Kapwing: a free, online movie editor
The TLT often gets this question: besides iMovie, what free video editor might you suggest for students? One new option is Kapwing. Kapwing is an online image, video, and GIF editing platform whose mission is to enable digital storytelling. Unlike most online...
Getting Started with Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle (edpuzzle.com) is an app that allows you to choose a video [on YouTube]; cut and add notes (audio or written) multiple choice, and short answer questions; and track your students' comprehension. It’s free with our CofC GSuite, has the ability to autograde...
Genial.ly: a free tool that brings content to life
Genial.ly is a free tool that can make pretty much anything (slides, quiz reviews, posters, etc.) interactive. If you are interested in checking it out, their blog has some great advice and examples of how to use it in a classroom. Check out an example with this...
How to make a paper towel tripod: DIY tutorial
Need help filming yourself? No budget for a tripod? Click the photo above or this text to access the TLT / Kathleen Lolley collaboration tutorial on how to make a paper towel tripod at home using found...
Using ArtSteps to Create a Virtual Gallery
"Artsteps is a a web-based environment that allows its members to create virtual art galleries in lifelike 3D spaces. It is an application for artists, art organizations and art enthusiasts to model actual or virtual exhibitions by designing realistic 3-dimensional...
Clickers Best Practices
These are suggestions for being flexible and resilient with clicker technology: Use clickers often enough to allow for X number of dropped grades (if you are going to grade student responses). Because technology involves many variables, simple problems can...
Annotate and Share PDFs Online for Free
PDFescape is a free, web-based application that allows users to edit, annotate, and share PDFs. Without creating an account, you can upload a PDF (up to 10 MB or 100 pages); edit and/or annotate it (with tools very similar to Acrobat's); and download or print it....
Share large files, both on campus and off, with Secure Share
OVERVIEW: Secure Share is a Web-based application that allows faculty and staff to securely and temporarily share files across campus and externally. You can access Secure Share off campus as long as you have internet connection. With Secure Share there no...
Socrative
Socrative is a great tool for collecting immediate feedback from students via mobile apps or the internet on laptops or tablets. With Socrative teachers gather assessments via short answer, multiple choice and/or true or false questions. Socrative auto-grades...
Using Padlet for Class Collaboration
Description: Padlet is a collaborative online bulletin board that can be used to display text, photos, links, and many other types of media. Padlet allows users to create a board where students and instructors can collaborate and share information in a secure...
Pinning a Tweet
Why would I want to "pin" a tweet? Twitter is a fast-paced social networking platform, with 500 million tweets sent per day on average, and is often the first source of breaking news and emerging trends. This means our timelines move quickly and it's easy to miss...
Using RescueTime for Productivity & Time Management
RescueTime is a web app and personal challenge to help you become more productive. The app will record your own electronic productivity and time management data to provide focused lessons and exercises so that you can learn what you are spending time on and how to...
Changing Your Video’s Background in iMovie (v10.1)
Are you planning your next big video project or lecture? Would you like to replace the background with an image of an object, person, location, or perhaps a PowerPoint slide (saved as an image file)? Well, the first thing you need is access to a green screen and...
Using Flipboard to Curate Content
Description: Flipboard is a free app that allows users to gather content from news sources, blogs, and social networks to create custom magazines based on the topics that interest them. In addition to creating their own magazines, users can also subscribe to...
Mindomo for Mapping Ideas in the Classroom
Description: Mindomo is a concept and mind mapping tool available online. A free account allows you to save up to 3 maps. These maps can include images, videos, links, task info, comments, and notes. It is easy to share documents with others and collaborate in real...
Create Interactive Online Lessons with Blendspace
What is Blendspace? Blendspace is a free web tool that allows users to create interactive online lessons using resources collected from all over the web. You can add Youtube videos, items from Google search, images from Flickr, lessons on Educreation, web pages,...
Tinkercad
Tinkercad is a free, online (Web 2.0) application that allows users to design and export simple 3D objects. If you are new to the world of 3D printing, this is definitely the app for you! Unlike traditional CAD programs, which can be intimidating, Tinkercad is...
VideoANT for Quick and Easy Video Annotations
VideoANT is a web-based application that allows users to add a timeline of comments or annotations alongside a video. This application does not require a download and it has a simple interface, making it a great option for student projects. Here are some key...
Easel.ly: infographic creation tool that visually represents data
Easel.ly is a tool to help you or your students to create infographics to visually represent data. This tool is free and has both a web based interface and an iPad app. Here is an example of an infographic created using Easel.ly: Link to...
Nearpod
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an all-in-one presentation and polling application that allows teachers to deliver interactive lectures to students by pushing content to students' mobile devices. Teachers control the presentation while students follow along. With...
The Slacker’s Guide to “Zero Inbox” in Your Email
While email is our primary method of communication is can become overwhelming very quickly. I know many people who have an Email Inbox of over 10,000 messages! Well with a few simple techniques and about 5 extra minutes a day you can get that Inbox in hand. Zero...
