ABTE Teacher/Student Technology Links
Teacher Tools
Interactive White Board Resources
Please see resources listed by subject area for ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Special Classes sites to use Interactively.
Promethean Planet - Start Here!!!
The Teacher Toolkit - Engaging techniques for effective teaching!
Education Resources - free printables, activities, interactive clips.
Class Tools - Many useful tools including random student selector, fakebook, and twister.
TES iBoard - Standards based, teacher tested and designed. Gotta give it a try, for ages 4-12
PBS Interactive White Board Games - pre-made learning activities by PBS Kids
Children's University of Manchester - excellent interactive visual learning organized by subject for upper elementary.
Kent ICT - A treasure trove of teaching resources even beyond IWB's for early and upper elementary
Sandsfields - This site posts game templates of popular game shows, card games, and bingo that you can download and personalize for your class
SMART Educator's Resources
How to Use IWB from Cambridge - This site has video tutorials as well as resources.
Primary Resources - For all Ages!!
Teacher LED - This site was designed to bring Interactive teaching resources to educators
Crickweb - When last I checked there were over 169 Interactive Resources for White Boards
Top Marks - Interactive Resources sorted by age and subject
WIRIS Whiteboard 2009 - collection of interactive math resources specially designed for Interactive Whiteboards (Secondary Math)
ELA Sites to use with Student Response Systems by Linda Denker
Jeopardy Labs - Create your own online Jeopardy boards in minutes for free
IQ Interactive Quizzes - All subject areas including technology, organized by grade level
What 2 Learn - Interactive Games made for Interactive Boards
Interactives - There are resources for all grades but this is mainly geared toward middle school
BGFL Birmingham Grid for Learning - Interactive Games
UEN Student Interactives Grades K-2, Grades 3-6, Grades 7-12
NASA e-clips - These are sorted by grade level. They have a Teacher Tool Box to show how to incorporate them.
IWB Blogs and Wikis
Teachers Love SMART Boards - Edublog on Smart boards
SmartBoard Wiki
Harvey's Homepage - Another Edublog that has resources and How to's
WhiteBoard Blog - This Edublog features regular updates and great resources for Middle School Science and Math teachers.
Talking SmartBoards - This Edublog is great for the younger grades.
Online Boards and Tools
Board800 - A free easy to use online whiteboard
Edoboard - Online Toolbox with Interactive board, math tools, web and audio camera. Free.
Teacher Toolbox from Learning Today
Scriblink - Your Online WhiteBoard
Google for Education
Live Binder Google for Educators - There are thousands of tutorials, lesson plans, and ideas shared on this Live Binder that organizes it all and makes it easy to find by which ever application you are looking to use; Google Docs, Google Earth, Wave, Sketchup, Scholar and more.
Richard Byrne's Google Tutorials - Richard writes the Free Technology for Teachers Blog
50 Ways to Use Google Apps - This is a presentations with resource links of ways to use Google Apps in your classroom
Oregon's Apps for Education Resource Page
Google Sites Resources - Video Tutorials on how to do virtually anything in Google Sites.
Quick and Easy Formulas for Grading Google Forms - In video tutorials this site shows you how to create formulas to make self grading quizzes in Google Forms. Learn it and save yourself oodles of time.
Google Templates for Student Projects - Lezlie Harris provides you with ready made templates and lesson plans for great student projects. They are aimed at lower grades but are easily adaptable.
70+ Google Forms for the Classroom
Google Docs for Learning - A Scoopit curated site for all things related to Google Apps for Education
Skype
Skype for Educators - This is a comprehensive list of experts willing to Skype into your classroom from around the world
Around the World with 80 Schools - Silvia Tolisano developed this blog to connect classrooms around the world via Skype. Be sure to check out her PDF on how to use Skype to manage the call before during and afterward to maximize learning. You can also download it at the bottom of this page.
Globally Connected - also by Silvia, this offers tutorials that are entertaining and informative on how to use Skype
Skype in the Classroom - a Scoopit curated site of articles and resources regarding the use of Skype in Education
The Big Blog of Skype - Videos and Blogs about how to use Skype in the classroom by Skype.
VodBurner - You can use this free Application to record your Skype conferences for others to view in the future.
Back Channeling
Back Channeling in the Classroom - Curated on Scoop it, articles and links to Back Channels and the research behind it.
Todays Meet - super easy to use and set up
Edomodo - requires the teacher to have an account but allows for much more control
Virtual Field Trips
Edutopia Highlighted Virtual Field Trips
Project Explorer - Video Virtual Field Trips and Tours around the world.
