An intersting tool for creating interactive simulations. Scroll down and look at a few of the sample. They are all animated so that you can press play and then use one of the up/down arrows on any node to kick off a simulation.
"Serendip-o-matic connects your sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. By first examining your research interests, and then identifying related content in locations such as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Europeana, and Flickr Commons, our serendipity engine helps you discover photographs, documents, maps and other primary sources.
Whether you begin with text from an article, a Wikipedia page, or a full Zotero collection, Serendip-o-matic's special algorithm extracts key terms and returns a surprising reflection of your interests. Because the tool is designed mostly for inspiration, search results aren't meant to be exhaustive, but rather suggestive, pointing you to materials you might not have discovered. At the very least, the magical input-output process helps you step back and look at your work from a new perspective. Give it a whirl. Your sources may surprise you."
Collaboration tool that allows students to contribute ideas, articles, posts, etc. Students can earn points for their contributions. Integrates with D2L.
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A tool that lets you pull in spreadsheet data from a public Google spreadsheet. Could be a good way to pull data into a course or onto a page and keep it easily up to date.
A set of tools for prototyping iPhone apps that uses HTML, CSS and Javascript. Could be a good way to work through some stuff before fully developing it or, outsourcing something if we ever wanted to make our own app.
Use this web app to create a custom link to a specific start time of any YouTube clip. If the part you want your students to view begins 40 seconds into the movie, this tool will let you create a link that starts playing the clip 40 seconds in.
A nifty web-based (with desktop option) writing tool that helps you edit by identifying sentences that may be hard to read. Also identifies use of adverbs, passive voice and words that can by simplified.
Vellum is a free app to create eBooks. Supports cross-platform output. But, they charge you to export your eBook. Still, looks like a pretty friendly tool.