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A tool for creating online "Jeopardy-like" games. 

Real-time online survey tool and "interest network"

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

From the homepage of this tool: "Thinklinkr has one of the fastest, simplest, and most innovative interfaces on the web and it will change the way you work. Meetings, brainstorming, and lectures will be fundamentally different for you. You will be more productive, organized, and connected with what's going on in your brain. Leave thinklinkr open for a day, use it to organize your thoughts, and you won't ever want to turn it off."

These tools allow you to create outlines -- i.e. hierarchically structured content -- in which you can open and close levels of the structure as needed. 

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

Padlet is a tool that allows you to easily create a "blank wall" on the web where you and others can share photos, documents, files, web pages, videos, and more.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. 

An online tool to calculate sample size for surveys

Cloudworks allows you to find other people's learning and teaching ideas, designs and experiences as well as sharing your own. You can also get access to many learning design tools and resources to help you create learning designs.

Cloudworks allows you to find other people's learning and teaching ideas, designs and experiences as well as sharing your own. You can also get access to many learning design tools and resources to help you create learning designs.

Big tool for my work with faculty and TAs

This is one of my favourite intros to the potential of ePortfolios from back in the ancient day (2004).

This paper will discuss the concepts of "Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning" and "Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio" by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development and Digital Storytelling. A major challenge today with electronic portfolios is to maintain learner intrinisic motivation to willingly engage in the portfolio process. The use of multimedia tools is one strategy that involves and engages learners; another technology that is engaging young people today is the web log or "blogs" and "wikis." But first, lets look at the issues that are turning learners off about the current approach to electronic portfolios, at least in Teacher Education.