General Tools & Hotlists                               Return to top

• Canadian Teacher Tools
• Discovery School Teacher Tools
• Education World Teacher Tools & Templates
• EducatorTemplates.com
• Kathy Schrock's Tools for Teachers and Students
• FETC Conf 09 -- Internet 4Teachers -- 100 websites
• eTech 09 -- The Price is Right  -- 280 websites
• Microsoft FREE resources for Teachers

Calendars                                                              Return to top

• A To Z Calendar Printouts  
• Assign A Day
• Calendar Home

• Create A Calendar

• Jan Brett's Interactive Calendar

• My Calendarmaker

• PrintFree

Certificates and Awards                                         Return to top

• ABC Teach Certificates

• Awards and Certificates must register first

• Award certificates  that are emailed

• Certificate Creator a few free ones here

• Create An Award  

• Jan Brett's Certificates And Awards to print

• Kids Certificates

• SEN Teacher

• Teachnology's Certificate Maker

Cool Tools                                                                  Return to top

• Audio - vozMe - Type words and it creates a MP3 file

• Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser

• Random Name Picker

• Coin Flipper

• Online Alarm Clock

• Online Stopwatch

• Imagination Cubed - create a drawing, replay it, and email it.

• Wordle

  • 5 Reasons to use Wordle in the classroom

Flash Cards                                                                Return to top

• Flash Card Machine

• Flash Card Maker

• StudyStack

• Flashcard DB

• Flashcard Exchange

Free Software Programs to Download       Return to top

• LEGO Digital Designer 1.6...a free virtual building system available for both the Windows and Mac OSX platform
• Google SketchUp ...a powerful 3-D modeling program avaiable for Windows 2000 and better and Mac OS10.3.9 and better; can be used in conjunction with Google Earth or on its own
• TuxPaint...an easy-to-use drawing program available for Windows and Mac OSX
• IKEA Planner, the mega-homestore. They provide planners for different types of rooms (only for Windows computers however) that allow some powerful 2-D and 3-D viewing. These software planners could come in handy for student set design, math or technology ed planning projects, or for other creative uses you may come up with. 

Grading Tools- Online                                    Return to top
 

• Snapgrades - free!
• Engrade - free!
• MyGradeBook - free 30 day trial!

Graphic Organizers                          Return to top

• Printable Graphic Organizers
  • A Compendium Of Graphic Organizers
  • Graphic Organizers And Writing
  • Graphic Organizers Overview
  • Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction  
  • Graphic Organizers That Support Specific Thinking Skills
  • Scholastic Graphic Organizers Portal
  • Graphic Organizers  - SCORE
  • Printable Graphic Organizers must register to print
  • Printable Graphical Organizers for Literary Elements (pdf)
• Interactive Graphic Organizers
  • Read Write and Think's Graphic Organizers

  • Visual Ranking Tool from Intel

• Create your own Graphic Organizers

  • bubbl.us

  • Webspiration

  • Dabbleboard - online whiteboard

• Graphic Organizer Software
  • The Graphic Organizer
  • Kidspiration (K-5) or Inspiration

Graphing Tools                                          Return to top

• Bugs In the System
• Create A Graph
• Fooplot.com
• Line of Best Fit
• Many Eyes -  data visualization tool
• Shodor's Graphing Tools
  • Bar Graph
  • Bar Graph 2
  • Circle Graph
  • Histogram
  • Ordered Simple Plot
• Using Data Tools
• Virtual Manipulatives
  • Box Plot
  • Histogram
  • ScatterPlot

Lesson Plan creation tools                     Return to top

• Lesson Plan Builder

• Lesson Plan Creator

• Online Lesson Planner

Miscellaneous Tools                                        Return to top

• Citation Machine 

• Bookmark Factory

• To Do List Generator

• Blank and Outline Maps 

• Project Poster Provide students with a tool to create and post Web pages for projects.

• Web Tracks Tool

• Hall Pass Generator

• Classroom Rules Generator

• Gail Lovely Tools

• Handwriting Worksheet Maker

• Youblisher.com -  make your pdfs flippable

• Poll Everywhere

Notetaking Tools                              

• Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking
• Read, Write, Think Interactive Organizing & Summarizing
• Primary Resources:  Summarizing & Notetaking
• Make Notetaking Fun
• Research Project Calculator

• Casa Notes

• NoteStar

• Think Tank Helps student set up topics for reports. Use alone or with Notestar.

• Google Docs and Spreadsheets or any online word processor

• Cornell Notes

Portfolios
                     Return to top

• Electronic Portfolios Helen Barrett (the queen of portfolios)
• Portfolio Research
• Electronic Portfolios At-a-Glance Guides
• Electronic Portfolios-A chapter in Educational Technology; An Encyclopedia to be published by ABC-CLIO, 2001
• Using Electronic Portfolios for Classroom Assessment, Connected Newsletter, Oct 2006
• Teacher Tap Annette Lamb’s page
• Getting Started with Digital Portfolios
• Portfolio Assessment
• Portfolios In Science Education  
• Software  
  • Open Source Portfolio  
  • Aurbach & Associates  
  • Pupil Pages

PDF Creation  for Free                                Return to top

• Primo PDF (download)
• Cute PDF  (download)
• PDF Online - online conversion program that emails you your file

Rubrics                                                                                       Return to top

• Digital Media Scoring Guides
• Kathy Schrock's Rubric Page
• Make Life Easier with Rubrics 
• Midlink Magazine's Rubrics
• Online Teacher Rubric Resource
• Research Project Rubric
• RubiStar
• Rubric Studio
• Rubric Machine -- David Warlick
• Rubrics for Web Lessons  
• Rubrician.com
• Scholastic's Rubric Maker
• S.C.O.R.E.: Rubrics
• Secondary Assessment Tools
• TeachNology's Rubric Page
• iRubric
• Rubrics 4 Teachers

Test Generators                                       Return to top

• Discovery School Quiz Center
• Easy Test Maker
• Hot Potatoes quiz generator program that must be downloaded to your computer to create activities.  
• Quia
• Quiz Star

• Quiz Hub  

• Quiz Station

• Quizlet 

• Education By Design Launches Learning Impulse The free Web-based services allows teachers to create interactive educational games, tests, and quizzes.
• Online Jeopardy Game -- this is NOT Powerpoint but very cool.  It is blocked by the proxy.

Timelines                                                  Return to top

• Interactive Timeline Tool

• Our Timelines
• Timeline Generator scroll midway down page to start
• XTimeline

  Worksheets, Puzzles and other printables  Return to top

• ABC Teach  

• edHelper.com (must register to print)

• EducatorTemplates.com

• Education World Tools & Templates

• KB Teachers

• Lesson Corner Puzzles

• Math

  • Algebra Worksheet Generator

  • Aplusmath.Com Worksheets

  • Math Worksheet Creator

  • Math Worksheet Site 

  • Printable Primary Math Worksheets

• Online graph paper

• Personal Educational Press  

• Phonics Posters from Adrian Bruce

• Problem Based Learning Checklists

• Puzzlemaker

• RHL School Worksheets  

• Scholastic Teacher Tools

• SchoolExpress - 2500 free worksheets

• Teach-nology Worksheets

• The Learning Page

• The Puzzle Center

• Tutor4Kids

• Web Worksheet Wizard

• Worksheets To Go Discovery School