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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web: HTML, CSS, and many more. The W3C is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead…
Creating Captioned Lectures on a Shoestring Budget (SUNY CPD Webinar recording)

This recorded workshop is part of the SUNY CPD Remote Teaching Clinic Webinar Series. A variety of options for creating captions using free and inexpensive tools are shared. The session includes links to a few how-to videos about techniques such as live captioning using Google Slides and PPT365 Live-captioning. Slides for the session are also…
Creating an Online Community, Class or Conference – Quick Tech Guide

This guide is an editable Google Doc that has a wide collection of resources to assist you to create an online community, class or conference. “Are you creating an online course, event or conference? If you’re not a programmer, and if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, this guide will get you…
Edublogger’s Guide to Podcasting

This guide will help you understand what podcasts are, why they’re popular, and how to access or create your own podcasts. We’ve also included a PDF with 50 ideas for student created podcasts. Podcasts are simply audio files that are published online. Podcasts can also include video or other sorts of file formats but within…
Anchor

Anchor is a free platform for podcast creation. It contains tools that allow users to record and edit audio, arrange it into podcast episodes, publish podcasts to listening platforms, and monetize content by collecting listener contributions or adding advertisements into episodes. Anchor
Microsoft Digital Literacy Course

Learn how to effectively use devices, software, and the internet to collaborate with others and discover, use, and create information. The Microsoft Digital Literacy course is for anyone with basic reading skills who want to learn the fundamentals of using digital technologies. The course is at a reading level like that of most newspapers around…
QuickTime

QuickTime allows you to quickly make common edits to video and audio content including trim, rearrange, and rotate. You can also split a movie into multiple clips and manipulate each one individually. In addition, QuickTime also allows you to create screencasts by recording your Mac screen and capturing your screen from most iOS mobile devices.…
Perusall

Perusall is a platform that allows someone to annotate readings and engage the reading material in a style akin to social media posting. Full comments can be added, users can “like” comments, use hashtags, link URLs to comments, and even use emoticons. — adapted from Etools: Using Perusall in the Classroom Celeste C Wells, Boston…
PlantNet – Pl@ntNet

PlantNet is a participatory science project that enables scientists from all over the world to better understand plant biodiversity and to study the best ways to preserve it. Identify, explore, and share your observations of wild plants · Pl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures. Pl@ntNet
Recast Studio – Online Video Editor

Recast focuses on helping creators to produce professional quality videos in minimum clicks. Making video is time consuming. We broke down the entire process of editing the video and then optimized every part of it to increase the speed of making the video. Helping creators focus on the important aspects like storytelling and less on…
How to Add ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Captions into a Video in Panopto

The Panopto video platform features Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to vastly ease the process of adding closed captions to video lectures and instructional materials. Captions can be generated for newly created and existing video content in Panopto. While the accuracy of the ASR generated captions is not perfect, the Panopto editor allows for streamlined editing…
Energy 3D

Energy3D is a simulation-based engineering tool for designing green buildings and power stations that harness renewable energy to achieve sustainable development. Users can quickly sketch up a realistic-looking structure or import one from an existing CAD file, superimpose it on a map image (e.g., Google Maps or lot maps), and then evaluate its energy performance…
Crevado

One of the easiest free portfolio websites, Crevado lets you use a simple drag-and-drop tool to upload your projects and rearrange on the screen for true ease-of-use. The site is also automatically optimized for any device, so your portfolio can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet as well as a desktop. Best of all,…
7 Things You Should Know About Virtual Labs

Virtual labs are interactive, digital simulations of activities that typically take place in physical laboratory settings. Virtual labs simulate the tools, equipment, tests, and procedures used in chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology, and other disciplines. Virtual labs allow students to participate in lab-based learning exercises without the costs and limitations of a physical lab. Virtual labs…
dotstorming

Dotstorming allows people to easily collaborate on a topic and come to decisions as a group. It uses dot voting which is a quick and simple method for prioritizing a list of options. It creates a sense of engagement and allows participants to see the decision process in action and understand how the final choice…
oTranscribe

Have you ever had to transcribe an audio content before? You probably had to be listening for 5 seconds, switch to a notepad to type out what you just listened to, and that over and over again. With oTrascribe, you can do the listening and typing in the same environment. With some customizable key combination,…
Jimdo

Jimdo provides two products including the standard editor, Jimdo Creator, and Jimdo Dolphin which falls under a new category of website builder systems. These two products live side by side: Jimdo Creator enables building a website from scratch or running your blog or online store, and Jimdo Dolphin is used to get a beautiful website…
3D Warehouse

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp. 3D Warehouse is a tremendous resource and online community for anyone who creates or uses 3D models. With the 3D Warehouse, you can. Download models. 3D Warehouse
Scalar

Scalar is a free, open-source publishing platform geared toward long-form scholarship with embedded multimedia. It also provides the capability for multimedia tagging and annotation, as well as for interacting with stories in a nonlinear way through different path structures. Scalar allows for the easy creation of a website using a book-type format. It was created…
Stanford d.school

Everyone has the capacity to be creative. The Stanford d.school is a place where people develop problem-solving skills using methods from across the field of design. Resources on this site include toolkits to guide learners through design challenges. Stanford d.school Stanford d.school – Resources How to Design an Education Escape Room