Google Story Builder
Google Story Builder is a really simple web app from google that lets you create stories in google docs – it makes it look like two ‘characters’ are having a […]
Category Archives: Student Resources
Inklewriter – Create Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories!
Inklewriter is a site that allows you to easily make Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories! Inklewriter has a nice, clean interface and is relatively easy to navigate. I’ve had students try and create […]
Udacity – Free online courses
Udacity is another Massive Open Online Course (a MOOC!), offering free, well-developed classes in computer science, science, and math (with more to be added). Unlike Cousera, Udacity classes are enroll […]
The Purdue OWL: Research and Citation
The Purdue OWL: Research and Citation. The Purdue OWL page is a wonderful collection of resources on proper writing format, citations, research, grammar, and other related issues, with sections […]
Boundless – Free Text Books
Boundless is another example of high quality Open Educational Resources (OER), like some others that I’ve written about here. Like many of the others, too, it is growing in the […]
Open Education Resource (OER) Commons
OER Commons is a website dedicated to Open Education Resources (OER). OER material is completely free and compiled with the purpose of providing strong educational resources to everyone. OER Commons […]
Make iOS and Flash Games with Stencyl
Make iOS and Flash Games with Stencyl! Stencyl is a simple, free platform to design and create flash games. While it does allow coding, it also has a simpler format […]
Class2Go – More online course options
Class2go is Stanford University’s version of a MOOC. While there are only a few courses listed here now, they have some plans to really increase the options in the near […]
Codecademy
Codecademy is a wonderful collection of online lessons, assignments, and interactive teaching activities designed around different programming languages, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, JQuery, and others. If those […]
CK-12 – Free Textbooks and resources
CK-12 is an incredible collection of free, open-sourced textbooks (or “flexbooks” in their lingo). CK-12 Flexbooks are well-written, broken apart by subject, topic, and standard, and are very well developed. […]
Many Eyes – make data beautiful
Many Eyes is a site that turns data into an infographic. Simply upload data, choose the type of chart/graph to display, and voila! Math made beautiful. Project Based Learning: Inforgraphics […]
Coursera.org
Coursera hosts one of the best collections of online courses I’ve seen. Courses are well structured, built by professionals in their fields, and have set deadlines and graded homework assignments. […]
Scratch – Programming interactive games and stories
Scratch is a program that helps students use coding language to program games and interactive stories. Similar to Stencyl, Scratch is a downloadable program. It does require some coding knowledge, […]
Gooru – A Research Resource for learning
This is Gooru, a collection of wonderful resources for many subjects. Gooru is a great place to start the search for resources for projects. It hosts videos, graphics, text, and […]
Timelines.tv – History Resource
Timelines.tv is a nice collection of video resources on British and (some) U.S. history. Five main timelines (three British History, one U.S. (western expansion), and the history of Smallpox) are explored, […]
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