Productivity Resources
for Teachers
How-to Help for Using Technology | Resources for Creating Web Pages | Open Source Software
- abcteach Many free teaching materials, including printable pages and worksheets
- Bingo Card Maker Generate Bingo cards using words of your choice
- Brainy Betty Teaching, Learning and Other Resources Free downloadable resources including neat PowerPoint backgrounds
- Classroom Timer Nifty timer that you can use to count up or count down
- Easy Test Maker Free online test generator that lets you create tests with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions
- Edhelper.com Lots of printable worksheets on many topics, lesson plans, and teacher resources. Many are free, additional resources are available by subscription
- Education Place Graphic Organizers A variety of graphic organizer templates from Houghton Mifflin
- Education World: Teacher Tools and Templates Lots of printable, editable templates that teachers can customize and use in their own classrooms
- Filamentality This site guides you through creating a web-based project (Treasure Hunt, Subject Sampler, WebQuest)
- Fill Any PDF Form This site can be used to make any pdf a form that you can fill out.
- Flashcard Exchange Create your own or find flashcards that are already created
- Free Technology Toolkit for UDL in All Classrooms List of free resources that can be used to help all learners.
- LT Technologies Graphic Resources Varied sets of free graphic resources, including subject specific graphics
- Microsoft Office Online File Converters and Viewers Allow you to share Office files with people who do not have the software or who have different versions
- MyT4L: Citatation Maker Create citations for books, web sites, interviews, images, music and sound effects, videos and animation, and more that are formatted in either APA or MLA format.
- MyT4L: Graphic Organizer Maker Create customized graphic organizer worksheets
- Puzzle Maker Create word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
- QuizStar Create online quizzes (Note: Students must sign up and log in to take the quizzes.)
- Super Teacher Worksheets Free printable worksheets
- StudyStack Provides free online educational tools including flashcards and matching
- Teachnology Rubric Makers Links to rubric makers for many projects
- VoiceThread Capture students' voices to add to pictures or slide shows
- WWW4Teachers This online space for teachers integrating technology includes some great tools for teachers for making online quizzes, assignment calendars, rubrics, and much more.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE and FREEBIES
This is free software that you can download
- Audacity Record and edit sound; works well for podcasting
- CMap Tools Concept mapping
- Google SketchUp 3D modeling software
- HotPotatoes Create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises
- IrfanView (PC) Edit, view, and convert images from one format to another
- NVu Web authoring software (similiar to FrontPage or Dreamweaver)
- Open Office Productivity suite (similar to Microsoft Office)
- PDFCreator Create pdf files
- Photo Gadget Easy tool for resizing images
- Photoshop Express Free scaled-down web version of Photoshop
- Picasa Organize, edit, and share photos
- Real Alternative Lets you play RealMedia files without installing RealPlayer
(and all the stuff that comes with it)
- Scribus Desktop publishing
- The Gimp Photo retouching, image composition and image authoring (similar to Photoshop)