The Moom - The Museum of Online Museums
Timers
Online Stopwatch - Counts down or up with lots of different types of timers like chess timers, stop watches, and metronomes
Egg Timers - Working with groups? You can set three different timers on this site.
Classroom Tools - Not only timers but tons of other great tools, all fun and free
Online Collaboration
Teachers, Try Google Applications for Education, the best collaborative tools out there for free on the internet.
KidBlog.org - Create accounts for your kids to make their own blogs
Edomodo - Free Secure Social Learning Network that works seemlessly with Google Apps, what is not to love.
Lingt Classroom - Give your students online voice based assignments
Show Document - Amazing free tools, share documents, web pages, Interactive whiteboards, text editors, You Tube videos, Google Earth, live in real time, plus you can include Mobile Devices
Titan Pad - A super easy to use collaborative writing tool. Create a public pad and start writing instantly.
Primary Pad - Superfunky collaborative writing for schools
Glasscubes - Document Sharing, Online Collaboration, Project Management, and more
Collaborize Classroom - Allows for back channel discussions, polls, and student input on documents.
Wiggio - Makes it easy to communicate and work in groups.
Office Live - Microsoft's answer to Google Aps, online file storage and sharing of Office Documents
TokBox - Online, easy to use Video Conferencing
Today's Meet - Set-up a back channel chat room for a day, week or month for free.
Video Annotation Tool - This is a back channel discussion tool that works in tandem with a video.
LiveBinders4Teachers - A collection of Live Binders for teaching organized by subject and grade level. Grows daily.
OER Commons - Open Educators Resources free online lesson plan sharing, resources and ideas.
Various Other Great Resources
EduTecher - This labor of love from Adam Bellow is your link to the best of everything for teachers on the web.
Discovery Education Web 2.0 Center
Thinkfinity - Thousands of great lesson plans and resources
MasteryConnect - Focuses shared resources assessing the Common Core Standards
TeachersFirst Content Matrix - Lesson plans and resources for most teaching themes K-12 organized by subject, content, and grade
New York Times Teaching Topics
nrich maths.org - This fantastic site has enrichment resources and free posters to enhance your math lessons
Educational Freeware - Reviews and links to the best educational and free games, downloads, and websites
NSRA Laptop Learning Challenge - Lesson plans and advice for teaching with laptops
SciLinks - Sign up for free and discover tried and true links that will enhance whatever you are studying in science for the National Science Teachers Association
Pete's Power Point Station - Loads of PowerPoints ready to go.
PowerPoint Game Templates
50 Plus Ways to Use Document Cameras - This site also shows how to use Student Response Systems and many other tech tools.
Nifty Tools
Evernote - I use this on all my devices to take notes, collect articles, bookmark interesting ideas. It is free, works on all platforms and syncs seamlessly.
Knotebooks - Supplementary education platform that enables students, teachers and self-learners to effortlessly create and collaborate on customized multimedia lessons.
Classroom Tools - Extraordinary management tools and web 2.0 tools Check out Fakebook and Twister
Rubistar - Create rubrics for free
irubrics - Create your own rubric or find one that has been shared.
Jing Project - Screen shots and videos of your computer screen with annotations
Screener - Free easy to use online screen capture video tool. Hosts unlimited 5 minute and under screencasts.
Yacapaca! - Home - Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more
ProProfs - Create quizzes, flashcards, and polls
Weblist - Create a visual collection of links for research or an assignment. Also many teachers have already created and shared great visual lists on topics. ELA Teachers check out the Vocabulary Gallery
Bridges URL - This site lets you post a list of links in one place to eliminate clicks. Great for when you want to create a resource bank of links.
Refseek - A directory of Teacher resources including professional development
TeachitUK - This is a pay site but they also have lots of groovy free resources including a very cool timer in their whizzy things section.
Project Based Learning Sites
BIE Buck Institute for Education - This site collaborated with Common Craft to create the video “What is Project Based Learning?” and has great PD tools and resources.
TELS Technology Enhanced Learning
Intel Education - Designing Effective Projects
MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Edutopia - The George Lucas Foundation for Education
LEARNit TEACHit - Project based lesson plans integrating technology into other subjects.
E-Pals Global Community - Safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network.
Wiki sites (to create for your classes or projects)
Wikispaces
PBwiki
Blog Platforms
KidBlog
Class Blogmeister
Edublog
Podcast Platforms
Teacher's Podcast
Podcastalley
Digital Podcast
Alternatives to You Tube (Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers)
Teachertube
Watch Know - Free Educational Videos that are well organized and easily searchable.
