CAT's EdTech Repository for Faculty

American Panorama

http://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/

"American Panorama is a historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.

Since there's a limit to how many actual maps are available, only disciplines like history and sociology might be able to use this site as a resource for foundational knowledge.

Both critical and practical thinking could be tapped into easily; creative thinking might depend on the instructor and what types of assignments he or she decides to implement with the maps.

Connections could easily be drawn for both inside and outside the classroom. Many of the maps presented have socio-political/socio-economic implications.

With some encouragement students could learn to apply the information presented to themselves and others.

This would entirely depend on the instructor and on he/she decides to implement the use of the maps in the classroom.

The maps can be an indispensable tool for teaching students how to organize rich digital data.

Any Browser

Standalone Site with Downloadable Resources

On the site, there's an interactive national map on inequality. It is used to outline housing segregation within the US from 1935 to 1940. Just this map alone could spawn several assignments, such as a paper on who exactly this type of map benefited.

Anatomy Arcade

http://www.anatomyarcade.com/

A clever website with a host of games geared towards anatomy. It is completely free, but it is somewhat dated. It does have some useful resources to other websites, such as getbodysmart.com, which is an online introductory textbook to anatomy.

Provides foundational knowledge for anatomy students though the use of Flash games. The games aid helping students memorize the various parts of the body.

Creating memory games of the such is a technique used for studying.

Desktop

The games are on a website that can potentially be embedded within the Blackboard.

Instructor can use the various games to have students review content in a fun way.

Canva

https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/

Easy, drag-and-drop graphics creator. Canva has the distinction of also being collaborative and allowing for the creation of a variety of graphics. It is similar to using Photoshop.

This particular tool lends itself towards encouraging creative thinking.

Creating infographics, especially for a digital space, is fundamental to modern forms of communication. Connections among ideas within and outside of the course, among the information and ideas, and among material in social, personal, and work areas can easily be made.

Using creation tools such as these can help students understand important elements in the design process when communicating towards an online and global audience.

Desktop and Mobile

Images from the website and application can be uploaded to any LMS or site.

Canva can be used to create various types of info graphics. If students are tasked with creating electronic posters of data or anything else, they can use Canva to easily create them.

Coggle

https://coggle.it/?lang=en-US

Coggle is a collaborative mind-mapping application.

It could be used with certain writing classes to teach certain foundational elements of the writing process.

This tool is specifically geared towards organizing thought process: it's a way to get students to develop metacognitive skills and as such touches upon all three thinking areas.

This tool serves as a great way to get students to learn how to use clustering as a way to organize their thoughts and ideas.

Desktop

Coggle mind maps can be downloaded as images, which can then be uploaded into any LMS or website.

Like Popplet, instructors can create assignments where students have to create visual maps to organize ideas and thoughts. Since Coggle is collaborative, instructors can task students with creating more complex mind maps where students can tackle a branch of the overall structure, or instructors could have students simply brainstorm together.

Crashcourse.com

https://thecrashcourse.com

Crashcourse.com is a website dedicated to producing high-quality instructional videos on a wide range of subjects and disciplines. These videos are all hosted on YouTube and are all freely available to everyone.

These videos cover such a wide range of disciplines and serve to provide foundational knowledge directly. This site is a great resource for those looking for supplementary material.

The videos themselves vary as widely as their topics. Overall, all three areas of thinking can be touched upon.

Connections can easily be made within the course and outside of it. Connections to other areas, such as to the students' personal, social, or work lives could be made on their own, but it is suggested that the instructor facilitate them.

Since the site covers such a wide array of disciplines, particular disciplines—for instance, such as those in government or even ecology—could help to encourage connections between themselves and others.

Again, this depends on the particular disciplines being targeted.

Helping students understand that there are resources like this site freely available online encourages them to develop strategies for self-directed learning.

Any Browser

Embeddable into any LMS

Instructors can use the videos from Crashcourse to supplement their lessons. Since the videos themselves can be embedded, it might be a good idea to also include them across units within the LMS along with questions to help students digest and think through the information being presented.

Doctopus

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/doctopus/979668934766

Doctopus is an add-on/plugin for the Google Suite that allows for gradebook management and assignment grading restrictions.

Desktop

Standalone plugin

Instructors can use Doctopus to generate management tools within the Google ecosystem. Doctopus will allow them to create, send, and lock assignments for grading.

EasyBib

http://www.easybib.com/

EasyBib is a simple to use bibliography generator. It has the advantage of being able to save bibliography entries as separate files, and it has a quick search option that will pull relevant data off various sources.

Depending on the class, this interactive site can be used to teach students foundational information about creating a bibliography.

It's important to make students aware that there are such tools as bibliography generators freely available.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone Application

EasyBib can be used by instructors who simply want to show their students a quick and simple way to generate bibliographies for their papers. Microsoft Word even has built-in functionality to also aid in generating bibliographies.

EduAppCenter

https://www.eduappcenter.com/

EduAppCenter is an open LTI app collection. In other words, it hosts a series of educational tools and plugins for learning management system that allow LMS administrators to modify functionality and overall experience.

Applications hosted on EduAppCenter range from calculus calculators all the way to interactive digital whiteboards.

Since the apps can vary greatly in their use and application, all three areas of thinking can be targeted.

