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50 Web Applications for Teachers
By Allison Gray - Rasmussen College
visual learning. It allows teachers and their students to make online multimedia documents with text, photos, videos, graphics, music and other multimedia in a secure virtual classroom.
19) Gmail: (http://mail.google.com/mail/) Google is the ruler of email—with the ever-so-popular Gmail application. With 2.5GB, label creators, email search, multi-language support, rick text formatting, contact importing and automatic custom signatures—this app is a teacher’s dream.
20) Google Voice: (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/here-comes-google-voice.html) Google Voice is a fantastic app used to help web users manage their voice communications. Educators can use this system to transcribe important conversations with parents of students.
21) Google Base (http://googlebase.blogspot.com/) For prospective teachers, Google Base can serve as an untapped resource for job postings.
22) Jalenack’s AJAX Periodic Table of the Elements (http://code.jalenack.com/periodic/)This online periodic table of elements is great for science teachers. When you toggle through the elements, users can essential facts such as atomic number, symbol and weight—plus links to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com and ChemiCool (http://www.chemicool.com/).
23) Lesson Planner Advanced: (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home_learning/lessonplanneradvanced.html) Created by educators, Lesson Planner Advanced helps teachers deliver great lectures with digital resources. Throw away the pencil and paper…This online lesson plan grid serves as an amazing tool for teachers to create lesson plans in one place.
24) Mindomo: (http://www.mindomo.com/) One of the most effective ways to organize information and critically think is to visually draw out your thoughts. Mindmaps does just that—with its web-based mind mapping software.
25) Moodle: (http://moodle.org/) Moodle is a virtual learning environment that is a free for educators—great for creating class websites. In addition, this application offers a haven for education-related events, forums, books, manuals and downloads.
26) MindMeister: (http://www.mindmeister.com/) Another online mind-mapping tool, MindMeister promotes free-flowing thought processes with its interactive map-making.
27) My Studiyo: (http://mystudiyo.com) MyStudiyo is a web app that serves as a portal online tests and quizzes. Users simply have to add content to quiz templates and create a customized quiz for your audience.
28) Nibipedia: (http://www.nibipedia.com/index.html) Nibipedia is a mashup of YouTube’s (http://www.youtube.com) educational videos. The app that relies heavily on community contribution and is built using a wiki-like construct where the web community can comment and share video clips.
29) ObjectGraph Dictionary (http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/) ObjectGraph is a web-based dictionary application. This efficient app can save teachers time while prepping for a lesson or grading papers.
30) Pandora: (http://www.pandora.com) Though this app doesn’t directly correlate to academia—it allows teachers to relax with a fully customizable internet radio.
32) Plagiarism Detect: (http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/) Plagiarism Detect is another high-tech plagiarism program crafted for educators. The program has a small monthly fee but the cost is worth it, as it can save teachers tons of time by eliminating endless Google phrase searches.
33) Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/) Organizing your personal and professional life can be a daily struggle—but applications like “Remember the Milk” can ease your pain. This online list management application allows users to create many different lists, schedule tasks, sync lists to email and instant messaging and generate time estimates on projects.
34) SchoolTool: (http://schooltool.org/) SchoolTool is a free online bookkeeping source for school administrators. The application delivers organization tools for grading, scheduling, attendance, learning assessment and report card generation.
35) SchoolRack: (http://www.schoolrack.com/) SchoolRack is a free website where teacher can design
