Instructional Strategies

"Building a wall" is a simple, powerful tool for teaching, brainstorming, event planning, discussions, lists, notice boards, site bookmarking, sharing and more.

A free desktop app that contains over twenty interactive, fully-customizable resources for teachers to use in their classrooms.

A set of six large color-coded foam dice, each with a question structure printed on every side. Thinking Dice are specifically designed to promote higher order thinking and questioning skills among students, as per Bloom's revised taxonomy of thinking.

Word clouds in shapes. Turns words—famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, etc.—into a visually stunning word cloud, with words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Student response system for teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

A web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. Like Google Docs, but delineates authors by color.

Popplet's simple interface is a platform for capturing ideas, sorting them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime quickly and easily.

Making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web in recognition of skills and achievements.

Teaching resources offered under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. This means you can use it, adapt it and put it elsewhere online.

Coding for kids made easier. Simple web page creation tool. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click.

Point and click interactive media page authoring tool. With over 20 plugins—ranging from Twitter to Google Maps to video processing— you’ll be able to stitch up a stylish video from web content that is 100% free and open source.

Free online, browser-based sticky note/photo/video sharing bulletin board.

Remix, make and share webpages instantly. Allows viewing of underlying html code used to construct web pages. Install the goggles into your bookmarks bar and use them to remix any web page.

With Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and forms can be created for classroom use. Collect RSVPs, run a survey, or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in a spreadsheet.

Grading assignments, made easy. Online assignments created using Google Forms can be graded in a single step. Quick reporting and analysis on student performance

Class reinforcement through reward. Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is about using tools and technologies to facilitate learning. Outcomes on rubrics are measured by competence of use and, most importantly, the quality of the process or product.

One question. Minimalistic feedback tool that can be used for online brainstorming, embedded on a website or blog as a poll, or as a guestbook.