Course Productivity WebTools: choose from a suite of tools to improve your ability to manage the digital resources you use in your instruction. Combine these with personal productivity tools and create your own personal digital infrastructure (PDI).

myprojectpages.com. Create a variety of inquiry-based online learning documents including Project Pages, MiniQuests, Curriculum Quests, Curriculum Pages, VisualQuests, and a decision-making lesson called My Decision Is... Build these projects through a Wizard interface that simply requires to type and use your skill as a classroom instructional designer.

Filamentality: Create five different types of online learning activities without any knowledge of Web programming. Can be used by teachers and students alike. Create Hotlists, Scrapbook, Treasure Hunt, Subject Sampler, and WebQuest. Completely editable.

Slate Tools for Educators: create activites featuring Web links, workspaces, and evaluation rubrics based on your curriculum. Also see other resources from David Warlick:

Rubric Builder
Citation Machine
Permission Request for Teachers
Permission Request for Teachers
Net Evaluation and Collection

High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium: features an entire suite of content creation services.

Trackstar: create a list of links on topics. Associate with a Web page or a quiz.
Rubistar: Build rubrics!
Notestar: Notestar enables teachers to create online workspaces for students to capture notes. Automatically records source information for their bibliographies. Very cool.
QuizStar: create online quizzes.
Web Worksheet Wizard: create lessons, worksheets and class pages on the Web.
Project Poster: intended for students, Project Poster allows student to create online "posters" about a particular assignment.
Casa Notes: make customize notes that are sent home.
Notable Pics: use your own photographs to create online lessons. Students can use this as well.
Assign-a-Day: online teacher managed calendar.
r*tec teacher: select a subject, then select a theme, and then a topic to build your own set of resources.

Creating Online Assessment:

QuizCenter: From DiscoverySchool.com, create online quizzes in four different formats; create a self-test, retry test, email test (mailed to you for correction) and a correct and email quiz. You can include Web graphics and/or Web links in your quizzes to make them truly thinking activities. Requires membership to Custom Classroom, which is free.

Quia: create class pages, various types of learning games (e.g. online flashcards, wordsearches, etc) basic quizzes, miniquizzes

Hot Potatoes: The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Free for educators who post their quizzes to the Web.

Capturing Web Content:

Webcopier: Download Web pages for offline viewing. Implications? If you have a class and you are using the Web, you know what happens when your Web connection goes down. By downloading the Web pages to your computer, you don't have to worry! Available for free from their download link. Free 30 day trial: Windows only.

WebZip: Download Web pages for viewing offline.

Creating an Online Course Presence:

Blackboard: create your own course site: place lessons, assignments and announcements online. Stay in touch with absent students, permit parents to view student assignments, incorporate tests, quizzes, and Web links all in an easy to use interface. Create a free 60-day account here.

eBoard: create your own "online corkboard." Use eBoard tocreate your own course Web site that features post-it notes that you define. Very easy to use and update.

eCollege: select eToolkit, which permits you to develop your own course presence, including the posting of announcements and your syllabus, creating your own "online office hours," create your own course calendar, post grades, and communicate with students via email.

Creating Online Discussion Groups:

Nicenet: Use Nicenet to conference with students, share Web links and class documents, and post class schedules. Many of the features of Nicenet are integrated together, so that you can post an assignment, assign Web links to it, and create an interactive class discussion about the assignment. From Northwestern University.

Creating a Bibliography:

Citation Machine from David Warlick.

easybib.com: allows users to create bibliographies easily and effectively.

Create Your Own Adobe Acrobat pdf files!:

Create 5 for free by clicking here.

"Technology is merely a tool to help us improve the opportunities for learning and help us really approach the kind of teaching that we think is important in our schools....."

Linda Roberts, Department of Education