Resources

Here you will find resources that I find to be interesting/helpful.

Educational App Store – apps for educators

Slack – online collaboration tool
Padlet –
FlipGrid –
Feedly –

Prezi – An online presentation tool
WallWisher – Online Notice Board Maker
Dipity – Online Timeline Creator
TodaysMeet – a Twitter-like environment to communicate using 140 characters
Ten Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Teaching – tips from Cynthia Thomas
Professional Learning Communities – The How-To Guide for Educators
Edmodo – Secure Social Learning
NBEA Connect – Connecting Business Educators Around the Globe
NOBLE – Network Of Business Language Educators
SBTA – Saskatchewan Business Teachers Association

Recommendations from Alec Couros:

• Tools/Apps/Extensions that may be valuable for #eci831
  • Attention Management & Curation:
    • UBlock Origin – Ad blocker extension
    • OneTab – Tab organizer extension
    • Wakelet  – For organizing tweets
    • Tweetdeck – Makes it easier to follow hashtags, people, and other categories on Twitter
    • Mercury Reader – Eliminates distracting sidebars and other extraneous elements on sites
    • DF Tube – Removes the distracting items (recommended videos, comments, etc.)  around the video on YouTube videos 
  • Media Creation/Management
    • Screencastify – Screencasting extension
    • Educreations  – iOS Screencasting tool
    • Camtasia – Professional-level screencasting tool
    • GIF Creator – GIF extension
    • Clip Converter – Media downloader – only works for videos without music
    • Flipgrid – Create and organize video
    • Lightshot – Screenshot extension
    • Skitch – Mac-only screenshot app
    • Shotcut – Free video-editor
    • Davinci Resolve – Another free video-editor
    • iMovie – Mac-only video editing tool
    • Garageband – Mac-only audio editing tool
    • Audacity – Audio editing tool
    • Anchor FM – Podcasting tool
    • Powtoon – easy-to-use animation tool
    • Vyond – animation creator, similar to Powtoon (free trial)
    • Videoscribe – white-board video creator (free trial)
    • Stop Motion Studio – stop-motion video creator
    • NFB StopMo Studio – stop-motion video creator
    • Zencastr – Podcasting tool
    • Free Sound – Audio resource
  • Other:
    • Gramarly – Grammar/Spellchecker extension)