Resources from Digital Learning Institute : Using Technology

Karly Moura, Ditch That Textbook (2020)
Flipgrid, a free video discussion platform, gives all students a voice. Here are more than 50 Flipgrid ideas and activities for your class.

Robin De Rosa

The Marginal Syllabus convenes and sustains conversations with educators about issues of equity in teaching, learning, and education. Through author and organizational partnerships, and by using the web annotation platform Hypothesis, the Marginal Syllabus fosters a participatory and open experiment in professional learning for educators eager to join critical conversations about equity and education.

Christina Moore, EDUCAUSE Review (2020)
The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the opportunities and benefits that mobile technologies can provide to students and instructors as they learn and teach in unusual times.

Cathi L. Dunnagan, Devran A. Dannenberg, Michael P. Cuales, Arthur D. Earnest,
Richard M. Gurnsey, and Maria T. Gallardo-Williams, Journal of Chemical Education (2020)
Using virtual reality (VR) in educational settings is becoming increasingly popular. The feasibility of replacing an instrumentation-based organic chemistry lab with a VR experience has been evaluated. A VR laboratory experience was designed to teach students how to use an infrared spectrometer and elucidate an unknown structure from the resulting infrared spectrum. The resulting first-person VR experience is immersive and realistic, with a teaching assistant guiding the user along the steps required to complete the experiment, including feedback as needed. The VR experience was developed in WondaVR with selections made using gaze navigation. The resulting product was tested with a group of students, and the outcomes for short- and long-term recall were compared with a group of students that did the same experiment in a traditional lab. Results indicate that there are no significant differences in learning outcomes between the two groups, which indicates the possibility of using this tool to offer this organic chemistry lab experiment via distance education. Students that tried the VR experience reported a high degree of satisfaction with the product and no significant usability barriers. These VR experiences could be useful for students who are unable to be present in lab due to disabilities, attendance challenges such as pregnancy, or safety concerns.

Create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes with Adobe Spark

Bring creativity to your classroom. A simple way to make digital books online - on Chromebooks, PCs, iPads or tablets. Create. Read. Publish

Explore these Creative Commons Licensed resources — from literary works, to videos, photos, audio, open education, scientific research and more.

Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics.

Flipgrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do.

Google My Maps is your way to keep track of the places that matter to you. Easily make custom maps to remember your favorite places, explore new cities, or plan great vacations.

With Google Slides, you can create, edit, collaborate, and present wherever you are. For free.

Create Comics Online: Comic Strips, Printables, Writing Fun! Greeting Cards and Masks. Teach writing, storytelling via our online comic strip creation tool.

From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.

Makes it effortless for educators to add interactive questions and formative assessments to their slides.

Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication.

1. Write a text conversation in TextingStory
2. Create a video from your story
3. Watch your creation and share it with your friends

Create a virtual tour. Tour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360° tours right from your computer.

Unleash your team’s creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes, and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere.

A free tool used by educators world-wide to teach critical thinking, facilitate rational classroom debate and explain controversial issues.

Create speaking assignments and assessments for your students.

Conversation practice with native speakers
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese

Free online whiteboard tool for teachers and classrooms!

A multi-platform BYOD (bring your own device) student dialogue system that focuses on real-time assessments.

Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

Hypothesis is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site.

The World's easist way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them.

Formative assessment has never been faster. Plickers is the free card activity your students will love.

Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more.

Free Screen recorder for Chrome. Record, edit and share videos in seconds.

Free and easy to use. Used by teachers and for raffles. Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.