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Survey Anyplace

Free online survey tool for students and teachers. Also build quizzes, assessments, and calculators. There are plenty of survey tools out there. But to really make the most out of those tools, you’ll need a paying version. Not with Survey Anyplace, students and teachers are offered a professional license. Survey Anyplace
National Geographic – Including VR & 360° Video Content

National Geographic pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling. The National Geographic site has a large collection of stories that relate to critical issues affecting the world today and the impact on your life. The online series includes content from all over the world, including podcasts, virtual reality, and 360° videos. National Geographic National Geographic…
Open Access Journal Finder

The Open Access Journal Finder by Enago enables you to find quality open access journals that are pre-vetted to protect you from predatory publishers. Enago’s free journal finder solves common issues on journal authenticity, predatory journals and article processing fees by utilizing a validated journal index provided by The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).…
Data Visualization: University at Buffalo Libraries Research Guide

This guide provides an introduction to best practices, tools, and educational resources for data visualization, including tools, best practices, examples, and resources. Data visualization is the process of representing information using visual means, such as a chart/graph, diagram, map, concept map, or picture. There are two fundamental types of data visualization: exploratory visualization and explanatory…
Freedcamp

Freedcamp is freemium project management software for an unrestricted number of projects and users. The company endeavors to deliver an agile experience free of charge to customers worldwide. It’s worth noting that Freedcamp provides all additional features at no cost to teachers and students. Created to accompany Agile methodologies in the software development process, Freedcamp also…
Writing Resources

This site is a compiled collection of online Writing Resources. The collection has a few different sites which are linked from it. The list is created using Wakelet, which is a curation tool. Anyone is welcome to add or edit the resources on this list. Please add other useful sites to this growing collection. Writing Resources
How To Upload A Podcast (To iTunes Or Any Other Directory)

It’s a fairly common misconception that iTunes and other podcast directories host your podcast media files (typically an MP3). You don’t actually upload your podcast episode files to iTunes. What really happens is that you show iTunes where your podcast files are located in the form of an RSS feed. Then every time you upload a new episode, your feed is automatically updated – and iTunes updates your show listing with…
5 Ways to Easily Extract Audio Clips from Your Favorite Videos

Extract and save audio from a video file so you can create a stand-alone audio track or MP3 file that can be easily listened to on a mobile device or uploaded to a podcast hosting service. 5 Ways to Easily Extract Audio Clips from Your Favorite Videos
Knight Lab

Northwestern University Knight Lab is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces. The Lab provides an open, collaborative environment for interdisciplinary exploration and conversation, where students and professionals learn together and from one another. Products from Knight Lab include easy to create timelines, StoryMaps,…
CleverPDF – 27-in-1 Free Online PDF Tool

CleverPDF.com Offers 27 PDF tools online for free, which helps you create, convert or edit PDF documents. You can convert PDF to other document formats, such as PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, eBook formats, image formats, and more; create PDF from Office and images. It also allows you to combine or split, compress PDF, add…
Portfolium

Portfolium’s online platform is an academic-oriented social networking service, mainly targeting university students and recent graduates. Users can showcase their work through a profile and an ePortfolio by uploading media files such as images, PDFs, videos and other media files onto their profiles. [Wikipedia] Portfolium Keywords: portfolio, ePortfolio, resume
PechaKucha

PechaKucha 20×20 is an alternative way to present information which was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in Tokyo in 2003. It is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. PechaKucha Keywords: presentations
Why Should we use Technology in the Classroom?

With technology now totally embedded in our student’s lives, we are faced with a quandary; if you can’t beat them, join them. …and join them we should. It is our job to prepare them for their world, not to make them bend to fit a non-digital, obsolete world. But, what are the benefits of using…
35 Brilliant Classroom Apps

With the huge amount of classroom apps available, it’s hard to know which ones to use with your students. You don’t want to invest a large amount of your precious time setting one up only to find it’s not what you thought it was. Fear not. Check out these reviews of 35 of the best…
WeVu

WeVu is built for hands-on skills learning where students self-record on phones and instructors can give time-stamped feedback and assessment.
Miro – Collaboration without Constraints

Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard) is a visual collaboration platform allowing product managers, designers, developers, and marketers to create, collaborate, and centralize communication across the company on a single online whiteboard. Miro’s marketplace has integrations with over 50 apps allowing users to connect their favorite software. Popular integrations include Microsoft, Atlassian, and Slack. Miro claims to be…
Ultimate Guide to Easily Make Instructional Videos

A wonderful outline on how to create educational videos, including how-to videos, tutorial, and instructional videos. Ultimate Guide to Easily Make Instructional Videos
Seesaw

It is an app and website that offers instructors different assessment methods of students and ways to create interactive lessons for students. Like other websites that allow for portfolios, students can create their own portfolios while allowing for communication between students, parents, and teachers. Students can use online tools to demonstrate their creativity and learning.…
Creative Book Builder

Creative Book Builder allows you to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. Embed images, audio files, video files, and write text. The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to…
Sounds: The Pronunciation App

This app helps you with English pronunciation by providing a chart with sounds of each letter, practice quiz and practice test on typing it out and saying the English language the right way. You also can learn about vowels and consonants. Sounds: The Pronunciation App