Teacher TV
Itunes U
How Stuff Works
Educational Mini Movies
NEO K-12 - Educational Videos for students K-12 indexed by subject, mostly Science and Social Studies
Explore - Never stop learning, a photo and video site dedicated to showing the selfless acts of others.
History.com
Vimeo
BBC Documentaries
C-Span Video Library
Kideos - This is a great site for videos for the lower grades
Next Vista - Library of free educational videos designed for the classroom. It grows daily.
Dot Sub - Subtitled films in many languages
Ted Talks - Ideas worth spreading, inspirational lectures from universities around the world
Academic Earth - Lectures and courses from Universities around the world
Big Think - More of the same
ForA TV - Videos on the people and issues shaping our future
Mathatube
The Futures Channel
Kids Know it Educational Videos
Animated Explanations - Just as the name says
Snag Film - watch full length documentaries
Current TV
NASA e-clips - These are sorted by grade level. They have a Teacher Tool Box to show how to incorporate them.
How to Videos on MonkeySee - Free Instructional Videos
Best Ed Tech Blogs and Wikis (IMHO)
Free Technology for Teachers - Has won the best Edublog two years in a row. Not only does Richard Byrne share great resources, he explains how to integrate them
Larry FerLazzo's Website of the Day - This guy creates the best “Best Lists” around.
Jane's E-learning Pick of the Day
Online Degree's List of Top 100 Tech Blogs
Two Writing Teachers
The Connected Classroom
Perk Up YourProjects with Web 2.0
Free Online Professional Development
PBS Teacherline - Earn CEU's and take online classes.
Annenburg Foundation - Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources, Most Excellent!
Michigan Teacher Certification - Teacher certification assistance for Michigan educators. Online classes available.
360 Education Solutions - Online professional development courses for teachers from 360 Education Solutions.
Teacher Training Videos - This site shows you training videos on all things tech as well as terrific teaching strategies in action
Online Courses 100 Top You Tube Channels for Teachers
ISTE Unplugged - This wiki contains free videos of all the conferences at this year’s ISTE in Denver
Learn it in 5 - This site has 5 minute videos to teach teachers about Technology in the classroom
Atomic Learning
Wiki Webinars - This is a wiki of Elluminate webinars to learn how to use wikis with your classroom
Podcasting for Educators
Digigogy - Reposts of Online Lectures that will make you a better teacher
Online Modules from the Library of Congress
Richard Byrne's Professional Development Resources
Please see resources listed by subject area for ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Special Classes sites to use Interactively.
Promethean Planet - Start Here!!!
The Teacher Toolkit - Engaging techniques for effective teaching!
Education Resources - free printables, activities, interactive clips.
Class Tools - Many useful tools including random student selector, fakebook, and twister.
TES iBoard - Standards based, teacher tested and designed. Gotta give it a try, for ages 4-12
PBS Interactive White Board Games - pre-made learning activities by PBS Kids
Children's University of Manchester - excellent interactive visual learning organized by subject for upper elementary.
Kent ICT - A treasure trove of teaching resources even beyond IWB's for early and upper elementary
Sandsfields - This site posts game templates of popular game shows, card games, and bingo that you can download and personalize for your class
SMART Educator's Resources
How to Use IWB from Cambridge - This site has video tutorials as well as resources.
Primary Resources - For all Ages!!
Teacher LED - This site was designed to bring Interactive teaching resources to educators
Crickweb - When last I checked there were over 169 Interactive Resources for White Boards
Top Marks - Interactive Resources sorted by age and subject
WIRIS Whiteboard 2009 - collection of interactive math resources specially designed for Interactive Whiteboards (Secondary Math)
ELA Sites to use with Student Response Systems by Linda Denker
Jeopardy Labs - Create your own online Jeopardy boards in minutes for free
IQ Interactive Quizzes - All subject areas including technology, organized by grade level
What 2 Learn - Interactive Games made for Interactive Boards
Interactives - There are resources for all grades but this is mainly geared toward middle school
BGFL Birmingham Grid for Learning - Interactive Games
UEN Student Interactives Grades K-2, Grades 3-6, Grades 7-12
NASA e-clips - These are sorted by grade level. They have a Teacher Tool Box to show how to incorporate them.
IWB Blogs and Wikis
Teachers Love SMART Boards - Edublog on Smart boards
SmartBoard Wiki
Harvey's Homepage - Another Edublog that has resources and How to's
WhiteBoard Blog - This Edublog features regular updates and great resources for Middle School Science and Math teachers.
Talking SmartBoards - This Edublog is great for the younger grades.
Online Boards and Tools
Board800 - A free easy to use online whiteboard
Edoboard - Online Toolbox with Interactive board, math tools, web and audio camera. Free.
