Tools for Teachers

There are a number of useful online tools that can help teachers build pedagogical material or make the task of teaching a little easier. You will find below a sampling of some of these online tools.

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Badge Maker
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php

Create an ID badge using your digital photographs. This application is on the Big Huge labs Web site.

Captioner
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php

Add captions to your digital photographs. This application is on the Big Huge labs Web site.

Catpin Productions
http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/

Create your own bubble test forms with this online answer sheet generator.

Charles Kelly's Bilingual Quiz Generator / Quiz Maker / Quiz Creator / Quiz Builder / Quiz Writer / Quiz Producer
http://a4esl.org/c/bilingual.html

Generate simple online quizzes and bilingual word lists.

Classroom Architect
http://classroom.4teachers.org/

Design a floor plan for your classroom.

Class Set-Up Tool
http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/class_setup/

Rearrange your room without moving a chair!

ClassTools.net
http://www.classtools.net/

Tool designed by a teacher for teachers to easily generate various types of online FLASH learning activities.

ClipCaption
http://www.clipcaption.com/index.php

Write your own subtitles to a foreign language film for a movie clip!

ClozeMaker Test Author Utilities
http://www.edict.com.hk/clozemaker/

Create stand-alone tests to run from your own PC or server with the JavaScript Wizard.

Dvolver Movie Maker
http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html

Make your own flash animation and captions.

Edublog
http://edublogs.org/

On this free blog hosting platform devoted specifically to education you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog and effortlessly create and manage students blogs.  It also provides useful information on how to use your blog with your students. It can also be used for networking between educators.

Flash Game Generator
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz/

Simply input questions and answers in this quiz generator to produce a Flash cards and games that can be played by your students on the classtools.net Web site or inserted in your own web site.

Flash Card Maker
http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/flashcards.htm

Create interactive cards with vocabulary words.

Hangman
http://www.hangman.no/

Play hangman from games created by others or create your own hangman games for others to play.

Hangman Game Builder
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/HManBuilder.asp?x3=49&Cat1=&Cat2

Build your own hangman game online in any of 115 languages.

Just Crosswords
http://justcrosswords.com/

The website allows you to make your own crossword puzzles, save them, link to them or put them on your own website.

Lingro
http://lingro.com/

Enter a web address (URL) and make all of the words on that page clickable for definitions and translation. A clicked word immediately displays its definition from the Lingro dictionary pages. Translate to and from Spanish, French, German, Polish, and Swedish.

Magazine
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php

Create a magazine cover from your digital photographs.

Make Beliefs Comix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Online educational comic generator for kids of all ages.

Media Convert
http://media-convert.com/convert/

An online tool to convert a large variety of sound, text and video files without installing software on your computer.

Motivator
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Create your own customized motivational poster with this application from Big Huge Labs Web site.

The Newspaper Clipping Generator
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Create your own fun newspaper.

NanoGong
http://gong.ust.hk/nanogong/

NanoGong is an applet that can be used by someone to record, playback and save their voice, in a web page. When the recording is played back the user can speed up or slow down the sound without changing it. After the sound is saved in a file, the file can be put on the Internet and then played back using the applet.
The NanoGong is a 'simple' applet which does not require any complicated setup procedure. You only need a simple webpage in order to use it.

Ning
http://www.ning.com/

Ning is a tool to create social networks and communities. It offers teachers K-12 free and secure social networking for their classrooms. Ning provides discussion features and the capability of embedding videos. You can also join existing networks or communities created with Ning.

Personal Educational Press – Flashcards
http://www.educationalpress.org/

Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.

Picnik
http://www.picnik.com/

Edit photos the easy way, online in your browser. This program allows you to fix exposures, resize, crop, and deal with photos on all platforms and all online.

QuizStar
http://quizstar.4teachers.org/

Construct online quizzes that can include multimedia.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title

Create a brochure, a newspaper, a booklet, or a flyer online.

Rich Internet Applications from the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University
http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php?product_category=online

Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Registration is required but at no cost.

Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/

A Web 2.0 tool that lets students and instructors upload their presentations and share them online through an interface similar to YouTube.  The Slidecast facility allows you to add mp3 files to run with your slides.

Soundsnap.com
http://www.soundsnap.com

Find and share free sound effects and loops.

Teachers 2.0: Teaching in the digital age
http://teachers20.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

A group of educators helping each other to learn and use the new tools that are out there - from PowerPoint to Web 2.0.

Tools for Educators
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

Worksheet makers, game creators, customizable worksheet generators with images!

Web Poster Wizard Home
http://wizard.4teachers.org/

This tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages.

Wordsmyth
http://www.wordsmyth.net/

This Web site features a glossary maker and a quiz builder.