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CallingThunder – Immersive Exploration of Natural History of Manhattan
Calling Thunder is the first chapter in a series of immersive explorations into the natural history of New York. Calling Thunder focuses on the fascinating but little-known history of Manhattan. The site is quite creative and explores storytelling the use of 360-degree videos. CallingThunder Calling Thunder: The Unsung History of Manhattan – This video…
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Facebook
Facebook is a well-known and free to use social networking platform. Utilizing Facebook can help you connect, share and market to people. User groups based on common interests, workplace, and more can provide you new methods to communicate. Now very often seen in news media, Facebook and other social media platforms are commonly used to…
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Twitter
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface or its mobile-device application software (“app”), though the service could also be accessed via SMS before April 2020. Tweets were…
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Wix
Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company also called Wix. It allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. Wix Wix Help Center – This site has many articles organized into twenty…
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Zoho
Zoho is a suite of online services developed and provided by the company with the same name. They offer a variety of products related to productivity and online services (such as a sites builder –Zoho Sites-, corporate emails, an online office suite, among many others). While their portfolio of products is very wide, most of…
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Google Sites
Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the G Suite productivity suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files. Google Sites Sites Help – Information on creating,…
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Piktochart
An easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high-quality graphics. Infographics can be presented on slideshows with Presentation Mode. Piktochart Piktochart Support Page – This site provides a wide array of help for Piktochart users, from initial design to troubleshooting problems. Piktochart: Using Infographics in the Classroom –…
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Easel.ly
Easel.ly is a simple web tool that empowers anyone to create and share powerful visuals (infographics, posters)… no design experience needed. How to Easel.ly Create Your First Infographic – A recording of a live training session for Easel.ly beginners. Easel.ly Keywords: Flipped Learning, Presentations
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Timetoast
Free timeline maker lets you create timelines online. Make educational timelines or create a timeline for your company website. Timetoast How to Create an Interactive Timeline with Timetoast – This YouTube video describes the ins and outs of how to make a timeline with this technological tool. Keywords: Flipped Learning, Presentations
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Canva – A powerful online graphic design platform
Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, and other visual content. It is available on web and mobile and integrates millions of images, fonts, templates, and illustrations. Users can choose from many professionally designed templates, and edit the designs and upload their own photos through a…
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Slideshare
A service that allows you to create an online library and upload presentations that you’ve created elsewhere. SlideShare Getting Started with SlideShare – Designed with commercial users in mind (but also useful for educators and students), this site provides useful tips for all levels of users. Keywords: Flipped Learning, Presentations
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Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a slideshow presentation program that’s part of the Microsoft Office suite of tools. PowerPoint makes it easy to create, collaborate, and present your ideas in dynamic, visually compelling ways. Powerpoint is not freely available except as a mobile app. However, this is a standard application used in education and business. Many companies and campus…
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Prezi Classic and Prezi Next
A “zooming presentation tool” that presents information non-linearly. It is an infinite whiteboard where the audience can see and interact with an overview of a topic or zoom in to see the relationship between topics. Prezi allows presenters to provide not only the big picture but takes it a step further to allow viewers to…
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Emaze
Caters to the current PowerPoint user, using slide-by-slide presentation, but offers some spectacular results with very little effort. Emaze allows the user to choose from a variety of 3-D templates which are pre-formatted and not highly editable, allowing the user to concentrate on the content and not the bells and whistles. Emaze Emaze…
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Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is a free app that makes presentations simple, beautiful, and fun. Haiku Haiku Deck – Editing and Creating Decks – An instructional video about getting started with Haiku Deck. 7 Alternative Technology in the Classroom Presentation Tools – This blog entry from TeachHub touches upon Haiku Deck in the list of…
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Google Slides
Google Slides is Google’s free presentation editor. Because it is included in the Google Docs/Drive suite, you can readily use it to collaborate on presentations with colleagues or students no matter where you are. Google Slides is very similar to Microsoft’s PowerPoint (PPT). Like many online tools, it allows groups to work together to create…
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Digication
Digication is a leading provider of ePortfolio and assessment management systems. Digication develops its platform with students, faculty, programs, and institutions’ needs in mind, and enables institutions to close the loop that links student learning to institutional assessment and reporting. Digication Digication Tutorials Getting Started with New Digication video tutorials introduce many of…
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FolioSpaces
FolioSpaces, powered by “Mahara”, enables you to create an online portfolio. It was developed by faculty at the University of Ballarat, AU. It is a fully-featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. You do this by assembling a selection of your resume (curriculum vitae/CV), files, journals,…
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Strikingly
Create a beautiful website for you & your business, in minutes. Zero code or design skills required. You can also convert a LinkedIn profile to a personal website in just a few clicks. Add a Blog section to any of your sites to start blogging right away. A separate page is created for each blog post. Strikingly Discover Strikingly…
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Weebly
Weebly is a complete platform that allows anyone to start and grow an online business with curated website templates, powerful e-commerce and integrated marketing. More than 40 million entrepreneurs around the world use Weebly to grow their customer base, fuel sales, and market their idea. Designed for any entrepreneur who wants to reach a global…