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  • StoryMap

    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,…

  • A Rising Tide: How Closed Captions Can Benefit All Students

    A Rising Tide: How Closed Captions Can Benefit All Students

    Closed captioning is higher education is generally geared toward students with some kind of disabilities. However, regardless of having any disability, studies suggest that most students in today’s colleges and universities use closed captions at least some of the time, among whom about 90 percent find them at least moderately helpful for learning. Specific ways…

  • Clips

    Clips

    Clips is an iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more. From choosing backgrounds to using animated special effect and 3D, Clips makes the whole experience of capturing a moment and sharing it more fun. As Clips is in sync with iCloud, creating memorable moments is equally available on…

  • MEMORANG

    MEMORANG

    Online tool and app to create quizzes and flashcards, that uses games to engage the learner.

  • Podbean

    Podbean

    Podbean is used to listen to podcasts and can be used on a phone, mobile device, or desktop. You can use Podbean to easily record and publish your own podcasts.   Podbean

  • Mathway

    Mathway

    Mathway is a problem solving tool, providing algorithms that will solve many algebraic problems. It is available on most cell phone and personal computer platforms. Using this tool, the instructor can create scenarios in which the learner can solve more realistic problems than normally included in many first year college math texts. A common complaint…

  • PebblePad

    PebblePad

    An ePortfolios platform for students, it simplifies the process of collecting, managing and demonstrating evidence of lifelong learning.

  • WeVu

    WeVu

    WeVu is built for hands-on skills learning where students self-record on phones and instructors can give time-stamped feedback and assessment.

  • 35 Brilliant Classroom Apps

    35 Brilliant Classroom Apps

    With the huge amount of classroom apps available, it’s hard to know which ones to use with your students. You don’t want to invest a large amount of your precious time setting one up only to find it’s not what you thought it was. Fear not. Check out these reviews of 35 of the best…

  • Why Should we use Technology in the Classroom?

    Why Should we use Technology in the Classroom?

    With technology now totally embedded in our student’s lives, we are faced with a quandary; if you can’t beat them, join them. …and join them we should. It is our job to prepare them for their world, not to make them bend to fit a non-digital, obsolete world. But, what are the benefits of using…

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