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Edulai for employability skills development
Dynamic library with free internet learning material for improving employability skills
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True Key By McAfee
True Key is the easier, safer way to unlock your digital world. It’s an application you can download on all your devices, to remove the hassle of passwords. Get started by logging in to the True Key app using unique factors such as your fingerprint or a device you own. From there, the app works…
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StoryMap
StoryMap, by Knight Lab, can be used to tell a highlight of a particular image or historical map (its tagline is “maps that tell stories”). Users can guide viewers through a series of zoomed-in highlights to a particular image or map, highlight areas of interest in the image. Each item that’s designated can feature text,…
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Thinglink
Thinglink can annotate images with text, audio, or video. You can then share your annotated media in a website, LMS, or present online. Educators can use ThingLink for free. Sharing the content you create with your students can be done from your free account. Allowing students to create content requires a paid teacher account. Thinglink…
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PixStori
PixStori™ is an app to record stories about your smartphone photos. It links voice and still images in a multimedia PixStori that can be instantly shared on social media, uploaded into searchable cloud collections of family or group memories, and collected as crowdsourced field data for organizations and businesses. It is Oral History meets Instagram.…
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7 Excellent Tools for Creating Interactive Video Quizzes
Design quizzes to integrate with video. Some of these tools also let you annotate video content. Import video clips and add a variety of interactive features (e.g., quizzes, comments, links, etc.). 7 Excellent Tools for Creating Interactive Video Quizzes Keywords: video, quiz
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Helping Apps for Practitioners and Educators (HAPPE)
Helping Apps for Practitioners and Educators, HAPPE, is a monthly blog series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The goal of the series is to connect practitioners and educators in the Helping Professions with mobile apps they may find useful in practice or in their pursuit of life-long learning. We believe digital literacies…
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Equity Maps
Equity Maps is an iPad app to trace and assess interaction, performance, and involvement in class or group discussions. Chart & record the interactions to graphically illustrate levels of participation. Use in class discussions to encourage equitable dialogue, promote wider collaboration. Questions this app can help you address include: Is everyone sharing air-time? Is someone with…
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Four Moves & A Habit (infographic)
Michael Caulfield, Washington State University Vancouver, leads the American Association of State Colleges and Universities”s Digital Polarization Initiative (“DigiPo”). The work is framed by his “Four Moves & A Habit” strategy from his OER Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers. Caulfield’s work is important, and this infographic of Four Moves & A Habit, provide an exceptional resource…
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Answer Garden
A tool that can be used for real-time classroom brainstorming or online homework. Can be used in the classroom, for professional development, creativity and more. Results can be displayed in a visual Wordcloud format with the most often used responses showing in relatively larger text-size. AnswerGarden Keywords: response, polling, wordcloud, audience response, classroom response
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Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
This open education resource (OER) is designed to assist with reading and writing at the college level. The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides multimedia support to students preparing for college-level writing, as well as students making the transition out of introductory-level writing courses. The Online Reading Comprehension Lab (ORC) is the, first of its…
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Quizlet
Create your own study materials or choose from millions created by other Quizlet users. Quizlet has a number of powerful interactive learning tools, such as: – Creating flashcards – Memory games – Race against the clock Matching games – Listen to automatic pronunciations in 18 languages – Enhance studying with images and audio Quizlet Live is…
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Public Domain Review – Collections
This site contains curated collections of images, books, audio and movies, illuminating the curiosities and wonders of a wide range of online archives. Public Domain Review – Collections Keywords: Creative Commons, copyright
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OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer)
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has created a web-based, system called OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) to inexpensively and efficiently enhance access to oral history online. OHMS provides users word-level search capability and a time-correlated transcript or indexed interview connecting the textual search term to the corresponding moment…
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SurfSafe
Defend the internet. Bring the world to the Internet without false news. If you see something that is false, report it! Supercharge your browser to catch fake news! SurfSafe is protecting users from misleading, photoshopped, and fake news throughout the Internet. The extension marks the level of safety of an image or article on the corners. Never…
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) from the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It is described by the National Center for UDL as, “a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone–not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but…
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VideoAnt
VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called “Ants”. VideoAnt Keywords: peer review, video annotation
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Freshdesk Help Desk Software
Intuitive, feature-rich, affordable customer support software
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RealtimeBoard
The Ultimate Guide to Effective Remote Collaboration
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OER Community Course Experience
The OER Community Course Experience is created by the State University of New York (SUNY) OER Services. The SUNY OER Community Courses introduce you to the fundamental principles and effective practices related to Open Educational Resources. Throughout the learning space, you have the opportunity to explore and discuss methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating,…
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Notability
This note-taking app helps to combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring projects to life. Use a wide range of note-taking and sketching tools to capture every detail. You can even add and annotate PDFs. It’s the perfect place to create and organize work, school, and life’s information! Experiment with different…
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Vizia
Engage viewers by integrating quizzes, polls, and Call-To-Actions (CTAs) into videos. Embed your Vizia videos anywhere — blogging platforms, site builders, e-commerce stores, you name it.Ask questions, multi-choice quizzes, and collect feedback through your videos. Turn passive viewers into active participants. Improve your content from feedback. Generate leads from your videos and make them even…
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Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health): Open Educational Resources for the Health Professions by New York University
The Libraries of New York University’s collection of OER materials that are relevant to health professions, such as Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health. Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health): Open Educational Resources for the Health Professions Keywords: Lifelong Learning, Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access
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Gliffy
Gliffy is a collaborative web-based diagram editor that can be used to create mind maps and other visual organizations of information such as; flow charts, org charts, schematic drawings, floor plans, technical drawings, concept maps, and more. Gliffy Keywords: Collaboration, Productivity Tools, Visual Design, mindmap
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Infogram
Infographics (Information graphics) are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends.
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Med-Tech Innovation News
This website is the UK and Ireland leading publication for medical design and manufacturing technology and innovation. Their expert editorial team brings together daily news, technical content, analysis, case studies and high-profile interviews with industry experts and thought leaders. Med-Tech Innovation News provides intelligence for professionals involved in the design and production of Class I,…
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Tricider
Tricider is a free Web application that can be used for online classroom collaboration and brainstorming ideas. It allows teachers, students, and colleagues to collaborate together to collect ideas, discuss these ideas to find solutions and vote on the argument they think is the best. Tricider How to Use Tricider Keywords: Collaboration,…
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SAMR Model
The SAMR model, developed by Ruben Puentedura, is a theoretical framework for scaffolding technology integration into education. The video below describes SAMR (Substitution – Augmentation – Modification – Redefinition) and introduces you to the model. The Emerging Ed Tech website provides a few Examples of Transforming Lessons Through the SAMR Cycle. This SAMR Wakelet collection created by Nell Eckersley is…
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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…
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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 …
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