These tools can easily be incorporated into any classroom, and in fact, some of them already are.

While it would depend on the instructor, tools such as these can be used to teach students how to better interface with a more interactive learning system.

Desktop

Embeddable

As an example, Wiris Math Editor is a plugin that provides students with a chemistry editor and equation editor with handwriting support.

edX

https://www.edx.org/

edX is a website offering several online courses from various universities across the US. Some of the courses, when completed, offer college credit for a nominal fee.

edX has the potential to be used as a supplementary website with other college courses. However, because most online offerings from edX are set on specific dates, using a course might require an instructor to first research what might be available that aligns with what he or she is teaching.

Course offerings at this site touch upon all three areas of thinking.

This website has the potential to connect ideas and concept within a class and outside of it.

Sites, such as these, teach students about potential resources online that they can use to supplement what they are already learning in class.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone website

edX can be used to supplement course material being taught in class. However, it is the responsibility of the instructor to make sure there are free courses available during the semester in which he or she is teaching.

Flubaroo

http://www.flubaroo.com/

Flubaroo is an online plugin with Google forms. It can work in conjunction with Google Classroom. It allows for the creation of online assessments that can be autograded when configured correctly. Since Google Forms are embeddable, this means that online tests can be created, which will work inside of the learning management system.

Desktop

Embeddable

Online

Instructors can use this plugin in conjunction with Google Forms to create auto-graded assessments.

Ten steps or less

Plugin

Geogebra

https://www.geogebra.org

"A free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics, and calculus in one easy-to-use package."

Depending on the instructor, the program has the potential to strongly reinforce formulae and certain principles.

Students can learn practical skills live while learning how to apply particular principles for specific problems. Students can also apply critical and creative thinking while working on problems.

Students can learn how to make connections among various mathematical areas.

At the very least, this program helps students to learn how to use modern tools when interacting with mathematics. It is useful as a visualizer and as a modern way to interface mathematics with technology: e.g., assignment submissions, creation of interactive models, and participation with online communities in the subject area.

Desktop and Mobile

It seems to have some sort of Blackboard/LMS integration. It might allow for interactive web models and auto-grading on graphing tests.

Instructors could create auto-gradable graphing exams. Students can create electronic math models that interface with other pieces of technology.

GitHub

https://github.com/

The website essentially functions as way to share programming code with everyone (portfolio branch). What's interesting about GitHub is that it allows people to work on coding together and offers very powerful file version control.

Students should be learn some practical skills and how to manage version control with larger programming projects.

There is something to be said about learning new ways to interact with people in a digital space. This website helps students learn how to interact within this setting with others.

Students should learn about the importance of managing a project at it's various stages of conception.

Version control is a very important aspect of being able to deploying and maintaining programming. This website alone introduces students to those programming principles.

Desktop (there are apps that will allow you to use it on mobile devices)

This is a website. It can be pointed to via link... there's also the possibility of embedding to a certain degree.

This website can be used as a portfolio piece for a student in a programming-related field. It can also be used to have students work on a programming project together.

Goobric

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goobric-web-app-launcher/cepmakjlanepojocakadfpohnhhalfol?hl=en

Goobric is a Google Chrome plugin that allows for the creation of dynamic rubrics within the Google Suite. These rubrics are attached to the assignments created and submitted within the Google Suite, and the rubrics are automatically attached to assignments. Audio can also be recorded on assignments within the Google Environment.

Goobric can be used to provide more detailed feedback to students with regards to their work. This, in turn, can help students to develop guided and objective-driven skills when learning.

Chrome Browser Only

Standalone plugin

Instructors can use Goobric in conjunction with Doctopus to create a more dynamic grading experience within the Google ecosystem. This experience would be totally free.

Issuu

https://issuu.com/explore?utm_source=anon-cta#

Issuu is an online magazine/book publication space. It is similar to Flipboard, except that it has less to do with aggregating news from elsewhere and more to do with creating your own content and uploading it. One of the advantages of using Issuu is that it does allow you to embed online magazines anywhere. You could literally create your own textbook and embed it into any page within an LMS.

All three areas of thinking can be tapped into when using this particular site or application. Students can make decisions as to what to include in their own digital magazine or book and collaborate together.

Particularly in classes dealing with writing, Issuu might be a very powerful way to have students develop connections between writing and writing in a digital space.

In instances where students are asked to collaborate, students could learn more about group dynamics and how their own efforts might be seen within a group.

The site/application serves two purposes. It can be used to upload your creations, and it can be used to view content from around the world. Using it as the latter, instructors can point students to particular readings that might allow them to care about a wide variety of topics and ideas, related or unrelated to the course. Students should also start to develop a respect and appreciation for publishing to an online space.

Desktop and Mobile (Web Browser)

Issuu digital magazines are embeddable on any site.

Instructors can use the publishing site to host their own content. In this way, instructors might create digital media that is fully embeddable into LMS systems. Instructors might also use the platform to help students learn the importance of publishing and an online medium or even to help them creat digital portfolios.

JuxtaposeJS

https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/

JuxtaposeJS is a simple web tool that can be used to create a dynamic comparison between two images.

