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Technology Tools for the Classroom

Presentation Tools 

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 reseurces 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 more into a presentation Video Resources WeVideo: Edit video collaboratively in the cloud, then share with others
Movie Maker: Free software download for making custom videos, importing and editing slideshows and videos, and adding soundtracks to video content
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  
Pen.io: Create instant webpages/blog posts with a web address for free and with no registration or login required
Book Creating Apps: A list of apps which can be used to create books.
 

Pictures and Images

PicMonkey: Edit photos and create custom collages
Pics4learning: Free educational images with no copyright restrictions
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
Sonic Pics: A phone app that lets you take photos from your phone and turn them into a narrated slideshow in the form of a m4v video.
iPiccy: A free web-based photo editor. This is a copycat of Picnik that was shutdown by Google Infographics.

Audio Resources

Soundbooth: Adobe software for audio editing and production
Audacity: Free audio editing and recording Websites and Online
Recordmp3.org: Free web app for audio recording
Croak.it: Free web app for audio recording, allows you to record 30 seconds at a time
 
Classrooms

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
Discovery Education: Lesson plans and resources for teachers and administrators sorted by grade level and subject
The Flipped Class Network: A professional learning network for teachers using screencasting in education 
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations
QuikQR: Free QR Code generator
Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually
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
Pen.io: Create instant webpages/blog posts with a web address for free and with no registration or login required

Quizzes and Polls

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

Conversion Tools

Zamzar: Free online file conversion service. No longer converts YouTube videos.
iSpring: Convert PowerPoint to Flash presentations

Study Tools 
Quizlet: study site that allows students to create customized learning tools, games, and digital flashcards
Diigo: Highlight and add sticky notes to webpages.
Arcademic Skill Builders: Skill building games
Jeopardy Labs: Online Jeopardy template to create study games
USA Test Prep: Online resources that allow students to join a class, study for a specific test, and view their results 
Mnemonicizer: Mnemonic device generator
myHomework: An app that organizes homework in a color-coded calendar.
StudyBlue: An app that generates flashcards.

Writing, Citing, and Organization

EasyBib: Automatic Works Cited generator. Creates in APA format, MLA format, etc. 
BibMe: Automatic Works Cited generator. Creates in APA format, MLA format, etc
Evernote: Create notes and idea lists that are accessible anywhere through the cloud 
 
QR Codes
 

i-nigma: the best app for reading QR codes.
Kaywa: A QR code generator that's great for beginners.

QR Code Generator : Free QR code generator