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Top Hat

Top Hat makes it easy for professors to enhance student comprehension and engagement with this polling-clicker application, secure testing, and next-generation OER. Top Hat does not require the use of a physical clicker, but it instead works from a wide variety of devices including phones, mobile devices, and computers through which educators can utilize to assign…
AutoDraw

Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) experiment is a web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw that converts your rough scribbles and doodles into beautiful, symmetrical drawings. Google AutoDraw Keywords: Photos & Images, icons
Open Attribution Builder

Open Attribution Builder is a tool to help you build attributions for Open Educational Resources (OER) and other items you find that have Creative Commons licensing. Fill out a form and the app automatically generates an attribution for you. This website is created by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Open Attribution Builder …
AllTrails

Use the AllTrails App to record the trails you explore. It’s a hiking/walking/exploring community which use the App module to connect people together and helping people record their exploring experience. In addition, there are over 50,000 trails that already exist that have photos and reviews which have been added by the community of users. AllTrails…
ALISON

Alison is a free online site that offers courses from the world’s leading experts. Join 12 million learners in distance learning courses which contribute to the lifelong learning, share information and knowledge, and exchange ideas. ALISON Keywords: Collaboration, Lifelong Learning, Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access, Presentations, Resource Library, Video
Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that allows users to schedule social media post, follow and engage in conversations and review social media campaign analytics. It supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube. Hootsuite Hootsuite Quick Start Guide The Beginner’s Guide to Hootsuite 7 Reasons Why You…
SLACK

Team collaboration and communication. Some of the built-in features of Slack include messaging, file sharing, Project management, to-do lists, and more. The features of Slack are extendible through integrations and bots, which add the functionality of pulling reports, starting phone calls, filing tickets, calendaring, polling, and many advanced other options. Slack Keywords: Collaboration, Productivity Tools, audience…
VivaVideo

VivaVideo is a professional video editing app with tools to trim, merge, split, control the speed of a video, and play it in reverse. You can also transform clips and photos into memorable movies with text, music, transition, filters, themes, and stickers. VivaVideo Keywords: Video
Explorable Explanations – Learning through play

Explorable Explanation is a hub for learning through play that has been created by artists, coders & educators to reunite play and learning. It is a great tool to teach something interactively rather than the usual read-watch-listen-question-and-answer format. Explorable Explanations Keywords: Gamification, Simulations
Discovering Open Educational Resources OER – Temple University

This guide by Temple University is an introduction to open educational resources. It provides information about what open education resources are and how to discover and use them. Temple University Libraries – Discovering Open Educational Resources OER Keywords: Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access
Flip

Flip (formerly FlipGrid) is a video discussion platform that allows students to record responses to teacher-posed questions or topics. This software was recently acquired by Microsoft and it has recently been changed to be a freely available tool. FlipGripd is similar to the popular VoiceThread. Flip Keywords: Collaboration Review Accessibility/Security Info
HTML G

This free HTML WYSIWYG editor allows you to edit your source code online in a browser without downloading any application for times when tweaking source code for a website is necessary. Side-by-side views instantly show what the HTML code looks like in a browser. HTML G Keywords: Websites
Simplemind – Mind Mapping Tool

This mind mapping app will help you connect up your ideas into a coherent whole Platform: Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows Sometimes the problem you have is not generating ideas, it’s organizing them into something that’s actually going to work. So if you have dozens of chaotic, free-floating ideas that don’t seem to connect up…
Stanford University Online – Lagunita.edu Platform via EDx

Lagunita is Stanford’s instance of the open-source software release of the Open edX platform, which was developed by the joint Harvard/MIT non-profit organization, and which Stanford engineers have been collaborating on since April 2013. Lagunita hosts many of the free, online courses that are taught by Stanford faculty and made available to lifelong learners around…
PhET Interactive Simulations for Active Learning in STEM

PHET Interactive Simulations can be used to supplement Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, and Mathematics courses. The site is created by the University of Colorado with the aim of enhancing learning and motivating students through playful discovery activities that support many optional languages package. Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive…
BrainyQuote

“A collection of inspirational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Share Quotes of the Day on the web, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs.” BrainyQuote
H5P Interactive Content Creator

Hello HTML5! Goodbye flash! You can create, share and re-use interactive content in your browser or integrated right into your LMS! Create Richer HTML5 Content in Existing Publishing Platforms. Share Content Seamlessly Across Any H5P Capable Site. Reuse and modify Content in Your Browser at Any Time. Explore over 40 different types of interactive content…
allOpen.org

allOpen.org is a website that carefully curates open resources.
TED Talks

TED Talks: ideas worth spreading include talks from speakers from a variety of backgrounds who provide thought-provoking presentations about a wide variety of topics. The short TED Talk videos average 10 to 18 minutes. This is a powerful tool for life long learning. The talks are given by people from all walks of life who share insights…
PowToon

PowToon is a program for making small videos, presentations, and animations. It has several characters that can be animated, with different backgrounds and colors that make the construction of your presentation very easy. Web-based animations allow users to create presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user-created voice-overs. PowToon PowToon Quick…