Make Video Lectures Interactive With EDpuzzle
EDpuzzle - What is it and how can I use it? Platform - web-based and also app for iPhone, iPad Price - free and paid https://edpuzzle.com/pricing Tutorial - https://support.edpuzzle.com/hc/en-us/sections/360001671011-Getting-Started Website - https://edpuzzle.com/...
Voxer
What is Voxer? Voxer is an app that allows users to connect through live or recorded voice, text messages, and photos. With Voxer, users can listen and respond in real time or listen later and reply when it’s convenient. Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and...
Create An Animated Movie By Just Writing A Script Using Plotagon
Plotagon - What is it and how can I use it? Both you and your students can create an animated movie by just writing a script. Platform - iPad, Mac & PC Price - free to download and use with 4 pre-installed characters and 2 pre-installed scenes. You can buy...
Filming, Editing, and Creating Video Using the iMovie App
iMovie - What is it and how can I use it? Platform - iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad Tutorial - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMulqoAV0QRNE442oonYK9E7ggOY1mF2Oc3-1uX7WOA/edit?usp=sharing Download - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8 Overview By...
Observe Groupwork in Real Time Using ClassKick
ClassKick is an iOS app that allows instructors to observe their students' work as it is created. Instructors first create a class, which is assigned a unique code, and add their roster. Then, the instructor can create questions by drawing or typing on the...
Infuse Learning
UPDATE: We received notification in March 2015 that Infuse Learning will be shutting down on April 3, 2015. Contact your instructional technologist to discuss alternatives. Infuse Learning is a straightforward, web-based platform that allows instructors to launch...
Canva: Graphic Design
Canva is a web-based application (also an iPad app) that allows the average person to become a graphic designer! Unlike the Adobe Creative Suite, Canva requires no extensive training or design skills. Instead, Canva provides free templates, graphics, and fonts...
Create Amazing Slideshow and Presentations Using PowToon
PowToon is an online tool that allows you to create AMAZING slideshows and movies. It’s very simple to use! Powtoon is great for creating dynamic presentations or slides. Use it to make a fun and engaging introductory video. It is also easy and quick enough to use...
IFTTT (If This Then That)
IFTTT, or If This Then That, is an app available for iOS devices through iTunes and Android devices through Google play. The app makes it possible to create connections between services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Google Drive, Instagram, Evernote, and...
Create Engaging Online Lectures and Demonstrations with Explain Everything Basics for the iPad and iPhone
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard iPad app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Explain Everything is an app that allows the user to create...
Merging Multiple PDFs into One File on a Mac
There are many times you may have wished you could take two or more PDFs and combine them quickly and easily into one. Creating a PDF is easy to do on a Mac as it is built in to the Print function of every application. Combining them, however, is not as straight...
ImageQuilts: Creating a display of images from a Google search
Think wordle for images and you have Imagequilts a Chrome browser extension that allows you to create and edit a tiled display of images resulting from a Google image search This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for creating an ImageQuilt. Uses: A visual...
Using ShowMe to create interactive whiteboard recordings on your iPad
ShowMe is a free app for your iPad/iPad mini that allows you to create interactive whiteboard recordings. You can record your whiteboard drawing along with a voice recording, and supplement your video by importing images from your Camera Roll. When you have...
Finding Acceptable, Copyright Free Images for Use in Projects
Google’s Advanced Search feature makes it quick and easy to locate images with open usage rights such as “free to use share or modify.” This search features allows you and your students to find and use images without worrying about violating Copyright law....
Attendance2 – DAVE256 APPS
Attendance is a universal iPhone/Touch/iPad application. It allows you to take and keep attendance records. Its main intended use is for teachers to keep track of records for their classes, but it can also be used for meetings and group gatherings. Attendance runs...
Remind.com: One way text announcements
Remind.com is a free, safe messaging service for teachers to communicate with students and parents via text or email. Teachers sign up for an account, create classes or groups, gather subscribers, and start messaging. This is all done without ever sharing their...
Using Guided Access on the iPad
Guided access is an accessibility feature on the newest upgrade to iOS 6.0 for the iPad. Also referred to as “kid mode”, Guided Access allows you to lock your iPad into a certain application and limit the functionality of that application to certain areas if you...
Creating Comics using Halftone and Pic Stitch
This tutorial will cover how to take photos from your Camera Roll to create a comic book look using Halftone (.99) then placing those comic images in a comic strip layout using Pic Stitch (free) all on your iPad. A comic page is made up of individual cells or...
How to Zip a Folder or Group of Files: Windows XP
This tutorial demonstrates how to take a group of files or a folder on your computer and zip it, or compress it, into one file or archive (.zip). Uses: Combine multiple files into one for easy upload into OAKS. Send multiple files or a folder easily via email...
How to Zip a Folder or Group of Files: Mac
This tutorial demonstrates how to take a group of files or a folder on your computer and zip it, or compress it, into one file or archive (.zip). Uses: Combine multiple files into one for easy upload into OAKS. Send multiple files or a folder easily via email...