All three areas of thinking can be potentially touched upon depending on the how far-reaching the instructor can get the student to be in using the tool

Connections to both inside and outside of the classroom can easily be made, especially since using images in such a way immediately invoke connections and relationships to other things.

This would entirely depend on the instructor and on how well he or she can draw out those connections from his or her students.

Again, this aspect depends on the individual using the tool. Of course, that's not to say that the instructor cannot aid in fostering this learning dimension in how he or she structures the assignment parameters.

This is just another simple tool that can help students learn how to use online resources to create engaging content. It is also a tool that can be used across various disciplines in an online space.

Any Browser

Embeddable into any LMS

Instructors can use JuxtaposeJS to provide students with comparison content within the LMS. Students in a similar fashion could potentially use the tool in their discussions, presentations, etc.

Kahoot!

https://getkahoot.com/

Kahoot! is quiz/polling platform that attempts to gamify the whole experience for students. Kahoot has both an interactive website and an application.

This is entirely dependent on the instructor. However, interactive quizzes and polls can be used to gauge student learning and encourage student participation. Foundational principles and knowledge can be used to develop these quizzes and polls.

Depending on the types of questions asked, instructors can expect to touch upon all three thinking areas.

Connections both within and outside of the course can be made based on what questions are used to create the games.

If students are made aware of it (metacognition), they could learn gamifying techniques to use with their own learning practices.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone Website

Instructors can use Kahoot! to gauge student learning and interest. They can use the quizzes and polls to get students engaged in the subject matter while making the learning experience more interactive.

Lino

http://en.linoit.com

Lino is a digital share space, similar to Spaaze.

All three areas of thinking can be tapped into when using this site, especially since the site is essentially a blank canvas where anything can be posted.

Students should learn how they themselves approach organizing ideas and concepts in a digital space as well as how they differ to others.

Students should learn the value of collaborating in a digital space.

Students can use a site like this to learn how to take notes, share information, and collaborate with others in a closed digital space.

Desktop and Mobile

Lino is embeddable. It can affixed to any site page or LMS that allows html editing.

Instructors can use Lino to create assignments that help students take notes or brainstorm together in a group. These assignments can be standalone assignments, or they can be a part of a bigger project. Some instructors have also suggested using Lino as a potential digital portfolio solution.

Make:

http://makezine.com/

A resource website for individuals that want to create things. It's great for people who are studying electronics, prototyping, and interaction design.

Depending on the particular discipline, the site can be used to teach certain foundational principles. However, the site would probably work best as a supplementary tool.

Again, with specific disciplines, the site lends itself to touching upon all three areas of thinking, especially if it used as a source of inspiration for class projects and activities.

Students can easily make connections to concepts being used in the classroom and outside of it, especially in the areas of electronics, engineering, and design.

Students should learn how to draw inspiration from the novel concepts and ideas found on this site.

Resource sites, such as this one, help students learn that there are various disciplines that their particular fields connect with. They also have them learn that there are sites out there that might help them to learn how to apply theoretical concepts.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone website

Instructors can use the resource website to find interesting projects that students might be able to collaborate in and develop. The site can also be used to supplement instructional material being used in the classroom.

Mathpix

https://mathpix.com

Mathpix is a mathematical formula transcriber. It will take math formulas written on a page by hand and use its OCR algorithm to create accessible, digital copies of those formulas.

Desktop, Mobile, and Web Browser

Accessible worksheets of digital math formulas can be uploaded as Word Documents into the LMS.  

Professors can free-write formulas within the Mathpix application or on paper and then create accessible digital math type that can then be included in presentations, documents, or even the LMS.

Microsoft Online

https://login.microsoftonline.com/

Microsoft's own cloud suite provides instructors and students alike with basic Work, Excel, and PowerPoint in addition to their cloud storage solution. Some great features from using Microsoft's offerings are the ability to embed documents into websites (so that their viewed directly from the Browser) and free drawing annotation on documents (incredibly useful for grading on a tablet).

With the suites, there are actual classes in which using such software is part of the curriculum for those disciplines.

All three areas of thinking can potentially be tapped into, depending on what type of assignments are given to the students. Unlike the Google suite, there is not real-time collaboration in the MS suite.

The suite is used for productivity. Connection to ideas inside and outside of the classroom are entirely dependent on the assignment provided by the instructor.

The instructor should encourage students to practice their collaborative skills using modern tools.

It is important that students learn how to use modern tools such as these to learn how to collaborate and submit assignments in a digital space.

Desktop and Mobile

This is where the MS suite really shines. Being able to easily embed full documents into an LMS is really helpful to students.

For an instructor, the Microsoft suite really shines in its ability to embed entire documents into an LMS. Spreadsheets, presentations, and documents can be embedded into an LMS to provide samples--viewable entirely from the browser--to students. Additionally, being able to provide a higher level of annotation on top of such documents should also not be so easily dismissed as students get a greater level of feedback within the digital space.

My Study Life

https://www.mystudylife.com/

My Study Life is an academic organizer. It allows the user to schedule academic events and schedule them by class so that you can better keep track of assignments and special due dates.

This tool can help students learn how to organize their academic schedules and study habits. The tool is built to provide a friendlier interface that caters to college students.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone Application

Students can use this tool to create their own personalized academic calendar with notification reminders. Instructors can use this tool to also keep track of various classes and teaching assignments.

