Links are arranged in the categories of:
- Blogs
- Collaborative Writing Sites (Wikis)
- Online Collaboration and Communication Sites
- Online Word Processing and Presentation Applications
- Miscellaneous
- Scheduling Tools
Blogs
EduBlogs
Learn how you can set up a free blog (or several) and use them with
students or with other educators.
Blogger
A super simple and free site for developing your
own blog.
This site
provides not only links to many educational blogs on many subjects, but also an
online guide to using blogs in education.
Provides
links and suggestions for using blogs to increase the impact of instruction.
Collaborative Writing Sites (Wikis)
This site provides the rationale for using wikis in all levels of education. There is a great introduction for those who have not used wikis, as well as information about free wiki resources on the web.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Currently over 6,000 educator-developed resources are available. The site also provides a way to communicate with teachers all over the world.
Wikidot.com is a farm of Wiki Sites. Their mission is to provide free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions to anyone who needs it and wants it. They are providing free hosted wikis with lots of features.
Create and share your work online. Now, also collaborate on presentations and share them in real time. Create, edit and upload quickly, import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch, access and edit from anywhere. All you need is a web browser - your documents are stored securely online. Share changes in real time - invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time. It's free - you don't pay a nickle!
This is a free, online collaborative writing software. Write a business letter, copy for your
website, a marketing brochure, or a product description, or a weblog post, or a
song, or a poem, or an idea, or an essay, or a book chapter, or whatever you
might normally write in your email program, text editor, or word processor. Unlike a Word document that's stored at your
office on one computer, you can get to your writeboards from any computer in
the world with an internet connection and a modern web browser.
Increase
student engagement using a safe, free, online wiki. Choose whether to mark
your wiki public or private with one click. (Either way, a password is
always required to edit, so outsiders can't change your wiki without
permission.) And since educational PBwikis are ad-free,
your students won't click through to other sites unless you explicitly add
links. Stop waiting for the Tech God to
make an easy-to-update web space, and create a no-hassle way to showcase
students' work online.
Wikispaces
lets you create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit
together. Wikis work
great for classrooms, work groups, families, sports teams, book and fan clubs, and more. Public wikis are free; private and ad-free
wikis options range from $5 to $20 per month.
Online Collaboration and Community Sites
This is a free online communication and professional development site for teachers, this site includes a Swap Shop, Teachers’ Lounge, and free online courses for which teachers can get continuing education confirmation.
This site supports online collaborative projects on many topics in education, a wiki for collaborative development of documents or tools among several people online, forums, and links to some cool online tools, most of which are free to use.
A free online workplace, learning environment, and professional community for educators, members can plan and conduct learning projects with colleagues and students, participate in or lead topical discussions and groups, manage or attend online courses offered by Tapped In members, mentor or be mentored by other educators, and try out new ideas in a safe, supportive environment. Resources, experts, and mentors are available to all.
Use this site for free access to Moodle, a great tool for creating and running an online course or collaborating with others.
A totally free phone conference service mediated through the internet. They have recently added the ability to record these conferences.
Online Word Processing and Presentation Applications
Zoho
An extensive online
application that provides word processing, data bases, presentation tools, web
conferencing, wikis, chats, polls, and even more, free.
Open Office
A free, downloadable
office suite fully compatible with all the Office applications. If you
don't have Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, or Powerpoint on your computer at
home, this is the way to avoid spending big bucks to have the same
functionality.
ajaxWrite free online word processor
ajaxWrite is a web-based
word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard
document formats. Anytime you need to open, read or write a word processor file
Miscellaneous
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you
to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence,
crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot
Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for
publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their
pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license.
TrackStar website link display tool
TrackStar is your
starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites,
enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an
interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of
the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database
by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There
is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!
Use this free online tool to create new lessons, worksheets, class pages, et cetera, and publish them online for students to access. Users can set up a website for their classes to keep everything organized.
The Alphabetizer
This site will
alphabetize just about any list, and will do things like ignoring the first
word on your direction, or ignoring indefinite articles. It is a little
more technically sophisticated than some sites, and may be challenging to some.
Free
Translation
This site will provide a
free translation of short phrases in 10 languages.
ProfilerPRO allows for the evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and skill based on simple surveys implemented via the World Wide Web. Group members can share knowledge and promote collaboration based on responses to skills-based survey items. Use ProfilerPRO to strengthen your school's, district's, or other educational group's ability to share expertise and grow as an organization.
Scheduling Tools
Calendar Hub
This site provides a free online calendar that you
can print out, share online with others, use to schedule with groups, organize
your family's activities, or whatever.
A free tool for notifying people about a meeting by email, or coming to agreement on the date for a conference between any number of people.