Teacher's Guide to Technology 2025 $
An online encyclopedia of curated technology for teachers, this constantly updated guide helps you quickly find the best tools for you — and explains how to use them in simple language so you can quickly understand whether a tool will be right for you. This resource costs $25, and AT has a subscription. If youwould like to see a preview, please schedule a Zoom meeting with one of us.
G Suite for Education - Free to AU
Google Suite, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drive offers free ways for faculty and students to collaborate. Google Tools are cloud-based and dont require your students to download or install the App. Google Slides can caption your presentation as you speak. Use Docs to comment on Student assignments.
Mentimeter
Free Presentation, polling and word cloud tool. Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.
PollEverywhere
Free Live polling and engagement tool. Captivate your audience by transforming your presentation, meeting, or class into an immersive and interactive experience.
Trello
Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way. You can share a board with your students or program faculty and staff.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collaboration of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas. This website allows democratizing access to information, both for teachers and students. Here, people can have an active participation in the learning process of others.
Symbaloo - Visual link sharing software. (Free and PRO)
BP: Could be used to share links to readings, APA styleguide, PDF, relevante sites. You can log in with your Antioch Google account. I am using this now if anyone wants to see mine, I can give you a tour.
What is PechaKucha?
PechaKucha’s 20x20 presentation format shows your 20 chosen images, each for 20 seconds. In other words, you've got 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way. PechaKucha means "chit chat" in Japanese.
Padlet
A great way to collaborate with students and share ideas and work. Padlet has free options and also a subscription for more advanced uses. It is very UDL friendly with multiple ways to share many resources.
MIT Game Arcade for many options for using games in classes and professional development.
YouTube
Use YouTube to serve up your Faculty Intro and Lecture videos to students.
Socrative
Turn every lecture into a two-way exchange with the app that gives you immediate insights about your teaching. Quizzes, surveys, team activities, and content from educators around the world – all in one easy-to-use assessment tool. Best of all, the Socrative app is free for all students to use.
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic is a free platform that supports video creation, editing and sharing by professors and students...Screencast-O-Matic offers more robust features for a fee. The platform is easy to learn and fast to use and videos can be uploaded to YouTube and other sites.
No Coffee Visibility Simulator
The No Coffee plug-in for Chrome allows you to view any page with a variety of visual distortion from various types of color-blindness to macular degeneration, cataracts, low-contrast vision and more. It is an excellent way to test the readability any page and get a sense of how people with visual impairments view your site.
Sway
Create visually striking newsletters, presentations, and documentation in minutes. Sway lets instructors create interactive lessons, “helps support my [learning] objectives.” According to the Sway website, the platform suggests searches to help users find relevant images, videos, tweets and other content that can be dragged and dropped into a document or presentation. Sway also is an effective tool for group projects and assignments.
Kahoot! (Gamification of learning)
Kahoot! is an educational platform that is based on games and questions. Through this tool, teachers can create questionnaires, discussions, or surveys that complement academic lessons. The material is projected in the classroom and questions are answered by students while playing and learning at the same time. Kahoot! promotes game-based learning, which increases student engagement and creates a dynamic, social, and fun educational environment.
Voicethread - Free to AU
Replace text-only discussions, interactive lectures, support UDL principles, no-schedule office hours, professional development. Everyone at AU has Free access to VoiceThread.
Coggle
Online tool for creating and sharing mind maps and flow charts. Students have the ability to share and collaborate in coggle. This could be a great tool for group projects.
Flippety.net
Easily turn a Google Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff! Flippety is a tool that integrates with Google Docs/Sheets to develop teacher tools, like randomized groups of your students, Quiz Show activity, Flash Cards etc!