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Thinglink
Thinglink can annotate images with text, audio, or video. You can then share your annotated media in a website, LMS, or present online. Educators can use ThingLink for free. Sharing the content you create with your students can be done from your free account. Allowing students to create content requires a paid teacher account. Thinglink…
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Visme
Visme is everything you need to tell powerful visual stories in the form of engaging presentations, infographics, and other visual content. Visme is a design tool to tell and present stories and translate boring data into stunning visual formats right in your browser. Visme is very easy to navigate and it offers free templates that can help you…
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PixStori
PixStori™ is an app to record stories about your smartphone photos. It links voice and still images in a multimedia PixStori that can be instantly shared on social media, uploaded into searchable cloud collections of family or group memories, and collected as crowdsourced field data for organizations and businesses. It is Oral History meets Instagram.…
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Read&Write for Google Chrome™
Makes documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles. A range of support tools to gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: Text-to-speech to…
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7 Excellent Tools for Creating Interactive Video Quizzes
Design quizzes to integrate with video. Some of these tools also let you annotate video content. Import video clips and add a variety of interactive features (e.g., quizzes, comments, links, etc.). 7 Excellent Tools for Creating Interactive Video Quizzes Keywords: video, quiz
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Helping Apps for Practitioners and Educators (HAPPE)
Helping Apps for Practitioners and Educators, HAPPE, is a monthly blog series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The goal of the series is to connect practitioners and educators in the Helping Professions with mobile apps they may find useful in practice or in their pursuit of life-long learning. We believe digital literacies…
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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…
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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
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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
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Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
This open education resource (OER) is designed to assist with reading and writing at the college level. The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides multimedia support to students preparing for college-level writing, as well as students making the transition out of introductory-level writing courses. The Online Reading Comprehension Lab (ORC) is the, first of its…
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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…
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Public Domain Review – Collections
This site contains curated collections of images, books, audio and movies, illuminating the curiosities and wonders of a wide range of online archives. Public Domain Review – Collections Keywords: Creative Commons, copyright
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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
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Articulate 360
Articulate 360 includes both Storyline and Rise plus other authoring apps. With Storyline 360 you can develop custom, interactive courses that work on every device. It’s powerful enough for experts, but easy for beginners to create almost any interaction imaginable. Choose Rise when you want to build fully responsive courses in minutes. All you need is a web browser…
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Vyond (formerly Go Animate)
One of the animation and whiteboard building websites. Vyond has prebuilt templates that customize for business or education. You choose backgrounds and props or can upload custom images. Vyond has a diverse selection of ethnic characters or you can customize to resemble an actual person. You can choose music from their library and narrate with…
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OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer)
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has created a web-based, system called OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) to inexpensively and efficiently enhance access to oral history online. OHMS provides users word-level search capability and a time-correlated transcript or indexed interview connecting the textual search term to the corresponding moment…
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Wakelet
Share articles, videos, images, tweets, and other great content with one link. Save them for later and create collections, called wakes, at any time. Organize the web, the way you want it. Save, curate, and share from a wide variety of sources to create very visually pleasing presentations. Also very suitable for creating a personal…
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SurfSafe
Defend the internet. Bring the world to the Internet without false news. If you see something that is false, report it! Supercharge your browser to catch fake news! SurfSafe is protecting users from misleading, photoshopped, and fake news throughout the Internet. The extension marks the level of safety of an image or article on the corners. Never…
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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…
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Open Education Group
The Open Education Research Group is supported by a group at Bringham Young University conducts research to measure the impact of OER use. The Open Education Group site’s tagline is, “socially responsive research that concretely improves society.” The site also shares stories about how OERs are used in the “real world.” The scenarios are great starting points for faculty to think…