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 With the click of a mouse and a desire to try something new, there are a variety of free tools available to you! The following tools can help you get organized, create original assignments and lessons, strengthen students' writing skills, and augment teaching.
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Examine Text Online
Thinkport’s annotation tool provides an interactive platform to markup, closely examine, and annotate text and passages online. The interactive tool comes with student and teacher views, and virtual markers to highlight specific content. Additionally, educators can assign, review and comment on student work.
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Bolster Teaching With Free Tools
Personalize and rejuvenate learning with a suite of interactive tools form
PBS LearningMedia. The collection includes a lesson and puzzle builder, a quiz maker and a storyboard creator.
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Help Students Get
Organized
Graphic organizers offer teachers countless ways to facilitate learning in the
classroom. Thinkport's handy assortment of downloadable organizers can help students increase knowledge
and understanding of subject matter, structure writing projects, and make
connections between ideas, tasks or facts.
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 Strengthen Your Media
Making Skills
Elevate digital media know-how and techniques with KQED's professional learning opportunities. The site provides modules and
courses designed to deepen 21st century teaching skills. Educators can also interact with a
community of learners online.
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Earn Credits and Clock Hours Online
Build your teaching toolkit from the comforts and convenience of any computer with Thinkport's online courses.
> Access K-12 Courses
> Explore Courses for Early Care Providers
Tune into MPT for innovative, educational programs, documentary films and specials. Here are a few highlights for the week.
 Africa's Great Civilizations
Origins/The Cross and the Crescent
Monday, February 27, 9:00 pm on MPT
Journey with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Kenya,
Egypt and beyond as he discovers the origins of man and the formation of early
human societies.
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