Web Tools for Teaching Online
Resources to enhance your online course
Learn how to create videos, a blog, online presentations, video conferences, and where to find tools to create engaging teaching materials.
Tech Tip Tuesday!
Tech Tip Tuesday (PCC Online Distance Education) - Lots of short videos of simple tips to help you with Canvas and other instructional technology
Create your own videos
- Create your own video and store it on YouTube - Tutorial on how to create a video, save it to your YouTube channel, caption it, and add it to your course.
Online Video
- Online Video Tools and Resources - 150 + online video tools and resources
Live Conferencing/Meeting over the web
View the features comparison chart for Zoom, CCC Confer, and Canvas Conferences.
Zoom
- Robust feature options, clean interface, easy to use
- Pro account is Free for CCC employees
- Great for large or small meetings
- Recordings can be saved locally and are not automatically hosted
- Instructions on how to sign up for a free Pro Zoom account (pdf)
- How to get a new account (use your @fhda.edu email address)
- How to upgrade to a Pro account for free
- Sign up at ConferZoom
- ConferZoom Guides
- Getting Started at Zoom
CCC Confer
- Offers the largest array of features
- Live captioning services can be requested
- Great for large or small groups
- Recordings can be shared via a link
- CCC Confer Website
- Getting Started at CCC Confer
Canvas Conferences (BigBlueButton)
- Integrates with Canvas so the user experience is streamlined
- Easy to use, but features are limited
- Best to convert files to PDF before uploading
- Great for student group work, since they can host their own sessions
- Ideal for live lectures
- Recordings are archived after 14 days
- Canvas Conferences Website
- Learn how to use Canvas Conferences
Share and discuss documents, images, and presentations, and more
VoiceThread
Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Comment on Voice Thread slides and share it with everyone or just one person.
Web tools for content development
- Free Images - Lists of image resources
- Richard Byrne's Blog - Lots of great articles and links to free technology
- 100 Hand-Picked Freebies for eLearning Designers -Great resources
- Directory of Learning & Performance Tools - Instructional tools, content development tools, social tools, and lots more...
- Web Tools - Photo editing, free audio, video, website builders, and more...
- A Typology of Web 2.0 Learning Technologies - Web 2.0 technologies available to educators logically delineated into a typological system (lots of great tools!!!)
Open Educational Resources
- Open Educational Resources - Lots of featured freebies:
- Textbooks
- Learning materials
- Tutorials
- Audio and video of lectures for faculty and students
Blog
- Wordpress - Create a blog using WordPress
- Blogger - Create a blog using Blogger (Google)
- Edublogs - Create a blog using Education Blogging Service (uses WordPress)
Presentations
- SlideShare - Upload and share presentations
- Haiku Deck - Online Presentation
Documents: File sharing and storage
- Google Drive: Docs, Sheets, Slides - Store in the cloud and share documents
- Dropbox - Store documents anywhere, cloud, computer..., share documents
Social Networks for teaching and collaboration
- Edmodo - Classroom social network
- Collaborize classroom
- Virtual Classroom with WizIQ
- Twiddla - Meeting Playground
Study Aids
Online Survey Tools
- SurveyGizmo - Cloud based service with full reporting of analytics, limited free account
- SurveyMonkey - Cloud based service with full reporting of analytics, limited free account
- Surveys Via Google Spreadsheets - Create a survey using a Google form