Tools for Teaching

Instructional Technology Tech Tool Suggestions

• Favorite Tech Tools Sessions List of free tech tools instructors like to use

Create Videos and Images with Screencast and Screenshot Tools

• Screencasting (Create videos of actions occurring on your computer)
• Screen shots (Create pictures of what is displayed on your computer)
• Screencast-O-Matic (Create a video with your webcam, or create a screencast, or create a "picture in a picture")
• Jing (Create videos or pictures of what is displayed on your computer)
• Snagit (Intermediate tool: Create videos or pictures of what is displayed on your computer)

Edit Images

• Image Editing 101: Getting Started with Image Editing
  • Image Editing Software Choices (Windows/OS examples)
  • Image Editing using Free Online Image Editor Pixlr Cropping and Resizing Images

Create Videos with Webcams or Create Screencasts

• Screencast-O-Matic (Create a video with your webcam, or create a screencast, or create a "picture in a picture")

Create PowerPoints with Voiceover

• Office Mix (Narrate PowerPoints, write on them, add quiz questions, and more!)

Create Interactive Videos

• EDpuzzle (Add interaction IN your video: add questions, audio, text, links and/or images)

Create videos and/or work with YouTube

• YouTube (Find out how to find close-captioned videos, add videos, find educational videos and utilize YouTube.)

Work with Collaboration Tools

• VoiceThread (Provide media that your students can "comment" on in multiple ways)
• Wikis (Collaboratively document any topic)

Find Free Class, Project or Textbook Resources

• Creative Commons (Find and use copyright-free images)
• Open Educational Resources (Find free lesson, course, and text materials)
• SlideShare (Find free slideshows)
• NCLOR (NC Learning Object Repository)

Free Professional Development classes

• MOOC's (Find free online courses you can take from the best colleges and universities in the world)