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Equity Maps

Equity Maps is an iPad app to trace and assess interaction, performance, and involvement in class or group discussions. Chart & record the interactions to graphically illustrate levels of participation. Use in class discussions to encourage equitable dialogue, promote wider collaboration. Questions this app can help you address include: Is everyone sharing air-time? Is someone with…
YoTeach

This anonymous backchannel/chatroom allows text, drawing, photo uploads, and annotating functionality. Easy to use and no login is required. It is advertised as an alternative to TodaysMeet, a popular backchannel tool that is no longer available. YoTeach Keywords: chat, backchannel
Answer Garden

A tool that can be used for real-time classroom brainstorming or online homework. Can be used in the classroom, for professional development, creativity and more. Results can be displayed in a visual Wordcloud format with the most often used responses showing in relatively larger text-size. AnswerGarden Keywords: response, polling, wordcloud, audience response, classroom response
Captioning for Google Slides

Google Slides can automatically add real-time captions to live Google Slides presentations. It’s really quite easy: Start your presentation Click “CC” in the bar on the bottom to start closed captioning. Captions will appear as you speak. Captions will not include any punctuation. At this time, the captions are not saved. Learn more about Captioning…
PROMO Image Resizer

This tool is a simple way to automatically resize any image. Resize images to perfectly fit social media and the web with the click of a button. This tool can be used straight from your browser. No download or logins are needed. Promo Image Resizer
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) from the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It is described by the National Center for UDL as, “a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone–not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but…
VideoAnt

VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called “Ants”. VideoAnt Keywords: peer review, video annotation
Panopto: Lecture Capture

Panopto is a lecture-capture program. It is used to record any activity on a computer to an online video. The video is then indexed automatically for certain events, such as each slide advance of PowerPoint slides. Panopto records audio as well, along screen activity such as clicking on the screen and navigating web pages, the…
Freshdesk Help Desk Software

Intuitive, feature-rich, affordable customer support software
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)

“Teaching Tolerance provides me with the means to promote social justice, challenge bias, and engage students in discussions about diversity that would perhaps not happen otherwise.”
LinkedR

Linkreducation is an associated platform in which you find, build, and manage educational & pedagogical collaborations. On this platform, you can add a class, invite students, find a collaborative partner, let students share with a larger group, explore and assign them work, and the opportunity to exchange and to get feedback. The options are wide…
Adobe Premiere Rush

Unveiled at Adobe Max in October 2018, Premiere Rush CC is an easier-to-use version of Premiere aimed at YouTubers and other video content creators. You can capture, edit, color-correct, and more, then publish to YouTube, Instagram and elsewhere. Rush works on both desktop and mobile devices (iOS now, Android soon) – and it automatically syncs your…
Adobe Education Exchange

Adobe Education Exchange is a free learning platform and community, designed by educators for educators. It’s a great place to find materials to help you and your students learn about working with images, video, and audio media. Adobe Education Exchange After you’ve logged into “EdEx” you’ll find: Lesson plans and other learning materials…
9 Ways to Be a Good Digital Citizen – using technology appropriately

This webpage from Digital Citizenship, developed by Mike Ribble, shares Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship. They fall into three categories, which are listed below. Respect Your Self / Respect Others Etiquette Access Law Educate Your Self / Connect with Others Communicate Literacy Commerce Protect Your Self / Protect Others Rights & Responsibilities Safety (Security) Health…
RealtimeBoard

The Ultimate Guide to Effective Remote Collaboration
Notability

This note-taking app helps to combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring projects to life. Use a wide range of note-taking and sketching tools to capture every detail. You can even add and annotate PDFs. It’s the perfect place to create and organize work, school, and life’s information! Experiment with different…
EDpuzzle

EdPuzzle is a software that allows one to edit videos from a variety of places to personalize them to meet specific needs. For this application, one can take videos from YouTube, Kahn Academy, Vimeo, and several other places or upload their own video. The crop feature allows the user to focus the attention of the…
Edmodo

Edmodo is a controlled social media platform for teachers, students, and parents. It allows teachers to assign and grade homework on their mobile devices, students to connect with educators and classmates, and parents to stay up-to-date on what their kids are doing at school. Millions of learners around the world use Edmodo to find the…
Nozbe

Get things done. Personal scheduling and collaboration with peers. Busy people and effective teams get tasks and projects done thanks to Nozbe system and apps for the Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPad and iPhone. Nozbe has been helping hundreds of thousands of busy professionals and organizations large and small get more done for the last…
Bubbl

A mind mapping and brainstorming tool. A mind map is a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. It’s a visual thinking tool for structuring information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas. Bubbl.us works the same on all platforms, for both desktop and mobile. You will never need to download or install…