RESOURCES
📚Subjects📚
Looking to spice up your lessons by adding some more Educational Technology in the classroom? Enjoy these free teaching resources. Feel free to share this link with teacher-friends or anyone else who might be able to make use of these links.
🏫General Education
BrainPOP
BrainPOP was founded in 1999 by Dr. Avraham Kadar as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients. Today, they are a trusted learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects, reaching millions of learners worldwide. They develop learning tools and help kids create, construct, and collaborate as they explore their world.
BrainPOP Jr.
Much like BrainPOP but aimed at a younger audience specifically children from K-3
TED-Ed
TED believes passionately that ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. This underlying philosophy is the driving force behind all of TED’s endeavors, including the TED Conferences, TEDx, TED Books, the TED Fellows Program, and the TED Open Translation Project.
EVERFI
EverFi offers scalable learning solutions with the goal of empowering organizations everywhere to instill knowledge around critical topics in the classroom, in the office and in the community. With EverFi, they’re connecting education to the real world and opening new doors of opportunity for all.
FunBrain
Created for kids in grades Pre-K through 8, Funbrain.com has been the leader in free educational games for kids since 1997. Funbrain offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving and literacy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.
lumosity
Lumosity believes in helping people keep their brains challenged. Their simple online tool allows anyone to train core cognitive abilities. From neuroscience to visual art, they combine many diverse disciplines to create their engaging brain training program — making cognitive research available to everyone.
PBS KIDS
PBS Kids offers interactive and education games based on the network's popular TV show characters
💻Computer Science
Code.org
Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups.
Codecademy
Codecademy is an education company. But not one in the way you might think. They're committed to building the best learning experience inside and out, making Codecademy the best place to learn, teach, and create code online.
CodeCombat
CodeCombat is a platform to learn how to code while you're playing a RPG style game. It is a community project, with hundreds of players volunteering to create levels, contributing to the overall codebase to add features, fix bugs, playtest, and even translate the game into 50 languages so far.
CodeMonkey
CodeMonkey envisions a playful learning experience where the next generations of coders are born and raised. They aim to create an engaging platform where programming knowledge is acquired alongside 21st century skills through collaboratively playing and solving puzzles, inventing, creating and sharing.
Minecraft Education
A game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment. Educators in more than 115 countries are using Minecraft: Education Edition across the curriculum!
sphero
Sphero makes programmable robots and STEAM-based educational tools that transform the way kids learn, create, and invent through coding, science, music, and the arts. The Sphero ecosystem of tools and content gives kids, teachers, and parents of all learning and coding abilities a blank canvas to solve challenges at home, in school, and beyond.
Typing.com
At typing.com, they teach people how to type using the computer keyboard, digital literacy, and coding
🗣Languages
Babbel
Founded in 2007, Babbel was the world’s first language learning app. A leader in the online language learning industry, Babbel is an international success with millions of active subscribers and ranked as the world’s #1 innovative company in education.
Busuu
Busuu is the world’s largest community for language learning, providing courses in 12 different languages on web and mobile to more than 100 million learners worldwide.
Duolingo
Duolingo is an American language-learning website and mobile app, as well as a digital language-proficiency assessment exam.
LatinoLiteracy
The Latino Family Literacy Project™ provides proven, cost-effective parent involvement programs and training for teachers to provide meaningful programs for English Learners.
LearnaLanguage
LearnaLanguage’s goal is to help people bridge communication gaps and to give back to the world in which we live.
Mango Languages
Mango adapts to your unique learning style, so you pick up on new vocabulary, intuit unfamiliar grammatical structure, and train your pronunciation, all while boosting your cultural IQ.
Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
Surface Languages
Surfacelanguages contains words, phrases and expressions in many different languages along with audio, flashcards and some language learning games.
🎶Music
drumbit
drumbit.app is a web based drum machine, made with HTML5 and it is compatible with all modern browsers. It aims to be a very easy to use drum machine, offering means to put together a drum beat very quickly and in a very intuitive way.
