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Classroom Book Sets Available
Project Planning/Organization Tools
Research Project Calculator The calculator customises the steps for your project according to your research task.
Essay Map This interactive tool from readwritethink.org walks you through the steps of organizing a research paper.
Mind Maps and Graphic Organizers: These visual thinking tools offer graphical ways to represent ideas and concepts.
Bubbl.us
MindMeister
Notetaking and Bibliographies: These programs help students manage their research.
NoodleTools (contact the library for information on how to access the BHS account)
Son of Citation Machine BibMe
Cartoons and Animation: These tools make it easy to share information or tell a story through cartoons.
ToonDoo (comic strips and books)
XtraNormal (animated videos)
StripGenerator (comic strips and comic panels)
Educational Games: Learning can be fun and meaningful with these games and simulations.
NobelPrize.org: Educational games sponsored by the Nobel Prize organization, on a range of topics related to Nobel Prize winners.
Timelines:
Preceden.com: Preceden is an online timeline maker that helps you create attractive, interactive timelines.
Timetoast.com: Create timelines to embed in papers, websites, blogs, etc.
Dipity.com : find timelines created by popular websites, politicians, celebrities, teachers, and others.
Social Bookmarking and Curation: Organize and share links, create collaborative resource lists, design online "magazines" using relevant web content.
Diigo
Delicious
Scoop.It
Pinterest
Flashcards/Quiz/Content Review:Teachers and students can create review materials in a variety of fun, interactive formats.
Quizlet
Jeopardy Labs
Presentation Programs: Ditch the poster project and try something multimedia and interactive.
GoAnimate Create videos using images, text, and sound.
Present.Me Presentme allows you to create video presentations using existing PowerPoint presentations. You can also record your videos.
Bolide Bolide lets you create presentations in few simple steps. It also allows you to add audio image files, transition effects, and many more.
Slidely Slidely allows users to create slideshows using pictures and music.
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 resources including YouTube, Flikr, Google Maps, etc.
MuseumBox: Add items, including text, images, and video, to a digital box to make a point or describe an event or person
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
Qwiki: Combine pictures, videos, infographics, tweets, and lots mor.e into a presentation Video Resources
WeVideo: Edit video collaboratively in the cloud, then share with others...great for CHROMEBOOKS!!!
Movie Maker: Free software download for making custom videos, importing and editing slideshows and videos, and adding soundtracks to video content
Video Resources
FlipGrid: ask a question or give a prompt and students respond via video.
C-SPAN: C-SPAN's entire repository of videos about Congress, Politics, books, and American History
Khan Academy: Repository of video lessons, sorted by subject, on topics related to math, the sciences, the humanities, and test prep
TED Talks: Videos of talks given at TED conferences on subjects ranging from education to particle physics, sortable by subject, length, or rating
HippoCampus: Find educational media by subject area (especially math and sciences), create your own playlist, and share with students
Watch Know Learn: Educational videos organized by subject and audience
Show Me: Online video lessons organized by subject
Pictures and Images
Pixabay: Free images, excellent quality
Unsplash: Free images, excellent quality
Pics4learning: Free educational images with no copyright restrictions
PicMonkey: Edit photos and create custom collages
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
Ookaboo: Free stock photos available without copyright watermarks
Veezzle: Free stock photo search engine
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 Websites and Online
Classrooms, Websites, and Other Useful Tools
Weebly: Easy website creation tool
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
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations
QuikQR: Free QR Code generator
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
Quizzes and Polls
Google Forms
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
Classroom Book Sets Available
Project Planning/Organization Tools
Research Project Calculator The calculator customises the steps for your project according to your research task.
Essay Map This interactive tool from readwritethink.org walks you through the steps of organizing a research paper.
Mind Maps and Graphic Organizers: These visual thinking tools offer graphical ways to represent ideas and concepts.
Bubbl.us
MindMeister
Notetaking and Bibliographies: These programs help students manage their research.
NoodleTools (contact the library for information on how to access the BHS account)
Son of Citation Machine BibMe
Cartoons and Animation: These tools make it easy to share information or tell a story through cartoons.
ToonDoo (comic strips and books)
XtraNormal (animated videos)
StripGenerator (comic strips and comic panels)
Educational Games: Learning can be fun and meaningful with these games and simulations.
NobelPrize.org: Educational games sponsored by the Nobel Prize organization, on a range of topics related to Nobel Prize winners.
Timelines:
Preceden.com: Preceden is an online timeline maker that helps you create attractive, interactive timelines.
Timetoast.com: Create timelines to embed in papers, websites, blogs, etc.
Dipity.com : find timelines created by popular websites, politicians, celebrities, teachers, and others.
Social Bookmarking and Curation: Organize and share links, create collaborative resource lists, design online "magazines" using relevant web content.
Diigo
Delicious
Scoop.It
Flashcards/Quiz/Content Review:Teachers and students can create review materials in a variety of fun, interactive formats.
Quizlet
Jeopardy Labs
Presentation Programs: Ditch the poster project and try something multimedia and interactive.
GoAnimate Create videos using images, text, and sound.
Present.Me Presentme allows you to create video presentations using existing PowerPoint presentations. You can also record your videos.
Bolide Bolide lets you create presentations in few simple steps. It also allows you to add audio image files, transition effects, and many more.
Slidely Slidely allows users to create slideshows using pictures and music.
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 resources including YouTube, Flikr, Google Maps, etc.
MuseumBox: Add items, including text, images, and video, to a digital box to make a point or describe an event or person
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
Qwiki: Combine pictures, videos, infographics, tweets, and lots mor.e into a presentation Video Resources
WeVideo: Edit video collaboratively in the cloud, then share with others...great for CHROMEBOOKS!!!
Movie Maker: Free software download for making custom videos, importing and editing slideshows and videos, and adding soundtracks to video content
Video Resources
FlipGrid: ask a question or give a prompt and students respond via video.
C-SPAN: C-SPAN's entire repository of videos about Congress, Politics, books, and American History
Khan Academy: Repository of video lessons, sorted by subject, on topics related to math, the sciences, the humanities, and test prep
TED Talks: Videos of talks given at TED conferences on subjects ranging from education to particle physics, sortable by subject, length, or rating
HippoCampus: Find educational media by subject area (especially math and sciences), create your own playlist, and share with students
Watch Know Learn: Educational videos organized by subject and audience
Show Me: Online video lessons organized by subject
Pictures and Images
Pixabay: Free images, excellent quality
Unsplash: Free images, excellent quality
Pics4learning: Free educational images with no copyright restrictions
PicMonkey: Edit photos and create custom collages
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
Ookaboo: Free stock photos available without copyright watermarks
Veezzle: Free stock photo search engine
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 Websites and Online
Classrooms, Websites, and Other Useful Tools
Weebly: Easy website creation tool
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
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations
QuikQR: Free QR Code generator
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
Quizzes and Polls
Google Forms
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