Lesson planning tools for teachers
Assessment/ Evaluation
• Form Spring
Website: http://www.formspring.me/
Create quick and fun survey questions that connect to social media like your libraries Facebook or Twitter account. Also works with a variety of Blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr.
• GetFast
Website: https://www.toofast.ca/
This site is free for anyone to create an online assessment questionnaire. Multiple question formats can be created and the site allows for an unlimited number of surveys to be completed.
• My Survey Lab
Website: http://www.mysurveylab.com/
An online survey tool that allows for up to 100 surveys be sent for free. Includes analysis and reports.
• Obsurvey
Website: http://obsurvey.com/
For more complex assessment creations including mandatory questions and branching questions. Can be imbedded in your website
• Poll Daddy
Website: http://www.polldaddy.com/
An online survey tool that allows for up to 200 surveys be sent for free per month,limited to 10 questions per survey. Includes basic analysis and reports.
• Poll Everywhere
Website: http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Create a free poll with 30 response limit. Can be imbedded in your website.
• Survey Methods
Website: http://www.surveymethods.com/registration.aspx
Free professional accounts for non-profits. You must apply first via their webpage at: http://www.surveymethods.com/academic-pricing.aspx
• Survey Monkey
Website: http://www.surveymonkey.com/
This site offers a great free account that includes 10 questions per survey
Limited to 100 responses per survey. They offer free templates and real time results. The survey can be linked from your website or twitter, or sent out via your email list.
• Survs
Website: http://www.survs.com/
•What2Learn
Website: http://www.what2learn.com/
Students and teachers can make flash based games and assessments.
UEN Source: http://blogs.uen.org/strategies/?p=690
Idea: Students make their own assessments and get to play them as games!
• Zoho
Website: https://challenge.zoho.com/login.do
Though mostly set up for creating school quizzes, this website might be fun to us for fun challenge games.
• Zoho Polls
Website: http://www.zohopolls.com/
A free website for poll creation. The poll can be added to your blog or website.
• Zoomerang
Website: http://www.zoomerang.com/
Create unlimited surveys and polls from 6 basic templates with a limit of 12 questions and 100 responders. Send out via email, facebook, twitter or your website.
Infographics
Using this is a fantastic way to teach, here is an example..
Infographic on Teaching and the Students brain
Website: http://chrislema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/StickyTeachingPoster.pdf
• Daily Infographic
Website: http://dailyinfographic.com/
• Graphic A Day
Website: http://davidwarlick.com/graphicaday/
Infographic Creators
• Easelly
Website: http://www.easel.ly/
• Piktochart
Website: http://piktochart.com/
Infographics –Lesson Planning
• How-to sites
Website: http://www.schrockguide.net/infographics-as-an-assessment.html
Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/data-visualized-more-on-teaching-with-infographics/
Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/teaching-with-infographics-a-student-project-model/?pagewanted=print
Website: http://spyrestudios.com/the-anatomy-of-an-infographic-5-steps-to-create-a-powerful-visual/
Lesson Planning
• HP Teachers Experience Exchange
Website: http://h30411.www3.hp.com/projects/home
• Ethemes
Website: http://ethemes.missouri.edu/grades?locale=en
• Have Fun Teaching
Website: http://havefunteaching.com/
Tons of great free downloaded worksheets.
• Teachersprintables
Website: http://www.teachersprintables.net/
A ton of free downloadable forms and handouts such as a daily lesson template and blank rubric.
• Read, Write Think
Website: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/
Multi-Topic Site, with interactives.• Sponge Activities
Website: http://www.everydayteaching.com/helpers/sponge.html
Misc
• Bingo Card Maker
Website: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/5/• Cliché Finder
Website: http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
• Free Music –don’t need to register to download free music
Website: http://freemusicarchive.org/
• Movie Clips
Website: http://movieclips.com/
Lots of little movie clips from top movies. Use for teaching film, or to illustrate a point.• Ms Pancake -Crafts for Holidays and More
Website: http://mrspancake.com/index.php/doodads/show_one_category/category/make_and_do/
• Calender Printables
Website: http://printable-calendar.co/
• Various Free Worksheets -that rock!
Website: http://learningcurveplanner.com.au/thinking-tools.html
• Immune Attack -The game is designed to teach immunology. Free but must be downloaded.
Website: http://www.fas.org/immuneattack/
Online Classrooms
• Edmodo
Website: http://www.edmodo.com/home/
Everything to create an online classroom –from chat, to assignments, to file uploading and downloading.
• Thinkquest
Website: http://www.thinkquest.org/en/
Rubric Maker
• Rubric Templates/creators
Website: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
StoryBoarding
• Storyboard that
Website: http://www.storyboardthat.com/StoryboardCreator
This easy to use storyboard creator allows students to easily plan for movie making and other fun projects. Really it could be used as a bland basic comic book creator too!
Text to speech
These are great tools for working with special education students, ESL students, and even for in-class learning stations -so that your instructions can be both written and verbal.
• Expressivo
Website: http://say.expressivo.com/
200 Word Limit. The voices are wonderful and do a great job.
• Talkr
Website: http://www.talkr.com/
Convert your blog to a podcast
• The Speech Recognizer
Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aomjekmpappghadlogpigifkghlmebjk?hl=en-GB
Available through the Chrome Web Store is free and easy to use.
• Vozme
Website: http://vozme.com/
This is a text-to-speech website. Instantly convert text to a downloadable MP3.
