EdTech Tools

QuickCast is a free screencasting tool that I initially tried a few months ago. This week QuickCast became an official Mac app that you can download for free from the Mac App Store. Like most screencasting apps QuickCast allows you to capture all or part of your screen while you talk.

The Kindle is great for reading the occasional book, but you might not know that it's also a fantastic tool for students. When used correctly, it can essentially operate as a portable tool to keep all your books, notes, and research in one place.

Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to convert and download YouTube URLs to formats like MP3,MP4,AAC,3GP...

Help children plan a story or prepare for a special event, or let teens review memories and stories from the past. The Timeline tool allows them to create and organize events-real and imagined-that automatically become active links, letting users navigate easily among events on the Timeline.

Have you ever tried to add a clickable link to your YouTube videos, only to find that you can't? There are in fact three ways to do this, methods that have remained hidden - until now! YouTube Now Lets You Create Clickable Links! YouTube is great (our free YouTube guide explains this assertion in greater...

Create great looking avatars for your website or social network

Apps like ScreenChomp, Educreations, ShowMe and Explain Everything have had huge instructional impact in the classroom. With a click of a button, students are able to demonstrate understanding by having the app record their voice and annotations. These clips are then saved to the cloud and shared with the teacher.

A useful overview of #evernote for librarians created by Diana Silveira; posted Jun 26, 2013.

For this week's Top Picks List Friday, we are featuring websites and apps for making videos and animations. Teachers know that video making is a tried and true way to get kids engaged in building, demonstrating, and sharing knowledge. These apps and sites feature user-friendly tools and...

You've got every device under the sun in front of you. Now what apps are you going to use? Here are the apps or app categories that I recommend you test for your school. There are lots of apps, and these are just my opinion based on what I've used with my students or successfully tested.

Stories in Google+ takes your best photos and videos, pairs them with the places you visited and when you went, to turn them into an interactive scrap book. If you're on vacation, for example, Stories can put together a collection of your favorite memories before you even get home!

A free poster maker to create massive wall posters from your own images! Free!

Here are some great free and fun online creativity tools and resources for letting students get super-creative. Try them out with your next projects.