for Educators
- 10 Free Educational Game Sites
- 100 Ways to Teach With Twitter
- 6 Free Online Interactive White Boards
- A brief look at WiZiQ.com
- A Dozen Great Free Online Video Lecture Sites
- Checking out Podcasting in Education
- Collaboration & Brainstorming Tools (Part 1)
- Comparing 12 Free Screencasting Tools
- Connecting A Million Minds (to after-school STEM programs)
- Creating brief instructional videos (and more) with Jing
- Do You Use Evernote?
- Doodle – a quick, easy, and free resource for creating polls
- Education Related Blogs & Blogging Resources
- Education World’s Technology Integration resources
- Exploring the Classroom2.0 Website
- Eye Witness To History (dot com)
- Fun tool for the classroom – simple Crossword Puzzle maker!
- Google Apps for Education vs Microsoft’s Live@edu
- Learning a language online, for free!
- Learning about Moodle – a leading open source LMS
- Low (or No) Cost Online Project Management Tools
- New Web Site WatchKnow.org (1000’s of Free Educational Videos)
- PowerPoint Jeopardy in the Classroom
- Screencasting with Debut’s Lite Version
- TeacherTube, and other YouTube alternatives for instructional use
- The growing use of Wikis in education
- Using Google Sites to create e-portfolios for students
- Using Internet story telling tools in education
- Using Second Life for Educational applications
Of course, the king of free tech for educators is blogger Richard Byrne and his “Free Tech For Teachers” site. Be sure to check it out and tap into a continuous stream of free ed tech resources and ideas about how to use them.
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies
8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education
5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog
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About K. Walsh
Kelly Walsh is CIO at The College of Westchester in White Plains, NY and is the founder and author of EmergingEdTech.com. As an education technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author and online educator, and his latest eBook, "iPads in Education: Implementations, Apps, & Insights" is available for sale in the iBookstore. In his spare time, he records and performs original and cover songs (look for "K. Walsh" on iTunes or Amazon.com or check out his original song videos on here on YouTube ).
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I have started a collaborative blog called Free Tech for Schools where people can post how they use free technology in the classroom. So far we have had some excellent guest posts and I am always looking for more.
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Nice Blog. This blog is useful and helpful for every students and teachers. Thanks
These are great resources for teachers. could more explanation be giving for google document offline using google drive
This is a great list that could be very useful for students and teachers. I would request that you look at http://whenintime.com and consider adding it to your list. whenintime is a web application that can be very useful to students in learning about history
As an example, take a look at this timeline that was created by a student http://whenintime.com/tl/bsanders/Radio_History/
Also there are some good collections of timelines on various topics such as Astronomy (http://whenintime.com/cat/Astronomy/), Conflicts (http://whenintime.com/cat/Conflicts/)
This blog is wonderful. I am new to blogging and can’t believe the extremely valuable information on your blog. I haven’t had a chance to check out all of the but I did view Naimish’s homework calendar. It is such a valuable tool; user friendly to both students an teachers and a great organizational tool to help students prepare for future job responsibilities. I look forward to following your blog regularly
Jing is very awesome by the way! Another really cool tool similar is called Screenr.com
Check it out? very simple…and you can tweet it straight to the tweet-sphere..
I was hoping you could add my homework calendar resource on here. The core service is free with optional premium features.
I created it for my school Henry Compton and since then I have made it available to a wider audience. It is now being used in 200+ schools around the world. It hasn’t got thousands of features but it does a couple of things really well and it’s simple, no frills so teachers find it really easy to use. Hope your community find is useful.
I would love to get your feedback on it if you get a chance?
Many Thanks
Naimish
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk
PS Great blog by the way!
Great list you’ve compiled.
Thank you so much for the kind mention.
All the best,
Richard
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