Teacher Toolbox from Learning Today
Scriblink - Your Online WhiteBoard
Google for Education
Live Binder Google for Educators - There are thousands of tutorials, lesson plans, and ideas shared on this Live Binder that organizes it all and makes it easy to find by which ever application you are looking to use; Google Docs, Google Earth, Wave, Sketchup, Scholar and more.
Richard Byrne's Google Tutorials - Richard writes the Free Technology for Teachers Blog
50 Ways to Use Google Apps - This is a presentations with resource links of ways to use Google Apps in your classroom
Oregon's Apps for Education Resource Page
Google Sites Resources - Video Tutorials on how to do virtually anything in Google Sites.
Quick and Easy Formulas for Grading Google Forms - In video tutorials this site shows you how to create formulas to make self grading quizzes in Google Forms. Learn it and save yourself oodles of time.
Google Templates for Student Projects - Lezlie Harris provides you with ready made templates and lesson plans for great student projects. They are aimed at lower grades but are easily adaptable.
70+ Google Forms for the Classroom
Google Docs for Learning - A Scoopit curated site for all things related to Google Apps for Education
Skype
Skype for Educators - This is a comprehensive list of experts willing to Skype into your classroom from around the world
Around the World with 80 Schools - Silvia Tolisano developed this blog to connect classrooms around the world via Skype. Be sure to check out her PDF on how to use Skype to manage the call before during and afterward to maximize learning. You can also download it at the bottom of this page.
Globally Connected - also by Silvia, this offers tutorials that are entertaining and informative on how to use Skype
Skype in the Classroom - a Scoopit curated site of articles and resources regarding the use of Skype in Education
The Big Blog of Skype - Videos and Blogs about how to use Skype in the classroom by Skype.
VodBurner - You can use this free Application to record your Skype conferences for others to view in the future.
Back Channeling
Back Channeling in the Classroom - Curated on Scoop it, articles and links to Back Channels and the research behind it.
Todays Meet - super easy to use and set up
Edomodo - requires the teacher to have an account but allows for much more control
Virtual Field Trips
Edutopia Highlighted Virtual Field Trips
Project Explorer - Video Virtual Field Trips and Tours around the world.
The Moom - The Museum of Online Museums
Timers
Online Stopwatch - Counts down or up with lots of different types of timers like chess timers, stop watches, and metronomes
Egg Timers - Working with groups? You can set three different timers on this site.
Classroom Tools - Not only timers but tons of other great tools, all fun and free
Online Collaboration
Teachers, Try Google Applications for Education, the best collaborative tools out there for free on the internet.
KidBlog.org - Create accounts for your kids to make their own blogs
Edomodo - Free Secure Social Learning Network that works seemlessly with Google Apps, what is not to love.
Lingt Classroom - Give your students online voice based assignments
Show Document - Amazing free tools, share documents, web pages, Interactive whiteboards, text editors, You Tube videos, Google Earth, live in real time, plus you can include Mobile Devices
Titan Pad - A super easy to use collaborative writing tool. Create a public pad and start writing instantly.
Primary Pad - Superfunky collaborative writing for schools
Glasscubes - Document Sharing, Online Collaboration, Project Management, and more
Collaborize Classroom - Allows for back channel discussions, polls, and student input on documents.
Wiggio - Makes it easy to communicate and work in groups.
Office Live - Microsoft's answer to Google Aps, online file storage and sharing of Office Documents
TokBox - Online, easy to use Video Conferencing
Today's Meet - Set-up a back channel chat room for a day, week or month for free.
Video Annotation Tool - This is a back channel discussion tool that works in tandem with a video.
LiveBinders4Teachers - A collection of Live Binders for teaching organized by subject and grade level. Grows daily.
OER Commons - Open Educators Resources free online lesson plan sharing, resources and ideas.
Various Other Great Resources
EduTecher - This labor of love from Adam Bellow is your link to the best of everything for teachers on the web.
Discovery Education Web 2.0 Center
Thinkfinity - Thousands of great lesson plans and resources
MasteryConnect - Focuses shared resources assessing the Common Core Standards
TeachersFirst Content Matrix - Lesson plans and resources for most teaching themes K-12 organized by subject, content, and grade
New York Times Teaching Topics
nrich maths.org - This fantastic site has enrichment resources and free posters to enhance your math lessons
Educational Freeware - Reviews and links to the best educational and free games, downloads, and websites
NSRA Laptop Learning Challenge - Lesson plans and advice for teaching with laptops
SciLinks - Sign up for free and discover tried and true links that will enhance whatever you are studying in science for the National Science Teachers Association
Pete's Power Point Station - Loads of PowerPoints ready to go.
