Online Tools Recommended by POT Faculty – for use on the web, free or close to it
- Web pages and site builders
Google Sites (see Pilar’s tutorial)- Wix (free, flash websites, easy to build)
- Weebly
- Online HTML editor (free- see tutorial by Lisa)
- Webnode (“wysiwyg” editor for building web pages and sites)
- Checkthis (instant web page)
- Wikis and collaboration
- PB Works
- Google Docs (Lisa M Lane)
- Crocodoc (Robert Kelley)
- VoiceThread (slides w/ voice commenting – Lisa M Lane)
- Video and audio messaging
- Social bookmarking: develop and share collections of web resources
- Diigo (allows highlighting, creation of groups)
- Images: creating, editing and sharing
- Flickr (photo sharing and annotations)
- Flaming Text (for making cool graphic text -Louisa Moon)
- Bubbl.us (quick mind maps or brainstorming charts)
- Glogster (create posters from text, images, video and music – David Detwiler)
- Wordle (create word maps out of blocks of text)
- Stock Photos (source for images – Sam Arenivar)
- Online office suites: dump MS Office
- Zoho (word processing, presentations, spreadsheet, etc. — desktops apps on the web – Lisa M. Lane)
- Google Docs
- Screencasting
- Screenr (quick screencasting with no download – Lisa M. Lane)
- Screencast-o-matic (quick screencasting with no download, webcam can be picture-in-picture – Lisa)
- Camtasia Relay (available to MiraCostans – contact Jim Julius)
- Camstudio (PC)
Screenflow ($99, extensive editing capability)- Snag-It ($30 – Robert Kelley)
- Snapz Pro X (Mac)
- Camtasia (on campus – see Karen Korstad)
- Slideshows
- Slideshare (upload PowerPoints and add audio easily – Lisa M Lane)
- Prezi (alternative presentation, with non-linear options and zooming)
- Audio recording
- Soundcloud (records and stores online, provides embed code)
- Avatars
- Voki (animation that talks with your voice – David Detwiler)
- Xtranormal (animation based on text you type in – Lisa and Laura)
- RSS feeds: aggregate all your info, blogs, feeds in one location
- Google Reader
- Netvibes (Lisa)
- Pageflakes
- Feedraider
- Videoconferencing: meet students with whiteboard or other features
- Tokbox (free – Robert Kelley)
- CCCConfer (free synchronous conferencing for community college instructors)
- Vyew (free conferencing for up to 20 participants)
- Google Plus Hangout
- Multimedia Creation, Editing and Hosting
- Overstream (add subtitles and comments to video)
- YouTube (uploading, creation using webcam, captioning)
- Edustream (videos linked through Blackboard – Karen Korstad)
- Chat
- Plupper (also can add notification badge to any web page, free, for PC or Mac)
- Yahoo Messenger
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Online Status Indicator (for Yahoo and AOL)
- Skype (voice conversation and instant messaging)
- Blogging
- Edublogs (free, with ads)
- WordPress.com (free, with ads)
- Posterous (free)
- Tumblr (quick posting, like a mini-blog -Lisa M Lane)
- Blogger (now tied to Google)
- Twitter (micro-blogging) — see a great blog post on how to use it
- Storytelling
- Storify (collections of tweets and images)
- Alan Levine’s 50+ Tools for Storytelling
- Community / Discussion
- Pinboards- sharing web content and images on pages
Hardware and Software recommended by POT faculty – for download
- Web pages
- LibreOffice (see Laura’s tutorial)
- Presentation/Video
- Adobe Captivate (Jill Malone)
- Screen Capture
- Grab (Mac: Utilities)
- Snipping Tool (Windows 7)
- Paparazzi (Mac: captures beyond screen — Lisa)
- Screencasting
- Image Editing
- Photoshop Elements ($100 – Jill Malone)
- GraphicConverter (Mac -Lisa M Lane)
- Windows Movie Maker (Windows)
- Gimp (free)
- Sound Recording and Editing
- Audacity (free)
- SoundRecorder (Windows XP includes)
- Wimba Podcaster, Voice Authoring, and Wimba Presentation
- Productivity
- LibreOffice (free office suite – Laura Paciorek)
- FTP (file transfer uploading and downloading — connecting with a server)
Great list of resources in order of what you want to use them for
Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning
Learning Management Systems
- Blackboard (MCC)
- Moodle (presented inside Moodle)
You can also play an hour for free at the demo site
- Sakai Project
- Instructure Canvas (new, basic but very good, free course available)
Course Content
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
- TeacherTube (educational videos)
- TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (videos on global issues)
- MIT Lecture Browser (video and audio lectures from their classes)
- U Penn 60-second lectures
- Intelecom (MCC is subscribed – videos and clips to embed in classes – Pamela Perry)
Tools and Tips
- TLT’s Low Threshold Applications : these take little time to learn and implement
- TLT’s Seven Principles’ Library of Ideas: uses Chickering and Gamson’s “seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education” and suggests online implementation
- Short Glossary of Internet Terms
E-Books and Print Books on Online Teaching (MCC)
Professional Development
- Pedagogy First (site for POT Certificate Class)
- Hybrid Pedagogy (online journal/blog)
- ProfHacker (regular column at the online Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Powerful Learning Practice (low-price professional development)
- @ONE (free or low-cost training for California CC educators)
- Hack Education (blog on educational issues related to technology)
- Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (CUNY)
- Journal of Educators Online