May 2017 Favorite Tech Tools

The ninth annual Favorite Tech Tools session focused on a variety of tools for engaging students in online, hybrid, and seated classes. All tools are free unless noted below.

Socrative

Quickly poll your students (student response system)

How to use Socrative

• Socrative web site
• Socrative Resources and Help

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EDpuzzle

Add questions into videos and track your student participation

How to use EDpuzzle

• EDpuzzle website
• EDpuzzles's Support page provides video tutorials, tips, FAQs, sample EDpuzzles, and more
• Our EDpuzzle web page provides info on how to embed or link EDpuzzles in Sakai

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Office Lens

Turn your smartphone or tablet into a powerful scanner with this free app from Microsoft

How to use Office Lens

• Office Lens for iOS (iPhone/iPad instructions)
• Office Lens for Android

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Finding captioned YouTube videos

• Find YouTube videos that meet accessibility requirements
  • Use YouTube's filters to search for closed captioned videos.
  • BUT, many YouTube videos have been automatically captioned by YouTube. You must play the video to find out if it is captioned correctly.
  • Here are instructions for watching videos with captions

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(Google's) Autodraw

Non-artists: Draw a bit; then Autodraw will provide images for you to choose from

Try out Autodraw:

• Autodraw web site
• Sample Autodraw image

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Goose Chase

• Create an online scavenger hunt that participants complete on their smartphones
  • GooseChase website
  • Cutesy video explaining the basics
  • How to create and organize a game