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Top 100 Tools for Learning
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Compiled by Jane Hart
Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
C4LPT.co.uk
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About the 2014 Guidebook"
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This is the 8th year that I have conducted an annual survey of learning tools from the votes of
learning professionals worldwide, and this year I compiled the 2014 list from the contributions of
1,038 learning professionals - from both education and training - working in 61 countries.
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I defined a learning tool as
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professional learning, for teaching or training, or for creating e-learning.”
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The annual Top 100 Tools lists have become very popular, and have become a useful longitudinal
study into how the way we learn is changing. Take a look at my analysis of this year’s list.

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In this 2014 Guidebook I provide
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• basic information about each of the 100 tools on the list (website, cost, availability as well as
their rankings on the list 2007-2014)
• their key features together with screenshot(s)
• links to useful guides and resources
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The PDF has been produced in US Letter format, but if you do want to print it, it can also be
printed on other paper sizes, e.g. A4.
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Links die frequently, so whilst working through the Guidebook, if you spot any dead ones, please
do let me know at jane.hart@c4lpt.co.uk.

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Jane Hart
Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
www.C4LPT.co.uk
October 2014
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014"
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1 -‐ Twi'er 10
2 -‐ Google Docs/Drive 13
3 -‐ YouTube 16
4 -‐ PowerPoint 18
5 -‐ Google Search 19
6 -‐ WordPress 21
7 -‐ Dropbox 24
8 -‐ Evernote 25
9 -‐ Facebook 27
10 -‐ LinkedIn 29
11 -‐ Google+ & Google Hangouts 31
12 -‐ Moodle 35
13 -‐ Prezi 37
14 -‐ Pinterest 39
15 -‐ Slideshare 42
16 -‐ Blogger 44
17 -‐ Word 47
18 -‐ Wikipedia 48
19 -‐ Feedly 50
20 -‐ Diigo 52
21 -‐ ArVculate 54
22 -‐ Audacity 55
23 -‐ Camtasia 56
24 -‐ Yammer 57
25 -‐ Skype 59
26 -‐ TED Talks/TED-‐Ed 60
27 -‐ Google Chrome 62
28 -‐ Google Scholar 63
29 -‐ Scoopit 64
30 -‐ Snagit 66
31 -‐ Gmail 68
32 -‐ Adobe Connect 69
33 -‐ Adobe CapVvate 71
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34 -‐ Flipboard 73
35 -‐ Kindle & App 75
36 -‐ Outlook 76
37 -‐ iSpring 77
38 -‐ Coursera 78
39 -‐ Hootsuite 80
40 -‐ Khan Academy 82
41 -‐ Edmodo 83
42 -‐ Adobe Photoshop 85
43 -‐ Excel 86
44 -‐ Google Maps 87
45 -‐ Zite 88
46 -‐ Powtoon 89
47 -‐ iPad & Apps 91
48 -‐ Padlet 92
49 -‐ Pocket 94
50 -‐ Udutu 95
51 -‐ Tweetdeck 97
52 -‐ Voicethread 98
53 -‐ Explain Everything 100
54 -‐ Jing 101
55 -‐ Flickr 103
56 -‐ Nearpod 105
57 -‐ Keynote 108
58 -‐ Quizlet 110
59 -‐ Storify 112
60 -‐ WebEx 114
61 -‐ Mahara 116
62 -‐ SurveyMonkey 117
63 -‐ iTunes 119
64 -‐ Google Translate 120
65 -‐ SharePoint 122
66 -‐ Haiku Deck 123
67 -‐ IFTTT 125
68 -‐ OneNote 126
69 -‐ Google Apps (for Work, Edu & Govt) 127
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70 -‐ Poll Everywhere 128
71 -‐ Blackboard Collaborate 131
72 -‐ SocraVve 132
73 -‐ Wordle 134
74 -‐ Notability 136
75 -‐ Google Sites 137
76 -‐ Delicious 139
77 -‐ Glogster EDU 141
78 -‐ Canvas 143
79 -‐ Tumblr 144
80 -‐ Vimeo 146
81 -‐ Kahoot 148
82 -‐ OpenOﬃce 149
83 -‐ WhatsApp 150
84 -‐ Wikispaces 151
85 -‐ Instagram 153
86 -‐ Pearltrees 154
87 -‐ Easygenerator 156
88 -‐ Voki 157
89 -‐ Lectora 159
90 -‐ EDpuzzle 160
91 -‐ Blackboard Learn 162
92 -‐ Firefox 163
93 -‐ Paper.li 164
94 -‐ TodaysMeet 166
95 -‐ LINE 168
96 -‐ ProProfs Quiz Maker 169
97 -‐ Moovly 170
98 -‐ Schoology 171
99 -‐ Blendspace 172
100 -‐ SogChalk 174
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Alphabetical List of Top 100 Tools"
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Adobe Captivate (33) Haiku Deck (66)
Adobe Connect (32) Hootsuite (39)
Adobe Photoshop (42)
Articulate (21)
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IFTTT (67)
Audacty (22) Instagram (85)
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Blackboard Collaborate (71)
iPad & Apps (47)
iSpring (37)
Blackboard Learn (91) iTunes (63)
Blendspace (99)
Blogger (16)
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Jing (54)
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Camtasia (23)
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Kahoot (81)
Canvas (78) Keynote (57)
Coursera (38) Khan Academy (40)
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Delicious (76)
Kindle & App (35)
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Diigo (20) Lectora (89)
Dropbox (7) LINE (95)
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Easygenerator (87)
LinkedIn (10)
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Edmodo (41) Mahara (61)
EDpuzzle (90) Moodle (12)
Evernote (8) Moovly (97)
Excel (43)
Explain Everything (53)
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Nearpod (56)
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Facebook (9)
Notability (74)
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Feedly (19) OneNote (68)
Firefox (92) OpenOffice (82)
Flickr (55) Outlook (36)
Flipboard (34)
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Padlet (48)
GlogsterEDU (77) Paperli (93)
Gmail (31) Pearltrees (86)
Google+ & Hangouts (11) Pinterest (14)
Google Apps (69) Pocket (49)
Google Chrome (27) Poll Everywhere (70)
Google Docs/Drive (2) PowerPoint (4)
Google Maps (44) PowToon (46)
Google Scholar (28) Prezi (13)
Google Search (5) Pro Profs Quiz Maker (96)
Google Sites (75)
Google Translate (64)
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Quizlet (58)
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Schoology (98) Udutu (50)
Scoopit (29)
SharePoint (65)
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Vimeo (80)
Skype (25) Voicethread (52)
Slideshare (15) Voki (88)
Snagit (30)
Socrative (72)
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WebEx (60)
SoftChalk (100) Whats App (83)
Storify (59) Wikipedia (18)
SurveyMonkey (62) Wikispaces (84)
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TED Talks/TED Ed (26)
Word (17)
Wordle (73)
TodaysMeet (94) WordPress (6)
Tumblr (79)
Tweetdeck (51)
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Yammer (24)
Twitter (1) YouTube (3)
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Zite (45)
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Best of Breed"
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Here are the 100 Tools in 8 main categories
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1 - EDUCATIONAL
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LMS ePortfolios Other edu Course platforms
Moodle (12) Mahara (61) TED/TED Ed (26) Coursera (38)
Edmodo (41) Voicethread (52 Khan Academy (40)
Canvas (78) Nearpod (56)
Blackboard Learn (91) Google Apps for Edu (69)
Schoology (98) GlogsterEDU (77)
Blendspace (99) EDpuzzle (90)
2 - COURSE DEVELOPMENT
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Authoring Quiz/Poll/Survey
Articulate (21) Quizlet (58)
Camtasia (23) Survey Monkey (62)
Snagit (30) PollEverywhere (70)
Captivate (33) Socrative (72)
iSpring (37) Kahoot (81)
Photoshop (42) ProProfs (96)
Udut (50)
Explain Everything (53)
Jing (54)
Easygenerator (87)
Lectora (89)
Softchalk (100)
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3 - PRESENTATION & CONTENT
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Presentation Animation/video Photos Audio
Google Slides (2) YouTube (3) Flickr (55) Audacity (22)
PowerPoint (4) TED/Ed (26) Instagram (85)
Prezi (13) Powtoon (46)
Slideshare (15) vimeo (80)
Nearpod (56) EDpuzzle (90)
Keynote (57) Moovly (97)
Haiku Deck (66)
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4 - COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION
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Conferencing Communication Collaboration Wikis Blogs
Google Hangouts (11) Skype (25) Google Docs (2) Google Sites (75) Wordpress (6)
Adobe Connect (32) WhatsApp (83) Padlet (48) Wikispaces (84) Blogger (16)
WebEx (60) TodaysMeet (94) Tumblr (79)
Blackboard LINE (95)
Collaborate (71)
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5 - SOCIAL MEDIA
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Social Networks SM Dashboards Curation/Storage
Twitter (1) Hootsuite (39) Pinterest (14)
Facebook (9) Tweetdeck (51) Diigo (20)
LinkedIn (10) Scoopit (29)
Google+ (11) Flipboard (34)
Zite (45)
Pocket (49)
Storify (59)
Delicious (76)
Pearltrees (86)
Paper.li (93)
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6 - OFFICE
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Suites Documents Email
Google Docs (2) Google Docs (2) Gmail (31)
MS Office: Word (17) Word (17) Outlook (36)
PowerPoint (4) Excel (43) Wordle (73)
OpenOffice (82)
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Shared/Synch drive Enterprise platforms
Google Drive (2) Yammer (24)
Dropbox (7) SharePoint (65)
Google Apps for Work & Government (69)
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7 - PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
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Search & Research Note-taking Other
Google (5) Evernote (8) Google Maps (44)
Wikipedia (18) OneNote (68) Google Translate (64)
GoogleScholar (28) Notability (74) IFTTT (67)
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Browsers Readers/Players Devices
Chrome (27) Feedly (19) Kindle (35)
Firefox (92) Kindle App (35) iPad (47)
iTunes (63
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1 - Twitter
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HAS BEEN #1 FOR 6 YEARS RUNNING
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Twitter is an online social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and
receive text-based messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters
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Website: www.twitter.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 1 2013: 1 2012: 1 2011: 1
2010: 1 2009: 1 2008: 11 2007: 43=
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Key features
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• You establish connections with people by “following” them and this means you will receive their
tweets in your news feed. Take a look at an individual’s profile page and their recent tweets and
then decide if this is someone you would like to follow. If you later decide that you don’t want
to follow them, it is easy to unfollow them.
• You can set up your own profile and design your own Twitter page, so that people can find out
more about you, and what you tweet about.
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• There are a number of different ways to tweet:
• To send a tweet to all your followers – Just enter your message in less than 140
characters and press send. All those who are following you will receive it. It will also be listed
on your public timeline, so that if anyone looks at your Twitter profile they will see it there
too.
• Re-tweet someone else’s tweet – If you are re-posting the complete tweet from someone
else, Twitter automatically shows this as a RT. If you are changing the original tweet somehow
then change RT to MT (Modified Tweet). Tweeters often add their own comments in a re-
tweet, and mark it off from the original tweet with symbols like < | or /
• Mention someone in a tweet – Use their username, e.g @C4LPT in the tweet. But note
that if you put @username at the beginning of the tweet, only your followers who ALSO
follow that person will see the tweet (i.e not everyone who follows you will receive it) –
although it will still appear on your public timeline. Twitter considers this to be a tweed to that
user rather than broadcast tweet.
• Send a private message to someone – aka a Direct Message (or DM). Put d in front of
their Twitter name, e.g. “d C4LPT how are you?” Note, only that person will receive the tweet
AND The tweet will NOT appear in your timeline
• Twitter lists are aggregated lists of people, so if you follow a list, you essentially follow all the
people in that list. You can even create your own Lists, if you want, to categorise those you
follow.
• Twitter hashtags are keywords beginning with the character # which can be placed anywhere
in tweet. Hashtags are used to keep related tweets together on a subject, so, if you click on a
hashtag, you will see a list of recent tweets that have also used that same hashtag. Popular
hashtags are shown on the Twitter screen as Trends, so when a hashtag appears here it is said
to be “trending”. Here’s an example of how tweets using the hashtag #learning might be
viewed together.
• Hashtags are used at conferences and other events to allow people to discuss the conference or
event session in a Twitter backchannel. Backchannels also means you don’t have to be
present in the event itself to find out and discuss what is taking place. As a presenter you can
might also tweet yourself into the backchannel.
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• Hashtags are also used in live Twitter
chats to support regular synchronous
discussions on Twitter. These Twitter
chats have become very popular on all
subjects. To the right is a screenshot of
some of the tweets at #lrnchat Qs and
As refer to question numbers in the
chat.
• Although you can use Twitter on the
Web to read and receive tweets, many
people use some other desktop or
mobile app to do this. Two popular apps
t o d o t h i s a r e Tw e e t d e c k ( 5 1 )
& Hootsuite (39).
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Guides & Resources
• The beginner’s guide to Twitter.

Mashable, june 2012
• How to Twitter (the infographic), 2013
• A printable 1-page Twitter guide for all skill levels, Jeff Dunn, August 2014
• The number 1 Twitter mistake many people make, Jane Hart, August 2014
• Social learning: an explanation using Twitter, Jane Hart
• 100+ people who tweet about workplace learning, Jane Hart, Centre for Learning &
Performance Technologies
• 7 Ways To Network More Effectively On Twitter, Lauren Dugan, MediaBistro, November 2012
• How to promote Twitter as a professional development tool to your colleagues, Helen Blundon,
27 February 2013
• Dan Snow: Anyone who doesn’t love Twitter is an idiot, The Guardian, June 2014
• 5 Reasons Every Professional Should Use Twitter, Business2Community, Todd Greider, April 2014
• How to use #hashtags properly, Daily Genius, August 2014
• Twitter chat schedule, Robert Swanwick
• Twiitter chats 101: A step-by-step guide to hosting or joining a Twitter chat, buffer social,
August 2014
• From Tweeting to Teaching: How You Can Use Twitter as a Powerful Resource in Your
Classroom, EdYech Review, August 2014
• The Twitter Top 100: Education Technology Must-Follows – Kelly Meeker, 11 December 2012
• Social learning in action at #elniln, Jane Hart, 22 June 2011
• Using Twitter in a face-to-face workshop, Jane Hart, 2 May 2010
• Using Twitter as a professional development tool, Dave Kelly, Learning Circuits Blog, 6 March
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• Why should I be on Twitter? Justin Hillier, Twitip, 2 March 2010
• Tweet to Learn - Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters, Scientific American, 24 January 2013
• Twitter for Educators Beginners Guide, Edudemic, January 2013
• 25 ways to use Twitter by degree of difficulty - Edudemic, 29 March 2012
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2 - Google Docs/Drive
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SAME POSITION AS IN 2013
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Google Docs is an online suite of office tools with free data storage. It is now more commonly
referred to as Google Drive.
Website: drive.google.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online & Apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 2 2013: 2 2012: 3 2011: 3
2010: 3 2009: 5 2008: 17 2007: 14
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Key features
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• Google Drive is the new name (and home) for Google Docs, and
here you can also upload files and folders as well as synchronize
files with your own devices, so that if you change a file on the Web,
or on your computer or on your mobile device, it updates every
device where you’ve installed Google Drive. That means you’ll
always have the latest version of your files and Google Docs
available.
• You can upload a file to Drive from your computer, or create a new
file (see screenshot to the right), of one of the following types (see
screenshot below):
• You can create documents on your own or with others, and the collaboration functionality of
means that each person has an equal ability to add, edit, or delete items, whilst only one
master version of the document is maintained – and what’s more the master document is
updated in real-time.
• If you are already familiar with Microsoft Office tools (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), then the
interface looks very similar, so you shouldn’t have any trouble transferring your skills.
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• By default your file is private – it is only visible to you and can be edited by you. To share the
document with others, you click the Share button.
• You can either share your document with a specified group of people by entering their email
addresses, and giving them the relevant rights …
• … or you can get a shareable link that anyone can view or edit or comment.
• With Google Slides you also have the facility to present your slides online. Simply select
Present in the top right hand corner, and then decide how you want to present it.
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• Google Forms lets you to gather information from a number of people quickly, and store the
data in a spreadsheet where you can analyse it. Questions can be of different types, and you
can make any question a required question (as appropriate).
• When you have finished creating the questions,

