THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE LIST

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

• AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool.
• Quizlet is a simple tool that let you study for free.
• Remind 101 A safe way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents.
• Socrative Smart Student Response System. 
• Weebly EDU is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Weebly was named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites of the year.
• SurveyAnyplace focuses on creating fun, mobile and interactive quizzes and surveys.

EDITOR AND REFERENCE MANAGERS

• BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for Mac OS X, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
• RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

• Prezi EDU Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides.

PLAGIARISM CHECKERS

• CrossCheck CrossCheck powered by iThenticate is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
• Grammarly Avoid plagiarism by checking your texts against over 8 billion documents.
• PaperRater Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor does.
• Plagium Simply paste your text.
• Turnitin The global leader in plagiarism prevention and online grading.
• Viper The plagiarism checker that's accurate, easy and free...
• WriteCheck Plagiarism Check, Grammar Check & Tutoring

RESEARCH RESOURCES

• EncuestaFacil.com is the top-ranking online survey website in Europe and Latin America. 

• LiquidPlanner offer for free educational use of their project management software for up to 15 ‘seats’. Beyond being used by teachers to manage class workloads, students can also get this offer themselves to use in their own collaborative efforts (such as a senior project).
• AWS Amazon currently offers grants for educational use of its extensive server network.

SECURE TEAM FILE SHARING

• Dropbox If you create an account via this link, you’ll get an extra 250MB of storage space.
• Memopal If you create an account  via this link, you'll get an extra 500MB of storage space.
• SugarSync If you create account via this link, you'll get an extra 500MB of storage space. ​
  

URJC PROFESSORS RESOURCES (IN SPANISH)

• DBF Portable Viewer Freeware Para ver, editar, importar y exportar datos de la lectora óptica de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
• eXeLearning Editor que permite crear contenidos didácticos para el portal de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos sin necesidad de saber HTML.
• Tecnología Encuestafacil Las Universidades y Centros de Postgrado de la red pueden utilizar encuestafacil.com TOTALMENTE GRATIS.

VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

• Engrade unifies all of the people, tools, data, and curriculum in your schools on one user-friendly platform.
• Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

VIRUS PROTECTION

• Avast Free access to business grade virus protection for schools. Avast will protect up to 30,000 devices with this offer.

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ONLINE GUIDES

ESSENTIAL BOOKS

• Essential Books for Kids and Teenagers. Books that are proven to click with all kinds of kids -- and can encourage them to become lifelong readers.

SPECIAL NEEDS AND LEARNING DIFFERENCES

• Power Up! A new interactive online guide packed with nearly 100 great apps for kids ages 2-17 who face challenges in areas like communication, reading and writing, and social and emotional development.

HOME-TO-SCHOOL CONNECTIONS

• Home-to-School Resource Guide. Get tips, tech tools, and strategies for how to strengthen the bonds between schools, families, and communities.
• Parent-Teacher Conference Tip Sheets for Principals, Teachers, and Parents (2010). These three tip sheets for principals, teachers, and parents can help ensure that conferences achieve their maximum potential.

SPACE MATH @ NASA PROBLEM BOOKS

• This page contains a complete collection of books and other Space Math products in PDF format, which are available to download.

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

GAMES

• Web Adventures is a web site with a collection of Flash games in which you may explore science and health related subjects, including forensic science, microbiology, neuroscience, and body systems.

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Last updated: February 2, 2017