The resources on this page were harvested through the exploration and implementation of technology integration throughout this course. For a demonstration of many of these applications or technologies, please visit the course projects.
Microsoft Academic: a comprehensive research tool that allows the user to search by topic or field of study.
Zotero: a free, open-source reference managemant tool that allows users to create bibliographies and citations as well as keep notes on research
Google Forms: a survey form that enables teachers to gather information through surveys or to assess student progress through the creation of quizzes.
Formative: allows users to create live tests, import/embed documents, sites, and more, to see results, and to offer live feedback.
Diigo: a social bookmarking website. Users can create groups for sharing resources and outlines for organizing online resources.
GitKraken Timelines: a multimedia timeline creator with a wide array of options. Users can create date-based or numeric timelines with milestones and dates, add images with image backgrounds, and share timelines with a private or public link.
Pocket: a "read later" application that saves articles in an easy-to-read, add-free format for reading on or offline at a later time.
Lucidchart: cloud based, allows users to create process charts, diagrams, and mind maps.
Google Suite for Education: a suite of web applications for teachers including apps such as Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and Google Classroom.
Quizlet: a study application that allows for teacher or student created flashcards with a learning, study, or game mode.
Khan Academy: an international non-profit company that offers a comprehensive, standards based, and interactive learning experiences for students with a wide array of content choices including math and language arts.
Educreations: a screencasting tool created specifically for the ipad. Using this software it is easy to annotate, animate, and narrate content. Additionally, content can be shared publicly, creating a collaboration worldwide.
Pear Deck add-on: enables the user to add interactive slides, formative, assessments and embedded audio to Google Slides presentations.
Buncee: users create interactive, attractive, classroom content.
Canva:a free graphic design tool for schools which incorporates thousands of free images, text choices, and templates.With this software, teachers and students can create charts, graphs, lecture slides and presentations, portfolios,learning plans, and more (Canva for Education, n.d.).
Storiumedu: a collaborative, online, story writing game. Students are able to create their own character cards. The game-play is based on the different elements of storytelling and character development.
Pixar Storytelling Rules #1: an animation based on the 22 rules of storytelling by Emma Coats. This video helps students identify,"What makes a story great."
Book Creator: an online ebook creator tha allows for realtime feedback and collaboration .
Hapyak: allows teachers to annotated videos making the learning experience memorable, encouraging efficient and optimized learning.
Prezi: presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships.
Planbook: a web-based lesson planning tool that helps teacher to lesson plan and collaborate.
Piktochart: users use text and data to create infographics, reports, and printables.
Microsoft Speech to Text: "You can use your voice to dictate text to your Windows PC. For example, you can dictate text to fill out online forms; or you can dictate text to a word-processing program, such as WordPad, to type a letter. "
Google Read and Write: This app not only lets you dictate your writing, it also turns documents into mp3s.
Amara: allows you to create captions for short videos.
Movie Captioner: Closed caption software for MacBook.
View2do: Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities often struggle to self manage. This application allows users to ule will create a visual schedule to help individuals stay on task.
Padlet- is an application that allows students to generate and share ideas collaboratively.
Virtual Icebreakers- website developed by BSU students (EdTech 523) "to give online teachers usable Icebreakers for synchronous or asynchronous activities."
Voicethread: A cross-platform tool that allows users to present, communicate, collaborate, and connect.
Charlotte Doyle Ebook about setting created to guide students to identify elements and apply them to other literature.
Mythology:
Common Lit interactive reading passage: Theseus and the Minotaur
Prezi: Intro to Greek Mythology
A Library of Logical Fallacies which includes humorous videos.
Green Humour: registered under CC, this website has humorous/educational infographs.
Audacity: this free cross-platform audio software is easy to use and intiuative.
iMovie: an outstanding movie maker and video editor for Windows or Mac that allows users to create, polished, professional movies.