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PowerNotes

The PowerNotes Chrome extension eliminates the need to copy and paste or employ other poor processes to capture content. PowerNotes users just highlight material they find useful, include an annotation if appropriate, and then categorize the highlight into a topic of their choosing. PowerNotes is designed to unify the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating,…
MeWe

MeWe is an alternative to Facebook. It is a social media platform that does not own or collect user data and resell it to advertising companies. MeWe was created by Mark Weinstein with the goal to let users control their own data and privacy. It has features similar to Facebook. MeWe
Web Captioner

A free web-based service that uses automated captioning and displays a real-time transcription in your browser. It works best in Google Chrome, on your personal computer and if you have an external microphone, though it also works well with your computer’s internal microphone as long as the environment is quiet and you are within a couple of…
Live Captioning Without A Budget

The tools featured on this page from George Mason University offer options for streaming live captions using automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR tools use artificial intelligence to convert speech into text. In recent years, educational technologies have started to integrate ASR into their platforms as a way to develop content that is more accessible and…
Online Discussion Boards & Professor’s Presence – 10 Principles & 51 Strategies

This Quick Reference / Best Practice Card for online discussions is adapted from “The Professor’s Manual,” by Victoria Nesnick, a Higher Education Faculty Development Consultant. The guide provides research-based guiding principles and strategies to help create and maintain effective presence and interaction between facilitators and participants as related to online discussion board participation. This resource…
Google Classroom

A classroom is a place where the knowledge transfer takes place. Usually a one-to-many interaction takes place in a classroom and different assessment tools are used at the end of every topic to evaluate the understanding levels of the students. All these activities which are carried out for centuries inside the physical classrooms are now…
Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for Maximizing Student Learning from Video Content

This is a research article available in CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), a free, online quarterly journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), is packed with links to other relevant research about using and creating videos for learning. Below is an excerpt from the abstract. “Educational videos have become an important part of…
LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a powerful and free office suite, a successor to OpenOffice(.org), used by millions of people around the world. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint…
Mural

Mural is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. It enables people and innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops.…
HelloTalk

Learn by Chatting The best way to learn a language is to actually speak it! HelloTalk connects you with native speakers to chat with for free. But this isn’t your standard chat app. The interface is packed with innovative tools to make practicing a language fun and effortless.    You can chat with individual members,…
BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is an open-source web conferencing system. In addition to various web conferencing services. BigBlueButton supports multiple audio and video sharing, presentations with extended whiteboard capabilities – such as a pointer, zooming and drawing – public and private chat, desktop sharing, integrated VoIP using FreeSWITCH, and support for the presentation of PDF documents and Microsoft…
Discord

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities. Say it is Whatsapp with improved privacy (our phone # are not disclosed when we join groups), with bots and lot of other cool features.
Design for non-designers: five visual principles to give you a head start

A concise overview of five key principles of design including White space Typography Grids and alignment The power of contrast Colour and images Design for non-designers: five visual principles to give you a head start
Otter.ai

Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, transcripts, files to create video captions, and other important voice conversations with this AI-powered assistant. Some of the features available with the free version include transcriptions in real-time, identification of speakers, generate summary keywords & word cloud, and 600 minutes of transcriptions (per month). Otter.ai
FreeConferenceCalling

Free Conference Calling does not charge for its conference call service, it’s free to use for conference calling anytime. All participants in the conference call dial a toll number, not a toll-free 1-800 number. Any costs incurred are based solely on the caller’s long-distance plan with their provider. You can have up to 1,000 callers…
New to Working Remotely? These Resources Can Help – LinkedIn free training resources

Almost overnight, remote work has become mainstream. Companies around the world are encouraging their employees to work from home to prioritize the health and safety of their workforce and communities amid coronavirus. Working through this rapid change can be hard and we’re moving quickly to help members get information they can trust, stay connected to their…
WebEx

Cisco Webex is a web conference tool that enables fully interactive video and audio connections with people locally and around the world. WebEx provides web conferencing and desktop sharing through a web browser. Share whatever you’re viewing on your computer with everyone in the meeting. A WebEx account isn’t needed to connect to an established…
Slido

Slido is a web-based Q&A and Polling platform to engage an audience with live questions and polls. Everybody can ask and vote for the best questions. Question and poll results are updated live on the interactive wall. Ask questions, vote in polls and be a part of the conversation at the event you’re attending. Visit…
Teachly

Teachly, developed at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is a platform designed to help educators create a more effective and inclusive classroom to provide insight into teaching to be able to work towards providing an equitable learning space for all. Teachly
Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME)

The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) is a web-based program designed for use in higher education to promote SMARTER Teamwork prepares students to function effectively in teams and supports faculty as they manage their students’ group and team experiences. As an instructor, CATME can help you to: Gather information from students and provide…