you can select a Theme for your Form - and
there are hundreds to choose from.
• You can then send the form by email or get a
shareable link or embed code.
• You can then view the responses either as a
summary or the raw data as a spreadsheet.
Note: The spreadsheet that is generated is
stored on your Google Drive. Once you have
collected the data in your spreadsheet you can
then do whatever analysis of the data you
require.
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Guides & Resources
!Google Drive Help Center
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• 100 ways to use Google Drive in the classroom, TeachThought, February 2014
• Managing Google Drive for Class Assignments: Instructor’s Guide
• Using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
• Google Docs Quick Start Guide (PDF)
• 34 useful ways to use Google Docs in the classroom
• 9 simple steps to create a good presentation using Google Drive, Educational Technology &
Mobile Learning, April 2014
• 80 interesting ways to use Google Forms in the classroom, April 2013
• Google Forms: How to create a quiz that automatically grades itself using Google Docs, Planet
of the Web, 2011
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3 - YouTube
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SAME POSITION AS 2013
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YouTube is a video sharing site, owned by Google, where users can upload, view and share
videos.
Website: www.youtube.com
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 3 2013: 3 2012: 2 2011: 2
2010: 2 2009: 3 2008: 18 2007: 22=
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Key features
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• You can search for and watch videos without an account on the site. When you enter your
search terms in the Search box, a list of videos will be displayed which show when each video
was added to the site, by whom, and how many people have viewed it.
• When you select a video, you will be able share it, email it and/or get the embed code for your
website or blog.
• With an account, YouTube becomes more of a hub for all your YouTube activity. It displays your
subscription updates (i.e. those channels/users you are following), as well as your viewing
history, Watch Later list and playlists.
• Playlists are groups of videos that play in order, one after the other automatically. You can
have quite a bit of control over your Playlist in terms of its privacy settings and its ordering (as
shown in the screenshots below.
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• There are also a number of ways to create and upload a video to YouTube (as the
screenshot below shows).
• The Video Editor lets you make quick edits, as well as combine multiple clips, incorporate and
otherwise enhance your clips with effects.
• YouTube EDU is a place to find popular educational videos from across YouTube.
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Guides & Resources
! Making the most out YouTube, Google
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• The Beginners Guide to YouTube, Mashable, October 2013
• 100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers – OnlineCourses, October 2012
• 20 fantastic uses of YouTube in learning - rise of images, Donald Clark, January 2014
• The Complete Guide To YouTube Playlists, Social Times, October 2010
• 9 YouTube Tips & Tricks for Teachers, The Whiteboard Blog, 2 January 2012
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4 - PowerPoint
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UP 1 PLACE
PowerPoint is the well known and well regarded presentation tool that is part of the Microsoft
Office suite of tools.
Website: www.microsoft.com/powerpoint
Cost: Commercial. Free trial available
Available: Download. Online at Office365
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 4 2013: 5 2012: 8 2011: 19
2010: 21 2009: 13 2008: 8 2007: 5
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Key features
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• PowerPoint is a very
sophisticated tool to create a
slide-based presentation. It is
also very useful for
diagramming too.
• PowerPoint is now in
widespread use both in
education and the enterprise.
However, because of its ease of
use, it has led to the term
“Death by PowerPoint”.
• Many desktop e-learning
authoring tools add additional
menus to PowerPoint so that it
can be used to create slide-
based e-learning
Guides & Resources

! Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation
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• Think! Powerpoint tutorials
• So that’s how! Great PowerPoint features
• 5 Tips for a Great PowerPoint Presentation, Inc
• PowerPoint | Creating Classroom Presentations, Education World
• How to convert your presentation into an e-learning course, Rapid E-Learning Blog, November
2009
• What Everybody Ought To Know About Using PowerPoint for E-learning, Rapid E-Learning Blog,
October 2007
• The Marketer’s Simple Guide to Creating Infographics in PowerPoint [Template], HubSpot,
August 2012
• 10 ways to improve your PowerPoint presentations, Computer World UK, 18 April 2012
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5 - Google Search
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Google is a powerful search engine. Often described as the only e-learning tool you’ll ever need.
If you need to find the answer to a question, just Google it!
Website: www.google.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 5 2013: 4 2012: 4 2011: 15
2010: 11 2009: 8 2008: 6 2007: 3=
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Key features
• Google provides individuals with answers quickly and easily. Simply type your search term in the
box.
• But are you getting too many results? Effective web searching is becoming a new modern day
skill. Here are 5 simple things to remember in order to “power search” on Google:
1. Search string: A group of search terms is called a string. You don’t need to add a + or
AND between terms. just leave a space. Try building your search string one term at a time
to narrow down your search.
2. Google ignores common or “stop” words – like the, an, in, where, how – but
to include them in a search add + before each one
3. Phrase string: If you’re looking for an exact phrase or quote, not just the occurrence of
the words entered, use quotation marks around the words, like “greenhouse effect”
4. Ranking: Google favours pages with your words in phrases, close together and in the
order typed. Compare the top results (ranking) for searches in Google for these sets of
keywords
• grass snake
• snake grass
• snake in the grass
• snake +in +the grass
• “snake in the grass”
5. Operators: adding a minus sign (-) allows you to narrow your search, for example if you
wanted to search for New York but not City you’d enter New York -City; adding OR will let
you look for one or more terms or strings, e.g. Kent OR Sussex, “global warming” OR
“greenhouse effect”.
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• Remember that creating a search string that uses some combination of specific terms, a phrase
string and a negative term can reduce the number of your search results from a few million to
fewer than one hundred! So it’s best to build one or two terms at a time, adding terms to your
string as needed based on your results.
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• Here are 6 more clever things you can do with Google
1. Get definitions: Type define:word to produce a list of definitions
2. Use it as a calculator: Google supports mathematical functions / * – +
3. Conversion: Convert imperial measurements to metric and vice versa as well as currency
conversions using format such as 100 lbs in kg or. 300 euros in USD
4. Get maps: Type in the postcode
5. Get the weather forecast: Type in the postcode
6. Q&A: Ask a question, e.g. When was Beethoven born?
• If you want search Google specifically for images, use Google Image Search.
• Google Alerts lets you set

up an alert with the search
terms you are looking for,
and determine how often
you want to receive an
email with new results as
well as the sources it
should use. If you have a
Google account, you can
sign in to manage your
alerts – i.e. amend or
delete existing ones and/or
add new ones
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• A Google a Day is a daily
puzzle from Google that’ll
help you hone your Google
skills; there is no right
way to solve it, but there’s
only one right answer. It will provide you with Tips and Tricks as you try out the
questions. Google a day appears seven days a week.
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Guides & Resources
• Google Guide
• Inside Search
• Are you sure you know how to use Google? MakeUseOf, 1 February 2013
• The new A Google a Day on Google+ is here, YouTube
• How Google Alerts works
• 6 ways Google Alerts can help you land a job, Forbes, 16 June 2014
• Infographic: Get more out of Google - Tips & Tricks for Students, HackCollege, November 2011
• Google Search Lesson Plans.
• 21 Interesting Ways to use Google Search in the Classroom
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6 - WordPress
UP 2 PLACES
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WordPress is a blogging platform that is free and easy to use. It can also be used to create a
fully-functional website.
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Website: www.wordpress.com and www.wordpress.org
Cost: Free. Open source
Available: Online and Download
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 6 2013: 8 2012: 5 2011: 5
2010: 8 2009: 6 2008: 5 2007: 6
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Key features
• WordPress is available in a number of versions
• the hosted service is where most individuals host their personal WordPress blogs
• the free open-source downloadable version can be used to set up your personal blogging
platform. (Note many hosting services nowadays include the functionality to auto-install
WordPress for you.)
• the WordPress multi-site version can be activated when installing the open source version,
and is an ideal way for an organisation (enterprise or educational) to provide a blogging
platform for their people.
• However, WordPress is much more than a blogging site, since it has the facility to create
static pages in addition to blog posts, this means it can be used to build a complete website.
• You set up and manage your blog in your Dashboard. Here you can also see your site stats.
The left-hand navigation bar provides access to all the other Wordpress functionality (as shown
in the screenshot below).
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• Posts is where you can write new and manage existing posts. You can write a post in Visual
mode or Text (HTML) mode. You also have a lot of control over when to publish the post, as
well as its visibility. If you want a post to remain at the top of your front page, select the Stick
this post to the front page box.
• Media is where you upload and manage the digital assets you use in your posts and pages.
• Pages is where here you can add pages and manage existing pages.
• Appearance is where you an find, install and manage your blog themes, add widgets to the
side bars – e.g. that display blog archives or social tools, as well as create custom menus of
pages that can also be added to the sidebars.
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• Plugins is where you can find and install plugins that add extra functionality to your blog, as
well as update any existing plugins. There are thousands of plugins that are written by 3rd party
developers that you can use.
• Settings is where you manage the blog settings. For example, in the Reading settings you can
change your blog’s front page to a page rather than a list of posts if you prefer. This is especially
relevant if you are using WordPress to power a website rather than a blog.
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Guides & Resources
• What’s The Difference Between Running Your Blog On WordPress.com &

WordPress.org? MakeUseOf, March 2013
• Easy WP Guide WordPress Manual, December 2012
• WordPress for small businesses
• The Ultimate Guide for Choosing A WordPress Theme, WP Kube, January 2013
• Set up your blog with Wordpress: the ultimate guide, MakeUseOf, October 2011
• Periodic Table of WordPress plugins
• Build an A+ classroom site on WordPress.com, WordPress
• The top 15 wordpress plugins for education / academia, Southampton University, June 2013
• How To Use WordPress As A Learning Management System, Elegant Themes Blog, April 2014
• Creating a e-Portfolio using WordPress, Leicester University
• ePortfolios with WordPress, Helen Barratt
• Forget Moodle: WordPress Can Power Your Educational Portal, CalendarScripts Blog, August
2012
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7 - Dropbox
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A file hosting service that offers cloud storage and file synchronisation.
Website: www.dropbox.com
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 7 2013: 7 2012: 6 2011: 6
2010: 13= 2009: 71= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• With Dropbox, your files are always in sync. Just set up Dropbox on all your devices. Screenshot
below is of the view of Dropbox from an iPad.
• You can easily share files or
e nt ire fo lde r s o r pho t o
albums.
• Drag any important
documents, folders, or other
files into your Dropbox folder.
Yo u ’ l l s e e a b l u e s y n c
“badge” on the file icons
while they synch, and a
green checkmark when
they’re finished.
• You can share a file or folder
online with others. Simply,
right click the file and
select Dropbox/ Share
Link.
• With Dropbox, online backup
is automatic
• You can go back in time to
undelete or undo changes to
files.
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Guides & Resources
! Everything you need to know about Dropbox, YouTube video
•
• Dropbox Tour
• 6 unexpected ways you can use Dropbox, Edudemic, September 2013
• Dropbox: A superb classroom tool, Powerful Learning Practice, August 2012
• Dropbox for Teachers, Bill Selak, 30 May 2012
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8 - Evernote
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Evernote is a family of products that helps you remember and act upon ideas, projects and
experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use. Evernote lets you easily
capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most
convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.
Website: www.evernote.com
Cost: Free and premium versions
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 8 2013: 6 2012: 12 2011: 17
2010: 23 2009: 27 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• You can easily write a note. You can then tag your note to create a library of notes that can be
searched by keyword. You can also share your note on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or by
email.
• You can create notebooks (collections of notes), and if you wish, share them with others.
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• You can scan any physical notes you have (like Post-It notes), or take a picture of your paper
note - to keep the physical and digital details of your projects with you at all times.
• You can present your notes in a screen-friendly layout (premium version)
• You can sync your Evernote account across devices - so that your notes are always available
• You can use the Evernote Web Clipper browser extension to take a screenshot of a page,
mark it up by highlighting or annoying it) and then share it with others.
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Guides & Resources"
! Getting started with Evernote
•
• I’ve Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here’s Why It’s Actually Amazing, Lifehacker, March 2013
• How to use Evernote Tutorial Series, YouTube
• How to use Evernote: The Unofficial Manual, MakeUseOf
• Back To School? How To Organize Your Classroom Work With Evernote, MakeUseOf, Sept 2013
• The Complete Guide to Evernote in Education, The Nerdy Teacher, December 2012
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9 - Facebook
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Facebook is the largest social networking site with over 1 billion users worldwide.
Website: www.facebook.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 9 2013: 9 2012: 9 2011: 14
2010: 9 2009: 31= 2008: 24 2007: 17=
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Key features
!
• There are two ways to have a presence on Facebook. (1) You can have a personal account
and/or (2) a professional page or pages. Note, that Facebook’s terms and conditions state
that you can not have more than one personal account, although you can set up multiple
Facebook pages.
• With Facebook personal accounts you have reciprocal friendships with other Facebook
members, and their status updates appears in your news feed at Home. You can also write
your own update and add photos, videos, and links. Facebook personal account holders can also
join groups and even create their own public or private group, to have conversations with
friends and
colleagues. Groups
are also often used by
educators for
classroom purposes.
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• Although personal account holders can also create pages, to set up a Facebook page you
don’t have to have a Facebook account.
• Facebook pages can be set up by individuals, businesses and other organisations, for example
to promote or market their services, event or book or just for discussion around topic areas.
• With Facebook pages you do not establish “friendships” with Facebook members as you do with
a personal account, rather other Facebook members can simply “like” your page in which case,
postings on your page will appear in their personal activity streams. However, Facebook pages
are also visible to non-Facebook members.
• If you set up a Facebook page, you can later convert your Facebook page into a personal
account if you want to.
• Setting up a professional page is a useful way of keeping your personal and professional lives
separate; in other words you could use your personal account for keeping in touch with friends
and for personal activities, and a Facebook page for your professional activities.
Guides & Resources
• Facebook Help
• The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook, Mashable, May 2012
• The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy. Lifehacker, January 2013
• Redefining professional learning, Nova News, 10 June 2012
• College students prefer to use Facebook in their courses, Rey Junco, January 2012
• Facebook groups as LMS: a case study, IRRODL, October 2012
• Using a Facebook group as a LMS, August 2010
• Social media vital to professional development, evoLLLution, Debra Beck,
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10 - LinkedIn
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UP 2 PLACES
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LinkedIn is the most popular business-oriented social network aimed at the professional
community.
Website: www.linkedin.com
Cost: Free and premium plans
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 10 2013: 12 2012: 23 2011: 21
2010: 30 2009: 38= 2008: 30= 2007: 31=
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Key features
!
• When you log in to LinkedIn you will see your Home Page. It provides your news feeds with
recommendations from Pulse, and also a place to share your own update. On the right hand
side it offers suggestions of people you may want to connect with.
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• In Profile you can edit
your own Profile; it is a
good idea to review it
from time to time to
ensure it is up to date -
and also see who has
viewed it
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• In Connections you can start to build your network by searching for people you know,
importing your contacts from your email lists and taking a look at recommendations for you.
• People you are connected to are known as your 1st degree connections. People you’re not yet
connected to, but who are linked to your 1st degree connections, are known as your 2nd
degree connections, and so on.
• In Jobs you can search for jobs.
• In Interests you can view Companies who have their own pages that you might want to
follow for news and job opportunities. You can also view the Pulse - news and insights
recommended for you, as well as find out about LinkedIn for Education.
• In Interests you can also view the Groups you have joined, and search for other groups.
Groups are a useful way to get involved in discussions with your professional colleagues. You
might even want to follow the most influential people in your groups. You can do this by
checking the Top Influencers board. You can also create your own Group.
• Another LinkedIn features is Endorsements. All you need to do is click a box when you are
asked to. You will also receive emails telling you who has endorsed you - but you don’t need to
accept them if you don’t want to.
• LinkedIn Publisher is being rolled out to all users and allows for long post (blog) publishing.
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Guides & Resources
! LinkedIn Help Center
•
• LinkedIn The Beginner’s Guide, Mashable
• The ultimate cheat sheet for mastering LinkedIn, Hubspot
• The ultimate guide for a perfect LinkedIn profile, The social media hat
• Everything you need to know about LinkedIn endorsements, Forbes, December 2013
• Getting Started With Linkedin Groups For Teachers, TeachThought, 11 February 2013
• Why LinkedIn Is The Only Personal Branding Resource You Need, Forbes, June 2014
• Do’s & Don’ts When Using LinkedIn for Personal Branding & Job Search, Business2 Community,
April 2014
• How to Benefit from the LinkedIn Publishing Platform, Social Media Examiner, March 2014
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11 - Google+ & Google Hangouts
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DOWN 1 PLACE
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Google+ is a social networking service set up by Google. Google Hangouts are proving a popular
place for video meetings and events.
Website: plus.google.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 11 2013: 10 2012: 17 2011: 26
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Google+ was only launched in June 2011 but it already offers a lot of functionality.
• When you sign into Google+ you will find yourself in the Home area – where you can view the
stream of information shared by your friends and contacts.
• This view also includes a update box to share your own news.
• Hovering over the Home button will reveal the other Google+ features (as shown below).
• Profile: Your profile is important as it provides information about yourself, and where you are
located (using a Google map to pinpoint the spot). You can provide as little or as much
information as you like, and also provide information about your other activities on the Web,
e.g. website, blog, Twitter account, Facebook etc. You can also decide who views what
information about yourself.
• People is the features that provides some suggestions of people you might like to follow on
Google+. It is also where you can set up your circles and manage the people in them.
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• Photos is the place where you can upload, organise and share your photos. It also includes an
image editor, privacy options and sharing features.
• What’s Hot lets you discover interesting posts and communities that are popular on Google+
• Communities : Communities are groups where people of similar interests can gather and talk
about a common interest. Here you can see the Communities that you’ve been invited to, you
have joined, that you moderate as well as those that are recommended for you.
• Anyone can set up a Community, just click the “Create community” button. Then decide whether
it is to be a Public (open to the world) or Private (only invited members can join) community.
Note this cannot be changed later, and then name your community. It will then be created and
at that point you can add some further information about it and change the group photo. You
are ready then to send out invitations to add members.
• Events is where you can see the events you have been invited to, as well as those that have
taken place. You can also create your own event (online, Google Hangout, physical location) –
and invite people both publicly or in your circles.
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• Pages are separate pages that you create for products or brands or other initiatives.
• Local provides recommended places to visit near where you live (based on your profile
location).
• Settings is where you manage your privacy settings and other preferences.
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• Hangouts are video meetings and events that you have been invited to join. You
can toggle the list of hangouts on and off using the “ icon top right of the screen.
• You can also create your own video Hangout …
• and you will then be given a link to share.

