Periodic Table of EdTech
Curated by Isabella Liu
Nearpod
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Nearpod allows teachers to create K-12 interactive lessons, videos, and formative assessments.
PearDeck
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PearDeck is a Google Slides Add-On to make integrate interactive questions and formative assessment in presentations
Blendspace
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Blendspace is an online resource that is designed to help teachers create digital lessons that can be shared out with students.
LessonUp
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LessonUp is an online Learning Platform that allows teachers to create engaging lessons using video, images, interactive questions and quizzes.
ClassFlow
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ClassFlow is a cloud-based teaching software that allows teachers to build and access interactive lessons from any web browser, share lessons with other peers and collaborate using the latest mobile and student response technology.
Haiku Deck
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Haiku Deck is a presentation creation website and app (for iOS) that uses images, text, audio, and video to make impactful presentations with "decks" of slides.
Explain Everything
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Explain Everything is an interactive online whiteboard platform for which they offer two apps: Explain Everything Whiteboard (browser, subscription based online whiteboard) and Explain EDU (Explain Everything app for iOS only).
Jamboard
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Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard system developed by Google as part of Google Workspace
Sketchboard.io
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Sketchboard.io is an online whiteboard that allows collaboration to occur virtually at the same time.
Educreations
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Educreations is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. It allows teachers to annotate, animate, and narrate content.
OneNote
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Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration.
Docs
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Google Docs is a word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
Sheets
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Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
Slides
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Google Slides is a presentation program included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
Google Classroom
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Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments.
Brightspace
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Brightspace is a learning management system that is used by schools, higher education, and businesses for online and blended classroom learning.
Edmodo
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Edmodo is a learning management system that offers a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers.
Mentimeter
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Mentimeter allows presenters to create interactive presentations for real-time feedback
Poll Everywhere
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Poll Everywhere is an online service for classroom response and audience response systems
Glisser
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Glisser is a virtual and hybrid event hosting platform with an integrated audience response system.
Bookshare
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Bookshare makes reading easier for people with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers. Users can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school or work.
Read&Write
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Read&Write is a software toolbar that helps students create and access content with the literacy support features needed to engage with a personalized learning experience.
Seeing AI
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Seeing AI is an artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS. Seeing AI uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment.
Rewordify
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Rewordify is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension.
Breakout EDU
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BreakoutEDU has games for both remote and in-person learning where students work collaboratively to solve puzzles.
Minecraft: Education
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Minecraft: Education Edition website offers lesson plans and downloadable worlds to help teachers integrate the game into the classroom.
GooseChase EDU
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GooseChaseEDU allows teachers to create custom photo and video scavenger hunts. Students can play scavenger hunts through an app on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices.
PenPal Schools
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PenPal Schools connects students from 150 countries through project based learning.
Canva
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Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.
Book Creator
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Book Creator allows students to make digital books online on Chromebooks, PCs, iPads or tablets.
Google Chat
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Google Chat is a communication software developed by Google built for teams that provides direct messages and team chat rooms
Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft
Kaizena
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Free for educators and students. Kaizena is a Chrome extension that allows teachers to give high quality feedback on student work by simply highlight and speak to give verbal feedback, or attach reusable resources for common problems.
Kialo Edu
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Kialo is a discussion tool that can be used to facilitate classroom debate and discussions
YO Teach!
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YO Teach! is a multi-featured backchannel web app where teachers create and moderate chat rooms for real-time digital interaction among students.
YouTube
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YouTube is an online video sharing platform. Teachers can create YouTube playlists with relevant videos to share with students.
Edpuzzle
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Edpuzzle allows teachers to create interactive video lessons for students. No skipping function is automatically enabled to ensure students are watching the videos in their entirety.
Flipgrid
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Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions or feedback.
WeVideo
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WeVideo is an online, cloud-based video editing platform that works in web browsers and on mobile devices.
Thinglink
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ThingLink is a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any images or videos into an interactive graphic.
TED-Ed
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TED-Ed contains videos and guiding questions on particular concepts that teachers can easily integrate into their lessons.
Newsela
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Newsela is an education website focused on building student reading comprehension by providing high-quality news articles and real-time assessments for students in grades 2â12.
Seesaw
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Seesaw is a classroom app that can be used on mobile devices and web browsers. It allows teachers and students to record and share what's happening in the classroom easily.
ClassDojo
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ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what's being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.
Symbaloo
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Symbaloo is a cloud-based site that allows users to organize and categorize web links in the form of buttons.
Code.org
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Code.org is a non-profit organization that contains numerous resources and lessons on delivering computer science content.
Hour of Code
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The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week, its mission is for students and teachers to understand that computer science is fun.
