There are endless online tools available to teachers and educators today. While some resources and software are required for the professional field, there are many others than can also be incorporated to help create an engaging and interactive lesson for your students.
The following list is compiled of some tools and online media that I’ve found to be interesting and useful. How you interact and maximize these resources in your classroom, however, is up to you! I’ll be exploring some of these online tools in future blog posts and hope to uncover some additional resources as I continue to learn more about incorporating technology into the classroom!
Additionally, if you come across any other note-worthy educational resources or tools (or educational blogs – see my first post about recommendations!), please feel free to send them my way and I can update this page with more resources as they come in!
Online Tools (in no particular order):
- http://www.twitter.com
- http://www.youtube.com
- http://www.quizlet.com
- http://search.creativecommons.org/
- https://www.text2mindmap.com/
- http://www.vimeo.com
- http://www.wordle.net/
- http://www.prezi.com
- http://www.techsmith.com (Camtasia, Snagit)
- http://www.pollev.com
- https://www.freesound.org/
- http://www.videoscribe.co/
- Moodle vs. Blackboard vs. Canvas vs. Schoolology vs. D2L
- Flipgrid
- Weebly (.edu use)
Food for Thought (in no particular order):
- https://youtu.be/XVQ1ULfQawk
- https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U
- https://prezi.com/lfxedwuyzbca/gems-professional-development/
- https://youtu.be/FagVSQlZELY
- https://youtu.be/I2sD3K3daq8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd0grLQ4voU
- http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coach_gs_teaching_tips/2012/08/the_effect_of_affect_1.html
Maeve A. Olson 
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