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• A Google Hangout offers a lot of functionality (see icons on the left hand menu)
• You can chat with the other participants.

• You can share your screen.
• You can capture a screenshot.
• Hangout Toolbox provides useful applications to improve your Hangout experience.
• Google Effects lets you add headgear, backgrounds and other props to your image.
• Control Room is only available for Hangouts on Air which are public hangouts with more
than 10 people. Google streams your live hangout publicly on your Google+ profile, your
YouTube channel and your website. Once you’re off the air, Google will upload a public recording
to your YouTube channel and to your original Google+ post, so it’s easy to share and discuss
your broadcast after it’s over.
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Guides & Resources
! Getting started with Google+
•
• The Beginners Guide to Google+ Mashable, October 2013
• What is Google Plus? A complete User Guide, Martin Shervington, June 2013
• The Missing Guide for Google Hangout Video Calls, Danny Schreiber, June 2014
• Complete Guide to Google Hangouts for Businesses and Individuals, PlusYOurBusiness
• 11 steps to create a Google Plus community for your class, Educational Technology & Mobile
Learning, May 2013
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12 - Moodle
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DOWN 1 PLACE
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Moodle is a free open source course management system that is easy to install and configure.
Website: www.moodle.org
Cost: Free. Open Source
Available: Download
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 12 2013: 11 2012: 11 2011: 8
2010: 10 2009: 14= 2008: 9 2007: 12=
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Key features
!
• Moodle can be downloaded and installed to run on a server or even on your PC or Mac for
testing locally.
• If you are new to Moodle, take a look at the demo site at demo.moodle.net where you can try
out 4 different roles: administrator, manager, teacher, student.
• When you set up a course you will need to provide a number of settings (as shown on the
screenshot below).
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• Other elements of the Settings menu (not shown here) let you: decide whether you want to
provide guest access; offer groups; whether the course is (immediately) available to students;
whether different languages are to be enforced; and any role renaming.
• The following screenshot shows an example of the framework for a test course that uses the
Topic outline, contains 3 topics, and does not show any news items, gradebooks or activity
reports.
• Once you have set up the framework you can then add
resources and activities.
• You can rename the topics, and drag them into new positions.
• You can add blocks of different types to the sidebar (as shown in
the screenshot to the right
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• You can also switch role at any time – e.g. to test out your
course as a student.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Moodle Docs is very comprehensive.
• 40+ great moodle tutorials for students and teachers,
Educational Technology and Mobile learning, January 2013
• Moodle for Dummies Cheat Sheet, For Dummies
• 4 Interesting Ways to Use Moodle in the Classroom, Tom Barrett,
Google Docs
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13 - Prezi
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UP 2 PLACES
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Prezi is a presentation tool. It supports the online creation and sharing of presentations in a very
different, non-linear format. Prezis are often referred to as “zooming” presentations. However, this
unique way of viewing a presentation, has led some to complain of feelings of seasickness!
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Website: www.prezi.com
Available: Online & Viewer App
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 13 2013: 15 2012: 14 2011: 7
2010: 12 2009: 28 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• All Prezis are public by default. Premium plans support private Prezis and offline editing.
• At your Prezi dashboard, you organise and manage your Prezis.
• When you start a new Prezi,

the first thing to do is
choose a template.
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• You can then start to build your presentation along a prescribed path.
• You can also insert objects and other items as you go.
• When you have finished you can present it live or remotely, share it or download it.
Guides & Resources

! Prezi Learn & Support
•
• Prezi: A quick start guide (PDF) Russel Tarr
• How to use Prezi, wikiHow
• Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to using Prezi in an academic environment, Ned Potter, LSE, June
2013
• Interesting ways to use Prezi in the Classroom, Slideshare, April 2011
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14 - Pinterest
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UP 8 PLACES
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Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. It lets you organize and share images you find on the Web.
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Website: www.pinterest.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 14 2013: 22 2012: -36 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Pinterest lets you pin images from the web, which link back to the sites they are from.
• Pinterest Boards have been set up on all kinds of topics, as well as for business brands and
educational use. Here is a Board about Learning & Teaching Metaphors.
• You don’t need a Pinterest account to view Boards, but you will need one if you want
to comment on a pin, or follow a board, as well as set up your own Board.
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• Within your account you can Upload a Pin, Add from a Website or Create a Board.
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• When you create a Board you will need to provide some
information about it including whether it should be
secret, which means it won’t show up on Pinterest, and
who can add pins - you can also invite others to
contribute to your Board.
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• Your Board will now be ready for you to add your first
pin
• You can add a pin from the Web (by

entering a URL) or from your
Computer (in which case you upload
it). Pinterest will search for images
on the site, and then present a screen that lets you select the one you want to use.
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• You can also select which Board you want to pin it on, as well as provide a short description of
your pin. You have a maximum of 500 characters.
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• You can also use the “Pin it” button (i.e. bookmarklet) to pin as you browse the web. When you
see an image you want to pin, simply click “Pin It” on your browser.
• You can also re-pin an image you find while viewing others Pinterest boards. When you do this,
the user who first pinned the image will also get credit. A re-pin maintains the source-link of the
image no matter how many times it is re-pinned.
• Pinterest makes the following recommendations to make Pinterest the most useful to yourself
and others: (1) Pin from the original source. (2) Pin from permalinks. (3) Give credit and include
a thoughtful pin description.
Guides & Resources
• What is Pinterest? YouTube video

• The Unofficial Pinterest Guide, MakeUseOf, 30 January 2012
• Pinterest Guide
• Pinterest for Educators?
• Teachers: Take an interest in Pinterest, Staff Room, August 2014
15 - Slideshare
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UP 1 PLACE
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Slideshare is a site where you can host your presentations (and documents) and share them with
others.
Website: www.slideshare.net
Cost: Free
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 15 2013: 16 2012: 13 2011: 9
2010: 5 2009: 7 2008: 20 2007: 31
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Key features
!
• You don’t have to have an account to view the slidesets hosted on Slideshare, simply search for
slidesets of interest (by keyword, topic or user), or Explore featured slide sets. Todays Top
Slideshares appear on the Slideshare homepage
• When you view a presentation, you can share it with others, email it, embed it in a web page,
like it and/or save it (if enabled by the author).
• You can also view information about the author, the number of views, as well (in the right-hand
column, view Related slideshares or More slideshares by the same author.
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• You can also embed a playlist from an author, by clicking on their name.
• You need to have an account in

order to comment on a slideset as
well as to upload your own.
• You can upload a presentation in
a va r i e ty o f fo r m a t s : P D F,
Powerpoint, OpenOffice), Keynote
etc. And you can make it Public or
Private.
• Note that any links you have in
the first 3 slides of your
presentation will NOT be active.
• When you upload the slideset,
you provide a title,

description, as well as
tags/keywords and a
category for the
presentation.
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Guides & resources
• Slideshare Help
Center
• 7 Ways to Use
SlideShare for Your
Business, SocialMedia
Examiner, June 2014
• Top Tips for sharing
presentations with
Slideshare, the media
octopus,
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16 - Blogger
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UP 2 PLACES
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Blogger is a free, hosted blogging service from Google. Often referred to as Blogspot.
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Website: www.blogger.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 16 2013: 18 2012: 15 2011: 12
2010: 14= 2009: 14= 2008: 10 2007: 9
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Key features
• To create a new blog, you just need to give

it a title, decide on a template, and its URL.
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• Your blog will now be listed in your
Dashboard, so you can either start blogging
straightaway (by clicking on the pencil) or
consider some of the other options (shown
in the pull down menu as shown in the
screenshot below).
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• When you compose a blog post, you will be able to add and edit text in Compose view or in
HTML view.
• Once you publish your post, you can view it on the Web or on a mobile device
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Blogger options include:

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• Overview - which provide san overview of page views and
updates
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• Posts - where you can add a post and manage existing
posts
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• Pages - where you can add a new page and manage
existing pages. Pages can be used to add extra value to
your personal blog, e.g to provide a useful About page, or
provide other portfolio information, or create a fully
functioning website; or build a complete class resource space.
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• Comments - where you can manage comments on posts and deal with spam
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• Google+ - where you can share your posts on Google+, and view the interaction on them
there.
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• Stats - where you can view the post and page view stats.
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• Earnings - where you can find out how to monetise your blog using Google AdSense or
Google Affiliate Ads.
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• Campaign - where you can find out how to grow your audience.
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• Layout - where you can add, remove and edit gadgets on your blog (see screenshot below),
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• Template - where you can customise your template for both the online and mobile version.
Guides & Resources

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• Blogger Getting Started Guide
• Blogger Buzz
• How to Start a Blog on Blogger, wikiHow
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17 - Word
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Word is a popular word processing programme, and part of the Microsoft Office suite.
Website: www.microsoft.com/word
Cost: Commercial. Free Trial
Available: Dowload. Online as Office365
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 17 2013: 17 2012: 19 2011: 42
2010: 60 2009: 36= 2008: 22 2007: 10
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Key features
!
• Word ican be used to create very simple short text documents as well as training resources and
long, sophisticated reports and books.
Guides & Resources
• Create your first Word document – 1

• Create your first Word document – 2
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18 - Wikipedia
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DOWN 4 PLACES
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Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopaedia that has been created by thousands of individuals.
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Website: www.wikipedia.org
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 18 2013: 14 2012: 10 2011: 11
2010: 16 2009: 17 2008: 13 2007: 7=
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Key features
!
• Started in 2001, Wikipedia (in English) now has over 4 million content articles and over 33
million pages in total. Here’s an example of an article on Wikipedai.
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• Every page in Wikipedia can be “edited”, which means it is constantly evolving and growing and
can be kept up to date.
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• To edit Wikipedia, you simply select the Edit button. To edit the page, you will need to use the
Wikipedia mark-up language (see screenshot below).
• If you are not logged in, your IP address is tracked. If you are logged in, your edits will be
attributed to a user name in the View History (see screenshot below).
• Because Wikipedia has

been created by
individuals, its credibility is
often questioned,
particularly as there have
been some high profile
cases of incorrect
information being added to
it. However, a number of
studies have showed that
Wikipedia is at least as
reliable as other
encyclopaedias, such as
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Neverthless, educators are
still often reluctant to encourage the use of Wikipedia in education, so the Wikipedia Education
Program was set up to help educators and students contribute to Wikipedia in an academic
setting.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Wikipedia Editing Tutorial
• Special Report Internet encyclopaedias go head to head, Nature, 2005
• Seven years after Nature, pilot study compares Wikipedia favorably to other encyclopedias in
three languages, Wikimedia blog, August 2012
• From My Dirty Little Secret to My Favorite Tool for E-Pedagogy: How One University Professor
Learned to Love Wikipedia, Jonathan Obar, November 2011
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19 - Feedly
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Feedly is an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or News reader; a place where you can organize,
read and share the content of your favourite sites.
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Website: www.feedly.com
Available: Online & Mobile Apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 19 2013: 19 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• You can add content – i.e subscribe to RSS blog or web feeds – by entering a URL, title or topic.
• You can store and read all your subscriptions (i.e. RSS feeds) in one place – and view all
subscriptions (or just those with unread posts).
• You view all the unread posts in a feed in a variety of different formats. (The screenshots below
show the Titles Only and Card views.)
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• You can view a post in more detail.
• You can save the post (e.g. in Evernote, Pocket etc - using icons on the top left of the post)
and/or share the post in social media sites (e.g. Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn etc -
using the icons on the top right)
• You can control a number of other preferences to enhance your reading experience, e.g. display
density, source index and index link (see screenshot below) as well as the colour theme.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Feedly Guided Tour
• How to use Feedly, LiveandSocial, March 2014
• Unofficial guide to Feedly: better than Google
Reader, MakeUseOf,
• Feedly in the Classroom, readable
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20 - Diigo
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UP 1 PLACE
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Diigo is more than a simple social bookmarking tool; it is often described as a powerful research
and information management tool. You don’t just bookmark tools, you can highlight them and
annotate them, and it is easy to create groups to pool research about a project.
Website: www.diigo.com
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 20 2013: 21 2012: 18 2011: 13
2010: 15 2009: 22 2008: 35 2007: 72=
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Key features
!
• Download the Diigo bookmarklet or browser extension so that you can add pages to your
Library in Diigo as well as highlight and annotate web pages.
• To annotate a page, you highlight the text on the page and then add a sticky note. You can
keep your notes private or share your annotated page with others.
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• You can create a private or public group (knowledge repository) e.g. for your company, team or
class, where you can pool and organize resources using group bookmarks as well as create
group sticky notes & group forums. (Note in a free plan you can only create 1 private group
with 3 members, although free Teacher plans do have additional benefits.)
• You can also manage your group in the Group settings.
Guides & Resources

