Digital Tools

 

Learning Objects

itunes U - has a lot of open source learning objects, mainly audio and video "iTunes U provides everything an instructor needs to bring the classroom together on iPad—build lessons with apps and your own materials, collect and grade assignments, start class discussions or talk with students to answer questions and provide feedback."

Merlot - provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.


Collaboration

Padlet - free virtual bulletin board - help students and teachers collaborate. Students can communicate and work with each other while watching instructional videos or reading articles written by the teacher.

Edublog - a web publishing platform, built on the open-source WordPress content management system, to provide blogs and websites to students and educations; used by, designed for, and marketed toward students in grades PreK–12 and educators

Multimedia soources

Wikimedia Common - freely usable media files 

Pexel - free stock photos

flikr

Create multimedia

 ThinkLink - Seamlessly make images, videos, and 360 content interactive with text, links, images, videos and over 70 call to actions, creating memorable experiences. Create pictures with hotspots hot urls to other pages

Edpuzzle - teachers to create video content for students to consume easily.

Voki - create animated avatar

animoto -  create videos with moving images and test

Articulate - pricing - 



TinyPNG - website for lossless image compression

Smush-it - optimize a batch of images at a time

Loom

Screencastify

Scribjab - digital platform for creating online picture books using txt, pictures, audio in differnt languages

SpeechStream, which can translate text into speech and in multiple language formats. Here is a link to the SpeechStream website: Texthelp SpeechStream Toolbar

imagecodr - Creates attribution for Flickr images 

Create assessments

ProProfs Quiz Maker - quizzes, surveys, templates, no downloads or software

Quizizz - game option that makes learning and quizzes a more fun, game option. 

Typeform - great alternative for surveys - One question at a time — like a conversation — keeps your audience engaged. You get more thoughtful responses, and higher completion rates - great templates too! - example here and you can tryout the templates on the website

DirectPoll - Create and conduct polls in a minute. Use it in your flipped classroom, in your lecture or just to amaze your audience.

Community

The Open Faculty Patchbook - educators contribute their authentic experiences and advise for the incoming generation


Learning Management System (LMS)/APP Creator

Beezer - Drag and drop app builder. Example of beezer product

Thinkfic - Thinkific's online education platform empowers creators globally to grow their businesses by offering all the tools, technology, and resources to create, sell, and market online courses. Whether you're a wellness coach, a fitness instructor, or a creative consultant, Thinkific is here to help you grow your brand, reach more customers, and increase your income—entirely online. With the Typeform and Thinkific integration, course creators can easily create personalized and interactive typeforms to collect students' reviews on any of their courses. Once a student submits a review, it's automatically sent to the Course reviews section of a creator's Thinkific account, where they can see all of their course feedback and learn how to improve their future offerings https://www.typeform.com/connect/thinkific/

Moodle - learn Moodle basics


Open Education Resources (OER) 

Connexions -  a learning object repository containing more than 17,000 learning objects and modules.

OER WorldMap - anyone involved in Open Education can share information, experiences and ideas related to their work.

OpenMichigan - enables the University of Michigan community to make the products of its research, teaching, and creative work available to the world beyond campus. We are the home for all things open at the University of Michigan—including expertise and services for open educational resources, open data, and open publications

OERu - https://oeru.org/

Open Culture - from video, lectures, pictures, courses, and MOOCs

OERs for images (RU)

OERs for textbooks (RU)

MITOpenCourseware - OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.

AI



OTHER

EdCast

Acatar - offers a learning platform that incorporates findings from learning science

Instructure’s Edu-AppCenter has a set of open, LTI compliant apps for use in LMS


How to create dialogue simulation in ispring (telephone negotiations in sales) \


The Knowledge Compass - different types of questions


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