Below is an alphabetical and linked list of all the digital tools that were used for planning, instruction, or by students as part of this project. All products are available for free use!

*Attention and personal data excluded

Appear.In is probably the easiest video chat tool ever. It is easy to set up a meeting space and once you do, joining is literally as easy as a click.

This was used to collaborate remotely with the project's co-creator as we refined the lessons and shared experiences.

Another extension, this one works great with Chrome and Firefox. When I need a more complex screenshot, like an entire webpage or to annotate, Awesome Screenshot is fast and easy. (I use my Mac's screen capture function for quick and dirty screenshots, including to capture an image of QR codes I make.)

Bit.ly is another tool I use when I need advanced functionality. It does well for quick short links, but with an account you can customize your Bit.ly link, which is hand for sharing! For example, the short link for this website is bit.ly/doigetu. Get it?

Flipgrid is a contained online community where students can easily record short videos (up to 5 minutes) and interact with videos made by classmates.

Students were asked to use Flipgrid to record their self-reflections of the lessons and to comment on other student's videos.

Google products probably need little to no introduction. Drive is Google's file storage and sharing cloud.

Of course Google Drive has many uses, but for this project, students were able to store their Screencastify videos in drive and share the link with me. Once they did so, I saved the videos to my own Drive folder. It was also used to house shared documentation with the project's co-creator.

Google Docs is an easy way to share digital worksheets with students. For this project, the A NICE source evaluation worksheet was created and shared with students, who were asked to make a copy and complete it before submitting it. Since I was able to share it with restricted access, I could just post the link on the slide or in Moodle. Easy.

This site was created using Google Sites (obviously... check out the footer!) While not the prettiest, and sometimes a bit clunky, it is extremely functional (ex: it will easily embed content stored on your Drive) and easy to use. In fact, it only took a couple of hours to put together this whole site and I can edit it from anywhere.

I used Sheets in the Lateral Reading lecture to create the graph showing how the class performed on the SHEG evaluation compared to the Stanford undergrads and (in the case of HKBU) to the HKU class.

Slides is Google's answer to PowerPoint and Keynote. All the lectures I gave for this project were created in Slides and shared with students as PDFs. Embedding videos from YouTube is really easy with slides and the cloud functionality made it easy to access working slides from any location.

Mentimeter is an "interactive presentation software" that solicits responses from users to create real-time word clouds, surveys, polls, and quizzes.

I originally began using Mentimeter because of its integration with Keynote (you can embed live results in the form of a word cloud or visual data chart, etc.) but that function does not yet work with Slides. Still, it was a good tool for having students choose the most reliable source during the Lateral Reading lecture, and displaying results right away.

Pixabay is a great place to find graphics usable under Creative Commons! All of the illustrations on this site were sourced from there for free (thanks, @manfredsteger!)

Easy plugin for Chrome that records video, audio, and live screens (or any combination) all at once.

There are a number of QR code generator plug-ins and I have been using this one for years. It's simple and straight forward; I just click the extension icon and screenshot the instantly-generated code!

Because of its quick and easy interface, TinyURL is my go-to for simple and more throw-away links. The letters they generate tend to be easier to read on a screen, making it my preferred random short link generator.

VideoAnt is another creative way for students to show their evaluations of information online. This screen recording software allows students to annotate their screen recording with text, which displays in real-time on the right side of the screen. I offered this as an option to students for their post-evaluation and while only one student used it, it was very effective.