Handout for a Free Technology presentation 2014 to be given in Oct at the BSB

1. Free Technology for teachers presentation October 2014
Sharing & Organisation tools
1. Feedly – A news reading tool www.feedly.com
2. Diigo – Helps you to store, manage & share online information. www.diigo.com
3. Google plus - A social networking platform for discovering and sharing digital
content. You could set up your own groups. https://plus.google.com
4. Scoop it - Collect and curate content based around themes, in an interactive
magazine like format. http://www.scoop.it
5. Twitter – Free CPD – share excellent sites, useful technology or use in the classroom
with your students www.twitter.com
6. Trello – Create a Trello board and add sticky notes to lists ( ideas, to do, doing, done)
You can add images to notes and also add members to your board. Could be good for a
student group project & the teacher can monitor their progress. https://trello.com
Free Video Tools
1. Stupeflix - Make vidéos with ease with Stupeflix https://studio.stupeflix.com/
2. Wevideo – Create & collaborate easily with wevideo
https://www.wevideo.com
3. Wideo – Make & share vidéos online. Good if you like to animate cartoons.
http://wideo.co
4. Savefromthenet - down load videos to keep from popular sites
http://en.savefrom.net
5. ssyoutubedownloader A fast youtube downloader
http://ssyoutubedownloader.codeplex.com
6. Screen cast o matic Create free screencasts online http://www.screencast-o-matic.
com
Audio Tools
1. Vocaroo – Possibly the easiest and most simple audio recording tool on the web.
No account needed but only web based. http://vocaroo.com
2. Soundcloud An audio platform that enables sound creators to upload, record,
promote and share their originally-created sounds. Webased, iOS & android.
https://soundcloud.com
3. Audioboo Can record as well as upload & édit recordings. https://audioboo.fm
Research & Search Engines
1. Quintura – Visual and intuative search engine for kids
http://quinturakids.com
2. Kidrex Fun and safe search engine for kids http://www.kidrex.org
3. Google Scholar provides a simple way for older students to broadly search for
scholarly literature. http://scholar.google.be

2. Tools to help students understand the meaning of words
1. Shahi – This is a visual dictionary which coudl be helpful to EAL students
http://blachan.com/shahi/
2. Lexipdeia online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus
reference http://lexipedia.com
3. Diffen Compare anything to find similarities or différences
http://www.diffen.com
4. WordWriter – Set your students assignments through this tool. Provide
the students with a word list and then off they go and write. You can
provide feedback and check their understanding of the words.
http://www.boomwriter.com/wordwriter
Presentation Tools
1. Thinglink - This tool helps you to create interactive images / tell the story
the image. You cana dd text, images, videos & sound annotations to your
image(works with audioboo). Now Thinglink allows you to do the same thing
to a vidéo. https://www.thinglink.com
2. Padlet – Create a wall, where you can post opinion, hyperlinks, videos, &
images, as well as collaborate. http://padlet.com
3. Popplet, Coggle and bubblr.us These are all mindmapping tools.
http://popplet.com https://coggle.it https://bubbl.us
4. Prezi - Cloud based présentation tool, which is like PowerPoint on steroids.
www.prezi.com
5. Haiku Deck Very stylish présentation software, which limits the amount of
text allowed on each slide. https://www.haikudeck.com
6. Emaze Another cool présentation tool & the most similar to ppt, so very easy
to use. You can collaborate, it has funky templates & it has a trasnlation tool,
so the whole world can access you présentation. www.emaze.com
7. Flipboard - Create a slick digital magazine. Only downside is you need to
create the magazine on the app first and then you can access online.
https://flipboard.com
8. Lucid Press Create digital magazines or reports easily, with this drag and
drop publishing app. Students can collaborate. https://www.lucidpress.com
9. Wix My students love to use this site to create stunning websites with ease.
http://www.wix.com
10. Poster My Wall My students preferred site for making posters.
http://www.postermywall.com
11. Canva Amazing graphic design tool. Make posters, flyers, headers for
facebook, presentational slides…. https://www.canva.com
12. Timeline Using this tool children plan a story or prepare for a special event,
or review stories from the past. Can add images to the descriptions. Saving
capability allows them to come back to unfinished work.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/
timeline-30007.html
13. Map Story Create timelines with maps http://mapstory.org

3. 14. Phrase it Put speech bubbles on your photos and create your own comic
strips within minutes! Great looking results, no sign-up needed.
http://phrase.it
15. Blockposter Upload an image from your computer and choose how many
sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed.
http://www.blockposters.com
16. Recite Copy a quote into the box and the tool will turn it into a masterpiece
http://recitethis.com
Cool Interactive Tools to use in the Classroom
1. Socrative Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators
can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls…
www.socrative.com
2. Titanpad Students can work on one document simultaneously
https://titanpad.com
3. Classtools The amazing site by Russel Tarr where you can create free games,
quizzes, activities, and diagrams in seconds. I love the fruit machine picker and
the new class timers. http://www.classtools.net
4. Blabberize Create an image which speaks, could make a gréât crazy starter to a
lesson. http://blabberize.com
5. Content Generator Create your own educational flash games such as walk the
plank, penalty soot out, hoopshoot.. Check out the free stuff link.
http://www.contentgenerator.net
6. eQuizShow You can build & display simple plenary quizzes totally online.
http://equizshow.com
7. Jeopardy Rocks You can build simple plenary quizzes by just clicking on ‘build
now’ and then choosing a URL for your quiz. http://www.jeopardy.rocks
8. Flipquiz Another site where teachers can make simple plenary style quizzes. The
premium site allows you to use images & movies. http://flipquiz.me
Mapping Tools
1. Odessey An open source map creation tool from CartoDB. Through Odyssey.js you
can create mapped stories in three formats; slide, scroll, and torque. In all three formats
viewers will see a location on a map along with the text and pictures of your story.
http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/
2. Mapmaker From the National Geographic this map tool offers themes on which users
can create custom map displays. Within each theme there are subcategories to choose
from. It also provides drawing tool and marker icons that you can place on your map.
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/?ar_a=1&ls=000000000000
3. Animaps The basics of creating maps is very similar the process for creating maps in
Google Maps. The main benefit of using Animaps over Google Maps is that you can create
a tour of your placemarks that plays through according to the timing that you specify.
Another benefit is that you can build in colored shapes to expand and contract to
demonstrate patterns. http://www.animaps.com/#!home
4. Scribblemaps Easiest way to create personalised maps in Googlemaps
www.scribblemaps.com

4. 5. Google Maps Engine Lite allows you to go beyond manually adding placemarks to
your Google Maps by uploading a spreadsheet of locations that will be displayed on your
map. You can import up to three spreadsheets per map. You can also draw custom lines
and shapes on your maps. https://mapsengine.google.com/map/