Web Tools for Students / Teachers
Blogging
Kidblog
is built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most out of the writing process. Their mission is to empower teachers to embrace the benefits of the coming digital revolution in education; as students become creators.
Edublogs
lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts – it’s safe, easy and secure.
WordPress
A blog can serve as a vibrant extension of your classroom that allows students to discuss ideas from class, share resources with one another, and draw in outsideparticipants.
Creative Writing
Smore
is a service for quickly creating great-looking flyers
Applications for Education
Smore could be a great way for extracurricular clubs, teams, to build simple announcement pages.
Storyboard That
The World’s Best Online Storyboard Creator. (iPad friendly).
1. Simple & Fun Interface
2. Detailed Image Library
3. Focus is on The Story
Canva
makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations, Cards, Photo Collages, Business Cards and more…
Creaza
develops students’ 21st Century Skills. Improves learning: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Communication
Pixton
gives the students a creative option for retelling, reflecting on, and responding to stories you may read. Students may practice written dialogue
Lucidpress
is a web-based drag and drop publishing app, enabling anyone to create stunning content for print and digital.
Story Builder
allows you to create mini-movies or video stories with the feel of Google Docs. You can also personalize the videos you create using the characters, story, and even music of your choosing and when you finish you can share your final product with others.
Popplet
is a tool for the iPad and web to capture and organize your ideas.
Storybirds
are short, art-inspired storiesyou can make and share on any device.
Zoo burst
is a digital storytellingtool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Story jumper
is a magical tools make it EASY to bringyour story to life! Share your realistic book with friends or the world.
Interactive Presentation
Haiku Deck
“Haiku Deck allows you to create a quick and easyslide deck online (or via an iPad app). The goal is to make the presentation engaging, not an informational overload, and Haiku Deck has the goods to make it happen.”
Emaze
Emaze is the next generation of online presentationsoftware. Simply select any of our professionally designed free presentation templates to easily create an amazing visual experience for your audience. emaze features a proprietary state of the art HTML5 presentation maker that will create the slideshows,video presentations and even 3D presentations that you always dreamed of.
Powtoon for Education
Teachers: Flip your classroom, inspire, engage and delight your students.
Students: Have fun presenting your assignments
Thinglink
Lets embed audio, video and rich media links directly in images and share them across the web.
VoiceThread
is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Projeqt
Your presentationsnever remain static. Grab your old dusty presentations, or create one from scratch with our user-friendly dashboard, and let your stories free. By pulling live tweets or blog feeds, inserting an interactive map, adding audio notes or simply streaming videos that you’ve found on the web – they can all live in real-time and be shared for everyone to see. Let your presentations be as dynamic as you are.
Jux
is a new (and free) way to make a website that focuses on featuring your content without the distraction of sidebars, advertising or buttons. The main thing you’ll notice about a Jux website is that each post has a high resolution background image that expands (or contracts) to fill the entire browser window.
Present.me
FLIP YOUR CLASSROOM Record a lesson on Present.me, students can watch in their own time, over and over again if they need – leaving you extra time in class for more interactive work.
SUBMITTING PROJECTS Lecturers set class projects to students using Present.me, students submit their projects back – testing key skills for their future in the workplace.
PUBLIC SPEAKING PRACTICE Students can learn a lot about themselves from watching back a presentation they’ve created. Do they talk too fast or have a nervous giggle that is distracting to the viewer? Practice, practice, practice makes perfect!
Prezi
is cloud-based, meaning you can present from your browser, desktop, iPad, or iPhone and always have the latest version of your work at your fingertips.
Picture Editor
Pizap
FUN photo editor and Collage Creator. FREE no SIGN UP required.
PicMonkey
is a great web tool for photo editing. It has everything you might need to edit your image from the basic to advanced features. PicMonkey is a good option for adding text to your image.
Befunky
allows you to crop, resize, or add a frame to your photo. It also lets you adjustthe color, brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness of your pictures and even createcollages to share with others.
Pixlr Express
is a fun and free photoeditor that lets you quickly crop, re-size, and fix any picture, remove red-eye, and whiten teeth.
Fotor
editor, you can resize your photos,crop them, adjust the lighting curve, rotate, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness, adjust the tone and colors, or just straighten a crooked shot! And That’s just in the basic edits! You can also add photo effects, photo frames, clip art, text, or use our unique color splash, mosaic, and tilt shift tools!
Photoshop Express Editor
Make your snapshots look amazing with the Adobe® Photoshop® Express Editor, which gives you easy options for quick fixes, creativeenhancements, and endless fun.
Timeline Creation
Tiki-Toki
is web-based software forcreating beautiful interactivetimelines that you can share on the internet.
Time Toast
is another great tool that allows you to create timelines and share them on the web. The process only takes a couple of minutes and is very simple to use.
Capzles
lets you create rich media experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.
Timeglider
allows you to create,collaborate, and publish zooming and panning interactivetimelines. It’s like Google Maps, but for time.
Meograph
helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. The first product combinesmaps, timeline, links, and multimediato tell stories in context of where and when.
Video Editing
Touchcast
With TouchCast, teachers can now use broadcasting tools to present informationand let the students communicate in a way in which they feel comfortable andcreative.
Magisto
is a video editing web tool that you can use to turn plain videos intobeautifully produced movies.
Animoto
is a great website. It allows users to create stunning videos using a simple process and without the need for advanced video editing knowledge. It also has app for bothAndroid and iOS.
Stupeflix
is another website you should consider when creating videos. It actually allows you to mix photos, videos and music to create awesome videos .It has a user friendlyinterface and is as simple as Animoto.
WeVideo
It basically provides different editing features and itsyncs with Google Drive as well.
Video Conferencing
Skype in the Classroom
Website Design
Weebly Education
has a very intuitive and user friendly interface that you can very easily get familiar with. Weebly has recently added some improvements to its site creator and interface editor allowing users much freedom and practicality in building websites.
Wix
Customize with Wix’ website builder, no coding skills needed. Choose a design, begin customizing and be online today.
Webs
is a freemium service that allows you to set up your classroom website in few minutes and without having to pay a dime but you can always upgrade to pro versions with more advanced features. Web’s free site builder and its simple drag-and-dropinterface makes it one of the good choices to consider when creating a website for your class.
Schoolrack
is is another great platform that allows teachers to host and create their own classroom websites. School Rack also offers students and parents free accounts to communicate with teachers. Creating a website through School Rack will allow you to :
- Share information, documents, and files
- Hold discussions online, outside of class
- Report grades online to students or their parents
- Keep in touch with private messaging