Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of all of the free classroom technology we’ve discussed on the Tech Tools for Teachers Podcast. Each piece of software listed also includes a link to the show it was feature on.
A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • V • W
A
Adobe Live – Videos to help you and/or your students learn digital design skills and theory for Photoshop, Adobe XD and more.
Featured on Episode 014
Adobe Spark – Spark is a graphic design tool. You or your students can create projects for any subject area and then share them in Google Classroom!
Featured on Episode 008
Animaker – An easy-to-use cartoon and animation program to create unique presentations.
Featured on Episode 020
Artsedge – This site, sponsored by the Kennedy Center, has a ton of resources to engage students in the arts.
Featured on Episode 040
Audacity – An easy-to-use multi-track audio editor that you can use for podcasting or recording other audio.
Featured on Episode 010
Autodesk Inventor – This software gives students and educators free access to real CAD software. It is an excellent way to expose students to authentic 3D learning!
Featured on Episode 021
AutoDraw – Straightforward site that lets you use a magic pencil that makes your drawings look professional.
Featured on Episode 020
B
Ba Ba Dum – This foreign language game has 21 language options and 5 game options to reinforce learning.
Featured on Episode 033
Beautiful Audio Editor– A Chrome Extension that is still in Beta but you can use it both on and offline as well as save to your Google Drive!
Featured on Episode 010
BeFunky – This creative site gives you templates of all kinds that you can manipulate and make your own. Then download your creation or share it digitally.
Featured on Episode 030
Blabberize – a fantastic way to introduce audio recording skills to students. You can upload any picture and make it talk!
Featured on Episode 010
Blockly – Block coding for beginners and teaches coding vocabulary.
Featured on Episode 043
BioDigital – A science program featuring a 3D human body that allows you to explore organs, systems and body parts.
Featured on Episode 031
C
Canva – A robust design tool that allows you to create just about any type of design using their online tools.
Featured on Episode 017
Storyboard Featured on Episode 036
Chalk Planboard – Fantastic online lesson planning tool with many helpful features.
Featured on Episode 019
ClassroomScreen – A beautiful tool for managing your classroom all from one convenient screen.
Featured on Episode 004
Code.org – Connects to Google Classroom and has a well designed curriculum to teach coding to students of all ages.
Featured on Episode 029
CodeCombat – Awesome coding missions in a very gamified way. Many ways to learn code that are not block!
Featured on Episode 043
Code Maven – Simple typed directions that prompt you type and see what codes can do.
Featured on Episode 029
Cram – A flashcard creation site that turns your flashcards into online games.
Featured on Episode 011
Crello – Digital poster creator with modern templates and easy to download completed project.
Featured on Episode 028
D
DesignCap – This is a easy to use graphic design site with lots of templates!
Featured on Episode 036
Desmos – Tons of math resources all in one place! Calculators, lessons and a cool graphing tool that teaches you all about graphing.
Featured on Episode 038
Draw.io – A tool that can help you organize any ideas! It’s a mind map, graphic organizer, and brainstorm helper, all in one site!
Featured on Episode 013
Duolingo – Learn up to 35 new languages with this site and app!
Featured on Episode 033
E
Easel.ly – An infographic tool that allows the user to choose from a variety of colorful templates and has many sharing options.
Featured on Episode 007
e-Comments – This extension is a timesaver! There are prewritten standard based comments with examples to improve student writing. You can also add your own comments and video.
Featured on Episode 027
Edheads – Free games that highlight science-based careers.
Featured on Episode 031
EdPuzzle – This video site allows you to assign videos to your students and add questions to check for understanding. Videos can be assigned directly through Google Classroom and other school platforms.
Featured on Episode 024
Edublogs – This site is a great way to start an education blog and encourage your students to blog with you! As an educator, you can set up student accounts, and best of all it’s free!
Featured on Episode 009
Edumedia – Sciences – Science simulations that cover all types of science topics great for discussions and introducing topics.
Featured on Episode 046
EdWordle.net – Easy basic word cloud creator.
Featured on Episode 028
Emaze – A presentation tool that offers highly engaging presentation templates for students, as well as other digital presentation options.