• Form Spring
Website: http://www.formspring.me/
Create quick and fun survey questions that connect to social media like your libraries Facebook or Twitter account. Also works with a variety of Blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr.
• GetFast
Website: https://www.toofast.ca/
This site is free for anyone to create an online assessment questionnaire. Multiple question formats can be created and the site allows for an unlimited number of surveys to be completed.
• My Survey Lab
Website: http://www.mysurveylab.com/
An online survey tool that allows for up to 100 surveys be sent for free. Includes analysis and reports.
• Obsurvey
Website: http://obsurvey.com/
For more complex assessment creations including mandatory questions and branching questions. Can be imbedded in your website
• Poll Daddy
Website: http://www.polldaddy.com/
An online survey tool that allows for up to 200 surveys be sent for free per month,limited to 10 questions per survey. Includes basic analysis and reports.
• Poll Everywhere
Website: http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Create a free poll with 30 response limit. Can be imbedded in your website.
• Survey Methods
Website: http://www.surveymethods.com/registration.aspx
Free professional accounts for non-profits. You must apply first via their webpage at: http://www.surveymethods.com/academic-pricing.aspx
• Survey Monkey
Website: http://www.surveymonkey.com/
This site offers a great free account that includes 10 questions per survey
Limited to 100 responses per survey. They offer free templates and real time results. The survey can be linked from your website or twitter, or sent out via your email list.
• Survs
Website: http://www.survs.com/
•What2Learn
Website: http://www.what2learn.com/
Students and teachers can make flash based games and assessments.
UEN Source: http://blogs.uen.org/strategies/?p=690
Idea: Students make their own assessments and get to play them as games!
• Zoho
Website: https://challenge.zoho.com/login.do
Though mostly set up for creating school quizzes, this website might be fun to us for fun challenge games.
• Zoho Polls
Website: http://www.zohopolls.com/
A free website for poll creation. The poll can be added to your blog or website.
• Zoomerang
Website: http://www.zoomerang.com/
Create unlimited surveys and polls from 6 basic templates with a limit of 12 questions and 100 responders. Send out via email, facebook, twitter or your website.
Infographics
Using this is a fantastic way to teach, here is an example..
Infographic on Teaching and the Students brain
Website: http://chrislema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/StickyTeachingPoster.pdf
• Daily Infographic
Website: http://dailyinfographic.com/
• Graphic A Day
Website: http://davidwarlick.com/graphicaday/
Infographic Creators
• Easelly
Website: http://www.easel.ly/
• Piktochart
Website: http://piktochart.com/
Infographics –Lesson Planning
• How-to sites
Website: http://www.schrockguide.net/infographics-as-an-assessment.html
Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/data-visualized-more-on-teaching-with-infographics/
Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/teaching-with-infographics-a-student-project-model/?pagewanted=print
Website: http://spyrestudios.com/the-anatomy-of-an-infographic-5-steps-to-create-a-powerful-visual/
Lesson Planning
• HP Teachers Experience Exchange
Website: http://h30411.www3.hp.com/projects/home
• Ethemes
Website: http://ethemes.missouri.edu/grades?locale=en
• Have Fun Teaching
Website: http://havefunteaching.com/
Tons of great free downloaded worksheets.
• Teachersprintables
Website: http://www.teachersprintables.net/
A ton of free downloadable forms and handouts such as a daily lesson template and blank rubric.
• Read, Write Think
Website: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/
Multi-Topic Site, with interactives.• Sponge Activities
Website: http://www.everydayteaching.com/helpers/sponge.html
Misc
• Bingo Card Maker
Website: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/5/• Cliché Finder
Website: http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
• Free Music –don’t need to register to download free music
Website: http://freemusicarchive.org/
• Movie Clips
Website: http://movieclips.com/
Lots of little movie clips from top movies. Use for teaching film, or to illustrate a point.• Ms Pancake -Crafts for Holidays and More
Website: http://mrspancake.com/index.php/doodads/show_one_category/category/make_and_do/
• Calender Printables
Website: http://printable-calendar.co/
• Various Free Worksheets -that rock!
Website: http://learningcurveplanner.com.au/thinking-tools.html
• Immune Attack -The game is designed to teach immunology. Free but must be downloaded.
Website: http://www.fas.org/immuneattack/
Online Classrooms
• Edmodo
Website: http://www.edmodo.com/home/
Everything to create an online classroom –from chat, to assignments, to file uploading and downloading.
• Thinkquest
Website: http://www.thinkquest.org/en/
Rubric Maker
• Rubric Templates/creators
Website: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
StoryBoarding
• Storyboard that
Website: http://www.storyboardthat.com/StoryboardCreator
This easy to use storyboard creator allows students to easily plan for movie making and other fun projects. Really it could be used as a bland basic comic book creator too!
Text to speech
These are great tools for working with special education students, ESL students, and even for in-class learning stations -so that your instructions can be both written and verbal.
• Expressivo
Website: http://say.expressivo.com/
200 Word Limit. The voices are wonderful and do a great job.
• Talkr
Website: http://www.talkr.com/
Convert your blog to a podcast
• The Speech Recognizer
Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aomjekmpappghadlogpigifkghlmebjk?hl=en-GB
Available through the Chrome Web Store is free and easy to use.
• Vozme
Website: http://vozme.com/
This is a text-to-speech website. Instantly convert text to a downloadable MP3.
