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Scalar
Scalar is a free, open-source publishing platform geared toward long-form scholarship with embedded multimedia. It also provides the capability for multimedia tagging and annotation, as well as for interacting with stories in a nonlinear way through different path structures. Scalar allows for the easy creation of a website using a book-type format. It was created…
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Stanford d.school
Everyone has the capacity to be creative. The Stanford d.school is a place where people develop problem-solving skills using methods from across the field of design. Resources on this site include toolkits to guide learners through design challenges. Stanford d.school Stanford d.school – Resources How to Design an Education Escape Room
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Brainstorming – Creativity Techniques from Mindtools.com
Brainstorming encourages people to create new ideas that, at first, may seem crazy. However, the initial ideas can be further refined to be feasible and practical. Brainstorming can be enhanced to facilitate idea generation by using techniques such as brainwriting, the stepladder technique, and starbursting. Brainstorming – Creativity Techniques from Mindtools.com
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Wikipedia List of Fact-checking Websites
In this age of misinformation, the internet and mass movement of data on the internet and plethora of data has made is more difficult to know what is true and what is not. People nowadays are looking for instant gratification and quick response and reaction. Fact-checking has become an extremely viable tool. List of…
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Equation Editor
This application includes a complete math equation editor along with the option to discuss math problems in a common forum. This application includes a full-featured math equation editor is included and you can easily write calculus, matrices, determinants, or trigonometry equations with a user-friendly interface. All symbols are included and most frequently used symbols are…
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Ideament
Ideament is a great app if you need to brainstorm new ideas as it helps you organize the ideas. It is perfect for creating diagrams, mind maps, concept maps, or flow charts and is good at converting them to a text outline, just like Idea Sketch. The app’s cloud-friendly features allow you to save or share…
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F.A.I.L. University: Fearless Adventures In Learning
FUN FREE Online Learning Tools TRY ONE BEFORE YOU MAKE ONE! Escape this Breakout Room as/after you watch this 6 min. Gamification Intro! (Answer KEY) See the FREE learning game-making tools below. (Students can play your games without creating an account.) Want help? Get FREE online gamification lessons at F.A.I.L. University Hyperlinked Site Examples Help…
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LearningApps
LearningApps.org is a Web 2.0 application, to support learning and teaching processes with small interactive modules. Those modules can be used directly in learning materials, but also for self-studying. The aim is to collect reusable building blocks and make them available to everyone. Blocks (called Apps) include no specific framework or a specific learning scenario.…
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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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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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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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OpenWHO
OpenWHO is the World Health Organization’s new interactive platform that offers online courses to people preparing to work in epidemics, pandemics and health emergencies or already doing so. The OpenWHO platform delivers WHO’s and partners’ expertise closer to where it is needed and provides information in user-friendly formats for frontline responders and decision-makers. The platform…
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. All resources are available for free to users of the…
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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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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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SMORE
Create newsletters, or electronic flyers in seconds for free. Easy-to-use and engaging. Collaborate with your audience even add text, images, video or clickable buttons. Colorful backgrounds and choice of font styles. Professional look achieved quickly. SMORE generates a clickable link that remains with your design. If you need to edit, just re-publish to update. Tool…
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Directory of Learning & Performance Tools – Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
This searchable Directory has been compiled by Jane Hart. The directory contains over 1,000 entries categorised into 35 headings. This directory compliments the website that shares the Top Tools for Learning compiled from an annual survey sent out through the Centre. Directory of Learning & Performance Tools – Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
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Storyboarder
Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Storyboarder Keywords: video storytelling
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8 Best Free PDF Editors
This list of the top 8 free PDF editors help you to add, edit, and delete text and images, fill out forms, insert signatures, etc. Because not all of these free PDF editors support the same features, and some are restricted in what you can do, remember that you can process the same PDF in…
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Data Visualization: University at Buffalo Libraries Research Guide
This guide provides an introduction to best practices, tools, and educational resources for data visualization, including tools, best practices, examples, and resources. Data visualization is the process of representing information using visual means, such as a chart/graph, diagram, map, concept map, or picture. There are two fundamental types of data visualization: exploratory visualization and explanatory…
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How To Upload A Podcast (To iTunes Or Any Other Directory)
It’s a fairly common misconception that iTunes and other podcast directories host your podcast media files (typically an MP3). You don’t actually upload your podcast episode files to iTunes. What really happens is that you show iTunes where your podcast files are located in the form of an RSS feed. Then every time you upload a new episode, your feed is automatically updated – and iTunes updates your show listing with…
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PechaKucha
PechaKucha 20×20 is an alternative way to present information which was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in Tokyo in 2003. It is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. PechaKucha Keywords: presentations
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Teleprompt.me
The web’s only voice-powered teleprompter. Drop in a script and it automatically scrolls as you speak. This voice-controlled teleprompter uses Chrome’s built-in microphone to scroll as you speak. Creating a text-based script for your videos also helps to later generate captions, ensuring your video’s content is accessible to the widest possible audience. Teleprompt-me
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Atom – coding made easy for brand new Mac users
Hello fellow Mac coders! Atom is a free and easy to download application that allows coders to change and organize files easily. Once downloaded, any folder can be dragged and all the files will be ready to be used. Highly recommended if you’re coding on any kind of Mac, since coding on Terminal can be…
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Creative Book Builder
Creative Book Builder allows you to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. Embed images, audio files, video files, and write text. The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to…
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
This full-length (1 hr.) documentary focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some…
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VEED.io
VEED is a feature-rich online video editing platform for both pro and budding content creators. VEED works directly in the browser and does not require downloading any software. VEED is a simple video editor with many features such as video editing, screen recording, video conversion and compression, AI Video, AI Avatars, and more! With the…
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Shotcut
Use this free software to edit videos and add effects. Shotcut is a free and open-source video editing software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. The platform works with resolutions as high as 4K and has broad format support. It is an ideal solution for creating video thanks to its array of editing features and…
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Remix Project – improving media literacy across the curriculum
The goal of the Remix Project is to improve media literacy across the curriculum so that all students are better prepared for the media-rich world of the twenty-first century. The Remix Project is a collaborative effort of the Hesburgh Libraries and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning from the University at Notre Dame. The…
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