! Diigo Help
•
• Using Diigo as part of your PLN, Edublogs Teacher Challenge, September 2014
• Using Diigo in the classroom
• Diigo, A Tool For Highlighting And Adding Sticky Notes To The Web, Gets A Facelift, TechCrunch,
2013
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21 - Articulate
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UP 3 PLACES
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Articulate provides two majoring authoring tools: Articulate Studio and Storyline, as well as a
web-based hosting and management service, Articulate Online.
Website: www.articulate.com
Cost: Commercial. Free Trial available
Available: Download (for PC). Hosted: Articulate Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 21 2013: 24 2012: 37 2011: 46
2010: 43 2009: 24 2008: 25 2007: 22=
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Key features
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Articulate Studio is software for creating online courses primarily within Microsoft PowerPoint.
When you install Articulate Studio products they are added to Powerpoint as a separate menu
toolbar, see below
• Presenter – This will let you add interactivity, branching, multimedia and narration to your
PowerPoint content.
• Quizmaker – This will let you build quizzes, surveys, and interactive assessments
• Engage – The will let you create media-rich interactions.
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Articulate Storyline is a stand-alone software product that lets you create interactive courses:
• Create screencasts and build software simulations
• Create assessments with 25 different question types
• Import video of any type
• Publish with one click to HTML5 for mobile browsers
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Guides & Resources
! Word of Mouth: Articulate Blog
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• The Rapid E-Learning Blog, Tom Kuhlmann
• E-Learning Heroes: Articulate Community
• Articulate Storyline 2 vs Articulate Studio ‘13
• Articulate Studio Tutorials
• Articulate releases Articulate Storyline 2, September, Learning Solutions Magazine
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22 - Audacity
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Audacity is a free, open source cross-platform sound recorder and editor. Audacity can be used to
create and edit sound for many purposes including podcasts, audio briefings, voiceovers, as well
for use within other content.
Website: audacity.sourceforge.net
Cost: Free. Open source
Available: Download for PC, Mac and Linux
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 22 2013: 33 2012: 29 2011: 29
2010: 24 2009: 9= 2008: 12 2007: 11
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Key features
!
• To create a simple audio file you only need to know these 4 things:
1. Use the coloured buttons (top left) to control the recording. Hover your mouse over the
buttons to see what they do. You can pause, go back and overwrite mistakes.
2. Your recording will
appear in the audio
track (shaded
area).
3. When you have
finished, save your
recording (in File).
4. I f yo u wa n t t o
create a podcast,
you need to Export
it as MP3 (from
File) (Note: you
will need to also
install the Lame
encoder.)
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Guides & Resources
!Quick Help
•
• Audacity Manual
• Audacity Wiki
• 10 Creative Uses For Audacity That You Probably Haven’t Thought Of, MakeUseOf, September
2012
• 10 Great ways to use Audacity with your Students, Tip of the Iceberg, 8 April 2009
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23 - Camtasia
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Camtasia is a tool that will let you record your screen to create training, demo, and presentation
videos, or screencasts.
Website: www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
Available: Download for PC and Mac
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 23 2013: 28 2012: 28 2011: 28
2010: 27 2009: 26 2008: 26= 2007: 50
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Key features
!
• The screen recorder lets you set up the size of
your screen and use your camera and audio to
record your screencast. You then press red
record button.
• The recording will then appear in the editor
where you can do some sophisticated editing –
frame by frame. This includes adding annotations, animations, and building transitions.
Guides & Resources

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• Camtasis Studio User Guides
• Camtasia: mac User Guides
• Screencasting with Camtasia Mac 2 (PDF), University of Massachusetts
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24 - Yammer
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Yammer is a private enterprise social networking (ESN) platform that can be used to set up
private internal networks (which can only be joined by people within the same domain name) as
well as external networks which other individuals can join.
Website: www.yammer.com
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 24 2013: 20 2012: 20 2011: 31
2010: 68= 2009: 71= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• You can be a member of a number of Yammer networks – both within your organisation and
externally, so if you use the same email address to join different networks, you will be able to
move in and out of your networks seamlessly.
• When you sign up to Yammer with your business email account, if a network already exists for
your company, you will automatically join it. If you are the first one with the domain name, then
the organisational network will be set up at that point.
• Within the network you can set up public or private groups (see screenshot below of the
Example Training Group).
• You can also set up an attached network (which can include members from outside the
organisation) and these networks can also consist of groups.
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• Within a Yammer network, you can follow (or unfollow) members by clicking on their names in
the Membership list (by default you follow everyone).
• You can send messages to a member or mention them by name by using @ before their
username.
• Conversations on Yammer are threaded, so you can reply to updates and comments. Note when
comments are made on old updates, the whole thread rises to the top of the feed.
• You can tag your messages using a #hashtag. You can follow tags, by clicking on the tag and
then clicking the Follow
button.
• If you have a Twitter
account you can link it
w i t h y o u r Ya m m e r
network. Simply include
the #yam hashtag in
your tweets, and they
will appear in your
Yammer home network.
• You can share links,
files and images in
Yammer.
• You can also create
collaborative documents
using Notes (see
screenshot above).
• You can chat with other members online.
• You can set up polls (as shown in the screenshot tbelowt)
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Guides & Resources
! Beginners Guide to Yammer, NSW Government
•
• Yammer YouTube channel
• Yammer Use Cases
• 37 ways MIT uses Yammer, MIT Connect, January 2013
• Yammer in the classroom, Victorial Raish, eLearn magazine, August 2013
• Yammer – the next step for social networking in schools? The UK Schools Blog, July 2012
• Professional Academic Communities in Yammer, Higher Innovation, 8 April 2012
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25 - Skype
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Skype is a free service that allows users to make text and phone calls over the Internet, as well as
low cost calls to landlines and mobile phones.
Website: www.skype.net
Available: Download desktop and mobile apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 25 2013: 13 2012: 7 2011: 4
2010: 6 2009: 11= 2008: 4 2007: 3=
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Key features
!
• You can Skype with one contact. You can find and add contacts using the Directory, and once
they have accepted your invitation to connect, you can send them text messages as well as
have a voice calls.
• You can Skype with a group. It is possible to have a text conversation with a group of contacts
as well as make a group audio or video call.
You can do this either by setting up a new
conversation and adding contacts to it, or
adding contacts to an existing conversation.
• You can share files.
• You can share your computer screen.
• You can make sure you are not disturbed by
setting your status to Do not disturb, if you
don’t want to answer any calls or dealing
with any messages straightaway.
• You can record Skype calls. Although Skype
doesn’t natively do this, there are a number
of apps that can be used for this purpose
• You can get a Skype number that anyone can
use to call from their phone, which you can
pick up on Skype wherever you are in the
world (Note: there is a charge for this)
• You can add Skype buttons to your website
or blog so that anyone call or message you.
!
Guides & Resources
! Help for Skype
•
• How to Use Skype, How Stuff Works
• How to record Skype video calls, RealPlayer Cloud, June 2013
• Skype in the Classroom
• The complete guide to using Skype in the classroom, Education Technology & Mobile Learning,
June 2012
• Skype learning: 7 great benefits, Donald Clark, November 2010
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26 - TED Talks/TED-Ed
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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference
bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its
scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences, TED includes the award-
winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring
TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
Website: www.ted.com and ed.ted.com

Cost: Free
Available: Online & mobile apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 26 2013: 25 2012: 25 2011: 30
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• At the TED Talks home page you can access a wide variety of inspiring talks. It displays the
most recent videos as a way to filter by Most viewed, Trending new, etc. Interestingly, Ken
Robinson’s talk on “How schools kill creativity” is No 1, having been viewed over 28 million times
(as at September 2014).
• You can download a TED Talk, share it on social channels or embed it into a blog or web pages.
• Playlists are curated collections of TED Talks, e.g the 20 most popular talks of all time.
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• TED-Ed is a resource of short lessons designed to spark curiosity and promote further learning
in and out of classrooms.
• You can also create a lesson around a TED Talk, and as such it supports the concept of the
“flipped classroom”.
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• The Lesson Editor lets you design your lessons around a number of areas: Watch, Think Deeper,
Discuss, And Finally (see screenshot below).
Guides & Resources

!
• 10 TED Talks to transform your teaching, PDF
• Making a TED Ed Lesson: animation
• 3 Minute Teaching With Tech Tutorial – Using TedEd for Flipped or Blended Learning Lessons,
Emerging Ed Tech, June 2013
• Should we model corporate training after TED-Ed, Brent Schlenker, September 2014
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27 - Google Chrome
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Chrome is a fast browser from Google. It was released in 2008 and has now become very popular.
Website: www.google.com/chrome
Cost: Free
Available: Download for desktop and mobile devices
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 27 2013: 26 2012: 35 2011: 45
2010: 44= 2009: 55= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• You can import your existing bookmarks from Internet Explorer (or any other browser) into
Chrome.
• In the web browser, to bookmark a page in Chrome, click on the star at the end of the address
bar. A small pop-up box will appear where you can amend details of the bookmark, i.e. its name
and where it is to be stored.
• One of the popular features of Chrome is that you can customize your web browser with
different themes.
• The Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can find apps, extensions and
themes for the Chrome web browser.
• The mobile browser has similar functionality (see iPhone screenshots below)
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Guides & Resources
• Take a tour of Chrome features

• The easy guide to Google Chrome, MakeUseOf
• The always up to date power user’s guide to Chrome, Lifehacker
• 15+ great Chrome extensions for teachers, Educators Technology, March 2013
• Top 12 Google Chrome extensions that enhance student learning, Edudemic, July 2013
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28 - Google Scholar
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Google Scholar is Google’s search engine aimed at education. It has been providing a simple way
to search for scholarly literature since 2004.
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Website: scholar.google.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 28 2013: 35 2012: 52 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: 42= 2007: 36=
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Key features
• The idea is that from one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles,
theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies,
online repositories, universities and other
web sites.
!
• Pull down the arrow at the end of the
search box, for advanced searching.
!
• My citations lets you track citations to
your publications.
!
• Alerts allows you to create an alert on a
search term.
!
• Metrics provides an easy way for authors
to quickly gauge the visibility and
influence of recent articles in scholarly
publications. Scholar Metrics summarise
recent citations to many publications, to
help authors as they consider where to
publish their new research.
!
Guides & Resources
! About Google Scholar
•
• Google Scholar Search Tips
• Using Google Scholar and other Google resources for education, Daniel Russell, YouTube, 2011
• 9 tips every teacher should know about Google Scholar, Educators Technology, April 2013
• LearnItIn5: Google Scholar
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29 - Scoopit
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Scoopit is a social media publishing platform where users curate content on their favourite topics
and share it as a visual magazine.
Website: www.scoop.it
Available: Online. Download bookmarklet
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 29 2013: 23 2012: 24 2011: 33
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• To start using Scoopit to create your own content, you simply decide on a topic. Then you either
add any web page yourself using the Scoopit bookmarklet or Scoopit will scour the web for you.
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• Once you add a page it is useful to add your own insight
and then publish it on your page
!
• At any time you can add a Scoop of your own by clicking
the + button at the top of the page.
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• You can connect up to 2 Social Accounts to your Profile to share your Scoopit.
• You can embed a widget containing details of your scoops on your blog or web page in Goodies.
• Other people can now view your magazine and subscribe to it, which means, they will be
notified of new content (or “scoops”) too. If people choose to follow your topic, you will also be
notified by email (although you can edit these notification settings).
Guides & Resources
• Scoopit Resource Center

• Content curation tools: the scoop.it video guide, Robin Good, YouTube
• Scoop this: a comprehensive guide to Scoopit for content curation, SearchEngineJournal, 2012
• Why Scoopit is becoming an indispensable learning tool, TeachThought, February 2013
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30 - Snagit
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Snagit is a screen capture tool that lets you grab an image or video of what you see on your
computer screen, add effects, and share with anyone.
!
Website: www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Available: Download (PC or Mac)
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 30 2013: 31 2012: 42 2011: 47
2010: 42 2009: 25 2008: 21 2007: 26=
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Key features
!
• When you launch Snagit, the Snagit icon will appear and sit quietly on the right
hand side of your screen, just peeping out.
• To capture an image, you click the large red image capture button and drag the
orange guidelines into position on the screen, and then release.
• You can then choose to take a screenshot (camera icon) or make a screen
recording (video icon).
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If you choose to screenshot, the image will be taken, it will be auto-saved and then opened up in
the Snagit Editor, which offers a range of powerful image Tools and Effects (see screenshot on
next page)
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• When you have completed your image, there are a number of ways to share it, e.g on Twitter,
Facebook, YouTube, etc.
• To capture a video, once you have dragged the guidelines to the required position, click the
video button, and there will be a countdown before the recording begins.
• The Snagit Editor provides some video editing tools, however, more powerful video editing
features are available in another Techsmith product, Camtasia (23).
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Guides & Resources
! Getting started guide (PDF)
•
• Snagit Tutorials
• Snagit Keyboard Shortcuts Guide
• Snagit in Education
• How to create user guides for everything, Techsmith
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31 - Gmail

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Gmail is a free web-based email service from Google. It is also part of the Google Apps suite.
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Website: www.gmail.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 31 2013: 32 2012: 27 2011: 20
2010: 31= 2009: 21 2008: 14 2007: 7=
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Key features
!
• When you set up a Gmail account you can customise it with a number of themes, and also use
it to chat and make phone and video calls.
• You can view emails in the main dashboard area, as well as your starred and sent emails.
• When you compose an email, you can also change the font and size, add files and photos et
Guides & Resources

! Gmail Help Center
•
• The complete guide to Gmail, How-to Geek
• The beginner’s guide to Gmail, Mashable, September 2012
• The power user guide to Gmail, MakeUseOf
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32 - Adobe Connect
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Adobe Connect is a web conferencing system for web meetings, live learning and webinars.
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Website: www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html
Cost: Commercial. 30 day free trial available
Available: Online & Mobile apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 32 2013: 30 2012: 32 2011: 59
2010: 61= 2009: 41= 2008: 66= 2007: 72=
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Key features
!
• There is a main dashboard, where you can create and manage your meetings, training sessions
(virtual classrooms), courses and curriculum.
• When you create a new online event – meeting or virtual classroom – you will need to provide a
title/description and date/time of the event. This will generate a meeting URL.
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• Once you have launched your event – in this case a virtual classroom - you will be able to do a
number of things:
• connect your audio and webcam
• share your screen, document or whiteboard
• view details of the participants
• chat with the participants
• change the layout of your screen
• Those attending the webinar need to use the URL to access the web meeting online, else they
can use the mobile app to participate on their mobile devices. Below is a screenshot of the view
from an iPad.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Adobe Connect Learning Center
• Getting started with Adobe Connect,
Adobe Connect User Community
• Adobe Connect Visual Start Guide fo
Hosts (PDF)
• Adobe Connect Visual Start Guide for
Participants (PDF)
• Adobe Education Exchange
• Adobe for Academics
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33 - Adobe Captivate
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Captivate from Adobe lets you create interactive e-learning and m-learning content, application
simulations and demonstrate demonstrations.
Website: www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html
Cost: Commercial. Free 30-day trial available
Available: Download (for PC and Mac)
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 33 2013: 37 2012: 43 2011: 48
2010: 38 2009: 22 2008: 30= 2007: 17=
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Key features
!
• Adobe Captivate 8 is the latest version
and enables you to create different
types of projects:
• A Responsive Project supports
multi-screen responsive e-learning
authoring, i.e. one that allows content
to re-arrange itself on the relevant
device.
• It includes responsive themes, and you
can use the preview to see how your
project will appear on various screens.
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• In other words, you can publish as a single project and automatically deliver the most
appropriate experience for the user’s device.
• Software simulations let you record screen activity - from the screen area or in an
application. A dialogue box will appear to let you define the area (bordered in red) that you
want to record, and then start the recording.
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• PowerPoint projects let you use existing
PowerPoints on your desktop, select the
slides to include, and then enhance them
with Captivate features.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Captivate 8 Manual (PDF)
• Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial
• Responsive eLearning with Adobe Captivate
8: Step-by-Step, Pooja Jaisingh, Learning
Solutions Magazine, June 2014
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34 - Flipboard
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Flipboad is a free app that lets you curate your news in a personal magazine on your mobile
device.
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Website: www.flipboard.com
Cost: Free
Available: Download for mobile devices
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 34 2013: 36 2012: -61 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• When you open the app, FLIP (i.e. drag the page open) to reveal the home page.
• Cover stories are the main stories taken from your connected accounts on Twitter, Facebook,
etc as well as other sources (News, Business, etc).
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• When you tap on any subscription you get a page of recent content. Tap + to add the content
to a magazine, and then decide whether it is to be personal or private.
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• Discover more
sources of
interests in My
Flipboard.
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Guides & Resources
! Flipboard Tutorials
•
• How to use Flipboard, Snapguide
• Ultimate Guide to becoming a Flipboard Pro, ChurchMag, July 2013
• Flipboard for corporate teams, October 2013
• Flipboard for educators, August 2013
• How to use Flipboard in the classroom, June 2014
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35 - Kindle & App
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Kindle is a series of e-reader devices developed by Amazon. The original Kindle launched in 2007
and since that time a number of further versions have been released. Kindle Fire is Amazon’s
tablet. However, the Kindle app is also available so that you don’t actually need a Kindle device to
read a Kindle book.
Website: Device: www.amazon.com/kindle