Featured on Episode 002 and Episode 009
Engineer Girl – This is a resource for all things engineering! There are articles, videos and contests!
Featured on Episode 038
EverBlock – This is an actual business site but has a great free virtual Lego type building area. There are many building options to work with.
Featured on Episode 042
F
Fantastic Contraption – This physics game teaches problem solving skills and is a great way to create team building activities without all of the materials.
Featured on Episode 042
Flaticon – A huge resource of simple drawings and logos in downloadable vector files.
Feature on Episode 032
FlexClip – Video creation site that allows you to create 12 one-minute videos for free!
Featured on Episode 044
Flipgrid – This fantastic site lets your students create video responses for basically anything you can think of. It is a phenomenal tool for an educational setting.
Featured on Episode 022
Flippity – You can flip out over this tech tool that gives you lots of templates using Google Sheets. You can create from a Jeopardy game to a vocabulary review.
Featured on Episode 022
Flipsnack – A digital flipbook tool that allows students to present all types of content in a fun and interactive manner.
Featured on Episode 003
Mentioned on Episode 022
Floorplanner – A program that allows students to design photorealistic 3D floor plans and design home, business, or story setting layouts.
Featured on Episode 003
Freerice.com – This site is a easy way to answer review questions and feed people!
Featured on Episode 039
FreeTypingGame.net – Old school typing schools reinforced.
Featured on Episode 043
FutureMe – You can send an email to yourself in the future!
Featured on Episode 034
G
General Assembly – GA Dash is a site to help teach coding to beginner high school students.
Featured on Episode 043
Genially – A website that has all types of presentation applications, including interactive pictures, games and other creations.
Featured on Episode 002
Geoguessr – An addictive game that teaches world geography while your students play.
Featured on Episode 004
Gimkit – This online quizzing tool offers high engagement to older students. They are able to earn “money” (rewards) for correct answers and go “shopping” (upgrades).
Featured on Episode 012
Gimp – An open-source, standalone photo editing software that has been around for many years. It’s about as close to Photoshop as you can get for free.
Mentioned on Episode 008
GoNoodle – One of the best brain break sites to get kids moving!
Featured on Episode 013
Google Arts and Culture – Google basically created a warehouse of all types of art. You can travel to famous places, tour famous buildings and learn about historical figures.
Featured on Episode 040
Google Keep – An invaluable tool for taking notes, organizing projects and even organizing your life.
Featured on Episode 001
Google Tour Builder – An easy and fun way to present a geographical journey with location information and visuals.
Featured on Episode 004
GooseChase – Website and app combination to make scavenger hunts.
Featured on Episode 016
H
Haiku Deck – A straight forward no frills presentation site that is help fun for kids that do not need too many choices.
Featured on Episode 037
Hypersay – Online tool that can make PowerPoint Presentations and Google Slides more interactive.
Mentioned on Episode 012
I
iCivics – A website designed to support civics lessons and has great games to support learning.
Featured on Episode 035
Infogram – This infographic website is great for presenting specific data and statistics. It is very straightforward and easy to use.
Featured on Episode 007
K
Khan Academy – Math video and lesson resource but has so much more!
Featured on Episode 038
Kahoot! – An online quizzing tool that allows students to use any device to participate in online quizzes that you create.
Featured on Episode 011
L
Library of Congress – This site has tons of primary source documents. Great for research!
Featured on Episode 035
Line Rider – A classic physics building game where students can construct simple or complex tracks for the line rider’s sled to ride upon.
Mentioned on Episode 042
LitPick – Book review resource for suggestions and practice writing book reviews.
Featured on Episode 047
Loom – Screencasting for those that REALLY like to talk! (Unlimited time – 25 free videos!)
Featured on Episode 048
Lucidpress – This Google extension has a variety of formats to encourage students to write, including blogging, newsletters, newspapers and much more. It also allows more than one student to collaborate on a piece of writing at once.
Featured on Episode 009
M
Made with Code – Art-based projects designed to teach coding, made with Google.
Featured on Episode 029
Make Beliefs Comix – You can create free comics with up to 18 boxes and has a ton of additional teacher resources.
