Online Teaching Tools
Web Conferencing for Online Meetings
Bb Collaborate
Zoom
Making Videos
VoiceThread (through Bb)
FlipGrid
Screencastify (screen recorder for the Chrome)
Free to record 5 min/video
$49/yr unlimited
for slideshows set to music & instructional videos
for movie trailers & student projects
10 Ways to Use Video in Your Classroom
Examples created by professors:
Welcome to Inclusion (in Special Ed) https://animoto.com/play/QXu0dMLWOx1P81x5D7z0Qw
Welcome to Still Photography course https://youtu.be/mA1IALdP-tY
Welcome to World Literature https://youtu.be/7FXWjLPL9WE
Tutorials:
Polls & Surveys
PollEverywhere (surveys, can even make word clouds)
Pinboards
VoiceThread (through Bb)
FlipGrid
Screencastify (screen recorder for the Chrome)
Free to record 5 min/video
$49/yr unlimited
Mindmapping / Brainstorming
VoiceThread (through Bb)
FlipGrid
Screencastify (screen recorder for the Chrome)
Free to record 5 min/video
$49/yr unlimited
Word Clouds
VoiceThread (through Bb)
FlipGrid
Screencastify (screen recorder for the Chrome)
Free to record 5 min/video
$49/yr unlimited
Group or Collaborative Annotation
Chat in Google Slides, Google Docs
Annotate PDFs in Google Drive (since 2018)
Hypothes.is is an open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge. It combines sentence-level critique with community peer-review to provide commentary, references, and insight on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more.
Annotation Studio is a suite of web-based annotation tools developed by MIT’s HyperStudio that supports close reading and collaborative interpretation of online documents. It is designed primarily for humanities students and classrooms.
Annotate.net
RedPen (too expensive)