Scratch
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Scratch is a block-based visual programming language and website targeted primarily at children 8-16 to help learn code.
Swift Playground
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Swift Playgrounds is an educational tool and development environment for the Swift programming language developed by Apple Inc. It's only for iOS devices.
CMU CS Academy
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CMU CS Academy is an online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University.
Microsoft MakeCode
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Microsoft MakeCode provides examples on the diverse application of computer coding through various tools such as micro:bit, adafruit, and LEGO mindstorm.
OBS Studio
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Open Broadcaster Software is a free and open-source cross-platform streaming and recording program
Screenflow
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ScreenFlowis a screencasting and video editing software for the macOS operating system.
Camtasia
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Genially is an all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, gamification, quizzes, breakouts, portfolios, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds.
T
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service where people can construct 280 character "tweets" accompanied by videos and photos. Teachers use Twitter to build on their Professional Learning Network by connecting with likeminded teachers.
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LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service site. Teachers use LinkedIn as a virtaul resume and also to connect with other teachers.
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Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. Teachers use Instagram to share photos of their resources, classroom, activities and to connect with other teachers.
TikTok
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TikTok is a social media platform that is used to make a variety of short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education, that have a duration from 3 seconds to 1 minute.
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Pinterest is an image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards
Kahoot
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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, where students can play user-generated multiple choice quizzes synchronously or asynchronously.
Quizizz
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Quizizz allows teachers to create and assign gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students
Quizlet
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Quizlet is an online study tool that allows students to create flashcards and study them via learning tools and games
Plickers
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Plickers is a rapid-response classroom-polling app that lets teachers use one mobile device to scan paper cards for student responses. There are iOS and Android apps as well as a web interface. Teacher holds up a device such as a phone or a tablet and scans students' responses, which are recorded.
InsertLearning
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InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that allows teachers to turn any webpage into an interactive assessment tool.
Formative
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Formative is a web-app for classrooms that allows teachers to give live assignments to students
Gimkit
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Gimkit is a classroom game-show platform where students compete by answering questions on their electronic devices. Instead of earning points, students earn virtual currency, which they can "invest" during the game to boost their score.
Genially
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Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, gamification, quizzes, breakouts, portfolios, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds.
Classcraft
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Classcraft an online, subject-agnostic, educational role-playing game. Teachers assign tasks for students to complete. Students' characters can only proceed through the game if they have successfully completed the assigned tasks.
Socrative
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Socrative allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly using their personal electronic devices.
Spiral
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Spiral is a formative assessment tool that emphasizes collaborative learning. Teachers can create quickfire Q&As, assign student teams for presentations, and create discussion points in pre-existing presentations.
Playposit
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PlayPosit is a web- and Chrome-based tool that lets teachers create and edit interactive video assessments from streamed or uploaded content. Teachers upload an audio file or a video from popular sites such as YouTube and Vimeo to create an interactive video. PlayPosit has a large library of templates that teachers can use.
Quizalize
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Quizalize is an online formative assessment tool. It contains official released tests to teacher-created resources. The tool immediately differentiates follow-up activities based on students' achievement.
Remind
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Remind is a private mobile messaging platform that aims to help teachers, parents, students, and administrators in Kâ12 schools to communicate with everyone at once.
Talking Points
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TalkingPoints is a messenger tool for educators. It allows teachers and administrators to connect and communicate with parents via text messaging directly to their phones and in their native languages.
Common Curriculum
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Common Curriculum contains lesson plan templates that are align with the Common Core & 50 state standards. Templates can be easily exported and shared between collaborating teachers.
Classroom Screen
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Classroom Screen allows teachers to create a screen by choosing from over thirteen widgets to help students get to work.
Khan Academy
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Khan Academy has a set of online tools that help educate students on particular concepts. Teachers can create classes and assign specific Khan Academy created readings or questions to students.
PhET
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PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts explorable explanations. PhET simulations can be inserted into slides with the Nearpod Google Slides add-on.
Google Tour Builder
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Google Tour Builder is a web-based storytelling tool which lets students and teachers easily create and explore stories and places around the world.
Desmos Classroom Activities
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Desmos Classroom contains digital math activities that teachers can assign to students and monitor their progress.
BioInteractive
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BioInteractive is a collection of resources, including 3D, animations, film, video, interactives, and virtual labs, that all pertain to the life sciences.
ExploreLearning
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ExploreLearning has a large library of interactive online simulations for mathematics and science education in grades 3â12.
Concord Consortium
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The Concord Consortium is filled with great tools to support teachers who are redesigning their curriculum in light of the Next Generation Science Standards.
Zoom
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Zoom is a video-communication service that is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations.