1. Internet Browser Tools
Google Chrome is a fast, simple browser
that lets you make the most of the modern web.
It's free, fast, simple, safe, and requires no updates!
2. Collaborative Tools
At Todays Meet you can create a chat room instantly! No account necessary!
Try it here!
Primary Wall is designed specifically for elementary school students. To use it students just have to go to the url for the wall you've created and click "add a note" or double click on the wall to start writing notes. Students can title their notes
and attach their names to their note.
Wallwisher is an online wall to add sticky notes with
NO registration necessary- just click-write-post!
An image, video, url , or comment can be added to the wall.
Click here to see 31 Interesting Ways to Use
WallWisher in the Classroom.
3. Organization Tools
These are some tools to help you organize
your online resources.
Weblist allows you to create a list you can easily share with your friends using a single URL. A list can include anything from a collection of web pages, images, documents, videos and more.
Sqworl is a web application that provides a clean and simple way to visually bookmark multiple URLs.
LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web.
It's a FREE way to organize your resources
neatly and easily and then share with others.
LiveBinder video tutorials can be found here.
Now you can even collaborate with others
on a LiveBinder!
4. Video Tools
Not only does SafeShare.TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
ViewPure allows you to watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or ads. Enter the url and you view the video with a plain black or white background.
SnipSnip.it is a site that allows you to clip a section from a YouTube video and share it with others. To use SnipSnip.it you just grab the link to a YouTube video, paste it into SnipSnip.it, and then enter the start and end times for the section of video you want to share.
TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
Let's try these sites on this video:
http://youtu.be/sIL2MaHrY7E
5. URL Shortening Tools
How to make super long URL's into short ones!
Allows you to create one URL from a bunch of links.
Just enter your desirable choices, and fur.ly will do the rest
Try it here!
6.Seating Chart Tools
The Class Set-Up Tool is a easy-to-use, virtual layout tool that helps you design a customized layout for your classroom.
This Seating Plan Tool is another great one to use when setting up your seating charts.
This Seating Chart Maker is another easy way to create a seating chart for your classes.
Simply add your class and start moving the desks!
7. Student Selector Tools
The Random Name Selector allows you to randomly pick names from a list you've created. Once you have entered your student's names and clicked the Go button, a name is selected {and said aloud}, you are given several choices. You can start a 2 or a 7 minute timer. You also have the option of removing the name from your list. It has fun animation, sound effects, and a large fun font so it's perfect for displaying on your SmartBoard.
The Random Name Generator tool will randomly draw a name from your class. The choice are random and will never come up in the same order twice!
The Random Name/Word Picker is a fun way to choose a student or word. Just type in your students names (or copy and paste from another document), choose either the typewriter option or fruit machine, and your random name/word is displayed!
The Group Maker is a great way to quickly break your students into groups of 2, 3, 4, or 5. The groups are random and can be shuffled over and over as needed!
8. Timer Tools
Eggtimer is such a simple and fun timer!
On thing that I love about it is that you can type in the web address in your browser
and click enter to have the timer start.
So easy!
This online stopwatch is another easy and very simple timer. You first choose if you want the timer to be a stopwatch or to count down.Then you set the timer and click set and the countdown begins!
This same site also has some other great timers including
an Egg Timer
The Firey Ideas Supertimer is great to customize and use on your SmartBoard. You can choose from1 second up to 10 minutes of time and from two different types of music- Fantasy or Frantic- to play while your timer is ticking away. As your timer ticks down, a balloon in the center of the screen gets larger and larger until it pops!
For a bunch of interactive clocks click here.
9. Game Tools
Jeopardy Labs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. You can either create your own games or browse and use games others have made!
Harvey's Homepage is known for it's fabulous math lessons but also has a wide variety of general gameboards for any content area.
With this Classroom Jeopardy tool you can create a custom jeopardy review game for use in classrooms, training sessions, or anywhere else a fun, team based review game is appropriate.
The Speed Match Review Game tool is a fun review game. Players must drag and drop answers onto the correct question to clear the board. Questions always appear in a different order.
Who Want to be a Millionaire lets you create a multiple choice review game in the style of the hit TV show. Use the simple web form to enter your questions, choices, and correct response for each and you can challenge your students or a friend to a game of Who Wants to be a Millionaire!
This is a GREAT set of buzzers to use on your SmartBoard. These buzzers are fabulous to use when playing a review game with your class because it shows easily and quickly which team buzzed as the lights to the side of the buzzer light up.
Chan! is another set of buzzers that is fun to use on your SmartBoard.
10. Printable Tools
ABCTeach has tons of free printables in a wide variety of topics. There are even some great free Smartboard files! 
SparkleBox has an amazing amount of FREE printables-
both content specific as well as holiday items divided into 2 websites.
For K-2
For older students
The Teacher's Pet is full of great resources- worksheets, activities, and even displays!
11. Text Tools
Dotty Dots is a fun site that allows you to type a word or phrase made out of Google colored dots. Once you create your message by typing it in the box at the top of the page, it is turned into interactive connected dots.
FlipText.net is a super fun site where you type in what you want to say and your words are flipped upside down! You can even type in German, Spanish, and French. So silly but so fun!
Supalogo is one of my favorite sites to use to create a fun heading or title.When you first get to the site, you see only a place to type in your word or phrase and the word generated. But if you will click on the word OPTIONS at the bottom right corner, you'll have a ton of choices! You can choose a different font, size, outline color, two colors for the letters, as well as if you want the image to have a background or no background.
Once you have created your image, you can either download, embed or right click and save it. Such a fun way to make a neat title!
12. Triptico Tools
The Triptico Toolkit is a free application which teachers can download and run directly from their desktop. The application allows teachers to instantly access an ever-increasing library of customizable interactive resources. The application will automatically check for updates and will inform you when new resources are ready to be downloaded. The resources are also very easy to adapt and customise – and any activities that you (or your students) create can be saved for future use and shared with colleagues.The application contains many different types of resources – from simple timers and student selectors to quizzes, scoreboards and spinners.
Click here to download the application.
13. Random Tools
You know how sometimes you find a picture on the internet but it's tiny and you can't see the details? Well then Zoom.it is a site you will love! Zoom.it is a fabulous site that helps you display an image in a format that you can zoom in and zoom out. First you choose your image {which must be online somewhere} and paste it into the zoom.it browser. Then you can share your image by giving people the direct link to it or embed it onto you blog or webpage.
Here is an example using a picture from last summer when we went to visit my best friend.
The Awesome Highlighter is a fabulous site that allows you to highlight information on any webpage and then send the link to someone or share it with your students.
You just type in the url and highlight directly on the page. Here is where I highlighted some things on my blog. How cool is that?
I love fun fonts and have MANY installed on my computers. It is very time consuming to type a title, highlight it, and then change the font to see what your words will look like in a particular font. Thankfully wordmark.it is a site to solve this pesky problem!
- Type the word or phrase you would like to preview in the text box and click load fonts.
- Wordmark.it will load the fonts installed on your computer and display the text you entered with these fonts in individual grid tiles.
- You can adjust the size of the previews by making them smaller or bigger and invert colours to negative to preview how they look on a dark background.
- Select previews by clicking on them and filter your selection to compare your favorite options to see which one works better.
14. Great Sites Full of Tools
Check out the amazing tools on these fabulous sites!
