PixiClip – it’s an online services let you send online message with your sketches or record voice and webcam for your PC/MAC.
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The Playground of Mathematics
The Playground of Mathematics – it’s an online service about math exercise. You can choose your language (13 types) to do the exercises in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
After you choose your right languages at the top of website, you can start your exercise.
Also, you can set the difficulty on different types of math.
After all the settings done, you can do your exercise via keyboard or just through the web!
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Just a quick try of the web. I really love this web so much. Easy to use and helpful. You can use it right on your desktop or mobile devices. And, it’s free!
Related articles
- The Playground of Mathematics – Math Practice in 13 Languages (freetech4teachers.com)
Free Printables for teachers
Makebeliefscomix have many worksheets for teachers to download and use. It has over 50 topics to let you choose it.
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This website provided many useful worksheets for download. Most of them really useful and catch your eyes. And…Free!
QuestBase – online multi-platform assessment system
QuestBase provided an online assessment platform. It supports various platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Android, IOS, etc.
Teachers need to sign up an account. It used to create the test and questions through their platform.
This platform can let you create many types of question: MC/ True & False, Fill-in-the-blank, Essay, etc.
This platform support chinese characters(view only, not support printed version) and the most important features: Equation!
After you key in all the questions, you can output as online test (multi-platform), or print it as traditional test paper.
Then you can prepare to publish the online test.
After you finished the online test. You can “double-click” the online test that you prepared. You can find the “pin” cod e for students to join in. Student can go to QuestBase website. Type in the right “Pin” code and start the online test.
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Teachers can be used to create an online test for student for Free. Easy to use and can output as traditional test paper. Awesome!
Shaolan – Learning Chinese Characters
Sketchlot – create & share sketches
Sketchlot – A new web 2.0 services that you can create , share your sketch to others. But this tool is specially designed for educational use. It can also support share student’s sketch to peer (all or selected) or teachers!
The flow is : teacher needs to sign up account, add students account (just need name and password).
Then, teacher can create his/her sketchlot first, then pass share and choose the selected student to share. After it, students will received the teacher’s sketch or student can create their own piece and share to peer.
All flow can be done within the browser. Really good for school in teaching!
1) Create teacher’s account, remember need to create a “class code” with letter and number.
2) Then you will see a control panel. Now, you should create student list.
3) Student account password can be same on saving. But I did not recommend the same password as you can’t access it except the first student.
4) Create your own sketch , then press share sketch button.
5) Student can use browser to login into sketchlot website (using class code you assigned and students password). If students share their own sketch to you. You will see them on the control panel( refresh the browser in case no can’t see anything).
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Teachers can use them inside the classroom. I just found that you can use it on “Nearpod” share function. It works well.
Nearpod Business – Launched!
Nearpod Business launched at July, 2013. A new and enhanced version of Nearpod for Education.
It still free. All features can be used on Nearpod Business version. Yes! Would you see the bright point? Yes, all features! If you an old user of Nearpod (mostly of us less than 1-year using), you might know that both “sideshow” & “Browse the Internet” can’t use for Free user. It just provided several times to use under free account.
But now, Nearpod Business version, you can use it ! Thanks Nearpod Team.
Besides, this Nearpod Team gives us “On Demand” and “Live” functions. “Live” likes the pervious “Launch” function. You can control audience. But this time free account only support 3 per session (like 3 students).
For “On demand” , you can share via email / pin to audience up to 100 per month. That’s really flexible for presenter. Also, the audience can view the NPP(Nearpod presentation) by themselves. i.e. no control functions like “Homework for education Nearpod version”.
This version supports “web app”. That means you can “join session” via PC/MAC. As this features only included on school account when it’s at Nearpod for Education Version. I have no idea when they switch back. Hope that this feature can keep it forever. I use it from September last year to now. Nearpod Team work very hard of it and always gives us surprise. Love Nearpod and their hard work!
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Blubbr – embed question on youtube
Blubbr – It’s an online services let you create some sort of questions into YouTube.
Students can watch and answer questions at the same way.
That’s a fun idea. Students can watch video in learning.
ExamTime – Personal study platfrom
Today, I heard about this online platform – ExamTime. Just testing in a short time, I found that it’s seems, mostly likely a self-study platform. But, of course, it supports peer-to-peer co-learning.
This platform let create MindMap, Quiz, flashcard for learning.
As this site only in beta stage, that means not many functions can be select. Maybe give a try after it lunched.
LiveSlide & Homeroom
GoSoapBox – onilne student response system
GoSoapBox is a web services that gives you a system to communicate with your students.
After sign up and confirm your email. You can “create your room” to students. Then you can create some poll or questions. The most interesting thing about GoSoapBox is you and your students can ask questions immediately right on the browser. It makes you might answer the questions during your teaching!
It supports chinese characters in the questions but not in create room.
After give a try today, I think sounds good about the concepts, but a bit difficult to use – always swap when create the room/questions.
If you want this services, you may give a try it.
Related articles
- GoSoapBox – Survey Your Audience In a Variety of Ways (freetech4teachers.com)
ScreenHero – collaborative cross-platform screen sharing
Screenhero – This services helps you sharing your screen, work with others.
It supports Mac and PC. Just install the files then done.
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The worst thing of this services is price. As this services in beta version, that means it might need to pay later (see their FAQ). Left behind this, I really like that when I want to give a hand to my students in computer lesson.
Related articles
- Screenhero: Work Together Across Screens (mac.appstorm.net)
- Screenhero (programmableweb.com)
Quizlet – create quiz to your students easily
Quizlet is an online services which is work with mobile device and desktop.
In general, you just type the “matching words” , system will turn your words into the different type of games.