App: Kindle App
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Cost: Purchase device/Free app
Available: Download app for desktop and mobile devices
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 35 2013: 78 2012: 70 2011: 82=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• If you don’t have a Kindle device you can read more than 1.5 million books on your own
computer using the Kindle reading app.
• A m a zo n ’s W h i s p e r s y n c
technology automatically
saves and syncs last page
read, bookmarks, notes,
and highlights across all
your devices, which means
you can start reading a
book on one device, and
pick up where you left off
on another device.
• When you select a book to
read, you will be able to
change the font size and
background colour, read
the page as one or two
columns, add a bookmark
to a page, and view any
bookmarks or notes you
have made.
Guides & Resources
• Kindle User’s Guides

• Kindle Reading Apps Guides
• Kindle for Education
• Top 8 tips for using Kindle readers in the classroom, Education World
• EduKindle, eReaders for educators
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36 - Outlook
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Outlook is the well known desktop email client that is part of the Microsoft Office (Home &
Business, and Professional) suites. It’s also available as a stand-alone product. It has become a
well regarded tool in the enterprise.
Website: www.microsoft.com/outlook and outlook.com

Cost: Commercial. Free 30 day trial
Available: Download & Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 36 2013: 39 2012: 49 2011: 69=
2010: 95= 2009: 67= 2008: 38= 2007: 17=
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Key features
!
• There are a number of versions of Outlook, the latest being Outlook 2013.
• Outlook is more than an email client; it provides you with a calendar, a task list and notepad. It
also lets you manage your contacts too.
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Guides & Resources
!
! Outlook 2013 Quick Start Guide (PDF)
•
• 36 short questions and tips for Outlook 2013
• Outlook 2013 - Quick Start Guide, YouTube video
• Manage your class calendar with Outlook, Microsoft
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37 - iSpring
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iSpring offers a range of e-learning authoring tools, including iSpring Presenter, iSpring Pro,
iSpring QuizMaker and iSpring Suite.
Website: www.ispringsolutions.com
Available: Download (for Windows)
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 37 2013: 46 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• iSpring Suite is a toolkit that allows you to turn your PowerPoint presentations into interactive e-
learning courses with narrations, interactions, quizzes and surveys, directly from PowerPoint and
publish them to your LMS.
• iSpring Suite is an add-in for PowerPoint that installs itself as a toolbar menu, and provides the
following additional functionality:
• You can add a variety of interactions, as well as quizzes that make use of 3 advanced
question categories, branching scenarios, individual feedback and more.
• You can add YouTube videos and Flash content.
• You can record, import and synchronise voice overs with animations and slides.
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Guides and Resources
! iSpring Support Center
•
• iSpring Suite Guide
• eLearning authoring made easy, Shannon Hicks
• 21 free iSpring Presenter video tutorials
• iSpring Suite – lots of features at a good price, Joe Ganci, Learning Solutions Magazine, April
2012
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38 - Coursera
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Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the
world to offer MOCCs (massive open online courses) for anyone to take, for free.
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Website: www.coursera.org
Cost: Free
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 38 2013: 38 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Coursera is a platform where individuals can search for and sign up for online courses and learn
on their own schedule or take a scheduled course. The list of courses will look something like
this:
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• When you select a course, you can find out more about it, the instructor, the course syllabus
and the course readings before you sign up. For example, here’s the information about the self-
paced Chinese for Beginners course.
• To create a course and host it on the Coursera platform, you will need to be a member of staff
in a partner university or organisation.
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Guides & Resources
! Coursera Student Support Center
•
• How to pick the best MOOCs: 6 tips from a Coursera junkie, Ki Mae Heussner, August 2013
• Instructor Guide to complement the Coursera Partners’ Portal, Georgia Tech
• Finding resources for your MOOC, Penn University
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39 - Hootsuite
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Hootsuite is a social media dashboard that monitors mentions, track results, schedule updates,
assign task and spreads messages.
Website: www.hootsuite.com
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 39 2013: 47 2012: 73 2011: 74
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Hootsuite lets you manage a large number of social channels: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,
Google+ Pages, Foursquare, MySpace, WordPress, etc - and accounts on those channels using
just one dashboard. (See screenshot below of Hootsuite in action)
• The main part of screen is comprised of a number of tabs, which contain a number of network
streams. Click the + sign to add a tab, and then give it a name.
• Once you have created a tab, you can add different types of streams (depending on the
network) to it, e.g for Twitter it might be Home, Mentions, Lists, Retweets, Search etc.
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• To write a tweet or post, you click in the Compose message box at the top.
• You then choose which accounts you want to send the message from (by selecting the
relevant avatar(s).
• You can add a link in the link box, and/or attach an image or file (using the paperclip icon)
• You can select the calendar icon to schedule a post, and a calendar will appear beneath it for
you to select the date and time your message should be posted.
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• It’s useful to set up a stream in Hootsuite to display your Scheduled posts so that you can keep
an eye on them.
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• You can find out more about a user in your stream by clicking
on their username, you can also follow or unfollow them here
too.
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• You can easily add users to lists (in Twitter) by dragging and
dropping them into place.
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• You can view analytics (e.g. Twitter engagement, Facebook
Insights, Owly click summaries, etc) by selecting the chart
icon in the navbar on the left-hand side of the dashboard.
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• You can hold social conversations with your colleagues. This
feature means that teams and organizations can
communicate internally without leaving the HootSuite
dashboard.
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• You can use Publisher to schedule posts in bulk.
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• You can add apps from the Apps Directory to create further
types of streams, e.g. your posts in a WordPress.
!
Guides & Resources
• Hootsuite Help Desk

• The Beginner’s Guide to Hootsuite, Mashable, September 2013
• The ultimate Hootsuite Guide, SocialMediaToday, June 2013
• How to use Hootsuite - A quick start guide for beginners, YouTube video, June 2010
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40 - Khan Academy
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The Khan Academy contains a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete
curricula in math and, now, other subjects.
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Website: www.khanacademy.org
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 40 2013: 56 2012: 74 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Students can make use of the extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments
from any computer with access to the web.
• Coaches, parents, and teachers have visibility into what their students are learning and doing on
the Khan Academy.
Guides & Resources
• Quick Start Guide for Maths Teachers

• How to get your class online
• Let's use video to reinvent education, Salmon Khan’s TED Talk, March 2011
• One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education,
Forbes, 19 November 2012
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41 - Edmodo
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Edmodo is a private social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and
assignments..
Website: www.edmodo.com
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 41 2013: 29 2012: 22 2011: 46=
2010: 88= 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• With a teacher account you can easily create a class (or other) group. The group space will look
like the one below with an activity stream at its heart.
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• The group space includes a group code and group URL to be provided to students so that they
can join the group.
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• The student view is very similar to the teacher’s view (see screenshot) overleaf and includes a
parent code which students can give to they parents to create an account for themselves.
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• The Teacher also has the ability to upload assignments, and add polls and quizzes. Quizzing
functionality includes multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, fill in the blank, and matching
questions (as shown in the screenshot below).
Guides and Resources
• Ddmodo Help Center

• Edmodo Teacher Hub.
• The Edmodo Quick start Guide (PDF), Tony P Thompson
• Online tutorial for using Edmodo, TeacherTrainingVideos
• 20 Ways to Use Edmodo, Matt Pullen
• Edmodo resources, Tricia Rodriguez and Steve Ryan
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42 - Adobe Photoshop
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SAME POSITION as in 2013
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Adobe Photoshop is a photo imaging tool for professional and serious amateur photographers as
well as graphic and web designers.
Website: www.adobe.com/products/photoshop
Available: Download
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 42 2013: 42 2012: 53 2011: -
2010: - 2009: 35 2008: 59= 2007: 50=
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Key features
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• Adobe Photoshop CS6 is a
sophisticated tool suitable
f o r a w i d e ra n g e o f
professional photo editing.
It is used in many
different circumstances to
enhance images, and
hence we get the phrase
“it’s been photoshopped”
to describe an image that
has been improved in
some way.
• B efore you download
Photoshop, you will be
asked what your level of
experience is with the
product, so it can provide
you with the right level of
support.
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Guides & Resources
! What is Photoshop? Adobe TV
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• Photoshop on Adobe Channel on YouTube
• An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop Part 1: Easy Photoshop, MakeUseOf
• An Idiot's Guide to Photoshop: Part 2: Useful Tips & Tricks, MakeUseOf
• An Idiot's Guide to Photoshop: Part 3: Pro Tips, MakeUseOf
• An Idiot's Guide to Photshop: Part 4: Advanced features and fun photo effects, MakeUseOf
• Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop, PegaWeb
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43 - Excel
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UP 11 PLACES
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Excel is spreadsheet software and a part of the Microsoft Office Suite
Website: www.microsoft.com/excel
Cost: Commercial. Free trial
Available: Download and Online (Office 365)
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 43 2013: 54 2012: 81 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: 50= 2007: 27
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Key features
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• Excel has a sophisticated range of functionality, so the interface can look rather overwhelming.
• Excel is often used in education for teachers to create a grade book.
• Excel is often used to create a training administration system.
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Guides & Resources
! How to make a spreadsheet in Excel, WikiHow
•
• A beginner’s guide to Excel spreadsheets (PDF), ChemTopics
• Keep track of grades in Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Creating a gradebook in Excel (PDF), UCSD
• Ideas for using Excel in the classroom, TIES
• Staff Training Manager Database – Excel Userform
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44 - Google Maps
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UP 26 PLACES
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Google Maps are searchable and zoomable maps of the world. You can find businesses, get
directions, and even embed maps in your website.
Website: maps.google.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online and mobile apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 44 2013: 70 2012: 38 2011: 38
2010: 58= 2009: 67= 2008: 34 2007: 36=
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Key features
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• Use Google Maps to search, explore, and find your way around the world. The more you
interact with the map, the more it becomes tailored to you.
• Get directions for driving, public transport, biking, walking and flying.
• View the maps in different views, e.g street view, earth and satellite images.
• Create and edit custom maps and save them as your own (as this example below).
• Embed a map on a website or blog.

• Use Google Maps in education for students to pin locations, embed their own information and
add pictures and YouTube videos to record virtual tours.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Maps Help Center
• Google Maps for Education
• Create Google Maps of Your Own To Share & Collaborate With Friends, MakeUseOf, 12 February
2013
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45 - Zite
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UP 39 PLACES
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Zite is a news reader that goes beyond manual customisation to provide an individually
personalised experience as a social magazine. Now acquired by Flipboard it is likely to be shut
down in the near future.
Website: www.zite.com
Cost: Free
Available: Mobile app
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 45 2013: 84 2012: 73 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• When you first open the app, you will be asked to choose 5 topics your are interested in to
begin to build your Zite. You can get personalised suggestions from Twitter, Facebook, Pocket,
etc. You then choose from the suggested topics it comes up with.
• You then create your profile, and Zite will provide you with some top stories containing best
recommendations for you, and some guidance on how to use Zite.
• You are now ready to view your top stories.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Zite Support
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46 - Powtoon
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NEW on the 2014 list
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PowToon is an online presentation software tool that allows you to create animated video
explainers – for business or education. It is the highest new entry in the 2014 list.
Website: www.powtoon.com
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 46 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Create a PowToon, by first selecting a template from the gallery - or else by starting from
scratch
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• Edit the template as desired. This might involve changing text effects, characters and animation,
props, markers, shapes transitions and backgrounds - building the animation along a timeline
• Publish your PowToon and share it on social sites, upload to YouTube, embed it in your web or
blog - or else keep it private.
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Guides & Resources
!
• PowToon Tutorial
• PowToon Quick Reference
• Quick Reference Guide for PowToon, PDF - useful if you are starting from scratch
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47 - iPad & Apps
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DOWN 13 PLACES
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Apple’s iPad (and now the iPad Mini) together with the huge range of apps available for it, make it
a very popular “learning” device.
Website: www.apple.com/ipad
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 47 2013: 34 2012: 34 2011: 44
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• There are currently five generations of the iPad. The first
iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the most recent iPad
models, the fourth-generation iPad and the smaller, iPad
Mini, were released on November 2, 2012. The iPad can
have both cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity. The operating
system is known as iOS.
• The user interface is built around the
device’s touchscreen. It can play music, take photos
and video, as well as be used to browse the web and
send/receive email. You can also personalise your iPad
with different wallpaper, and notifications are displayed
when there are new items to view (as shown in the
screenshot to the right).
• Other functionality can be enabled by downloading apps from the App Store, where there
are more than over 1 million (free and commercial) apps.
• You can take a screenshot on your iPad by holding down the power button and then pressing
the main Home button. The screen will flash white, and a PNG image of the current screen will
be created and saved to the device. You will find the photo in the Photos app.
• You can set up your iCloud account to synch your iPad content with your other devices.
• Use the Find my phone functionality to locate your iPad if you lose it.
• iPads have become a very popular device in education and training, and in businesses iPads are
being used as a valuable performance support devices.
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Guides & Resources
! iPad User Guide
•
• 30 iPhone and iPad tips and tricks to make you faster and more efficient, ZDnet, February 2014
• The 100 best iPad apps of 2014, PC Mag, April 2014
• iPad in education
• The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad, TeachThought, March 2013
• 103 interesting ways to use an iPad in the classroom
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48 - Padlet
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UP 9 PLACES
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Padlet, is an online noticeboard maker. It is ideal for making announcements, keeping notes and
things you might normally do with Post-it notes. It was previously known as Wallwisher.
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Website: www.padlet.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 48 2013: 57 2012: 72 2011: 54
2010: 26 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
Using a Padlet board:
!
• To stick a note on a Padlet board, you just double click anywhere on the whiteboard or drag a
file onto the whiteboard.
• You can also add or upload a link to an image or note, and you can re-size your note (by pulling
the right hand corner) and move your note around the board.!
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Creating a Padlet board:
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• When creating your own board, you can choose a number of features, e.g. privacy settings,
notification settings and so forth. Use the icons on the right hand side to do this.
• In the Wallpaper section, you can choose the wall background. (In the screenshot above I
selected grass.)
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• In the Layout section you can choose how you want the posts to appear. In addition to
Freeform, there are also Stream and Grid layouts. Stream layout is useful if there are a lot of
people using the board.
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• In the Privacy section, you can choose how private you want your wall to be: private,
password protected, hidden link, or public.
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• In the Notifications section, you choose how you want to be notified about your wall.
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• In the Address section, you choose the wall address you would like to have.
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• You can also share a link to your wall, export it to image, PDF, Excel, or CSV formats, subscribe
to the RSS feed, print it out, and/or embed it in a blog or website, and even make use of the QR
code to mobilise it.
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Guides & Resources
!
• 32 interesting ways to use Padlet in the classroom
• Teachers Guide to using Padlet in class, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, 12 July
2014
• How to use Padlet and why … ICTEvangelist
• Padlet - collaborative notes everywhere, CollaboratEd, 5 October 2013
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49 - Pocket
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SAME POSITION as last year
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Pocket saves pages from your computer or phone. Read at home, work, on the plane, or during
your commute; even without an internet connection.
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Website: www.getpocket.com
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 49 2013: 49 2012: 76 2011: 90=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• There are many different ways to save a page to Pocket that include a browser extension, a
desktop app, a mobile app for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle, email items to your queue, or
integrated within other apps. Connecting the Pocket button on your web browser s probably the
best way to save pages to Pocket in just one click.
• Once you save a page, it goes into your queue
• You can see all the items that you have in your queue on your computer or device, where you
can delete them or favourite them.
Guides & Resources

