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Enhance your teaching with free and easy tech tools Florencia Henshaw & Chase

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An overview of many different tech tools instructors in any discipline can use to enhance teaching and learning.

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2. Easy Purposeful Compatible Realistic Cool Fun New Trendy 3. How purposeful, realistic, and compatible are these? 4. 4 categories 5. To annotate images: Skitch ThingLink 6. Its a program you install on your computer to capture screenshots and annotate them. You can also add text/annotate other images. Incredibly user-friendly! Easy to share on social media or save as picture on your computer. Great to show students how to navigate a site and for students to show you their screen when they have questions. Could also be used as part of an assignment (annotate maps, pictures). 7. Add text, videos, pictures, links to still images. Great for tips on how to use something, pooling resources (e.g., interactive mind maps), analysis of paintings, class portraits. Easy to use and share (with a link or embedded). It can be use collaboratively by remixxing the image (e.g., you post a map, a student then clicks the Remix button and adds the names or links to info). Remixed versions appear as comments under the original image. A simple example: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/557898279107428353 A more complete example: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/330571647486525441 8. PowToon PixiClip Twiddla PowerPoint + Jing 9. Create animated tutorials/presentations with text, figures, music. Great way to explain something in an engaging way (without feeling self-conscious about your voice) A very creative way to introduce students to your course! Also good for student projects: summarize/report info (e.g., 5 myths about, How to) It takes some time to learn it, but its do-able. Can post video to YouTube, then share or embed. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4a_DKXw6g 10. Record what you do on a whiteboard. Good for virtual tutoring (e.g., drawing a syntax tree, correcting errors, pointing out parts of a paragraph, etc.) You can add audio. Recordings are public; different sharing options. No account required. Example: http://www.pixiclip.com/beta/c/eC3e 11. An online meeting room (everyone can collaborate: draw/write on the whiteboard, share pics/docs, etc.). Good for virtual office hours, review sessions. Incredibly easy to use: just click the go button. No account required, no special software required. Sessions are public to anyone with the link to it. Voice conference capabilities (talk on the phone!). You cannot record the session with the free version, but you can see the activity log while youre logged in. http://www.twiddla.com/ 12. One of the best *free* screencast software options. Record everything on your screen (video and audio). Especially useful to demonstrate how to use technology. When used in combination with PowerPoint, it can be a great tool for creating lessons, tutorials. You cant download your videos; you can only store them in their site. Budgetfriendly option: download the free trial of Snag It, get all your tutorials done and save them. Sample: http://screencast.com/t/zhDYMDTir 13. Screencast video done with PowerPoint + Snag It (free trial) 14. To make your videos interactive: TED-Ed 15. Students need to create a Ted-Ed account, and then you can review their saved answers. 16. Quizlet PollEverywhere Socrative toolsforenglish.com Flipquiz 17. Create study sets: 6 different study tools (2 of which are games). More effective if students create their own sets, so you can have students sign up to create sets for different topics, you can edit as needed, then share with the class. 18. Ask questions (multiple choice, open-ended, etc.). Collect instant audience feedback. Students respond via laptop, phone or tablet. Results displayed instantly. Especially great for large courses: you can have students submit questions anonymously as you conduct class. 19. Quizzes, comprehension questions, etc. Web-based: smartphones, laptops, tablets. Has an instructor mode for in-class teacher-led quizzes and student mode for use by students at home. Very simple and intuitive platform. Great visualization of class results. Example: http://b.socrative.com/teacher/#dashboard 20. Create a variety of language exercises in minutes. Some only for English but others can be for any language No sign-up required! Supports 11 different exercise types. Generates both exercise and an answer sheet. Can export activity and/or answer sheet in .pdf format. 21. Create game-show style quizzes (Jeopardy). Provide answers or leave questions open-ended. Link can be given to students for review at home. Example: http://flipquiz.me/demo 22. Padlet Piktochart Smore Animoto Photopeach Makebeliefscomix 23. Great for brainstorming, sharing resources, group projects. Can post text, docs, pics, links to sites & videos. Super easy to use and share! No account required. Example: http://padlet.com/wall/2sh1gkh7gg2o 24. Create infographics: a real-life skill! Fantastic for summarizing information (reports). Easy to share: save as JPEG, or post on social media sites. A bit time-consuming, but not impossible. Free version has a limited number of templates/features. 25. A very simple example created (in 20 minutes) with a free account 26. Create interactive flyers (another good real-life skill!) Promote events, places, causes. Easy to share with a link; others may post comments. Free version allows for 5 flyers max per account. Sample flyer https://www.smore.com/wgpds 27. Create a video based on images. Great for story-telling, writing/talking prompt, personal introductions (you in 30 seconds). Easy to share with a link; others may post comments. Free version allows for a 30-second video only. 28. Sample video with text and pics Another sample video with pics and video clips Very simple to use! Video clips and pictures readily available, but you can upload your own too. You dont need to know anything about video editing: several pre-made styles available. Can add text and music too. 29. Similar to Animoto but much more basic: picture slideshow with music and text only (and you upload the pics). Great for story-telling, showing how to do something (step by step), showcasing a restaurant/city, descriptions, reviews, reports. Quiz slides may be embedded within the slideshow. Easy to share with a link; others may post comments but it can also be set to private. A very silly and simple example: http://photopeach.com/album/eaucb7 30. Create comic strips even if you cant even draw stick figures! Great for language classes, but it can also be good for students to engage with any other material more creatively (e.g., dialogs between famous figures, social commentary, illustrations for the textbook). No account needed. Easy to share: copy and paste like a picture. 31. Real blogs, real sites, real audiences Blogger Weebly Tumblr 32. Quickly and easily create a blog. Add your students through Google+, or they can create a Blogger account and follow your blog. Great for collaboration with other institutions (in other countries, for instance). You could assign roles to students: searchers search for and post information, questioners pose questions, responders respond to others posts. 33. Good blogging does take time and effort, though 34. Create a website: another real-life skill! Easily customizable (drag-and-drop design). Supports blogging. Great for posting important documents, resources (worksheets, links, videos, etc.), daily in-class log, articles for discussion. Also great alternative for final reports/projects. You could start your own professional site (e.g., your teaching portfolio). 35. Would you rather grade a 5-page paper or this website? 36. One step short of a blog or course website. Create a site to serve as a repository for course- related resources (articles, pictures, other media). Your students can follow your site. Great as a creative alternative to research reports: have students create a Tumblr page on that topic instead! Other users cannot post comments (like most blogging platforms). 37. An example (of a work in progress) http://drhenshaw.tumblr.com/ 38. Social media Facebook 39. Utilize the page or group option. Advantages of a group: users get a notification when something is posted; can be secret or closed; you can hold virtual office hours. Advantage of a page: no need to create one every semester. Post questions, polls, photos, videos, links, documents, etc. *Be careful about privacy issues!* Great to have students help each other (rather than emailing you with general questions that others may also have) Allow students to network with classmates (if they want to). 40. Curating tools Pinterest Scoop.it 41. It is NOT just for arts & crafts or planning weddings! *Fabulous* place to find and organize teaching resources (by topic or by course) You can keep some boards secret; you can collaborate with colleagues or students. 42. Curates any type of content but especially good for creating a bank of sources (e.g., for a research paper, to learn more about, reading for pleasure, etc.) You can curate content that Pinterest doesnt recognize as pinnable (e.g. Facebook pages, PDF files) The reminders to upgrade can be a bit annoying Sample: http://www.scoop.it/t/lecturas-by-florencia-henshaw