5 Edtech Resources for Students

This year I have put together a list for my students of five sites that they might find helpful in their classes. These sites are ones that over the past few years my students have routinely used. I do not necessarily think that they are all great but there is something about them that students seem to like and have proven to be helpful in their studies.

Search Engines

InstaGrok: This is a great search engine that shows how facts and concepts are related. This is a great visual tool to teach kids about how searches are conducted on the web.

Fact Monster: This site allows students to find information quickly and keeps them on one site so that they do not get lost in a variety of links looking for information.

Images

Pics4Learning: Great website for students to use to find images for projects and other assignments. Teachers can use and feel safe that all images found on this website are appropriate for school.

Writing Tools

Wordsmyth: is and easy to use dictionary that provides definition pronunciation and alternative words for students to use.

Bibme: Is a great free citation and bibliography maker. It is simple easy to use and auto

Image via CrunchBase

fills in a lot of details for the students.

 

Related articles

• The Must-Have EdTech Cheat Sheet
• Infographic: Student Access to Digital Learning Devices – Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff – blended learning, DigLN, edreform, EdTech, SmartSeries
• Hundreds of Great Ideas and Just One Classroom!

5 Teacher Resource Edtech Tools

With the overwhelming amount edtechtools that can be found on the web, this is the first post in a series to highlight some that I

Classroom (Photo credit: James F Clay)

have found useful in the classroom and are FREE!!

The focus of this post are some TEACHER Tools that I have found useful to use with my students.

1. Dropbox:  This storage site has proved to be an extremely useful to store and access my files anywhere on any computer. Also the addon of DropitTo.me has been useful for my student to turn in their work. This is a must look at for all teachers!
2. Classroom Timers:
    Classroom timers have become a staple in my class and are an excellent way to keep students on task. This website provides a list of different types of timers and all are free to use. online-stopwatch.com
3. Duplichecker: This is a great plagiarism checker and will also check attached files. This is a free site and a great resource. I also have a list here of other plagiarism checkers.
4. Testmoz: As they state on their website, ” Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports.” Have used this many times and found it to be very useful.
5. QuizSnack: Is an easy way to create polls and surveys and post them to a variety of different websites.

Automatically Grade Your Google Documents

I ran across Flubaroo about two moths ago. Since then I have been meaning to give it a try and finally did. This is a great little tool for grading tests or assignments in Google docs. It is very simple to use and does an excellent job in providing feedback on your assignment or test results. The fact that it is a free application makes it even better. Watch the short video below on this application and check it out at Flubaroo  http://www.flubaroo.com/flubaroo-user-guide

Related articles

• 5 Google Docs Secrets (5min.com)
• Google Docs: Creating an Account (brighthub.com)
• Google Docs (halliebeattie.wordpress.com)