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You don't need expensive software to produce engaging course content for use inside and outside your classroom. Check out the following options -- many are free and work inside your web browser (no downloading necessary!)-- to enhance the quality and effectiveness of your presentations.

In addition to end-of-semester course evaluations, you can collect mid-semester evaluations to assess how your course is going while it is in progress. You can also check in occasionally with classroom assessment techniques (CATs) that quickly and easily allow you to assess how students are learning in your classes.

If you're using video in your classroom, check out this super easy way to use Zaption to edit videos together to create thought-provoking comparison. By combining videos together, students can draw connections, thinking critically, and connect what they're seeing to a bigger picture.

I love edutopia! Check out facilitation with discussion boards.

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To the Blended middle-school and high-school math classrooms - if you are not yet using Desmos, check this out! Wonderful resources!

We use Common Sense Media in our schools to teach Digital Citizenship. Nearpod has a few of the Common Sense Media lessons ready to go for free. If you want to check them out, they are definitely useful resources.

Check out Loom, a free cloud-based screen recorder. Loom has no limits on their free license regarding the length of video or how many videos you can upload. There are no watermarks on videos either. The interface is very similar to YouTube and allows for setting different levels of privacy. This could be a great solution for your students who might create video.

Anyone can record a video of their screen and upload it to YouTube. But if you want to create screencasts that folks will actually watch and share with their friends, check out these tips and tricks from a professional screencast producer.

This tool integrates with my school Outlook calendar and allows anyone with my link to schedule a meeting with me! Our school tech coach utilized it last spring, and it was amazingly easy. Instead of bouncing emails back and forth, her calendar showed me available times, and I booked what worked for me! I envision this being a fantastic tool to use for parents or students to schedule office hour appointments, as well as for student committees to schedule check-ins with me at times that work for them!