Natural Language Toolkit

http://www.nltk.org/

This website is dedicated to natural language processing, a field in computational linguistics focused on machine language learning. This is the same discipline often used to create electronic assistant applications, such as Siri, Alexa, and Cortana. This site provides a corpus that students can use to train computers how to interpret human language. It also offers a free online textbook to learn how to use the toolkit.

This website establishes foundational knowledge in a very specialized field.

This site can help students to develop in all three thinking areas.

Students can make connections to various areas and disciplines, such as language, computer science, and artificial intelligence.

To an extent, students should learn how machines interact with people and pull from their knowledge of their own interactions with others.

Students should working on finding interest between the various disciplines that come into play to accomplish this particular area of artificial intelligence.

This demonstrates to students how to find and use resources to learn and apply information within this particular field.

Desktop (programming is geared towards desktops)

This is a website. It can be pointed to via link... there's also the possibility of embedding to a certain degree. The online textbook is free for everyone. This could also be linked out to.

Instructors can literally use the entire website to teach natural language processing to students.

OneNote

https://www.onenote.com/

OneNote is a notetaking application from Microsoft. Its strongest features rely on how accessible it can be at all times. OneNote easily allows for the inclusion of photos, audio, video, and free-hand drawing.

Provides a foundation for using modern note-taking tools and applying them to higher education.

Desktop and Mobile

Standalone Application

Instructors can help students learn how to organize their own notes and provide strategies on how annotate lectures as well as pull in various materials for research. Other useful strategies to use include understanding how to manage large volumes of information.

Phet Interactive Simulations

https://phet.colorado.edu/

A whole site dedicated to creating interactive educational simulations for students. Interactive simulations are embeddable and are available as an iPad application.

Site offers foundational knowledge in STEM.

With instructor guidance, all three areas of thinking can be targeted.

Connections can easily be made across any STEM-related discipline.

Students should be able to develop a stronger connection with certain foundational principles as they interact with the various simulations.

These simulations allow students to learn at their own pace and develop own process for understand somewhat difficult concepts.

Desktop and Mobile

Embeddable

As example, an instructor can provide his/her students with a science question requiring an explanation for a certain process. Students can get into groups examine a PHET corresponding to that question and provide a video explanation, presentation, or a written report explaining the process in their own words.

Photomath

https://photomath.com/en

Photomath is a simple application that quickly scans written math problems and provides step-by-step solutions.

From a practical standpoint, photomath allows students to quickly review the solutions to math problems. This is great for students who might not have access to a tutor and want to use the tool responsibly to help themselves.

Critical and practical thinking are highlighted when using this application.

This application is especially relevant in math courses. It can help students recognize connections within such courses and outside such courses.

As a tool for self-directed study, this application can teach students how to adopt best practices for reviewing work and understanding their own learning process.

Mobile

Standalone Application

Students can use this application to help them review difficult problems, especially when they don't have access to step-by-step instructions. They can use it to check their work.

Project Guttenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/

This website hosts over 53,000 free ebooks that have become a part of the public domain. What sets it apart from other resource sites is that it provides eBooks in a multitude of popular formats: ePub (can be used with iBooks), Kindle, HTML, RichText, Text, Mobi, and etc.

Many books can be found here freely available, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare, Plato's the Republic, and etc. In terms of foundational knowledge, it would entirely depend on the instructor's subject matter.

Again, this would depend entirely on the subject matter and what books might be assigned to the student by the teacher.

Again, this would depend entirely on the subject matter and what books might be assigned to the student by the teacher.

Understanding how to find freely available resources is part of becoming a better 21st-cetury learner.

Desktop and Mobile

It's a full website. A link can be supplied to access it.

Instructors can assign readings or ask students to conduct research into older texts.

Research and Documentation Online 5th Edition

https://www.macmillanlearning.com/studentresources/college/english/composition/languageofcomp2e/diana_hacker/index.htm

An introductory website into academic research writing. It has the distinct advantage of providing annotated sample papers across various styles. It also provides information on which styles correspond to specific disciplines.

This website establishes foundation knowledge on research writing.

This site can help students develop practical and critical skills towards choosing and using sources while completing research assignments.

Students should be able to use samples to investigate how to conform their writing within the template guidelines of each style.

Students should gain a better appreciation for research writing among the various disciplines.

This site will help students learn which guidelines to use while writing in certain disciplines.

Desktop and Mobile

This is a website. It can be pointed to via link... there's also the possibility of embedding to a certain degree.

Instructors can provide annotated examples of writing to their students to give them a better idea of what a typical research paper should look like.

Screencastify

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-screen-vide/mmeijimgabbpbgpdklnllpncmdofkcpn?hl=en

Screencastify is a Chrome browser plugin that allows for quick screen recording.

Similar to ShowMe, Explain Everything, and Zoom, Screencastify can be used to create quick simple tutorial/overview videos.

Such video recording tools allow students to work through the critical thinking process. They also allow students to work through the potential practical application of theories and skills.

Students can easily make connections to other areas while using the tool.

The goal should be to get students to become more comfortable with their own thought process by moving it from unconscious to conscious awareness.

Students can also use Screencastify to review their own thought process. If they desire to submit video assignments to the instructor, they may do so.