Incredibox
Incredibox is a music app for creating your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers. Part game, part tool, Incredibox is above all an audio and visual experience that introduces kids and adults to notions of rhythm and melody - in double-quick time!
Kingsley Recorders
Kingsley Recorders have a soft, gentle tone quality and play easily in both registers. Kingsleys are manufactured of durable ABS plastic which enables us to provide a guarantee against breakage during normal use.
Slope Music
Old Fashioned 1-on-1 in-person Music Lessons for beginners to advanced, children to adults.
You DJ
All started in 2007, when there was a dream of building the most fun and easy DJ software ever... so easy that your mother can mix! The creator had a huge passion for electronic music and internet technologies, so in his free time he started to program YouDJ.
🤗Self Improvement🤗
🧠BrainBreaks & Health
Sandford Fit
Sandford Fit is a health activation program from Sanford Health, developed to empower children and parents to make healthy lifestyle choices that help prevent childhood obesity.
GoNoodle
GoNoodle helps teachers and parents get kids moving with short interactive activities. Desk-side movement helps kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day.
MoveToLearn
MoveToLearn is a free, easy to use tool for educators to incorporate movement and fitness into the school day. The MoveToLearn website offers short exercise videos for grades K-6 and healthy lesson plans to help teachers create positive learning environments and promote effective classroom management.
💡Studying/Learning
Elevate
Elevate Labs is on a mission to improve people's minds. Since 2014, they’ve helped over 40 million people improve their communication and math skills with Elevate.
Lumosity
Lumosity believes in helping people keep their brains challenged. Their simple online tool allows anyone to train core cognitive abilities. From neuroscience to visual art, they combine many diverse disciplines to create their engaging brain training program — making cognitive research available to everyone.
Quizlet
Quizlet is an American online study application that allows students to study various topics via learning tools and games.
🛠️Digital Tools🛠️
👨🏫Class Management Systems
ClassDojo
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.
Edmodo
Edmodo allows your whole community to learn together from anywhere with all-in-one LMS, communication, collaboration, and Zoom video conferencing tools.
Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.
Jupiter Ed
Jupiter Ed were the first to develop an all-in-one Learning Platform and Student Information System, which they built from the ground up as a web-hosted service back when most competitors were retrofitting their old standalone software.
📹Group Video for Remote Learning
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a business communication platform developed by Microsoft. Teams offers workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration.
Skype
Skype is for connecting with the people that matter most in your life and work. It's built for both one-on-one and group conversations and works wherever you are – via mobile, PC, Xbox and Alexa.
Zoom
Zoom is a online video conferencing platform that can be used for group meetings and/or classroom lectures.
📽️Presentation
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms!
Padlet
Padlet is a free online tool that is best described as an online notice board. Padlet can be used by students and teachers to post notes on a common page. The notes posted by teachers and students can contain links, videos, images and document files.
Powtoon
Powtoon is the world’s leading, most user-friendly, and most intuitive animation software. With Powtoon, anyone can create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel.
Prezi
Prezi is an online tool that is used to make slideshow presentations better. They achieve that by making them more interactive and have creative transitions.
🖥️Screen Capture & Video Recording
Apowersoft
Apowersoft develops and provides both desktop software and online apps for video, audio recording, converting, and editing, as well as tools to create demo video, training courses, and online screencast.
OBS
Live broadcasting software that is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is primarily used by live streamers and it can also be used for screen recording.
Screencastify
Screen recording software that is available on the Google Chrome Browser. Capture what you need and share it easily.
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic develops and provides both desktop software and online apps for video, audio recording, converting, and editing, as well as tools to create demo video, training courses, and online screencast.
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow from Telestream, Inc. is a screencasting and video editing software for the macOS operating system. It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation, and output a number of different file types such as AIFF, GIF, M4V, MOV, and MP4.
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