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Digital Public Library of America
“The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society. DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government…
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Duolingo
A top-rated language learning app that is both addictive and fun. Duolingo uses game-like activities allowing learners to earn points, race against the clock, and level up while participating in bite-sized lessons. This application is available in the form of a website as well as an app. It has a huge database for many languages and provides…
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Business Balls – Free Online Learning and Development Website
Business Balls is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations. It is one of the most mind-boggling collections of free management training materials that you’ll find on the Internet. New features include badges, learning plans linked to accredited competency frameworks, wikis (for collaborative content development), fresh content from international thought leaders…
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WorldCat
Search for library items from throughout the world. “Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.” WorldCat Keywords: Lifelong Learning
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Libby, by OverDrive – an app for library ebooks and audiobooks
Download thousands of ebooks and audiobooks from your local library. You can borrow items, instantly, for free, using a mobile device. The app works together with Overdrive. Since a Library card is needed to check out items, the use of this app may be slightly limited. Libby Keywords: Lifelong Learning
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Grammarly
This online grammar checker corrects mistakes and other writing errors across a variety of programs and directly in the browser. Grammarly Keywords: Lifelong Learning
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Geocaching – The Largest Treasure Hunt Game
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and sometimes a pen or pencil. The geocacher signs…
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FutureLearn: Free Online Courses
FutureLearn is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) learning platform that includes a number of international partners, including non-university partners. They also push learning further with online Programs and Degrees. “Whether anyone wants to develop as a professional or discover a new hobby, there’s an online course for that.” Future Learn provides a variety of courses from leading universities…
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GarageBand
A powerful music creation tool and music studio. It is easy to use to record, but editing, though easy for beginners, gets increasingly sophisticated the deeper you go. It requires a download and is available only for the Mac. There are only marginally comparable tools for PC available for free. You can find more fully…
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Google – Search Better Tutorial at GCFGlobal
This site shares a number of Google search strategies and tips created by the Goodwill Community Foundation (GFC) Global to get you started on your quest to find new things to learn about. Learn the basics and advanced strategies for searching for info online. Get more out of your Google Search results with this helpful…
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Accredible Badge Builder
Design digital badge images in just a few clicks. Use a badge template, upload logos and images, including customizing the text & colors of your badge design. Then, download your image to use as a digital badge design in any badge issuing platform. Accredible Badge Builder Keywords: Gamification
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7 Things You Should Know About Open Education – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others. The 7 Things You Should Know About… series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on…
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Creative Commons – CC License Definitions, Search for Materials, & Share Your Work
The links below explain the various levels of permissions and Creative Commons licenses, enable searching for Creative Commons licensed materials, and provide information to those who wish to share their work using Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons Website Creative Commons Licenses Search Creative Commons Materials Share Your Work using Creative Commons Licenses Keywords:…
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Atavist for Education
..and as you leave you say goodbye to the place with a very heavy heart….promising to come back for even longer next year.
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OpenSimulator – Design your own Virtual Reality space for education, meetings, or games
The open source movement allowed complex avatar-based, game-engine software to become available free of charge using OpenSimulator. Contributions from artists and designers now makes pre-developed virtual artifacts and design spaces available to educators, meeting planners, and game designers; easy modifications and adjustments allow for custom virtual environments for an infinity of purposes. Server rental companies, such…
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Using the Outline Feature in Microsoft Word
The Microsoft Office Word program has and Outline feature that makes it very easy to organize, and reorganize long documents. It allows you to generate an automatic Table of Contents as well. Microsoft Office Word Outline View This 5-minute video reviews the ways you can use this feature in your work. Keywords:…
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Jigsaw Classroom – Elliot Aronson
The Jigsaw Classroom is a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience. Jigsaw Classroom Keywords: Lifelong Learning, Websites
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PBWorks
PBWorks offers a variety of collaboration tools including free wikis for education. Editing and formatting of the wiki is very easy and needs only minimal instruction. Students can collaborate on projects outside of the classroom. Student accounts can be created without email addresses. Educators can get automated notifications to see when and how often students…
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Web2Access (Disabilities and Tests)
Web2Access is a resource that aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available ‘Web 2.0’ interactive and collaborate e-learning tools. The website provides rankings based on its accessibility. Web2Access Web2Access (Disabilities and Tests) – tests the accessibility of Web 2.0 tools based on different disabilities. Using the results, they then rank…
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Introduction to Gamification video by Scott Nicholson
This video, presented by Scott Nicholson from the University of Syracuse, provides an Introduction to Meaningful Gamification and discusses in greater detail about what it means to develop gamified activities. Introduction to Gamification video by Scott Nicholson Keywords: Gamification, Lifelong Learning, Video