May 2016 Favorite Tech Tools

The eighth 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.

Screencast-o-matic

• Create a screencast of your screen, such as explaining your displayed syllabus or assignment
  • Screencast-o-matic web site
  • Screencast-o-matic tips, video and resources
  • Screencast-o-matic Feedback and Support

NowComment

• Turn documents (or web pages, pictures, or videos) into class conversations
  • NowComment website
  • NowComment's Education Page provides video tutorials, tips, FAQs, sample lesson plans, and more

Photos For Class

• Find pictures for your course that have the "copyright info" added to each photo
  • Photos for Class website
  • Photos for Class - How does the filtering work?
  • Photos for Class - What are their rules for citing photos?

How to find Closed-Captioned YouTube videos

• Instructions to search YouTube 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's how you can watch videos with captions