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Biteable
Biteable offers you the possibility to organize and make videos. Pick from premade templates and just customize the text and visuals to meet your needs. The free plan allows you to create a limited number of videos per month. The pro version is a more robust environment to expand your creativity. Biteable Keywords: video,…
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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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Bubbl
A mind mapping and brainstorming tool. A mind map is a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. It’s a visual thinking tool for structuring information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas. Bubbl.us works the same on all platforms, for both desktop and mobile. You will never need to download or install…
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How to Improve Audio Quality with Audacity
This blog post from LearnUpon has a few practical tips on how to improve sound quality in audio recordings. The tips are targeted to using Audacity and they are also applicable to the use of other audio authoring tools. Poor audio quality is one of the most frustrating things you can subject your learners to. Not…
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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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Knovio
Knovio is a web-based application that can record web camera video and attach that video to presentation slides from Microsoft PowerPoint or image files. Overall it’s a great way to get “virtual lectures” created in a quick and efficient manner. Educators: Deliver highly interactive, video-led teaching experiences with video presentations. It’s the fast and easy way…
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Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro X is a professional quality, high-end video editing app for OS X from Apple Inc. and the successor to Final Cut Pro. It is a revolutionary app for creating, editing, and producing the highest-quality video. Final Cut Pro X combines high-performance digital editing and native support for virtually any video format with easy-to-use and time-saving features that…
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Camtasia
Record anything — your whole screen or just a window. Or, add video, images, audio, and PowerPoint presentations that you already have.
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Active Presenter
An online video editor that includes all the tools needed to record screen, annotate, edit screencast videos and create interactive eLearning contents in HTML5. ActivePresenter Keywords: Video
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Animoto
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto Keywords: Audio, Media, Photos & Images, Presentations, Video
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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SoundBible
SoundBible is a search engine for free and royalty-free sound clips and sound effects. This website updates weekly and all downloads are free. SoundBible Keywords: audio, Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), podcasts
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Teachers’ Guide to Using Freely Available Videos
This excellent guide out of the University of Michigan is geared to helping teachers cut through the tremendous amount of freely available videos on the web, to find the gems that enhance learning across subject areas. This guide helps educators make sense of the educational content that exists online, by first suggesting dividing videos into…
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YouTube
Get started with YouTube, playing, watching, and creating videos. YouTube is a video-sharing site available in nearly every country and over fifty different languages. Anyone with an Internet connection can share content, whether they are organizations with large budgets or an individual with a video camera. The material is organized into channels and users can…
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Vimeo
Vimeo is a popular video sharing site. Anyone can upload a video to this site for free, by signing up for the Vimeo basic membership package that offers video storage and privacy settings. Vimeo hosts videos in the highest quality possible. You can upload 4K Ultra HD quality, video management tools, no ads before, during,…
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WeVideo – Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud
WeVideo is the online video editor that makes it easy to capture, create, view and share your movies at up to 4K resolution for playback anywhere. Videos can be uploaded easily from DropBox, and edited online from multiple devices. WeVideo Review: WeVideo is a cloud-based video editor that makes editing in your browser…
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iMovie
With iMovie for iOS and macOS, you can enjoy your videos like never before. It’s easy to browse clips and create Hollywood-style trailers and 4K-resolution movies. You can even start editing on an iPhone or iPad, then finish on a Mac. And when your movie is ready, iMovie Theater rolls out the red carpet. There…
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CallingThunder – Immersive Exploration of Natural History of Manhattan
Calling Thunder is the first chapter in a series of immersive explorations into the natural history of New York. Calling Thunder focuses on the fascinating but little-known history of Manhattan. The site is quite creative and explores storytelling the use of 360-degree videos. CallingThunder Calling Thunder: The Unsung History of Manhattan – This video…
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Facebook
Facebook is a well-known and free to use social networking platform. Utilizing Facebook can help you connect, share and market to people. User groups based on common interests, workplace, and more can provide you new methods to communicate. Now very often seen in news media, Facebook and other social media platforms are commonly used to…
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Twitter
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface or its mobile-device application software (“app”), though the service could also be accessed via SMS before April 2020. Tweets were…
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Google Sites
Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the G Suite productivity suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files. Google Sites Sites Help – Information on creating,…
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Wix
Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company also called Wix. It allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. Wix Wix Help Center – This site has many articles organized into twenty…
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