Note: Flisti appears to be no longer active. Check out these alternatives: Poll Everywhere Poll & Match Mentimeter Socrative Riddle Plickers Flisti Flisti is a basic, free online polling site that is extremely easy to use. While other sites may offer more features, Flisti allows users to make polls that they can share or embed… Read more
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/ Quizlet has been around for a long time, and I was reminded why it remains so popular when I added a new set of terms for my students today. Quizlet is nicely described as “simple tools that let you study anything, for free.” Below are the three main reasons I continue to use… Read more
emaze www.emaze.com Death by PowerPoint is one of the greatest fears of today’s students. While so many of my instructional materials were made in PowerPoint, I am making every effort to move completely away from it. I’m a big fan of Prezi and will continue to use it, but I recently came across something… Read more
Recite.comI received a lot of positive feedback about my post on Quozio, so today I’m sharing another resource for students and teachers to share quotes in a creative, visually appealing way. Recite.com offers a very straight-forward interface. Just enter your quote, select your style and click create. You can enter your quote by typing, copy/paste,… Read more
ForAllRubrics www.ForAllRubrics.com ForAllRubrics is a paperless rubric system that allows you to create custom rubrics, assess students using your computer or tablet, email results to students, and manage class grades by assignment. Customize your rubric title, item descriptions, points, rating descriptions, criteria for rating, and more. Grading is as simple as clicking on the appropriate… Read more
Pearltrees www.pearltrees.net Pearltrees has always been much more than a social bookmarking tool — it allows users to collaboratively gather websites, photos, and notes and organize them into visually appealing collections (similar to folders). It’s a great way for teachers and students to share resources. They recently rolled out a major update that adds a suite… Read more
Note: RefME is now Cite This For ME – Check it out here. RefME RefME.com RefME is a free online citation / bibliography maker. It features many of the ways to cite references that you would expect – including URL, ISBN, ISSN, or search by article title. What got my attention was the ability… Read more
3 Simple Random Name Selectors for the Classroom Sometimes you just need a simple way of picking students at random. No bells and whistles, no sound effects, no animations… just a quick way to randomly pick a name. Here are three basic random name generators. Random Name Picker http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/ It’s as simple as: 1) Paste… Read more
Snagit for Google Chrome www.techsmith.com/snagit-google-chrome.html Snagit has long been my go-to for recording screencasts; it is the tool I use most to capture screenshots for this blog and for classroom instructions. TechSmith has now released a free version of Snagit as a Google Chrome extension. This is great news for Chromebook users… Read more
Resources and links from my sessions for Berkeley County Schools February 2015 Content Off the Shelf Kahn Academy Learn Zillion OER Commons TED iTunesU Brightstorm WatchKnowLearn edX Video Tools ViewPure SafeShare.TV TubeChop KeepVid WeVideo Visual Tutorials for Creating Instructional Videos PowerPoint Keynote Jing Screencast-O-Matic ShowMe (iPad) Explain Everything (iPad) Snagit (Chrome) Screencasting Software Jing Online Screencasting… Read more
