Instructional Technology - Teacher Information

Books/Literacy

Author Pronounciation Guide - http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi audio of many authors pronouncing their own names

Bookseer - http://bookseer.com/ generates book recommendations based on your last book read if you enter the title and author

Your Next Read - http://www.yournextread.com/us/ generates book recommendation, shows book covers

Book Browse - http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm assists with searching for book ideas

Thought Audio - http://www.thoughtaudio.com/ classic titles of audio books bu chapter

Books Should Be Free - http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ audio books of public domain titles

Story Jumper - https://www.storyjumper.com/ publish your own story (login requires bday, name, password, email)

BookCrossing - http://www.bookcrossing.com/ database with books readers have set free (left in different locations) with a label and identifying information. Readers can log on and track where a book is (if other readers have logged on with label information).

Collaboration

Padlet - http://padlet.com/ online "post-its", site used to be called wallwisher

Wise Mapping - http://www.wisemapping.com/index.html online mind mapping

Slate box - http://slatebox.com/Education visual mind mapping (beta)

Cartoon/Comics

Witty Comics - http://www.wittycomics.com/

Strip Generator - http://stripgenerator.com/ no registration required but you can create an account in order to save

Write Comics - http://writecomics.com/

Make Beliefs Comix - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ available in many languages,

Game Templates - files attached at bottom of this page

Jeopardy type - http://www.jeopardy.rocks/

Images/Pictures

Photos for Class - http://photosforclass.com/ safe, Creative Commons, automatically cited photo database

Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/ - free images

Be Funky - http://www.befunky.com/create/ photo editor

NY Public Library public domain collection - http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

News/Current Events

Newsela - https://newsela.com/ - updated daily, articles given on 5 reading levels, content areas include Science, Money, Law, Art, & Health

Scholastic News for your Classroom - http://magazines.scholastic.com/

Teaching Kids News - http://teachingkidsnews.com/

Youngzine - http://www.youngzine.org/

CNN Student News - 

BBC Day in Pictures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15791213

Quizzes

Zoho Survey - https://www.zoho.com/survey/ - has 21 response formats

Quizdini - http://www.quizdini.com/ you can create explanations to missed questions with text or links

Image Quiz (beta) http://www.imagequiz.co.uk/ questions are associated with any image such as a map

Socrative - http://socrative.com/ acts like classroom "clickers", compatible with i-products, android and most computers

Immediate feedback without "clickers" - https://www.plickers.com/ app that allows teacher to get immediate feedback from students, give students a QR code on a piece of paper, they hold up response that has a different answer depending on direction of QR code and the teachers phone/app reads responses.

GoSoapBox - http://www.gosoapbox.com/ instant feedback with phones, tablets, laptops, etc. Has a "confusion meter" with responses "I get it or no, I don't get it. Students can submit questions.

Other

Rewordify - http://rewordify.com/index.php - website simplifies English texts, copy & paste reading passages, difficult or confusing words are highlighted and replaced to aid with reading comprehension.

Booktrack - http://info.booktrackclassroom.com/ add background music to your writing/reading

ABCYa.com - http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm creates a word cloud

Tagul - http://tagul.com/ word cloud generator that allows hyperlinking words to sites

Tagxedo - http://www.tagxedo.com/ word cloud generator with ability to shape the cloud

Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ word cloud generator with custom color, shape and fonts

WordTalk - http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/ test-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word

Mapwing - http://www.mapwing.com/ create a virtual tour using your pictures and allows pinpoints for information (map locations, parts of a paper, parts in a book, etc.) requires email

Text Messages - http://www.classtools.net/SMS/ - create text messages between historical figures, etc. No sign in required, allows you to save the screen shot of messages.

Trading Card Generator - http://bighugelabs.com/deck.php

Presentations

Prezi - http://prezi.com/ saves in cloud, ipad compatible, zooms in/out, can import images/videos

QuikSlides - http://www.classtools.net/qwikslides/ easy, slide presentation that will adjust size according to amount of text placed on slide. Limited editing ability with background

Haiku Deck - http://www.haikudeck.com/ ipad or web, simplified presentations, philosophy of telling story with fewer words and more pictures

Infographics - http://www.easel.ly/ templates or blank canvas to create infographics, can save as a pdf or jpg, requires login

Clarisketch - http://clarisketch.com/ - take a picture, record your narration, and draw on picture to explain

Primary Sources - Sites for finding primary sources

Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome

Civil Rights Digital Library - http://crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome

Georgia Historical Society - http://georgiahistory.com/

Georgia Historical Image Catalog - http://georgiahistory.pastperfect-online.com/37659cgi/mweb.exe?request=ks

Georgia's Virtual Vault -

University of Georgia Libraries/Primary Sources Search Guide - http://libs.uga.edu/researchguide/choosing/primary/index.html

Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript - http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/index.shtml

Walter J. Brown Media Archives - http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/

Emory University Archives & Rare Book Library - https://marbl.library.emory.edu/

Atlanta History Center - http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com (requires teacher login)

Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/

Teacher's Page - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/

American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Maps - http://www.loc.gov/maps

Prints & Photographs - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Veteran's History - http://www.loc.gov/vets/

Historic Newspaper Archive - http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/

Teacher's Page - http://www.archives.gov/education/

DocsTeach - http://docsteach.org/

Digital Vaults - http://digitalvaults.org/

ARC - http://www.archives.gov/research/search/

Smithsonian - http://collections.si.edu/search/

National Parks - http://nps.gov/index.htm

World Digital Library - http://www.wdl.org/en/

Poetry - Archive of Recorded Poetry - http://www.loc.gov/collections/archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature/about-this-collection/

NY Public Library digital collection - http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

Research

Diigo - https://www.diigo.com/ highlights, sticky notes, collaborate and share

Scrible (beta) - http://www.scrible.com/ multi-color highlighting, annotating and bookmark websites

Search Engines

Sweet Search - http://www.sweetsearch.com/ school safe search engine, all sites reviewed by librarians, educators, etc.

DK Find Out! - http://www.dkfindout.com/us/ free online encyclopedia in beta

Choosito! - https://www.choosito.com/ search engine with reading levels (early, emerging, fluent, & advanced). Additional features for a fee.

Timelines

Time Toast - http://www.timetoast.com/ does require sign up with email & password, free account will have ads

Timeglider - https://timeglider.com/ signup students are limited to 3 timelines in the free option

myHistro - http://www.myhistro.com/personal-business-education/#education also allows you to geolocate with Google maps, there is an app available, does require a sign in

Writing

Hemingway App - http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ color codes (highlights) writing to help with common errors

BoomWriter - http://www.boomwriter.com/ allows you to assign group/individual writing assignments & give feedback