!
• Getting started
• How to use Pocket like a Pro to save everything from the Web, Lifehacker, July 2014
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50 - Udutu
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Udutu course authoring software lets you build a course very quickly and easily online either on
your own or collaboratively with others. There is also a Udutu LMS.
Website: www.udutu.com
Cost: Free to author, screen charge to host
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 54 2013: 50 2012: 67 2011: 69=
2010: 95= 2009: 69= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
Udutu online course authoring provides you with unlimited users, accounts, courses, and content.
It lets you build a course very quickly and easily online either on your own or collaboratively with
others. You can easily import existing content, e.g. PowerPoint presentations.
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• The How to use Udutu course shows you what a Udutu course looks like as well as how to set
one up
• In your dashboard you can make a copy of an existing course (option B) to use as a template,
import an extracted course (option C) or you start one from scratch (option A).
• You can then personalise your course in a number of ways as shown on the screenshot below
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A. You then add a screen type. These include basic screens, assessment screens, advanced
scenarios, etc. Here is an example of how to set up a basic screen. (Screnshot below is of a
basic screen)
B. You choose the layout
C. You personalise the screen
D. You then add the content
E. You can add any narration if required
• When you save your course, you can then either publish and host it at Udutu (for a small charge
per screen) or extract your course and host it on another LMS or distribute it some other way.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Udutu Guide
• Udututorials
• 13 free Udutu videos, elearning industry
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51 - Tweetdeck
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UP 12 PLACES
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TweetDeck is your personal social media dashboard for staying in touch with what’s happening
now, and connecting you with your contacts across Twitter.
Website: www.tweetdeck.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online; Download PC and Mac apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 51 2013: 63 2012: 40 2011: 37
2010: 37 2009: 43= 2008: 2- 2007: -
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Key features
!
• You can create a customised Twitter experience by building custom timelines in columns (see
screenshot below).
• You can manage multiple accounts.
• You can track hashtag feeds.
• You can filter by content, users and engagement in each column.
• You can set up alerts to keep up with information.
• You can schedule tweets.
• You can mute users or terms.
Guides & Resources
• Getting Started with TweetDeck

• The Beginner’s Guide to Tweetdeck, Mashable
• How to use Tweetdeck, wikiHow
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52 - Voicethread
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DOWN 12 PLACES
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Voicethread is an online tool that allows users to have conversations around digital media.
Website: www.voicethread.com
Available: Online and Mobile apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 52 2013: 40 2012: 31 2011: 35
2010: 19 2009: 19 2008: 19 2007: 23
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Key features
• When you sign into Voicethread, you can browse the gallery to find out more about them and
how they work.
• To create your own voicethread, you start by uploading your media, from your computer, a
URL, other media sources or your webcam. You then name your uploaded media resource.
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• You then add a comment - by adding text or a voice or video comment.
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• In the screenshot below I’ve added a text comment
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• You can then share your voice thread and invite contributions - by providing a link or using the
embed code to add it into a blog or website.
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Guides & Resources
! Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects
•
• 25 interesting ways to use Voicethread in the classroom,
• 7 things you should know about voicethread (PDF), Educause, 2009
• An educator’s guide to Voicethread (PDF)
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53 - Explain Everything
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Explain Everything is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting app that lets you
annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Website: www.explaineverything.com
Cost: Small charge
Available: Mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows devices
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 53 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
! You can import and insert any document or video.!
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• You can move and animate any object.!
• You can draw and animate using pen or laser pointer, annotate and highlight text.!
• You can zoom and pan.!
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Guides & Resources"
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• Video Tutorials !
• Explain Everything PDF!
• How to get started with Explain Everything, SnapGuide
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54 - Jing
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DOWN 27 PLACES
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Jing is a screencasting program that lets you capture anything you see on your computer screen,
as an image or short video, and share it instantly.
Website: www.techsmith.com/jing.html
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 54 2013: 27 2012: 16 2011: 18
2010: 17= 2009: 20 2008: 26 2007: -
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Key features
!
• When you launch Jing, it sits and waits in the top-right hand corner of your computer screen to
be used. When you hover over the icon, the arms will extend Use the top arm for capture – i.e.
to take a screenshot or record a screencast; the middle arm to view your capture history; and
the bottom arm to edit your settings and preferences.
• To capture a screenshot, drag the yellow guidelines to required position, and then release. Then
select the image icon underneath to take the screenshot. You can then use the editor to
highlight the screenshot as required.
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• You can save the screenshot to save the image on your own computer or share it
on screencast.com.
• To record a screencast, drag the yellow guidelines into the required position and then release
them. Select the video icon at the bottom of the screen to start the recording. You will then be
prompted to set up your microphone if you want to narrate your screencast, and Jing will then
count down 3-2-1 before recording begins You can use the icons at the bottom to stop or
pause the video, mute the microphone, re-do or cancel.
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When you have finished, you can preview your video. And then use the icons at the bottom of the
screencast to save it to disk, or share it on screencast.com.
Guides & Resources
• Jing Tutorials
• Welcome to Jing (PDF)
• Get Started with Screencasting in Your Classroom or School
• J is for Jing, Business2Community, January 2013
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55 - Flickr
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DOWN 3 PLACES
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Flickr is a place where you can store your photos, tag them and share them with others either
through a link to the site or by embedding them in your blog or web page.
Website: www.flickr.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 55 2013: 52 2012: 60 2011: 36
2010: 20 2009: 18 2008: 15 2007: 16
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Key features
!
• There are now billions of photos hosted on Flickr, the vast majority of which you can freely
explore and use without permission. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a
Creative Commons license.
• When you find a photo you like, you can share the photo it in a number of ways, as shown on
the screenshot below.
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• And often even download the photo in various sizes, as shown in the screenshot below.
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• To upload your own photos, you need to have an account.
Everyone gets 1,000GB of free storage, which is enough
space for more than 500,000 photos.
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• When you add a photo, you can then add a description,
tags, people and add it to an existing or new set of photos.
You can also decide the Owner settings, i.e. if your photos
are to be private or public, and the type of also assign a
copyright licence you want to apply to it (see screenshot to
the right).
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Guides & Resources
!
• Creative Commons on Flickr
• How to get the most out of Flickr
• Flickr for Education: 18 ways to use Flickr in schools,
Colour my learning, March 2013
• 13 ways you can use Flickr in the classroom,
TeachThought, July 2013
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56 - Nearpod
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Nearpod allows you to present, quiz and report with this tool – synchronously with your students
or make available on demand.
Website: www.nearpod.com
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 56 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• To use Nearpod as a student, just enter a pin into the app where it says Join a Session. For
example the pin MAGIC will load a presentation about Nearpod.
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• To use Nearpod as as teacher, you will need to set up an account. You then use the online
Content Tool to organise your presentations add a new presentation
• You can then give your presentation a title, and add additional slides.
• A slide can contain

different types of
content as well as
activities like polls, and
questions (as shown in
the screenshots
overleaf)!
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• Once you have saved and published your presentation, it will show up in your Library. You can
then:
A) use it in a live session and you will be given a code to share with your audience. Your
students will then sign into view it on the App on their devices.
(B) set as Homework, in which case users can view it in their own time, on demand.
(C) share it by embedding it in a web-page.
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• In Reports you can view access and activity on your presentations.
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Guides & Resources
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• How to create a Nearpod presentation OR enter FEXLW on the Student App
• Nearpod Starter Guide (PDF)
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57 - Keynote
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DOWN 4 PLACES
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Keynote is Apple’s presentation software, and part of the Mac iWork suite.
Website: www.apple.con/keynote
Cost: Commercial
Available: Download for Mac and iOS devices
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 57 2013: 53 2012: 93 2011: -
2010: 90= 2009: 48 2008: 65 2007: 72=
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Key features
• Creating a presentation with Keynote is very simple. First choice a theme.
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• Then substitute your
own words and images
for the placeholder text
and graphics, as shown
overleaf.
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• There are Keynote apps for the iPhone and iPad. You can use this to set up your mobile device
as a remote control for your Mac presentation across Wifi.
• You can view the presentation in your remote control either as the current and next slide, or
current and notes (depending on portrait or landscape views).
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• With iCloud, you can create
presentations in Keynote on your
Mac and access them on your iPad,
iPhone and iPod touch – and vice
versa.
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Guides & Resources
• Keynote User’s Guide (PDF)

• Keynote Tutorials
• Tips for Using Keynote to Create and Present Digital Slide Presentations, Que, March 2014
• How to use Keynote to control...Keynote on iOS, Mac, CNET, January 2014
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58 - Quizlet
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DOWN 2 PLACES
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Quizlet is a website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game
modes.
Website: www.quizlet.com
Available: Online & Mobile apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 58 2013: 56 2012: 58 2011: 82=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• You can find an existing study set by searching. It is useful to of this first to understand the
potential and to gain some inspiration how to use Quizlet.
• You can create a study set by adding information about your study set in the top area, and your
terms in the bottom area.
• You will need to create at least two terms before your set can be created. This might be the
translation of a word, or the definition of a word.
• You will then be offered a number of study modes. The screenshots on the next page shows
Flashcard mode.
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• In your dashboard, you can also set up your own class. There are also more Teacher functions
by upgrading your account.
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Guides & Resources
• Teacher Quick Start Guide

• How to create a set in Quizlet, wikiHow
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59 - Storify
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DOWN 1 PLACE
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Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social media. It helps to turn what people post on
social media into compelling stories.
Website: www.storify.com
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 59 2013: 58 2012: - 2011: 69=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
• Storify lets you use social networks to build social stories, bringing together media scattered
across the Web into a coherent narrative.
• In the Storify Editor you create your story by.
• providing a title and description
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• searching for elements from the social networks and sites, and then dragging them onto the
storyline
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• adding any narrative and commentary you want to make sense of what you are sharing
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• You can save your story and Publish it when you are ready. Note: you can always un-Publish if
you want.
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• Storify stories can be embedded anywhere on the Web by simply pasting an embed code, just
like embedding a video, using the </> Embed link
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Guides & Resources
! Storify Guided Tour
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• Telling a Story with Storify, Centre for Innovation in Teaching, September 2013
• 4 ways to use Storify in the classroom, Knewton, uly 2013
• Using Storify to maintain a collection of tweets from events and conferences – a ‘how to’ guide,
chi+med blog, May 2013
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60 - WebEx
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DOWN 16 PLACES
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Cisco Webex is web conferencing and meeting software that combines file and
presentation sharing with voice, HD video and meeting spaces.
Website: www.webex.com
Cost: Free and commercial versions
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 60 2013: 44 2012: 54 2011: 85=
2010: 67= 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
WebEx consists of a number of commercial products, each of which focus on a different target
audience.
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• WebEx Event Centre: for a large online event
• WebEx Training Center for online training
• WebEx Support Center to provide remote support
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WebEx Meetings are for meetings between two or more people (with up to 2 others it is free)
• Meetings can be scheduled or set up on the fly using Meet Now.
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A WebEx meeting room offers the following key functionality:
• Cnnect your audio
• Invite and/or remind people to join the meeting
• Share your desktop (files, applications, or videos, etc)
• View the participant list. If you have a webcam you can activate it here, and see the other
participants webcams.
• Text chat with participants
• Record your meeting
• Following the meeting, a dedicated meeting space lets you continue collaborating by sharing
information and reminding participants about the next action items.
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Guides & Resources
• Quick Start Guide: Cisco WebEx Meetings (PDF)

• How To use WebEx Meetings, video tutorials
• WebEx Meetings Cheat Sheet
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61 - Mahara
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BACK on the 2014 list
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Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. You can create
journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other
users in groups.
Website: www.mahara.org
Cost: Free, open source.
Demo site at demo.mahara.org
Available: Download
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 61 2013: 2012: 2011:
2010: 2009: 2008: 2007:
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Key features
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• What makes Mahara different from other ePortfolio systems is that you control which items and
what information (artefacts) within your portfolio other users see.
• File repository
• Blogs
• Social networking
• Resume bulder
• Profile information
• Administration
• Scalability
• Security
• Interoperability
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• Mahara interoperates
out of the box with the
learning management
system Moodle.
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Guides & Resources
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• Mahara User Manual
• ePortfolio (Learning Diary/Mahara) in Higher Education, YouTube video
• Mahara: Winning hearts and Minds, Sam Taylor, Slideshare presentation
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62 - SurveyMonkey
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SurveyMonkey is an online survey tool. It allows users to design surveys, collect responses, and
analyse the responses of their created surveys. Users can also get access to survey questions and
professional templates
Website: www.surveymonkey.com
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 62 2013: 55 2012: 51 2011: 74=
2010: 48= 2009: 88 2008: 54= 2007: -
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Key features
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1. Design a survey: You can either create a new survey or use an expert
survey template (including educational survey templates). You can edit your survey in a
number of ways: change title and log, add a page, as well as add the questions.
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2. Collect responses: There are a number of ways to collect responses from your survey.
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3. Analyse the results: Once you have some responses, SurveyMonkey offers some powerful
ways to analyse the results.
Guides & Resources

• SurveyMonkey Help Center
• How to Create an Online Survey With Surveymonkey, WikiHow
• How Students, Teachers and Administrators Make the Grade, SurveyMonkey
• SurveyMonkey and 7 classroom uses, TeachByte, November 2011
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63 - iTunes
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iTunes is a digital media player that lets you that lets you organize your music, movies, TV shows,
and more on your Mac or PC, then add it to your iPod, iPhone or iPad.
Website: www.apple.com/itunes
Cost: Free
Available: Download for multi-platforms
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 63 2013: 61 2012: 47 2011: 66
2010: 51= 2009: 41= 2008: 28 2007: 26
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Key features
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• iTunes lets you organise your media in a Library on your computer (PC or Mac), as well as
upload, synchronize and manage the same on your iPod, iPhone and iPad.
• It also gives you access to the iTunes Store, where you can find a huge range of music,
videos, as well as apps - for free or to purchase.
• You can also access iTunes U which has become the world’s largest online catalogue of free
educational content - lectures, videos, books and other resources on thousands of subjects
from universities
worldwide, as well as
those suitable for
K12.
• You can also access
these courses
through the iTunesU
mobile app. This
expands the
classroom experience
by putting all the
materials for a course
— audio and video,
books, a syllabus and
class assignments,
posts from the
i n s t r u c t o r, P D F s ,
presentations and
more — on your iPad,
iPhone or iPod
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Guides & Resources
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• iTunes and iTunes store, a How-To guide, about Technology
• Why (And How) Teachers Should Start Using iTunes U, TeachThought, 29 December 2012
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64 - Google Translate
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Google Translate is a free online service for instantly translating text and web pages.
Website: www.google.com/translate
Cost: Free
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 64 2013: 77 2012: 57 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• Google Translate instantly translates text and web pages into different languages. Although the
translation won’t be perfect, it will be good enough to understand the general meaning.
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• The website provides the place for the translation.
• Set the language you would like to translate From (or Detect Language)
• Set the language you would like to translate To
• Enter your text – type or paste it – in the From box
• Click Translate
• The translation will appear in the To box – with some other definitions underneath (as
appropriate)
• Alternatively, you can speak the word, by clicking on the microphone in the From box
• You can also hear the translation in the To box
• You can enter the phase into your Phrasebook, by clicking the star icon.
• You can view sample usage of the words in both the To and From boxes
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• Example overleaf shows how it translates hello in English into Spanish
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• Google Translate is integrated into the standard Google Chrome browser, and there are also
extensions for the Firefox browser. The Google Translate toolbar is also available for Internet
Explorer.
• The free Website Translator plugin adds the power of Google Translate’s automatic translations
to your website!
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Guides & Resources
! Google Translate Help
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• Inside Google Translate, YouTube
• Google Translate Blog
• The Complete Guide to Google Translate and Google Language Tools, Guiding Tech
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65 - SharePoint
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SharePoint is an integrated suite of products to create a Microsoft intranet and collaboration
portal.
Website: www.sharepoint.com
Available: Download or Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 65 2013: 59 2012: 45 2011: 65
2010: 75= 2009: 50= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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SharePoint 2013 introduces new ways to share your
work and work with others, organize your projects
and teams and discover people and information.
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• Sharing ideas, discovering answers and keeping
track of what your colleagues are working on.
• Publishing content to SharePoint from any Office
application and sharing with people inside and
outside your organization.
• Setting up a new team site in minutes to track
meeting notes and bringing together all your
team’s email and documents in one place.
• Organizing all your projects and tasks across
SharePoint, Outlook and Microsoft Project.
• Syncing your content in SharePoint to your desktop
with SkyDrive Pro, so docs are just a mouse click away, even if you’re offline.
• Connecting with people across your organization and easily discover interests, past projects and
documents they’ve worked on.
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SharePoint is also used to create a platform where teachers, students, and parents can share
information. In fact Learning Platforms built on Microsoft SharePoint have become quite common
in schools and higher education establishments.
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Guides & Resources
! External Collaboration in SharePoint Online 2013, Nothing But SharePoint, 20 February 2013
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• SharePoint 2013: Social Features Highlights, CMS Wire, 14 February 2013
• SharePoint 2013 End User Tutorials, Learning SharePoint, January 2013
• Create a class website using SharePoint Online with Office 365 for education, YouTube video
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66 - Haiku Deck
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Haiku Deck is a completely new kind of presentation software. It makes telling your story simple,
beautiful and fun.
Website: www.haikudeck.com
Cost: Free
Available: Web or iPad app
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 67 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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An easy-to-use interface helps you to get started and use the main functionality, e.g. you can
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• change the theme
• add a slide
• pick a background
• edit the layout
• add notes
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• Quickly create stunning looking slides in your slide deck
• Share your slide deck in social channels , and Export to Slideshare, PDF or PPT
Guides & Resources

