Cool Tools for Enhancing your Online Course
FlipQuiz
flipquiz.me
FlipQuiz allows you to create your own game show-style board. You can create multiple boards to save
for later use and reuse. Perfect for a review session! Unlike a PowerPoint created file, FlipQuiz will keep
track of which questions have been asked.
Free Version:
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Up to 6 categories with 5 questions in each
Use quiz over and over
Access from anywhere
Pro Membership:
Same features as Free plus:
 $7.00/month or $70/year
 Team scoring
 Upload images
 Copy other user boards
 Flash cards for students
 Private Boards
 Custom Points
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Cool Tools for Enhancing your Online Course
Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software. It helps the presenter to create memorable presentations
by allowing motion, personalization, and visual representation of related ideas.
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Poll Everywhere
www.polleverywhere.com
Easily set up polls and deploy them from a computer or smartphone. Participants can use their desktops,
smartphones, or Twitter to provide their answers. Results are in real-time!
Higher-Ed Free
Free
Responses per
Poll
Choose your
username
PowerPoint
Institution-wide
$3000+ per year
40
Per Student
Per Instructor
$14.00 per
$349 per semester
student
Based on Class size 400
FAQ
FAQ, Email
Account Manager
1000+
Many Question
Types
Live Word Clouds
Customize look &
style
Correct answer
display
Reporting &
Grading
Team
competitions
Moderation
Automatic
Censoring
Support
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VoiceThread
voicethread.com
VoiceThread allows you to upload, share, and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files, etc.
You can communicate by using a microphone, web cam, text, phone, or audio file upload. It does not
need to be downloaded to your computer since it is a cloud application. However, there is an Apple app
available.
You can integrate VoiceThread into Blackboard! With a VoiceThread account, users can make comments
straight from Blackboard. Otherwise, they are still able to view the presentation.
Department License
Free
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Create up to 5 VoiceTreads
Comment by microphone & text
Single Instructor License
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1 Pro account for the instructor
50 Basic accounts for students
$99/year
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10 Pro accounts for faculty
250 Basic accounts for students
1 webinar-style training session
Site License
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Pro accounts for all faculty
Basic accounts for all students
Two online training session
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Educreations
educreations.com
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. You can record your voice, handwriting, &
photos for free! Other options, such as the ability to record websites, is available with the paid version.
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Instructor Use:
o Create a lecture to:
 post on Bb.
 have available to students who are absent
o In math, show a problem being solved and/or insert related graphs
o In vet med, identify the areas of an animal.
o In biology, label the parts of a microscope.
o Many more uses!
Student use:
o Create a video for homework.
o Demonstrate learning a new concept.
o Present information to classmates or the teacher.
Pro School
Basic
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FREE
Record & share lessons
Basic whiteboard tools
Create & join classes
Save 1 draft at a time
50MB of storage space
Email Support
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$1495/year
Teacher & Student management
Pro for all teachers’ students
Configure in-app features
Centralized billing management
Unlimited storage space
Dedicated support specialist
Pro Classroom
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$8.25/month ($99/year)
Export Videos
Advanced whiteboard tools
Import docs, maps, & more
Save unlimited drafts
5GB of storage space per user
Priority email support
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Cool Tools for Enhancing your Online Course
ink2go
ink2go.org
ink2go is a screen annotation and recording software. You can easily write on any running applications,
including videos. It can be helpful to instructors during face-to-face courses as well as video tutorials for
online learning. It is available for both Windows and Mac.
Single license - $19.90 with free upgrades
15-day free trial available
Features include:
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Record High-Quality video of entire desktop together with your annotation as a video.
Let you define a region of interest on the screen and only record within that region.
Record your voice from the microphone.
Allow pause and resume during a recording session.
Toggle between your desktop screen and a whiteboard/blackboard with just a single-click.
Helpful when you want to quickly show your idea on a clean page.
Let you create a new page to annotate without destroying the current annotations. You can
easily go back and forth between the created pages.
8 pens, 4 highlighters and 3 erasers of various colors and sizes for your convenience.