Chrome Browser Only

Videos from Screencastify can be uploaded to other media sharing sites.

There are varied uses for screen-recording applications. As an example, instructors could use screen recording as a way to have students go through a difficult math problem. Instructors could also ask students to create a video peer review, where the evaluate and analyze another student submission.

Screencast-o-matic.com

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Screencast-o-matic is a free-to-use online website that allows for quick screen recording.

Similar to ShowMe, Explain Everything, and Zoom, Screencast-o-matic can be used to create quick simple tutorial/overview videos.

Such video recording tools allow students to work through the critical thinking process. They also allow students to work through the potential practical application of theories and skills.

Students can easily make connections to other areas while using the tool.

The goal should be to get students to become more comfortable with their own thought process by moving it from unconscious to conscious awareness.

Students can also use Screencast-o-matic to review their own thought process. If they desire to submit video assignments to the instructor, they may do so.

Desktop

Videos from Screencast-o-matic can be uploaded to other media sharing sites.

There are varied uses for screen-recording applications. As an example, instructors could use screen recording as a way to have students go through a difficult math problem. Instructors could also ask students to create a video peer review, where the evaluate and analyze another student submission.

ShowMe

http://www.showme.com/

ShowMe is a cloud-based, online interactive whiteboard presentation tool that allows simple video and audio recordings of presentations. It aids in the creation of quick online tutorials for students or by students.

Instructors can use video presentation tools to improve foundational knowledge and direct it/cater it to his or her particular student group.

Video presentation tools that allow for audio recording provide students to audibly work through critical thinking steps. They also allow students to work through the potential practical application of theories and skills.

Students can easily make connections to other areas while using the tool.

The goal should be to get students to become more comfortable with their own thought process by moving it from unconscious to conscious awareness.

Students will learn more about their own thought process and their ability to organize their thoughts when solving problems.

iOS only

Videos created with ShowMe can be embedded into an LMS.

Instructor can create interactive whiteboard video tutorials, which can then be uploaded into the LMS. In the same fashion, students can solve complex math problems in videos to demonstrate process and application of theory.

Sketchfab

https://sketchfab.com

Sketchfab is a hosting site for 3D artwork. It allows for the use of VR when viewing said artwork and can potentially be used as a portfolio site.

For disciplines concerned with the arts and the digital, maintaining a professional portfolio of the student's work is foundational to the course.

If the instructor uses the site as an inspirational source, then students could potentially tap into critical and creative thinking.

Students can easily make connections to the outside world by reviewing examples of works submitted to the site. Connections to the class could also be easily made by the instructor.

With some prompting, students could learn more about their particular styles in comparison to that of others. Students could also learn more about learning how to be a part of a larger online art community.

Students could gain a greater appreciation for becoming a part of the larger art community. Students could learn to value artistic skills. Students could also learn how to value technologies that aid in their becoming more adaptable in an online space.

In instances where students might be asked to share their work or to find a suitable place to host it, I believe that sites like these are indispensable. This becomes even more important with the question of sharing large file sizes. Students could easily use this site to submit work, for example, to a threaded discussion by embedding it, getting rid of this issue entirely.

Desktop (browser) and Mobile (Sketchfab VR)

This site allows embedding. It should work with any LMS.

This site can be used as a portfolio for students who are doing 3D animation and 3D modeling. This site can also be used as a stepping stone for assignment submission. Students can use the site to embed their creations into an assignment page on the LMS.

Skitch

http://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/

"American Panorama is a historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.

Since there's a limit to how many actual maps are available, only disciplines like history and sociology might be able to use this site as a resource for foundational knowledge.

Both critical and practical thinking could be tapped into easily; creative thinking might depend on the instructor and what types of assignments he or she decides to implement with the maps.

Connections could easily be drawn for both inside and outside the classroom. Many of the maps presented have socio-political/socio-economic implications.

With some encouragement students could learn to apply the information presented to themselves and others.

This would entirely depend on the instructor and on he/she decides to implement the use of the maps in the classroom.

The maps can be an indispensable tool for teaching students how to organize rich digital data.

Any Browser

Standalone Site with Downloadable Resources

On the site, there's an interactive national map on inequality. It is used to outline housing segregation within the US from 1935 to 1940. Just this map alone could spawn several assignments, such as a paper on who exactly this type of map benefited.

SoundciteJS

https://soundcite.knightlab.com/

SoundciteJS is a somewhat complex sound-clip tool. It essentially adds a sound clip to any text selection within webpage/blog. Since it does require a bit of knowledge in using some rudimentary html, it is not recommended for the average user. Nevertheless, it's applications are quite wide ranging. For example, imagine reading a electronic textbook with actual sound bites embedded right within the text. A student would be able to hear the rain forest at the same time as he or she is reading about it.

Any Browser

Embeddable within the text of an LMS

Usage for SoundciteJS is somewhat limited. It's intended purposes make it more of an add-on that allows for creation of a more immersive reading experience. This could prove quite beneficial for instructional designers and perhaps those in journalism fields.

Storybird.com

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Storybird is a program that allows users to create stories around various formats and provided artwork. Storybird's easy-to-use interface is great for professors who want to encourage individuals to create kids' books and stories for young readers, which could be incredible useful for professors in early education programs.

