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Kanopy
Kanopy offers thoughtful entertainment free of charge by partnering with public libraries and universities. Individuals affiliated with a library or educational institution can utilize these resources to educate and raise awareness about important issues. It has movies categorized by genre. The user may also use the search feature to find relevant content based on the…
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PicsArt
PicsArt makes it easy to step up your photo editing game, make amazing images, and share with friends. It lets you be truly creative with its almost limitless features ― and it’s starting a movement to help “go beyond the filter” and make awesome pictures. The Picsart suite of online photo and video editing applications…
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Mentimeter
With Mentimeter, you can create fun and interactive presentations, polls, brainstorming sessions in meetings, classes, gatherings, conferences, and others with real-time feedback. It is an easy-to-use PowerPoint presentation alternative that lets you engage and interact with your audience in real-time. You set the questions and your audience can give their input via a mobile phone…
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Metaverse
Metaverse is an easy way to create Augmented Reality Experiences on your computer and watch them come to life in the Metaverse app. When using AR always be aware of your surroundings, watch out for people, moving objects, still objects, and more. Have fun and be safe. Metaverse
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Web Captioner
A free web-based service that uses automated captioning and displays a real-time transcription in your browser. It works best in Google Chrome, on your personal computer and if you have an external microphone, though it also works well with your computer’s internal microphone as long as the environment is quiet and you are within a couple of…
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Live Captioning Without A Budget
The tools featured on this page from George Mason University offer options for streaming live captions using automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR tools use artificial intelligence to convert speech into text. In recent years, educational technologies have started to integrate ASR into their platforms as a way to develop content that is more accessible and…
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Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for Maximizing Student Learning from Video Content
This is a research article available in CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), a free, online quarterly journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), is packed with links to other relevant research about using and creating videos for learning. Below is an excerpt from the abstract. “Educational videos have become an important part of…
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Scannable
Scannable captures the paper in your life quickly and beautifully, transforming it into high-quality scans ready to save or share. Whether on the go or at the office, send paper on its way and move on. One of the best features of this scanner is that it scans in PDF, photos, and many other formats.…
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AutoDesk – 3D Modeling Software
Autodesk suite of software tools, include Fusion 360, which allows you to create 3D objects from 2D sketches, and subsequently allows you to obtain its projections easily from the drawn 3D object. There is a free trial period for educational use. Autodesk Fusion 360 Overview and more Info
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LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a powerful and free office suite, a successor to OpenOffice(.org), used by millions of people around the world. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint…
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Mural
Mural is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. It enables people and innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops.…
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Hubs by Mozilla
Share a virtual room with friends. Watch videos, play with 3D objects, or just hang out. Hubs is a VR chatroom designed for every headset and browser, but it is also an open-source project that explores how communication in mixed reality can come to life. Step inside one of our virtual rooms or build one…
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Open video repositories for college instruction: A guide to the social sciences
Key features of open video repositories are outlined, followed by brief description of specific sites relevant to the social sciences. Although most were created by instructors over the past 10 years to facilitate teaching and learning, significant variations in kind, quality, and number per discipline were discovered. The APA citation for this resource is: Miller, M. V., & CohenMiller, A.…
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ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow is a video editing, screen recording and sharing tool from Telestream. It is specifically useful for educators who would like to record their presentations or any other computer software demos, then edit them, add info layers, voice over and other elements that would make the video more interesting and engaging.
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Animaker
Animaker is an online do-it-yourself (#DIY) animation video maker that brings studio quality presentations within everyone’s reach. Animated Videos, Done Right!
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Design for non-designers: five visual principles to give you a head start
A concise overview of five key principles of design including White space Typography Grids and alignment The power of contrast Colour and images Design for non-designers: five visual principles to give you a head start
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Online Science Simulations and Laboratory Resources – POD Network
A wide selection of STEM resources and ideas for lab teaching activities and new virtual lab experiences. Just a few of the subject areas that are included are Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Medical, Math, Physics, and Psychology. Colleagues at many institutions have gathered these resources and are sharing them back with the larger community. The…
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SUNY OER Services
SUNY OER Services (SOS) is a shared service organization operating out of the State Uniiversity of New York’s (SUNY) Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS) who works directly with all SUNY campuses and faculty to provide assistance and knowledge to support OER adoption and sustained use as a driver of faculty choice and student…
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Slido
Slido is a web-based Q&A and Polling platform to engage an audience with live questions and polls. Everybody can ask and vote for the best questions. Question and poll results are updated live on the interactive wall. Ask questions, vote in polls and be a part of the conversation at the event you’re attending. Visit…
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GraphicSprings
A logo maker application that enables non-designers to create beautiful logos, whether that’s for an entrepreneurial venture, school project, presentation or charitable cause. Another element available in the online interface is the ability to design graphics to use for digital badges (like the badges used in #EmTech). GraphicSprings How to Edit Logo Graphic –…