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More Cool Tools
Annotation & Note Taking
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Evernote - http://evernote.com
Audio & Podcast Tools
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Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audiopal – www.audiopal.com
Chirbit – www.chirbit.com
Digital Podcast (Educational) - http://www.digitalpodcast.com/categories/20-educationpodcasts
The Education Podcast Network – http://epnweb.org
iSpeech – www.ispeech.org
Kids Podcasts – http://kids.podcast.com
Podomatic – www.podomatic.com
Podbean – www.podbean.com
Read the Words – www.readthewords.com
Vocaroo – http://vocaroo.com
Voki – www.voki.com
Yodio – http://yodio.com
Calendars
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30 Boxes – www.30boxes.com
Assign-A-Day – http://assignaday.4teachers.org
Calendly – https://calendly.com
Doodle – https://doodle.com
Classroom Polling
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Flisti – http://flisti.com
Micropoll – www.micropoll.com
PollDaddy – https://polldaddy.com
Socrative – www.socrative.com
Collaborative Writing Tools
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EtherPad – http://etherpad.com
HyLighter – www.hylighter.com
MixedInk – www.mixedink.com
TextFlow – http://textflow.com
Zoho Writer – http://writer.zoho.com
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Idea or Mind Mapping
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Bubbl.us – http://bubbl.us
Debategraph – www.debategraph.org
Gliffy – www.gliffy.com
Mind42 – www.mind42.com
MindMeister – www.mindmeister.com
Mindomo – www.mindomo.com
Webspiration – www.mywebspiration.com
Educator and Student Communities
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Badoo – http://badoo.com
Bebo – www.bebo.com
Curriki – www.curriki.org
Engrade – www.engrade.com
LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com
Ning – www.ning.com
WizIQ – www.wiziq.com
Communication & Online Discussion Tools
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Chatzy – www.chatzy.com
FlashMeeting – http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net
Mikogo – www.mikogo.com
Scribblar – http://scribblar.com
Sykpe – www.skype.com
TodaysMeet – http://todaysmeet.com
Yuuguu – www.yuuguu.com
Online Whiteboards
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CoSketch - http://cosketch.com
Scriblink – http://scriblink.com
Twiddla – www.twiddla.com
Maps
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Google Earth – http://earth.google.com
Google Maps – http://maps.google.com
Google Sky – www.google.com/sky
Quikmaps – www.quikmaps.com
Photo Editing & Photo Sharing
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BeFunky – www.befunky.com
Blabberize – http://blabberize.com
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Flickr – www.flickr.com
Mixbook – www.mixbook.com
Photobucket – http://photobucket.com
Photoshop (Online) – www.photoshop.com
Photosynth – http://photosynth.net
Picasa – http://picasa.google.com
Pixlr – www.pixlr.com
Presentation & Video-Editing Tools
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Animoto – http://animoto.com/education
Empressr – www.empressr.com
Jing – www.jingproject.com
Museum Box – http://museumbox.e2bn.org
PhotoShow – www.photoshow.com
PreZentit – http://prezentit.com
Sliderocket – www.sliderocket.com
Slideshare – www.slideshare.net
VCASMO – http://vcasmo.com
VIDDIX – www.viddix.com
Zentation – www.zentation.com
Zoho Show – http://show.zoho.com/login.do
Publishing and Drawing Tools
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Calameo – http://en.calameo.com
Comic Creator – www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic
Formatpixel – www.formatpixel.com
Glogster – http://edu.glogster.com
GoAnimate – http://goanimate.com
Issuu – http://issuu.com
LetterPop – www.letterpop.com
MakeBeliefsComix – www.makebeliefscomix.com
OpenZine – www.openzine.com
Pixton – http://pixton.com
Plotbot – www.plotbot.com
Scrapblog – www.scrapblog.com
Stripgenerator – http://stripgenerator.com
Tikatok – www.tikatok.com
Toondoo – www.toondoo.com
TuxPaint – www.tuxpaint.org
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Cool Tools for Enhancing your Online Course
Portals & Social Bookmarking
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Delicious – http://delicious.com
Dingo – www.dingo.com
iTunes U Netvibes – www.netvibes.com
StumbleUpon – www.stumbleupon.com
Quiz & Activities Generators
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Google Forms – http://docs.google.com
MyStudiyo www.mystudiyo.com
Quia – www.quia.com
Quizlet – http://quizlet.com
Wordle – www.wordle.net
Timelines
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Dipity – www.dipity.com
Timetoast – www.timetoast.com
Videoconferencing
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Skype – http://skype.com
Ustream – www.ustream.tv
Video Sharing
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Khan Academy – www.khanacademy.org
Next Vista – www.nextvista.org
SchoolTube – www.schooltube.com
TeacherTube – www.teachertube.com
Xtranormal – www.xtranormal.com
YouTube – www.youtube.com
Virtual Worlds
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Second Life – http://secondlife.com
Other Tools
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LibraryThing – http://librarything.com
Scratch – http://scratch.mit.edu
TinyURL – http://tinyurl.com
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