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Google Search Advanced Feature
Google can be helpful in finding reusable resources. It explains how to use their advanced search features and explains various types of usage rights. Google Search Advanced Feature Google Guide making searching even easier – More information about how to use this tool – with examples. Keywords: Audio, Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital…
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
This electronic book helps readers learn how to fact-check claims made on the Internet on a variety of topics. Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers The author, Michael Caulfield, also has a companion blog: Four moves Keywords: Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Media, Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access, Searching
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WordPress
WordPress is an open-source blogging and a website creation platform. WordPress (often referred to as WP) is very widely used and makes up about 30% of all published websites. There is a subtle but important difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.org gives lots of freedom, but you need a self-hosted platform to deliver your site. This…
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Blogger
Blogger is a popular blogging platform run by Google. It is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Although there are more complex blogging tools available, the combination of cost (free) and flexibility makes Blogger an attractive option, whether you’re updating friends and family about your life, hosting your own advice column,…
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AudioBoom
This tool enables you to record and instantly share audio. You can have free unlimited 10-minute recordings. If you want to use your smartphone or tablet, sign up, take the tour, and download the app. AudioBoom AudioBoom Help Center – Tutorials and help using AudioBoom tools. Keywords: audio, media, recording, podcasts Review Accessibility/Security Info
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Wheel Decide
Wheel Decide provides a free spinner tool intended for decision-making, games, raffles, prize giveaways, and other miscellaneous uses. Enter your values and the Wheel Decide will randomly select from the options provided. Wheel Decide 5 Ways to Use “Wheel Decide” – This is an article that demonstrated several ways to utilize Wheel Decide,…
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Ten Basic Rules of Netiquette or Internet Etiquette
The rules of etiquette are just as important in cyberspace as they are in the real world — and the evidence of poor netiquette can stick around to haunt you for much longer. Following these basic rules of netiquette, to avoid damaging your online and offline relationships. Ten Basic Rules of Netiquette or Internet…
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GeniusScan
Puts a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan anything with a smartphone or any camera-equipped tablet. Then email scans using JPG or PDF format for individual documents and for batch processing multiple documents. Using the pro version also saves directly to online storage services including DropBox and Google Drive. GeniusScan Articles that provide…
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Plickers
Lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a “paper clicker”), and use your iPhone/iPad to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com. Plickers Plickers Help –…
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Udacity
Udacity’s tagline reads: “where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, to build the lives they deserve.” While Udacity offers many university-style MOOCs, this for-profit site is now oriented towards vocational education, offering courses and nanodegrees in technological fields. Udacity Keywords: Open Educational Resources (OER) &…
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