I’ve spent quite a bit of time compiling this list of digital resources for both teachers and students. Some of these are ones I’ve personally used, while others have been shared with me through various courses during my master’s program. The first 6 sections have websites/apps that can mostly be used by any content area. The last 3 sections are more specific to ELA teachers. There are several tools that do the same thing here, but what’s most important is to just find the one that you like and fits your content/standards best.
I made a Google Doc with all of these links, so feel free to add to it if you know of a website or app that others could benefit from. Click here to access the Google Doc.
1. Digital tools for CREATING things
- iPhoto (photo slideshows)
- Animoto (photo/video slideshow)
- VoiceThread
- TrackStar4Teachers (great for Web Quests)
- Audacity (record/edit audio)
- Garage Band (record/edit audio on Macs)
- Piktochart (infographics)
- Glogster (interactive digital posters)
- Emaze (alternative to Prezi or Powerpoint)
- Google Lit Trips (you can download pre-made trips or have students make a Lit Trip using Google Earth based on something you’ve read)
- Pixntell (iPhone/iPad app that allows you to create audio/photo slideshows)
- Dipity (timelines)
- PortfolioGen (create digital portfolios)
- Dropr (create digital portfolios — great interface that students will like!)
- Be Funky (photo editor/collage maker)
- Smore (make flyers/posters)
- Easelly (create info graphics and charts — great for math / data literacy)
- infogr.am (create info graphics and charts — great for math / data literacy)
2. Vocabulary + Reading Analysis/Annotations
- Wordle
- WordSift (great one for all content areas)
- WebNotes (allows you to highlight/make notes using a browser extension)
- Diigo (allows you to highlight/make notes using a browser extension + there’s an iPad/mobile app)
- Ponder (Allows you to make class lists and assign texts; have students annotate with various pre-written tags that they can add comments to)
3. Writing + Research + Organizing Information
- EverNote (Workspace for daily projects; keep everything together; Sync across all devices)
- Pixton (comic strips)
- Instagrok (mindmapping)
- Bubbl.us (mindmapping)
- Wikimindmap (mindmapping)
- Coggle (mindmapping)
- Popplet (mindmapping iPad app)
- Slatebox (mindmapping)
- Zopler (collaborative writing)
- Mixedink (collaborative writing)
- Storybird (writing / illustrating creative stories)
- ZooBurst (writing / illustrating creative stories)
- Make Beliefs Comix (comic strips)
- Google Custom Search (create custom search parameters for class research projects)
- Schrock Guide to Critical Information (evaluating web sources)
4. Collaboration, Blogs, and Wiki platforms that are safe for students
- Blogmeister
- Kidblog
- Wikispaces
- Padlet (interactive collaboration space)
- Today’s Meet (discussions from phones/computers/tablets)
- Blogger
5. Informational texts
- Time for Kids
- Nonfiction Minute
- Weekly Reader
- DOGOnews
- PBS Learning Media (great for ALL content areas)
- CNN Student News
- Tween Tribune
- YoungZine
- Wonderopolis (great for ALL content areas)
- MapStory (Interactive like a Wiki — focuses on crisis, geopolitics, science/industry, human settlement, culture/ideas, nature/environment, health, and biography)
6. Teacher tools
- Nearpod (guide students through a lesson, embed questions into slides, give students ability to self-pace, and more!)
- rubistar (create rubrics)
- Jing (record what you’re doing on your computer’s desktop)
- Screencat-O-Matic (record what you’re doing on your computer’s desktop)
- three ring (capture, store, and access artifacts from your class — like making your own portfolio)
- feedly (consolidate all of your RSS feeds, blogs, favorite websites into one place)
- newsblur (personal news reader)
- iEarn (With the project selected teachers and students enter online forum spaces to meet one another and get involved in ongoing projects with classrooms around the world who are working on the same project)
- Two Writing Teachers (blog for writing teachers)
7. Good for struggling/below grade level readers
- 10 Strategies to Enhance Students’ Memory while reading
- Access Excellence Resource Center
- Book Wink (compiles a list of books that may help get kids interested in reading)
- Newsela
- ThinkCerca
8. Audiobooks/podcasts of stories being read
9. Ebooks
- Storyline Online (storybooks read by celebrities!)
- Project Gutenberg
- Children’s Books Online – the Rosetta Project (great for ESL readers)
- Google Books
- Subtext (iPad app — it’s awesome!)
- Brookline Book Review Podcasts (book reviews as told by students on podcasts)
- Book Trailers for Readers
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing☆*
Awesome Ideas! Thanks for sharing! I recently started using Evernote notebooks (pen and papers) to make digital notes of hand written notes. Have you tried this? If so what are your thoughts?
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