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• Getting started tutorial
• Haiku Deck: 10 tips to transform your presentations
• How to use Haiku Deck, SnapGuide
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67 - IFTTT
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IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: If This
Then That.
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Website: www.ifttt.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online and apps for mobile devices
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 67 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
Key features
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• IFTTT lets you create recipes in the
format: If this then that
• Channels are the basic building
blocks. Each Channel has its own
Triggers and Actions. Example
Channels are Twitter, Facebook,
Evernote, Email.
• Personal recipes are a combination of a trigger and an action from your active channels; Shared
recipes are templates shared by the IFTT community
• To create a recipe, e.g. to save any of your tweets in Delicious
• IF THIS
• Step 1 of 7: choose your trigger channel, here Twitter
• Step 2 of 7: choose the trigger, here. New tweet by you
• Step 3 of 7: complete trigger fields, here not to include retweets or @replies
• THEN THAT
• Step 4 of 7: choose action channel, here Delicious
• Step 5 of 7: choose an action, here Add a public bookmark
• Step 6 of 7: complete action fields, here Link to tweet, tags and Notes
• Create and activate recipe
Guides & Resources

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• The ultimate IFTTT guide, Mashable
• The 101 best IFTTT recipes, PC Magazine, May 2014
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68 - OneNote
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OneNote is a digital note-taking app for capturing all of your ideas and to-dos on the go, brought
to you by Microsoft.
Website: www.onenote.com
Cost: Free
Available: Download for PC, Mac and mobile devices
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 68 2013: 69 2012: 71 2011: 100
2010: 85= 2009: - 2008: 66= 2007: -
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Key features
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• You can capture notes for classwork, meetings, or research.
• You can embolden, italicize, underline, highlight, increase indent, decrease indent - format your
notes like you want in a free form canvas.
• You can take pictures of items to remove some of the paper clutter.
• You can collaborate
and share ideas with
your team.
• You can keep and edit
all of your notes .
• You can search your
notes and files for
anything you’ve
captured by typing a
keyword or phrase.
• You can sync your
notebooks seamlessly
across computers and
devices.
• You can create, move,
c o p y , r e - o r d e r,
rename, colour code
and delete pages,
sections and
notebooks to organize
your content as you like.
• You can get more out of OneNote with these apps and devices.
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Guides & Resources
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• OneNote 2013 Quick Start Guide
• OneNote Tutorial: Six Tips to Help You Use OneNote Like a Pro, Udemy blog, September 2013
• OneNote in Education: teachers using OneNote in the classroom, YouTube video,27 June 2014
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69 - Google Apps (for Work, Edu & Govt)
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Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customisable versions of several
Google products under a custom domain name.
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Website: Google Apps for Work: www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/
Commercial - 30 day free trial
Google Apps for Government: www.google.com/enterprise/apps/government/
Commercial.
Google Apps for Education: www.google.co.uk/enterprise/apps/education/
Free
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Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 69 2013: 71 2012: 55 2011: 35
2010: 34 2009: 38= 2008: 68= 2007: -
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Key features
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1 – Google Apps for Work includes the following core products: Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar,
Google+, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides.
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There are two plans: Google Apps for Work and Google Apps for Work Plus (with unlimited
storage & Vault - a service that gives you e-mail archiving and control over multiple e-mail
accounts).
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2 - Google Apps for Government includes the same core products as for Work.
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3 – Google Apps for Education includes the following core products: Gmail, Calendar, Drive,
Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites. Other products can be enabled, these include Google+, Chrome,
Scholar, Translate, Maps, Blogger, YouTube (for Schools) and Classroom
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Guides & Resources
• Google Apps for Education Resources

• Guide to Going Google
• 40 ways to use Google Apps in education, Educational Technology & Mobile Learning, March
2012
• Small Business Guide to Google Apps, Mashable
• Google for Work, YouTube channel
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70 - Poll Everywhere
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Poll Everywhere is an easy way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations,
classrooms, etc - using SMS, web, or Twitter.
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Website: www.polleverywhere.com
Available: Online and Apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 70 2013: 75 2012: 75 2011: 82=
2010: 82= 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• PollEverywhere supports a number of different types of polls, and the results can be displayed in
a number of different ways. With a free account you can get up to 40 responses per poll –
probably enough for most small training sessions.
• Creating a poll is very easy, as the screenshot below shows.
• Once you have created your poll, you can download it and embed it in a PowerPoint
presentation or else display it on screen directly from the Web.
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• Participants can then respond in a number of different ways, i.e. using Twitter, via a text
message or online, as chosen by the presenter.
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• The screen updates itself as responses are received. Here’s an example of what a live poll looks
like – in this case it displays freeform text.
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• You can also
embed a poll
into a web or
blog page to
view the real-
time results.
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• The PollEverywhere iPad app is for
both audience members participating
and presenters managing their polls.
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• Presenters can choose from a variety
of activities like Q&A and multiple
choice polls.
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• Audience responses are displayed in real-time from the web or in a PowerPoint or Keynote
presentation.
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• Presenters can view their participant response history and correctness.!
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• Participants can vote or respond from this app, web browsers, text messages, or Twitter.
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• Participant views automatically update with a presenter's current question for quick and easy
participation
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• Poll Everywhere is free for audiences of 40 people or less and there are paid plans for larger
audiences. K-12 and Higher Education semester-long plans are also available.
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Guides & Resources
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• PollEverywhere User Gude
• Poll Everywhere Quick Start Guide (PDF)
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71 - Blackboard Collaborate
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Blackboard Collaborate offers an interactive learning experience with virtual classrooms, web
conferencing and instant messaging. Blackboard Collaborate was previously known as Elluminate.
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Website: www.blackboard.com/platforms/collaborate/overview.aspx
Cost: Commercial - 30 day free trial
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 71 2013: 66 2012: 50 2011: 60
2010: 35 2009: 43= 2008: 50= 2007: 50=
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Key features
• To access a Collaborate
session you will need to
download the Launcher.
Your Collaborate room will
look something like this
• You can load
your content e.g. a
PowerPoint presentation).
• You can use the
whiteboard tools to
collaborate on a live
document in real-time
with others, take notes,
import images, annotate
slides – and then export,
save and print for future
use.
• You can use application
sharing to walk through
resources by sharing an application or your full desktop.
• You can use web touring to host a synchronised web tour with participants.
• You can view participant details
• You can chat with participants
• You can also record your webinar.
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Guides & Resources
• Blackboard Collaborate On Demand Learning Center

• Blackboard Collaborate Tutorial, YouTube
• Top 10 ways of using Blackboard Collaborate, Arizona University
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72 - Socrative
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SAME POSITION on the 2014 list
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Socrative is a smart student response system that allows teachers to engage their classrooms
through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
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Website: www.socrative.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online & student mobile apps
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 72 2013: 72 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
! Teachers login to their allocated room number and select an activity which controls the
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flow of questions and games. !
• Students simply login to the room number and interact in real time with the content.
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• The teacher can see the student responses as they come in:
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• At the end of the activity, teachers are offered the opportunity to download or be emailed a
report.
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Guides & Resources
! Socrative User Guide (PDF)
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• Making Tech Simple: Socrative
• 13 ways to use Socrative as a formal assessment
• Three good ways to use Socrative in the classroom
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73 - Wordle
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SAME POSITION on the 2014 list
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Wordle lets you generate word clouds from text that you provide. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle
gallery to share with your friends.
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Website: www.wordle.net
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 73 2013: 73 2012: 79 2011: 39
2010: 22 2009: 30 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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• Create you own Wordle by entering text or the URL of a blog or web page that has a feed.
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• The Wordle will then be generated.
B y d e f a u l t , Wo r d l e r e m o v e s
numbers, and common words like
“the”, “an” etc. If you want to
include them, then select to do so in
Language. You will find some other
options there too. You can change
the Font, Layout and Color to get
the best effect.
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• Notes: (1) the more times a word appears in the text, the bigger the typeface it will be, so if
you want a particular word to appear bigger than type it more times. (2) Plurals are seen as
separate words from singular, so consider editing the text to change a plural to singular. (3) To
keep two words together with a space between them, just replace the space with a tilde in the
text. A tilde is this character ~ So the word would appear like this: social~learning
• You can’t save your Wordle as an image, but you can take a screenshot. You can also print it.
and/or save it the public gallery and then embed a thumbnail with a link on your blog or
website. Note, that saving it to the public gallery means anyone can view it.
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Guides & Resources
• Wordle Cheat Sheet (PDF), August 2008
• Top 20 uses for Wordle, The Clever Sheep, 22 October 2008
• 52 interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom
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74 - Notability
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Notability is a fully-featured note-taking app for mobile devices and the desktop. It supports text,
images, and audio recordings, and contains a sketch pad that lets you not only draw new images,
but also mark up images, Web clips, and clip art that you import
Website: www.gingerlabs.com
Cost: Free
Available: Desktop and mobile app
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 74 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
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Notability is an iPhone and iPad app designed to support note-taking. Notability gives you the
freedom to write, type, record audio, take and add photos and organise your notes. Here are
some screenshots of the iPad view.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Notability User Guide (PDF)
• iPad Tutorial: Overview of Notability App, ATSU, YouTube
• How to use Notability iPad App in your Classroom, iPad Education for Dummies
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75 - Google Sites
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Google Sites lets you create simple, secure group websites to share information with a few
people, a whole organization, or the entire world.
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Website: sites.google.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 75 2013: 93 2012: 33 2011: 43
2010: 39= 2009: 71- 2008: 59= 2007: -
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Key features
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• You manage your sites in the Dashboard.
• To create a new site, you will need to decide on a template, a name for your site, and a name
to be used in the URL
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• Once the site is created for you, you will then be able to edit and manage your site in a number
of different ways using the icons top right.
1. Edit the page – this will take you to a page editor, where you can modify the existing
page
2. Add a new page – this will then ask you to name your page, and also determine where
the page is to be placed in the page. hierarchy
3. More actions will display a number of other things you can do related to the page and
the site, e.g. change the page template, or manage the site settings
4. Share – will let you change the site sharing settings, by default it is public on the web,
but you can change this to Anyone with the link, or Private. Note: it is also possible to
create different permissions for different pages.
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Guides & Resources
• Google Sites Help Center
• How to create a Google Site (PDF), Indiana University
• Teachers Guide on the use of Google sites in the classroom, Educational Technology and Mobile
Learning, January 2013
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76 - Delicious
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Delicious is a free and easy tool to save, organize and discover interesting links on the web.
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Delicious started life in 2003 as a revolutionary social bookmarking site. In 2005 it was acquired
by Yahoo! But in early 2011, it was sold to AVOS and was rebuilt from the ground up and re-
launched. In 2014 it was sold again to Science Inc.
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Website: www.delicious.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 76 2013: 60 2012: 48 2011: 24
2010: 4 2009: 2 2008: 1 2007: 2
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Key features
!
• Your Delicious dashboard provides you with access to all your activities.
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• My links displays all the links you have saved in Delicious.
• When saving a link, you are encouraged to include a comment and tags to categorize and
contextualize why you’re adding the page to your collection. Tags can be one word or many,
with commas used between each tag. Tags and comments can be edited, renamed, or deleted
at any time.
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• A tag bundle is a collection of tags, usually used to group similar tags together. To create one,
click Tag Bundles (and select Create new bundle) from the tabs above your links.
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• You can add a link manually (see screenshot below) …
• … or you can use the bookmarklet a small browser plugin that will let you save links
automatically as you browse the Web,
• You can use Network to follow your friends or find people you’re interested in building a feed.
• You can use Discover for community picked links based on your interests, and manage your
subscriptions.
Guides & resources

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• Delicious Frequently Asked Questions
• How I use Delicious for content curation, March 2014
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77 - Glogster EDU
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Glogster EDU is a free educational service that lets you explore and create educational content
online.
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Website: edu.glogster.com
Available: Online and iPad app
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 77 2013: 64 2012: 21 2011: 10
2010: 25 2009: 55= 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• The teacher dashboard stores and organise your “glogs” (interactive content).
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• Create new “glog” to build your interactive content.
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• Select a pre-defined template to help you get started building your content (see screenshot
overleaf).
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• Build your glog by mixing text, audio, video, images, graphics and more from your own files, the pre-
designed graphics, or anywhere on the web using the in-built Web picker browser.
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• Preview your glog before you save it. Then categorise it and tag it. You can share it publicly or keep
it as unfinished
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• The Glogpedia Content Library contains over 8,000 top quality blogs from classrooms around the
world to provide you with inspiration
Guides & Resources
• EduGlogster User Guide (PDF)

• Video Tutorial on EduGlogster, YouTube
• How to create a digital classroom project using Glogster, LearnItIn5
• A 90-second to using Glogster in the Classroom, TeachThought, January 2013
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78 - Canvas
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Canvas is a 21st Century LMS: adaptable; customizable; easy to use; mobile; and time-saving.
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Website: www.instructure.com
Cost: Commercial. Free 2-week trial
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 78 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Canvas is flexible and customisable so will grow with your institution and mould to your needs.
• Canvas offer hundreds of features, working together, e.g. speedgrader annotation, graphic
analytics reporting engine, integrated media recorder, automated tasks, notification preferences,
• Canvas uses an intuitive interface which means students already have the skills to navigate it.
• Canvas pulls feeds from external sources into courses as well as push out course feeds
• Powerful tools like Khan Academy, Google Charts, Wordpress, and many more can be easily
installed, allowing teachers to create a custom teaching experience.
• You can work in Canvas in online or offline mode.
!
Guides & Resources
! The cool things you can do with Canvas, YouTube video
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• Canvas Guides
• Canvas Instructure Quickstart Guide
• Canvas by Instructure: The perfect LMS? Quite possibly, Getting Smart, May 2014
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79 - Tumblr
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Tumblr lets you share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your
browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be in your Tumblr blog.
!
Website: www.tumblr.com
Cost: Free
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 79 2013: 65 2012: 96 2011: -
2010: 90= 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Your Dashboard is the place to quickly add posts (of different types) to your blog - text, photo,
quote, link, chat, audio or video.
• Once you have chosen the type of post, you can also choose to schedule it, or set it to private,
You can also choose the tags you want to use with your post.
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• You can easily change the theme of your blog.
• You can also add pages to your blog - to build it out into more of a website.
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Guides & Resources
! The Beginners Guide to Tumblr, Mashable
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• The Unofficial, beginner’s guide to Tumblr, MakeUseOf
• Tumblr Guide 101, Huffington Post
• How teachers are using Tumblr in the classroom, Emerging EdTech
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80 - Vimeo
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Vimeo is a video-sharing website where users can upload, view and share videos.
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Website: www.vimeo.com
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 80 2013: 89 2012: 78 2011: 49
2010: 90= 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• To view videos, you don’t need to join Vimeo. You can also share them using the link provided
as well as embed them into web pages and sites.
• To watch on demand, you need to purchase access.
• To upload a video, you need to join Vimeo. A free account lets you upload 1/2 Gb of storage
per week. However, the videos must be self-produced, and you can also only have one account.
• To share a video, you select the Upload a video link. This will provide instructions how to
upload.
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• Channels are a simple way to showcase and watch videos. You can create Channels around
common themes and easily share what you want with others.
Guides & Resources
• Vimeo Help Center