Foundational knowledge can be tied into specific guides towards engaging young learners in a education program. Of course, Storybird could also potentially be used to create unique reading material for young learners or it can be used to have young learners create their own unique materials.

When having students create their own Storybirds, all three thinking areas are engaged (or could potentially be engaged). The instructor has to explicitly and actively draw students to make critical and practical choices as to why they are doing what they're doing.

Again, within an early education program, students can automatically see the potential in using storybird as a tool within their classroom designs. Connections can easily be made among the class material and how to use the tool in an outside setting.

Students can learn much from how they themselves and others approach varying perspectives within creativity. This is especially true when you have students collaborate with each other to complete a single project.

Students should adopt an appreciation for the creative effort of using such tools to fuel their ability to write. Students should learn how to associate writing with fun activities, and they should also learn how to use such tools themselves in classroom design concentrated on younger learners.

This tool can be used to teach students that there are tools out there that can help make their learning environment more engaging. The tool also allows for students who will become teachers themselves to begin looking for more engaging tools for younger students.

Desktop and Mobile (Phone Only)

Standalone Site/Application

Instructors in an education program can have students create their own storybirds to model how younger students would use it in the classroom. Instructors can have students create their own storybirds to use as a sort of textbook for younger learners. Instructors can have students work together to create a storybird to encourage collaboration.

StoryMapJS

https://storymap.knightlab.com/

StoryMapJS is a web tool that allows you to create interactive maps, incorporating pictures, YouTube videos, and etc. The zooming in and zooming out features this tool has are very reminiscent of Prezi; however, StoryMapJS is much, much easier to use. As with many of the tools from Knight Lab, StoryMapJS will require the user to use their Google account.

In most instances where a story map needs to be created, the student will more than likely have to use foundational content in order to piece together the entire piece. Instructors can also use StoryMapJS to create a more interactive way for students to learn foundational knowledge in an online setting.

All three areas of thinking can be touched upon when using StoryMapJS.

Connections both inside and outside of the class can easily made, depending on the curation of the content being presented and/or on the assignment parameters being given to students.

This would entirely depend on the instructor and on how well he or she can draw out those connections from his or her students.

In essence, using this tool can help students learn how structure and present content in an online medium.

Any Browser

Embeddable into any LMS

Students and instructors can both use StoryMapJS as a presentation tool. The highlight of this tool is that it allows for the creation of rich, interactive online content.

Sway

https://sway.com/

Sway is a content delivery heavily influenced by PowerPoint. It is essentially PowerPoint 2.0 and allows users to bring together various document types in a much more dynamic presentation package.

Since Sway is a presentation tool.  It can be used to create a dynamic learning experience while students create presentations on foundational knowledge.

This type of presentation tool could be used to tap into all three thinking areas.

Depending on how the instructor uses the tool, connections can easily made while completing assignments.

The tool can be used to teach students how to organize materials for richer presentations.

Desktop and Mobile

Embeddable

Instructors can use Sway to have students create more dynamic assignments from any discipline. This is essentially a presentation tool. As an example, one student used Sway to create an interactive brochure/instructional booklet of what to do during a fire (along with her own illustrations). The advantage to using Sway versus something more like PowerPoint is that Sway has been refined to be used on the web.

Thingiverse

http://www.thingiverse.com

Thingiverse is a website that hosts user-made 3D models for 3D printing. It has an education section for students of all grade levels (including higher ed.). The website has thousands of items that can be used and reprinted. This site might also be used as a portfolio for 3D-printable models.

Any academic subject that deals with creating objects in a 3-dimensional space can greatly benefit from using this site as a reference and guide. The education section in particular can lead to taking old concepts and applying them in new ways.

All three areas of thinking can be tapped into when using this particular site. Whether a student has to review the design choices of uploaded items or just choose what items belong in a portfolio, this site will foster that level of thinking.

There's a real sense of community in this site. It encourages people to share what they've created with each other and allows them to re-print things that others have made.

In a way, by viewing what others have made, students can make generalizations about trends in human interests. Students can also be prompted to self-reflect on why their design choices might be different from that of other individuals.

Students should learn the value of collaborating in an open space as well as an appreciation for varying approaches to design challenges.

Sites like Thingiverse help students find the type of resources that are available for self-directed learning, specially for those individuals in various design and engineering fields.

Desktop and Mobile (limited)

Standalone Site

Instructors can use this site to supplement their lessons on 3D design. They can adopt projects from the education section to use in their classrooms. Instructors can also have students use the site as a hosting site for student examples and projects (portfolio).

Tiki-Toki

https://www.tiki-toki.com/

Tiki-Toki is a timeline creation software. It can be used to develop online, web-based interactive timelines.

Timelines can be used across various disciplines to represent and organize foundational knowledge.

All three areas of thinking can be touched upon in creating an interactive timeline.

Instructors can help guide students in making connections between timelines and ideas/perspectives both inside and outside of class. Students could also make these connections on their own.

This would depend mostly on the instructor and the subject matter of the class.

The practice of creating interactive timelines can help students better learn how to organize and categorize information in a digital space.

Desktop (Mac and Chrome) and Browser

Embeddable into any LMS (premium feature)

Instructors can use platforms like Tiki-Toki to help present information to their students in an organized and structured way. Students, on the other hand, can use interactive timelines to help them create and develop their own model-building efforts and knowledge structures.

