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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…
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SUNY OER – Ready-to-Adopt Catalog
The SUNY Ready-to-Adopt OER catalog, created by OER Services with support from our partner Lumen Learning, focuses on general education curriculum, course materials in this catalog include peer-reviewed content to replace expensive textbooks, plus ancillary materials like PowerPoint slides and test bank questions. Many courses also include online homework, auto-grading, adaptive tools, and analytics to improve learning and…
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Qwickly Attendance
This robust course tool enables faculty to take attendance that is automatically graded in the Blackboard Grade Center. Faculty can take attendance using an attendance list on screen or allow students to check in on their own browser, complete with a PIN and countdown timer. One very helpful feature is the ability to have an…
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Freshdesk Help Desk Software
Intuitive, feature-rich, affordable customer support software
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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.”
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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…
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Pixabay
Discover the best source for free images and videos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required. Over one million royalty free photos, illustrations and vector graphics – and thousands of free video clips. All images and footage on Pixabay are released under Creative Commons CCO: Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Pixabay …
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Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock images for personal and commercial use. The site includes a large collection of photos, videos, wallpaper, and more. Pexels Keywords: Creative Commons
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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…
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Waze
This mobile app and web-based mapping combine social media with mapping. It provides live commentary on your route. In particularly dense areas, it’s often impossible to know exactly what’s happening ahead of you. Waze takes advantage of real-time contributions of members to “light the way” for you. Waze Keywords: Maps
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RealtimeBoard
The Ultimate Guide to Effective Remote Collaboration
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OER Community Course Experience
The OER Community Course Experience is created by the State University of New York (SUNY) OER Services. The SUNY OER Community Courses introduce you to the fundamental principles and effective practices related to Open Educational Resources. Throughout the learning space, you have the opportunity to explore and discuss methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating,…
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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…
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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…
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How to Improve Audio Quality with Audacity
This blog post from LearnUpon has a few practical tips on how to improve sound quality in audio recordings. The tips are targeted to using Audacity and they are also applicable to the use of other audio authoring tools. Poor audio quality is one of the most frustrating things you can subject your learners to. Not…
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Gliffy
Gliffy is a collaborative web-based diagram editor that can be used to create mind maps and other visual organizations of information such as; flow charts, org charts, schematic drawings, floor plans, technical drawings, concept maps, and more. Gliffy Keywords: Collaboration, Productivity Tools, Visual Design, mindmap
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Knovio
Knovio is a web-based application that can record web camera video and attach that video to presentation slides from Microsoft PowerPoint or image files. Overall it’s a great way to get “virtual lectures” created in a quick and efficient manner. Educators: Deliver highly interactive, video-led teaching experiences with video presentations. It’s the fast and easy way…
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OverLeaf
Collaborative Writing and Publishing
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Babble – learn a new language online
Babble is a language learning website. It is effective and easy to use. You can explore a new language by taking a brief sample lesson that ends with a gamified self-assessment. The sample lesson involves writing as well as speaking exercises. Babble is housed in Germany and it offers reasonable monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual subscription/payment…