By the way of that, system can pronounce the word for you in over 60 different language (list here).
After you create your exercise, you can play with voice on your mobile devices or desktop.
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Can’t imagine this service is FREE! If you want to add your own image on your questions, you need to upgrade. Otherwise, free account just suitable for most users.
CK12 – ONE stop portal in Education
CK12 – It s a free website funded by CK-12 Foundation. It’s provide free Online Textbooks , FlashCards, Exercises etc.
You can found that in different learning topics: Arithmetic, Measurement, Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Statistics, Trigonometry, Analysis, Calculus, Life Science, Biology, Physical Science, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, Engineering, Technology, English, Astronomy, History, Economics, SAT Exam Prep
You can use your “Google”, “Facebook” or “Twitter” account to sign in.
But, if you just want to take a look. NO sign in required.
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The best thing of this site is embeded “Google Translate” that provided into 75 languages!
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- We Love Resources: CK-12 (saylor.org)
- CK12.org (fizziology4u.wordpress.com)
Faturl – Shorten your URLs into one
Faturl – This website’s concept is simple. It gives you a service to group all your URLs into one – into one shorten link.
All you have to do it input (or copy and paste) the links, give a title of the link. Then all stuff will combine into one shorten link. Not like other shorten link services (famous one is Goo.gl). You can group all into one. Really convenient to teacher when he want to tell students the several web links. Just tell them one, they get all!
Now, I group 5 links into one as example. That is the most vistors like my post in my site.
1) MP3cut 2) Coggle 3) Xtramath 4) PicMonkey 5) Muzy
Then you can get the FatURL link / QRCode like below:
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Simple and Fast. All works with iPad. Suitable for teachers!
P.S. Other post introduce 3 ways to group URLs into one.
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- FatURL – Share Bundles of Links (freetech4teachers.com)
- URL Bundling service: (philbradley.typepad.com)
- FatURL Shares Several URLs with Just One Link (sexymacman.wordpress.com)
- Faturl – Say more with Less (tech4work.wordpress.com)
XtraMath – Doing extra Math online
XtraMath – online Math platform for free. This website is an non-profit, and no adv. It gives you your students or child an extra exercise.
At first, you need to sign up as parent or teacher. It may need to find out what the school you teach.
Then you have a checklist to make “XtraMath” work.
You can add student, print flyer to parent, print the PIN for students.
After the above settings, you can set up your classroom/ home computers with “Classroom IN”.
Simply open the website of “XtraMath“. Click “sign in” and “Classroom”. Type the “PIN” then done.
Also, you can sign in as parent and student.
After you set up the computer in your classroom, student only need their teacher’s email, their own PIN and their name to start doing the exercise. After that, you can see who has finished the quiz in which date and month.
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Thanks XtraMath! It makes school has extra exercise for student. No adv and spam on the site makes school easy to handle. Why not set up the account now!
P.S. work well with iPad. You can set your iPad as one of classroom computers!
Soo Meta – integrate live poll in video
Soo Meta – integrate live poll in video. This website is a special one I haven’t seen.
Let’s see what they claimed :
Start creating video presentations out of pictures, videos, sounds, text & add quick polls into the mix.
By adding video, photo, text and live poll, you can publish a video with 10 poll inside of it.(Free account)
Just imagine after you post a video. Audience watched it and poll the question that you created. The statistics will appeared on your dashboard of Soo Meta website!
Here is the procedure how to make a video:
1) Registration
2) Enter your story/video title
3) Add Video by search or enter url (support Chinese character)
4) Add test and background image
5) Add poll
6) Publish : You can publish as ” Visible with password”
7) audience will enter the url and password
8) The statistics
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For me, I found a bit difficult to use it. Mainly on the creating flow of the video. But I think my captured images will help a lot. As adding poll inside the video, students can make use of the video for self learning. Teachers can make use of the statistics to see what students understand of not. What a great tools.
MDL2 – Free Moodle services
MDl2 let you create your own site for e-learning which is powered by the latest Moodle.
The site claimed itself NOT a company, so this services required to donate some bugs as you want.
Registration is easy: 1) enter your site name 2) your email address
After you enter information above, you will received an email about the login details.
Also, base on this free services running smoothly, your site may be disabled under some conditions:
Unused sites will be automatically disabled after 30 days without a valid login (only a week if the site is empty).
Disabled sites will be permanently and irreversibly deleted from our backups one month later.
If you are an active donor your site will not be disabled.
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I really appreciate about their work. No any cost, no limit on bandwidth, no limit on disk space. It’s awesome and kind!
The aims of this services is spreading the use of Moodle. Check this out if you also interested in!
helping us to give this service for free to other users who cannot afford it.
TagMyDoc – Tag(QR-code) your files and share at once
TagMyDoc – It’s quite a special online services. The main idea of this website is “Tag your Doc”.
In traditional, if you want to share your handout to students. You may need upload to cloud storage, set to “share”, print the document and write down the “share link” student finally. Many, many steps……
But, TagMyDoc only TWO steps: upload and print the tagged document. Easy!
You can connect Google Drive, Dropbox and Box to upload your document.
But, the most important features is : a plug-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Then, after you install this plugin, your just only use one steps to share your document.
Related articles
- TagMyDoc takes QR codes and makes them useful with this document-tagging and sharing Web app (thenextweb.com)
GCFLearnFree – Online learning Course
GCGLearnFree – It has different topics to learn: Language, Maths, Computer Skills
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Place it into the school intranet. Let the students go through the topics as interest. Pass the related link to students via email / intranet before the lessons (says learning Google Drive). Watch the video at home, do the exercises in school. That is Flipped Classroom in Blended Learning!
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