TimelineJS

https://timeline.knightlab.com/

TimelineJS is an incredibly easy-to-use timeline creation tool that works through Google Sheets.

By downloading and modifying a simple spreadsheet template, TimelineJS allows you to incorporate free, embeddable timelines into all manner of online content.

Timelines can be used across various disciplines to represent and organize foundational knowledge.

All three areas of thinking can be touched upon in creating an interactive timeline.

Instructors can help guide students in making connections between timelines and ideas/perspectives both inside and outside of class. Students could also make these connections on their own.

This would depend mostly on the instructor and the subject matter of the class. For instance, TimelineJS has women in computing as its primary timeline demo.

The practice of creating interactive timelines can help students better learn how to organize and categorize information in a digital space.

Desktop and Mobile (spreadsheet template should work within Google Sheets)

Embeddable into any LMS

Interactive timelines are a great way to incorporate interactive content that is structured and organized within an LMS system. Any instructor could easily use this tool to provide a more rich and engaging experience for his or her students within the confines of an LMS. Students could also use this tool to do equally the same. Imagine a class in which students respond to each other within a discussion board with interactive timelines as a way to share information.

TimeMapper

http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/

TimeMapper is another timeline-creation tool, similar to TimelineJS. It uses a simple Google Spreadsheet to create a digital timely. It, however, differs from TimelineJS is that the timelines created, also include a digital map that tracks each time point.

Timelines can be used across various disciplines to represent and organize foundational knowledge.

All three areas of thinking can be touched upon in creating an interactive timeline.

Instructors can help guide students in making connections between timelines and ideas/perspectives both inside and outside of class. Students could also make these connections on their own.

This would depend mostly on the instructor and the subject matter of the class.

The practice of creating interactive timelines can help students better learn how to organize and categorize information in a digital space.

Any Browser

Embeddable into any LMS

Interactive timelines are a great way to incorporate interactive content that is structured and organized within an LMS system. Any instructor could easily use this tool to provide a more rich and engaging experience for his or her students within the confines of an LMS. Students could also use this tool to do equally the same. Imagine a class in which students respond to each other within a discussion board with interactive timelines as a way to share information.

TimeToast

https://www.timetoast.com/

TimeToast is an interactive website that allows users to create multimedia timelines.

This would entirely depend on the subject matter. However, a timeline could potentially be used for any class and could require the use foundational knowledge to build.

This site could be used to tap into all three thinking areas.

Again, this would entirely depend on the instructor. Any timely assignment could potentially be connected to anything inside the course and outside of the course.

In some instances, a more visual representation of a series of events through a timeline can help students better learn the material and retain the information.

Desktop (browser based)

Embeddable into any LMS

Timelines might be a good way to get students to become more aware of the chronology of a particular school of thought, concept, or idea. In this way, students might actively draw connections between what they're learning and how it fits with anything else that might have been going on throughout history.

Virtual Microscope

http://www.virtualmicroscope.org/

A resource website hosting a collection of various rocks and minerals that can be viewed at several different magnifications. The magnifications are interactive and sharable.

The material hosted on this site could be foundation for classes focused on the earth sciences.

Critical thinking and practical thinking can be targeted based on created assignments (questions prompts) from the instructor in using examples from the site.

This site could easily be used for a geology class. Ideas within the class can be directly connected to sample rocks and minerals, which are and exist in other regions of the world.

Student should adopt an interest in the components that constitute certain elements and rocks.

Students can use a website such as this for studying and developing their analytical skills.

Desktop and Mobile (somewhat buggy)

Each sample rock and specific magnification can be shared via direct link. There is the potential for embedding.

Instructor can use the examples and provide student questions with identifying certain marked features within the rock or mineral. Students could also annotate their own examples and send them back to the instructor for evaluation.

Vocareum

https://www.vocareum.com/

Browser-based, interactive coding LMS that allows instructors to teach programming to students within a browser. A sort of content/lab delivery system, similar to Code Academy and Programmr. However, it seems to be more of an LMS. It also checks for plagiarism and allows autograding.

For programming classes, vocarium offers a direct connection to foundational principles and practice.

Since students would be putting together and creating code, all three thinking areas are targeted.

Since this tool is focused on providing programming practice, connections can be made between specific items within the class and outside of it.

Students should be able to gain an appreciation for constructing and designing code.

Students can use this tool to practice what they've learned in class and strengthen their understanding of certain principles.

Desktop (Mobile?)

Vocareum seems to have direct integration in Canvas through the EduAppCenter:

"Vocareum is a seamless plugin for Learning Management Systems. Upon setting up of the course on Vocareum, a key and secret is automatically generated with the associated link(s) available at an assignment or course level."

Coding exercises could be embedded directly into LMS systems for students to program and test coding. Vocaerum also offers autograding features.

Voicethread

https://voicethread.com/

Voicethread is a multimedia conferencing solution geared towards education. It allows instructors and students to create video presentations around other types of multimedia.

Any instructor could easily provide a tie-in to any type of foundational knowledge from any class. Voicethread works mostly as a presentation tool.

Voicethreads, especially when students are using it themselves to create dynamic presentations, target all three areas of thinking.

