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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
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Siteimprove Accessibility Checker
The Siteimprove Accessibility Checker is your tool to evaluate any web page for accessibility issues at any given time. It provides intuitive, visual feedback about your content by highlighting detected issues right on the page and gives you: an immediate overview of your page’s accessibility issues clear explanations of how they affect your users plus…
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Internet Search Engines: How to Find What You Want on the World Wide Web: Web Search – University at Buffalo Libraries Research Guide
University at Buffalo librarians have evaluated Web directories and search engines and selected the most useful ones out of hundreds for you to help you locate whatever it is that you are looking for. The search tools are organized into the following categories: Web Search Web Directories Multi-Search Current News Search Find People Search Metasites…
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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,…
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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…
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Atom – coding made easy for brand new Mac users
Hello fellow Mac coders! Atom is a free and easy to download application that allows coders to change and organize files easily. Once downloaded, any folder can be dragged and all the files will be ready to be used. Highly recommended if you’re coding on any kind of Mac, since coding on Terminal can be…
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7 Things You Should Know About Digital Literacies – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
The concept of digital literacy encompasses a range of skills and knowledge necessary to evaluate, use, and create digital information in various forms. Digital literacies include data literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, and metaliteracy, as well as related capacities for assessing social and ethical issues in our digital world. Administrators, faculty members, librarians, instructional designers, and others…
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Trello
Trello is an online tool for managing professional projects and personal tasks. Use Trello boards, lists, and cards to organize and prioritize projects and to-do lists. This task management app gives you a visual overview of what is being worked on and who is working on it. Trello is a web-based Kanban-style list-making application, useful in…
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CUNY Accessibility Toolkit for Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide was created by the City University of New York (CUNY) to assist Librarians, faculty, staff & OER developers create accessible content and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER). On this guide you will find information on: Creating Accessible Content: Platforms: Evaluating your OER site: VPATs: Voluntary Product Accessibility Template CUNY Accessibility Toolkit for Open…
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
This full-length (1 hr.) documentary focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some…
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Remix Project – improving media literacy across the curriculum
The goal of the Remix Project is to improve media literacy across the curriculum so that all students are better prepared for the media-rich world of the twenty-first century. The Remix Project is a collaborative effort of the Hesburgh Libraries and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning from the University at Notre Dame. The…
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Visual Learning Center by Visme
The resource to help you become a better visual communicator. The site contains a wide array of resources visual learners and presenters. These resources will help you become a better presenter, communicator, and storyteller by creating better presentations and infographics. Visual Learning Center by Visme Keywords: visual learning, digital literacy, blogs and wikis, visualize information, presentation
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Project Noah | Networked Organisms And Habitats
Project Noah is “a global citizen science platform to discover, share, and identify wildlife. It is a software tool that that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and share with others. It also provides a common technology platform for research groups, teachers and students interested in wildlife. Project Noah | Networked…
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7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
With the ever rising cost of education, the textbook price is also rising. The open educational resources model has surfaced as a response to this problem and to meet the increasing demand of high-quality learning materials. Open textbooks can be offered by commercial publishers or found in open repositories. Open resources can promote active learning…
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Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking
In a world of competition and exhilaration, success comes to those who are actively organized. A vital tool to aide students in today’s digital era where as much of learning happens online as it does in an in-person classroom is a proper note taking strategy. KQED Inc. describes how digital note taking strategies can enhance…
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Mathway
Mathway is a problem solving tool, providing algorithms that will solve many algebraic problems. It is available on most cell phone and personal computer platforms. Using this tool, the instructor can create scenarios in which the learner can solve more realistic problems than normally included in many first year college math texts. A common complaint…
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SOL*R Repository
SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows educators to access free online learning resources. SOL*R includes learning resources from a wide variety of disciplines and subject areas. Resources range from open textbooks, individual learning activities, and tools, all the way to full programs. SOL*R Repository
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Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…
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Mason OER Metafinder
The Mason OER Metafinder searches seventeen targets in real-time, instantly returning the top several hundred or so relevant hits from each site. Searches include open textbooks, libraries, museums and organizations from around the world. Mason OER Metafinder
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Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool for open educational resources (OER). OASIS currently searches open content from 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records. Use OASIS to discover quality, free open textbooks, courseware and more. OASIS was developed by the SUNY Geneseo Milne Library, in consultation with SUNY OER Services. Openly…