Free and Cheap Technologies to Supercharge Your Teaching

Just gave a fun whirlwind instructional technology talk and I wanted to provide the slides and links below for the attendees (and anyone else who’s interested).

Slides:

Links:

• Tools for Point of Need and/or Mobile Instruction
  • Library DIY
  • ARIS
  • QR Codes
    • QR Codes Video Demo
    • QR Code Generators
      • Kaywa
      • QR Stuff
    • QR Code Readers
      • Kaywa
      • Quickmark
      • Beetagg

• QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator
• Where in the Library is Carmen Sandiego?
• Gamification and Badges
  • HML-IQ
  • Passport
  • scvngr
  • NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt
• Tools for Synchronous Online Instruction
  • Google Hangouts
  • Skype
  • ooVoo
  • join.me
• Tools for Movie-Making
  • Jing
  • SnagIt
  • Screencastomatic
  • Great post on using Google Hangout to record lectures
  • Mozilla Popcorn Maker
• Tools for Engagement
  • Guide on the Side
  • Prezi
  • thinglink
• Tools for Assessment
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Socrative
  • Google Forms
  • Fluid Surveys (great now, but just bought by Survey Monkey so future unclear)
• Infographics tools
  • Infogr.am
  • Easelly
  • Venngage
  • Piktochart