Connections between ideas in the course and outside of it can easily be made based on how the instructor or student use the tool.

This would entire depend on the subject area.

Voicethread could be used by students as a study tool to practice analyzing and evaluating content that they are learning.

Desktop and Mobile

There are instructions on how to implement a voicethread within a learning management system as a plugin.

Voicethread can be used to create assignments, presentations, ect. Within its own system, voicethread does allow assignments submissions and cloud storage for your own videos.

W3 Schools

http://www.w3schools.com/

This is a resource website for various topics in web-based programming. It houses various definitions, examples, tutorials, examples, and references.

This is a great reference website for web-based programming. There are definitions and examples of all foundational concepts for website building.

With the examples in particular, students should be able to develop practical, creative and critical skills in choosing when to use various techniques or expand on them.

Students should be able to use the website to make connections across various courses within web programming. Students should also be able to reference examples to other examples they see around the web every day.

Students should learn how to appreciate the underlying programming behind certain websites.

Website is an example of asynchronous resources that are available online that aid in learning and developing skills.

Desktop and Mobile

This is a website. It can be pointed to via link... there's also the possibility of embedding to a certain degree.

Instructors can use pre-generated examples of HTML code to have students experiment with breaking or adding to the examples.

Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/

A cloud-based site that acts as a repository of information and knowledge, which can be edited by multiple users around the world at the same time.

Scholarly articles suggest using Wikipedia as a tool for teaching students how to publish work online. In this particular sense, not only can foundational knowledge be tapped into, but students will also be able to learn best practices with regards to online publishing.

As a vehicle encouraging students to publish online, all three areas of thinking are targeted.

Because Wikipedia houses knowledge and content on any topic, it can be used to relate to information inside and outside of the classroom.

Students should learn to appreciate the value of having accurate and original knowledge published on the site. Students can also learn quite a bit about the actual process of having such a large sharable space.

Using the site in this manner encourages students to apply various skills: researching and organizing information, creating content, reviewing content, and preparing content for online publication.

Desktop and Mobile

Not Embeddable

Again, having students write or edit their own articles online provides an unprecedented level of collaboration, creativity, and application.

Wikispaces.com

N/A

Wikispaces is a third-party website that provides wiki services for education and personal use.

Scholarly articles suggest using Wikis as a tool for teaching students how to publish work online. In this particular sense, not only can foundational knowledge be tapped into, but students will also be able to learn best practices with regards to online publishing.

As a vehicle encouraging students to publish online, all three areas of thinking are targeted.

Because Wikis are typically used to create a shared learning space, they can be used to relate to information inside and outside of the classroom.

Students should learn to appreciate the value of having accurate and original knowledge published to a wikispace. Students can also learn quite a bit about the actual process of sharing information with each other in wikispaces.

Using wikis can encourage students to apply various skills: researching and organizing information, creating content, reviewing content, and preparing content for online publication.

Desktop

Not Embeddable

Again, having students write or edit their own articles online provides an unprecedented level of collaboration, creativity, and application.

Wiris Editor

https://www.wiris.com/en/mathtype/mathtype-for-lms/

The Wiris editor is a chemistry and math editor plugin for learning management systems.

Desktop

This is a plugin that will work directly within an learning management system.

As an example, Wiris Math Editor is a plugin that provides students with a chemistry editor and equation editor with handwriting support.

Word Cloud Generator

https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/

This is another simple word-cloud generator.

Desktop and Mobile (Web Browser)

Word clouds can be downloaded as image files that can then be uploaded to any LMS.

Instructors can use the site to develop some very powerful imagery for LMS design and lessons. Word clouds can often be used as great starting pieces for may different types of assignments.

Wordclouds.com

https://Wordclouds.com

Wordclouds.com is a world-cloud generator. It gives you several options in terms of how to set up the word cloud. It allows to use various shapes as well as the ability upload your own shapes. You can add your own world list and even change what size you want each word to be. It lets you choose your colors as well as select from a listing of themes. It definitely gives you many options.

Desktop and Mobile (Web Browser)

Word clouds can be downloaded as image files that can then be uploaded to any LMS.

Instructors can use the site to develop some very powerful imagery for LMS design and lessons. Word clouds can often be used as great starting pieces for may different types of assignments.

Zoom

https://zoom.us/

Zoom is a very powerful video conferencing program that allows a large group of people to interact with each other while sharing a digital whiteboard or screen. The advantages to using Zoom versus other products is that it's free (with very little limitations).

Similar to ShowMe and Explain Everything, Zoom can be used to create quick simple tutorial videos while in conference or not. It has a set of powerful features that can aid instructors in creating on-demand instruction from anywhere.

Video presentation tools that allow for audio recording provide students to audibly work through critical thinking steps. They also allow students to work through the potential practical application of theories and skills.

Students can easily make connections to other areas while using the tool.

The goal should be to get students to become more comfortable with their own thought process by moving it from unconscious to conscious awareness.

Students can also use Zoom to review their own thought process and ability to organize if they desire to submit video assignments to the instructor.

Desktop and Mobile

Zoom videos are small. They can be uploaded to other media sharing sites.

Instructors can create quick video lessons and tutorials for students about various subjects. Zoom allows quick and easy screen recording and video capture in and out of conference.