One of the great benefits of the internet is the availability of online applications that have the potential to make life so much easier for the teacher. Apart from the obvious learning resources that we focus on at Scoilnet we recently came across some tools that could help with your class work. Please note these tools were all commerical-free when orginally cited.
Befuddlr (Added July 15)Choose a picture to 'befuddlr' - pieces of the picture are moved around and you have to recreate the image. Pulls images from Flickr groups that have a creative commons licence. Easy-to-use.
Bubbl.us (Added April 20)Brainstorming tool that allows you to save as jpg or html page.
Cloze Test Maker - Oxford University Press
(Added April 20)Using American English or your own text this cloze test maker is easy to use and is perfect for offline activities.
Classtools.netAllows you to create free games and activities in Flash which inlcude timelines, graphs, countdown calculators and venn diagrams.
Create a Graph - NCES
(Added April 20)
Choose from Bar, Pie, Line, Area, or XY graphs. Includes tutorial and examples.
Fuel
the Brain.com (Added April 20)Customise
and print your own venn diagrams, line plots, bar graphs and so on.
Magicstudio (Added April 20)Create interactive timelines, drag and drop activities and image explorers. See
Scoilnet exmples of its use.
MathsWorksheets World (Added April 20)US site that allows you to create and share Maths worksheets. Covers many areas from addition to word problems.
Scratch (Added April 20)A programming language that allows you to produce interactive
stories, animations, games, music, and art. You can also share your creations
on the web.
The
Scratch lesson plans page will give you ideas for using in classroom.
SEN Teacher
Free printables covering aspects of English and Maths. High quality
prints. Aimed at Primary. Requires Flash.
Scholastic Rubric Maker - (All levels)
Free online tool that allows the teacher to grade pupils 1-5 for work on a specific project. (5: Proficient, 4: Capable, 3: Satisfactory, 2: Emerging, and 1: Beginning). Can be used for any subject.
Spellingcity.comFree tool which allows teachers and parents to create and access spelling lists. Students can then be tested on the list or play the list, which presents the audio and sentences relating to each word. Registration is required to access additional services. US spelling only.
Tagxedo.com (Added April 20)Another tag cloud generating site. This one has allows you to pick various tag cloud styles.
Graphic Organizer - (All levels)
Free and very simple to use. Enables the user to print basic organizers, like Pros & Cons; timelines; Venn diagrams, from the web. The free version will not save your work though there is a fee version which does provide various bells and whistles.
Graph Creator (All levels)
Easy to use online graph generator. Includes area graphs, bar graphs, pie charts and line graphs. These can be generated for printing only and don't seem to have any saving capabilities for online use.
Imagination Cubed (Added April 20)Draw shapes and pictures online. Invite friends to draw collaboratively or share drawings.
Quizlet.com (Added April 20)Create and share Flashcards or study vocabularly.
Wordsearch Maker - (All levels)
Free and simple to use. This tool allows for a variety of options for the placement of the words or even the shape of the grid puzzle. Great to reinforce concepts and spelling of course.
Wordle (Added April 20)Create tag clouds from the text and words you provide. Commonly used to for brainstorming and words associations related to themes. Note: May require supervised student use as access to and creation of tag clouds based on inappropriate words is possible.
XTimeline.comFree web-based timeline which allows you to easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos. Contains some advertising.