Featured on Episode 032
MapHub – Create and share your own maps that include color coding, pictures and links.
Featured on Episode 035
Marble Run – Virtual marble run site that is as challenging as you make it!
Featured on Episode 042
Mentimeter – You can pose any question and this site will turn answers into a word-cloud or graph depending on how you set it up.
Featured on Episode 041
Meshmixer – A tool from Autodesk that helps you combine 3D models and manipulate 3D meshes.
Mentioned on Episode 021
N
Newsela – An digital article site that allows you to level articles to meet all student needs and connects to your Google Classroom.
Featured on Episode 034
Nitro Type – Competitive typing game that encourages fast, accurate typing to make your car race around the track.
Featured on Episode 029
Noun Project – An icon resource site that allows you to download simple vector files.
Featured on Episode 040
O
Otter.ai – Automatic transcription program with 300 free minutes of transcriptions per month!
Mentioned on Episode 028
P
Padlet – A “kanban” or “Post-It” style tool to help keep students organized and on track.
Featured on Episode 001
Pear Deck – A Google Add-On that allows you to make your Google Slides interactive!
Featured on Episode 011
Pencil Code Gym – You can learn to code in so many ways on this site! From beginner to advanced, there is something for everyone.
Featured on Episode 039
PhET – A science and math simulation site that is broken down by content and grade level. It also connects to your Google Classroom.
Featured in Episode 040
Piktochart – Easy-to-use creative site for infographics, presentations and print designs.
Featured on Episode 016
Playposit – A great video tool for quizzing, asking questions, and monitoring student interaction. Great for flipped classrooms.
Featured on Episode 006
Plotvar – Easy graph site where you enter calculations and it makes you a graph!
Featured on Episode 038
Poll Everywhere – Allows you to pose questions and get quick responses.
Mentioned on Episode 012
Powtoon – A presentation design website that allows you to create presentations with videos and animations.
Featured on Episode 017
Prezi – This presentation site has been around for a long time but definitely worth a second look!
Featured on Episode 037
Q
QRCode Monkey – Free QR Code website that allow you to customize how your QR codes look.
Featured on Episode 015
Quizizz – This tool is an easy way to set up an interactive quiz for your students. It also easily connects to Google Classroom to assign quizzes to students to work on, on their own.
Featured on Episode 012
Quizlet – Online quizzing tool that has many options to practice content. It also has the option to go “live” and compete with other students.
Featured on Episode 012
R
ReadWorks – A digital article site that has nonfiction and fiction articles for all ages of students. It also includes audio for most pieces of writing.
Featured on Episode 034
ReClipped – Lets to annotate videos and share you ideas with others. Found this as a good alternative to Videonot.es.
Featured on Episode 034
Roll the Dice – Allows you to create your own dice that you can use digitally with your students.
Featured on Episode 041
Roomstyler – A companion to Floorplanner (above), Roomstyler is an engaging tool for designing rooms in 3d.
Featured on Episode 003
S
Scoutlier – A program that allows teachers’ lessons to become interactive through an app. It is great for on-the-go learning.
Featured on Episode 026
Scratch – Coding basics taught with cartoons and creativity from MIT.
Featured on Episode 029
Screencastify – A useful tool for screencasting and creating self-paced lessons.
Featured on Episode 005
SlidesCarnival – Free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates to help you jazz up your presentations.
Featured on Episode 23
Slides Media – A slide template site with all kinds of choices.
Featured on Episode 037
SlideSmash – A repository for free, professional-looking Google Slides and PowerPoint templates.
Featured on Episode 23
Smore – because everyone wants some more 😃- blogging and newsletters! This site has predesigned templates to which you can easily add text and pictures.
Featured on Episode 009
Snappa.com – This graphic design site makes your work look professional in a very short amount of time.
Featured on Episode 045
Spreaker – A tool that you can use both on your phone or computer for recording podcasts. Students are able to create podcasts and easily share them with others.
Featured on Episode 010
Stellarium – Very visual application/website that turns your computer into a planetarium.
Featured on Episode 031
Storyboard That – Lets students create cartoon storyboards and the ideas are endless. It is very user friendly and has lots of options.
