Tools for Teachers
Classroom Management Tools
ClassroomScreen is one of the tools I use daily in the classroom. You can post learning objectives, instructions to the students, bell ringers and reminders for the students on the board to begin class.
It has amazing embed tools to post your own images and videos as well. Timers, calendars, clocks, polls, scoreboards QR codes and more! Please check it out.
AnswerGarden is a website that allows you to post a prompt and share it with students. It could be used as a SEL check-in, bell ringer, formative assessment in the middle of a lesson or an exit ticket. Whichever words are most prominent in student responses will become the largest. It has an optional spam filter to protect against unwanted responses.
Presentation Tools
Prezi is a free presentation software that allows for you to create dynamic presentations that move from one slide to another. They can have uploaded images and embedded videos. You can also record your voice and create a guided presentation if you are doing a flipped classroom lecture. Check out my presentation on the Industrial Revolution in North Carolina.
Slides Carnival is a website that provides a ton of free templates to help make presentations you create more visually appealing. They have templates searchable by keywords, colors and styles. PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva are all supported!
Copyright Free Images
If you need royalty-free images for any reason you can find them here. There are a ton of great images free from LOC on their website. Also consider making images with ai, when appropriate. Speak with me if you need suggestions on which ai tools could help you the most.
Create Custom Images
Adobe Express and Canva offer the power to create images from scratch, with templates or even built-in ai tools. Whether you need a poster for your classroom, create an infographic, design a webpage or want to give students a creative assignment these websites are designed for it. They work well with Chromebooks although can be a little slow to load initially.
Student News Programs on YouTube
AI Tools For Teachers
There is an ai assistant designed specifically for teachers called BRISK. It is a chrome extension that allows you create lesson plans, sub notes, rubrics, presentations and more.
If you are a Google user you are probably familiar with Gemini. It is a text based ai that is really helpful when it comes to generating ideas, but it can also help you with slides, sheets, docs and the rest of the Google Drive Applications when you give it access to Google Workspace.
Google has an ai research tool called NotebookLM also worth checking out. It is an ai that only knows the information you feed it. So, if you upload your presentations, a copy of your readings, even Youtube Videos it is able to use that information to answer any questions you have. It can also create resources like timelines, FAQs and even a podcast with two ai hosts who discuss all the information you have shared with them.