• A guide to preparing and uploading video to Vimeo, about technology
• Vimeo Video School
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81 - Kahoot
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Kahoot lets you create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys using any device with a web
browse, including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC.
Website: www.getkahoot.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
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Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 81 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
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Key features
!
• Create - Through a simple 'drag & drop' creator tool, you can build quizzes with embedded
imagery and video, based on educational content.
• Launch - You can engage the audience by projecting the quiz onto the screen at the front.
Without needing an account, everyone in the room quickly joins through their personal device
• Play - Answering questions in real time through an easy-to-use interface on any device with a
web browser, your audience play against each other aiming to top the on-screen leaderboard.
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Guides & Resources
!
• Kahoot Step by Step Guide
• Getting started with Kahoot (PDF)
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82 - OpenOffice
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UP 16 PLACES
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Apache OpenOffice is the leading open source office software for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Website: www.openoffice.org
Cost: Free, open source
Available: Download
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 82 2013: 98 2012: 87 2011: 61
2010: 61 2009: 71= 2008: 41= 2007: 31=
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Key features
!
OpenOffice is a suite of tools to install on your desktop to create documents, spreadsheets and
presentations. It is compatible with MS Office.
!
• Writer is for creating documents, and is similar to MS Word
• Calc is for creating spreadsheets, and is similar to MS Excel
• Impress is for creating presentations, and is similar to MS PowerPoint
!
In addition there is Draw (for drawing), Base (to set up a database) and Math (for formulas).
!
Guides & Resources
• Apache OpenOffice User Guides

• Tutorials for Open Office
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83 - WhatsApp
!
UP 3 PLACES
!
WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages
without having to pay for SMS.
Website: www.whatsapp.com
Cost: Free
Available: Download apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 83 2013: 86 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
! You can input contacts from your address book – and see who is already using WhatsApp.
•
• You can have one to one chats.
• You can have group chats – send one message to all contacts in a group.
• You can see delivery and read notifications.
• You can send photos and videos – which can be saved automatically on your device (if desired).
• You can manage chat settings and wallpaper.
• You can set your current status.
Guides & Resources

!
• WhatsApp FAQ User Guide
• How to use WhatsApp Messenger, Tom’s Guide
• A Beginner’s Guide to WhatsApp, Huffington Post
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84 - Wikispaces
!
DOWN 4 PLACES
!
Wikispaces is a wiki hosting platform providing community wiki spaces, visual page editing, and
discussion areas - for collaborative working and learning.
!
Website: www.wikispaces.com
Cost: Free (for education) and premium versions
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 84 2013: 80 2012: 30 2011: 23
2010: 17= 2009: 29 2008: 19 2007: 25
!
Key features
!
• Available for Education (free) and non-Education (premium) purposes, e.g. businesses, non-
profits, individuals, etc
• For Education, Wikispaces Classroom lets you get your students involved in an easy-to-use
environment with the web tools they know and love, whilst Wikispaces Campus is for an
administrator looking to support an entire school, district or university.
• Wikispaces are completely secure.
• Full integration, with single sign-on is also possible.
• The Wikispace Dashboard is where you manage your wikis and other activities.
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!
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• When you set up a wiki, it’ll look like this
… but there is an easy to use visual editor to help you customise your own wiki
• You can also easily assign members to your wiki.
Guides & Resources

!
• Wikispaces Help
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85 - Instagram
!
!
Instagram lets you take a picture or video, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post
to Instagram — it's that easy. You can even share to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.
!
Website: www.instagram.com
Cost: Free
Available: Mobile apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 85 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• You can take photos and videos on your phone.
• You can customise them them with filters
• You cans share your photos and videos with friends and followers in a photo feed, or send posts
directly to your friends.
• You can follow what your friends post.
• Every time you open up Instagram, you'll see new photos and videos from your closest friends,
and creative people from around the world.
!!
!!
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! !
Guides & Resources
!
• The Beginner’s Guide to Instagram, Mashable, May 2012
• How to use Instagram, wikiHow
• 10 ways to use instagram in your classroom, Edudemic, September 2014
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86 - Pearltrees
!
UP 8 PLACES
!
Pearltrees is a place for your interests. It lets you, organize, explore and share everything you
like.
Website: www.pearltrees.com
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 86 2013: 94 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• Your Dashboard is where you organise Pearltrees.
• You can add anything you like: web pages,

files, photos or notes, from anywhere.
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• You can organize what
you add using
Pearltrees "dynamic
grid" interface.
!!
!!
!!
!!
!!
!!
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!!
!
• You can explore collections that relate to your interests and subscribe to updates.
• You can share your collections with others.
• You can access your accounts from the Web, iPhone, iPad and over 90% of current Android
devices.
!
Guides & Resources
!
Help is easily available from within your Pearltrees account (see screenshot below).
!
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87 - Easygenerator
!
!
Easygenerator is an all-in-one elearning authoring app to create courses in the cloud.
Website: www.easygenerator.com
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 87 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• Easygenerator is an easy-to-use course editor with powerful editing tools.
• You can use default templates or implement your own identity.
• You can include HTML5 or Flash interactive media, or add any media type.
• You can add quizzing using multiple choice, multiple select, drag and drop, fill in the blanks etc.
• You can also collaborate with your Subject Matter Experts and Design Team members online
!
Guides & Resources
!
• easygenerator Help site
• easygenerator Blog
Page 156
88 - Voki
!
DOWN 5 PLACES
!
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on
your blog, profile, and in email messages.
!
Website: www.voki.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 88 2013: 83 2012: 39 2011: 75=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
! You select a character and then customise it.
•
• You can give it a voice.
• You can add a background.
• You can change the colour of the player.
!
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• You can publish your voki.
• You can set the size.
• You can grab the permalink or code to embed it in your webpage.
!
• Voki Classroom is a classroom management system for Voki. It is designed to enhance the way
you manage your students’ Voki assignments. No student registration is required. Voki
Classroom is available on 15 day free trial basis.
!
!
Guides & Resources
• Learn about Voki
• Voki in the Classroom, YouTube
• Some ideas to help you use Voki with young learners, March 2013
• How to create classroom podcasts with Voki, Learn it in 5
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89 - Lectora
!
BACK on the 2014 list
!
Lectora is an e-learning authoring family. It provides users with a comprehensive authoring
environment for creating and delivering custom interactive multimedia content.
Website: www.lectora.com
Available: Download
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 89 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: 64= 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• Lectora Publisher lets you create interactive learning courses quickly and easily. It is loaded
with lots of features, effects and components.
!
• Lectora Online lets you develop
anywhere, anytime, and
collaborate with team members in
different locations. You can use a
Mac or PC to create, review and
c o l l a b o ra t e w i t h yo u r t e a m
anywhere. All you need is an
Internet connection.
!
• Lectora Inspire suite of tools
includes Camtasia (23), screen
recording software, Snagit (30)
screen capture and graphics
editing, Flypaper interactive
animation creator and ReviewLink
online collaboration tool.
!
• Snap! by Lectora and Snap!
Empower allow you to create
custom animations and interactive
training presentations.
!!
!
Guides & Resources
!
• Lectora User Guides
• Your everything for elearning place, YouTube video
• Toolkit: Lectora Inspire, Joe Ganci, Learning Solutions Magazine, April 2013
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90 - EDpuzzle
!
!
EDpuzzle lets you take any video off the web, edit it, add notes and questions for
students, and create virtual classrooms where you can monitor student work.
Website: www.edpuzzle.com
Available: Download
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 100 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• You need to sign up to start a new project.
• Then you need to find a video - search for videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, TED,
LearnZillion, etc OR upload your own videos - to perfect them for your class
!!
!!
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• You can crop a video and use only what you want.
• add your voice - insert notes or record over a video with your voice
• You can embed quizzes - add questions during the video.

• You can check the progress of your class.
• You can embed your video lesson in any website or LMS, e.g. Edmodo (41), Schoology (98),
Moodle (12) or Blackboard Learn (91).
!
Guides & Resources
!
• EDpuzzle Demo
• Fixing the Flipped Classroom, Ed TeCh Coaching, January 2014
!
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91 - Blackboard Learn
!
DOWN 3 PLACES
!
Blackboard Learn is a sophisticated, commercial virtual learning environment/learning
management system - part of an educational suite of tools that includes Blackboard Collaborate,
for schools, Further and Higher Education, as well as corporates and the private sector.
!
Website: www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Overview.aspx
Cost: Commercial
Available: Installed
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 91 2013: 88 2012: 95 2011: 89
2010: 68 2009: - 2008: 1 2007: 1
!
Key features
!
Release 9.1 of Blackboard is now available and includes the following features:
! My Blackboard - core information in one place
•
• Online assessment
• Rich content editor
• Enterprise surveys and course evaluations
• Active collaboration
!
Guides & resources
• Blackboard Learn Instructor Guide

• Getting oriented with Blackboard Learn, YouTube video
• Blackboard Learn for Students, YouTube video
• Blackboard Learn for Instructors
!
!
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92 - Firefox
UP 5 PLACES
!
Firefox is an award winning, open source browser, for which there are thousands of add-ons that
enhance its functionality. In the 1st Annual Survey of Learning Tools in 2007, it was ranked at
#1, but it has dropped down the list since that time, disappearing altogether in 2011.
Website: www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Available: Download for multi-platforms
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 92 2013: 97 2012: 65 2011: -
2010: 29 2009: 9= 2008: 2 2007: 1
!
Key features
!
• Firefox works the way you do. How you use the Web is unique. Firefox lets you change it to
match. Remove what you don’t use, keep what you do and put it just about anywhere you
want.
• You can customize Firefox with add-ons. There are 3 kinds: extensions, appearance and plug-
ins.
!
Guides & Resources
!
• Mozilla Support
• The User’s Guide to Firefox, MakeUseOf
• The Always Up-to-Date Power User’s Guide to Firefox, Lifehacker
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93 - Paper.li
!
UP 7 PLACES
!
Paper.li is is a content curation service. It enables people to publish a daily online newspapers
based on topics they like, extracted from their Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other streams.
Website: paper.li
Cost: Free
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 93 2013: 100 2012: 82 2011: 90=
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• You can automatically find, publish & promote engaging articles, photos and videos from
across the web.
• You can create your paper in 2 easy steps: Name your paper, add your sources, then create
your paper
!!
!
!
!
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• You can fine-tune your paper to get the most out of Paperli.
• You can promote your paper across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• You can monitor your stats.
Guides & Resources
• Paper.li Help
• Paper.li Tutorial, YouTube video
• Paper.li: best use practices, Library Currants, November 2011
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94 - TodaysMeet
!
DOWN 9 PLACES
!
TodaysMeet lets you set up a private backchannel. It gives you a room where you and your
audience can have a conversation together.
!
Website: www.todaysmeet.com
Cost: Free
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 94 2013: 85 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• It’s very easy to set up a room for a defined period of time.
• You can sign up to take control of your room(s) too, and you can decide whether participants
need to be signed-in users or not
!
!
• Once in your room participants add their names and then leave a short messages - maximum
140 characters - just like Twitter.
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.!
• The room tools give you some extra features for your room - as shown in the screenshot
below (note for in-training use this includes a projector view).
Guides & Resources

!
• Learn it in 5: TodaysMeet
• Three good ways to use TodaysMeet in your classroom, Free Technology for Teachers, 25 April
2013
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95 - LINE
!
!
LINE is a communications app that allows you to make free voice calls and send free messages
whenever and wherever you are, 24 hours a day!
!
Website: line.me
Available: Multi-platform: PC, Mac and mobile devices
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 95 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• Exchange free instant messages with friends whenever and wherever with one-on-one and
group chats.
• Real-time voice and video calls with friends are free with LINE.
• Over 10,000 stickers and emoticons to express a wider range of emotions
• Share photos, videos, voice messages, contacts and location information with your friends.
Guides & Resources

!
!
• Get started using the LINE app today
• How to use LINE
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96 - ProProfs Quiz Maker
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DOWN 5 PLACES
!
ProProfs is a free online quiz maker with powerful customizable features, which help instructors
and teachers to create online tests, quizzes and exams for employees or students.
Website: www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 96 2013: 91 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
Key features
• You can create a quiz: There are 6 types of quiz questions. You can also add videos images
and media
• You can share a quiz: on Facebook and Twitter, embed on your website, link to your quiz, print
quizzes
• You can analyse the results: Quiz stats and reports, download results, track participants, issue
certificates
!
Guides & Resources
!
• How to create a quiz in ProProfs Quiz Maker, YouTube video
• How to Create Your Own Quiz Using ProProfs Quiz Maker, WikiHow
• Review: ProProfs Quiz Maker, Review Of Web, 25 June 201
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97 - Moovly
!
!
With Moovly you can easily create animated videos and other multimedia content.
Website: www.moovly.com
Available: Online
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 97 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
Key features
• You can create new content from scratch, edit an existing animation or duplicate one and edit
the copy.
• You can choose a style for your Moov - or just get started.
!
!
!
!
!
• You can use the editor

to build your animation
along a timeline
• You can embed your
animation in your blog
or website.
!
Guides & Resources
!
• Getting started with
Moovly Vimeo video
• Moovly User Guide (PDF)
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98 - Schoology
!
!
Schoology is a learning management system and social network for K-12 schools and higher
education institutions focused on collaboration, that allows users to create, manage, and share
academic content.
Website: www.schoology.com
Cost: Free and enterprise versions
Available: Online and apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 98 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
Features
!
• Basic package (free for teachers) includes personalised homepage, course profiles, badges,
calendar,create assignments and events, test and quizzes, online grade book, track student
usage, social features like messaging, discussion forum and group workspaces
• Enterprise package includes web-hosted/cloud service, aggregated calendars, workload
planning, secure messaging, systemwide management, user management, single sign-on.
!
Guides & Resources
!
• A Beginner’s Guide to using Schoology
• Schoology Guide
Page 171
99 - Blendspace
!
!
Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content - and create lessons in
5 minutes. Blendspace was previously known as Edcanvas.
Website: www.blendspace.com
Available: Online and apps
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 99 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• The Dashboard is where you organise your lessons.
• Create your first

lesson, with the
New Lesson
button
!!
!!
!!
!!
!!
!
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• Search for video and other resources (from the links on the right hand side) and then drag
them into place
• When you are ready, you

can share your lesson in a
number of different ways.
!!
!
• You can also track who has
seen your lesson and what
they think of it.
!
Guides & Resources
! About Blendspace Handout
•
• Getting started with Blendspace, 1 minute YouTube video
• Teacher Resources
• Blendspace Blog
Page 173
100 - SoftChalk
!
!
SoftChalk is content authoring software for educators in schools, colleges and universities to
create interactive lessons.
Website: www.softchalk.com
Available: Download for Windows and Mac.
Online: SoftChalk Cloud
!
Rankings 2007-2014
2014: 100 2013: - 2012: - 2011: -
2010: - 2009: - 2008: - 2007: -
!
Key features
!
• SoftChalk Create editor looks like a word processor. You can enter text as well as insert a variety
of different types of items.
!!
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• You can also carry out a media search and add, e.g. a YouTube video, into your lesson.
• In the Editor it will look like the screenshot below. But when you save it, it will create a web-
based version.
!!
!!
!
Guides & Resources
!
• SoftChalk Create Guide (PDF)
• How to get started using SoftChalk
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