Featured on Episode 024
Storyline Online – Picture books read by celebrities and offers lots of teacher resources.
Featured on Episode 047
Story Time in Space – This site has videos of astronauts reading picture books in space!
Featured on Episode 036
Sumopaint – A great “Photoshop-like” site for introducing the photo editing process to students and allowing them to manipulate digital images.
Featured on Episode 008
T
TeamGantt – A great project management tool that helps create project timelines and Gantt charts.
Featured on Episode 018
TED – Pick a video and learn something new – be inspired!
Featured on Episode 014
TED-Ed – TED videos created specifically for teachers and students. They include discussion questions and additional links to learn more.
Featured on Episode 014
That Quiz – Math quiz site that is great for skills reinforcement.
Featured on Episode 046
The Most Dangerous Random Prompt Generator – A fast past writing prompt generator for older students.
Featured on Episode 046
Time.Graphics – A cool timeline development tool that has a large variety of features and connects to Google Drive.
Featured on Episode 018
Thingiverse – A 3D design warehouse! This site has all sorts of great 3D models available for free download and use by your students.
Featured on Episode 021
Tinkercad – A starting place for 3D design. It walks students through the process step by step and is an excellent way to expose younger students to the design process.
Featured on Episode 021
Tinycards – Let’s you make flashcards and then turns them into a review game.
Featured on Episode 033
ToonDoo – Comic creation website that you can use to make comic strips or story boards.
Featured on Episode 032
ToonyTool – Create your own cartoons and memes with a few clicks!
Featured on Episode 030
Trello – A highly customizable and powerful organizational tool that you can use for projects, to-dos, and even your personal life!
Featured on Episode 013
TurboSquid – A professional stock 3D model repository with free models your students can use for 3D design and printing.
Mentioned on Episode 021
Turtle Academy – Non-block-coding options for elementary and middle school students.
Featured on Episode 043
Tween Tribune – Digital article resource that offers leveled articles created by Smithsonian.
Featured on Episode 047
TweetGen – This is an easy to use Tweet generating site. It can be used in any class and looks just like Twitter!
Featured on Episode 041
Twiddla – This site works like a digital white board. You are able to annotate photos, PDFs, websites and so much more, all while sharing the live link with others.
Featured on Episode 008
Typing.com – Typing practice that connects to Google Classroom, has many options to choose from.
Featured on Episode 029
Typing Club – Typing basics for younger students with easy to follow directions.
Featured on Episode 029
V
Venngage – This infographic site has a variety of visual tools that will engage students quickly.
Featured on Episode 007
Videonot.es – A super easy and efficient way to take notes while watching videos. **NOTE: As of Sept. 2019, it seems Videonot.es is no longer available. ☹️**
Featured on Episode 006
ViewPure – Takes ads off Youtube videos to make them less distracting.
Featured on Episode 024
Virtual Nerd – Offers tons of math support videos for middle grade through high school students.
Featured on Episode 046
Visme – An easy-to-use timeline maker. Also great for infographics and presentations.
Featured on Episode 018
Visualize.me – Infographic resume builder.
Featured on Episode 045
Vocabulary.com – This site allows you to create flashcards for any subject and you can easily assign lessons to students.
Featured on Episode 033
Voki – Easy-to-use avatar creator with many free choices and simple to record a message.
Featured on Episode 028
W
Wakelet -– A tool that allows you to “collect” all kinds of information that you want to share or just keep for later reference.
Featured on Episode 019
Weebly – Web design site that is great for sharing student work. It has pre-made templates and a drag-and-drop format.
Featured on Episode 015
WeVideo – A fantastic way for student to design, develop and edit their own videos.
Featured on Episode 005
Mentioned on Episode 044
Wix.com – Easy-to-use web design site with professional looking templates and a drag and drop format.
Featured on Episode 015
WordClouds.com – Word cloud creator that is easy to use with many shape and color choices.
Featured on Episode 028
World Wide Steel Buildings (3D designer) – This is a real business site that has a great building 3D design tool. You are able to design 3D buildings and see all of the measurements as you work!
Featured on Episode 042