PowerPoint Game Templates
50 Plus Ways to Use Document Cameras - This site also shows how to use Student Response Systems and many other tech tools.
Nifty Tools
Evernote - I use this on all my devices to take notes, collect articles, bookmark interesting ideas. It is free, works on all platforms and syncs seamlessly.
Knotebooks - Supplementary education platform that enables students, teachers and self-learners to effortlessly create and collaborate on customized multimedia lessons.
Classroom Tools - Extraordinary management tools and web 2.0 tools Check out Fakebook and Twister
Rubistar - Create rubrics for free
irubrics - Create your own rubric or find one that has been shared.
Jing Project - Screen shots and videos of your computer screen with annotations
Screener - Free easy to use online screen capture video tool. Hosts unlimited 5 minute and under screencasts.
Yacapaca! - Home - Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more
ProProfs - Create quizzes, flashcards, and polls
Weblist - Create a visual collection of links for research or an assignment. Also many teachers have already created and shared great visual lists on topics. ELA Teachers check out the Vocabulary Gallery
Bridges URL - This site lets you post a list of links in one place to eliminate clicks. Great for when you want to create a resource bank of links.
Refseek - A directory of Teacher resources including professional development
TeachitUK - This is a pay site but they also have lots of groovy free resources including a very cool timer in their whizzy things section.
Project Based Learning Sites
BIE Buck Institute for Education - This site collaborated with Common Craft to create the video “What is Project Based Learning?” and has great PD tools and resources.
TELS Technology Enhanced Learning
Intel Education - Designing Effective Projects
MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Edutopia - The George Lucas Foundation for Education
LEARNit TEACHit - Project based lesson plans integrating technology into other subjects.
E-Pals Global Community - Safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network.
Wiki sites (to create for your classes or projects)
Wikispaces
PBwiki
Blog Platforms
KidBlog
Class Blogmeister
Edublog
Podcast Platforms
Teacher's Podcast
Podcastalley
Digital Podcast
Alternatives to You Tube (Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers)
Teachertube
Watch Know - Free Educational Videos that are well organized and easily searchable.
Teacher TV
Itunes U
How Stuff Works
Educational Mini Movies
NEO K-12 - Educational Videos for students K-12 indexed by subject, mostly Science and Social Studies
Explore - Never stop learning, a photo and video site dedicated to showing the selfless acts of others.
History.com
Vimeo
BBC Documentaries
C-Span Video Library
Kideos - This is a great site for videos for the lower grades
Next Vista - Library of free educational videos designed for the classroom. It grows daily.
Dot Sub - Subtitled films in many languages
Ted Talks - Ideas worth spreading, inspirational lectures from universities around the world
Academic Earth - Lectures and courses from Universities around the world
Big Think - More of the same
ForA TV - Videos on the people and issues shaping our future
Mathatube
The Futures Channel
Kids Know it Educational Videos
Animated Explanations - Just as the name says
Snag Film - watch full length documentaries
Current TV
NASA e-clips - These are sorted by grade level. They have a Teacher Tool Box to show how to incorporate them.
How to Videos on MonkeySee - Free Instructional Videos
Best Ed Tech Blogs and Wikis (IMHO)
Free Technology for Teachers - Has won the best Edublog two years in a row. Not only does Richard Byrne share great resources, he explains how to integrate them
Larry FerLazzo's Website of the Day - This guy creates the best “Best Lists” around.
Jane's E-learning Pick of the Day
Online Degree's List of Top 100 Tech Blogs
Two Writing Teachers
The Connected Classroom
Perk Up YourProjects with Web 2.0
Free Online Professional Development
PBS Teacherline - Earn CEU's and take online classes.
Annenburg Foundation - Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources, Most Excellent!
Michigan Teacher Certification - Teacher certification assistance for Michigan educators. Online classes available.
360 Education Solutions - Online professional development courses for teachers from 360 Education Solutions.
Teacher Training Videos - This site shows you training videos on all things tech as well as terrific teaching strategies in action
Online Courses 100 Top You Tube Channels for Teachers
ISTE Unplugged - This wiki contains free videos of all the conferences at this year’s ISTE in Denver
Learn it in 5 - This site has 5 minute videos to teach teachers about Technology in the classroom
Atomic Learning
Wiki Webinars - This is a wiki of Elluminate webinars to learn how to use wikis with your classroom
Podcasting for Educators
Digigogy - Reposts of Online Lectures that will make you a better teacher
Online Modules from the Library of Congress
Richard Byrne's Professional Development Resources