Faculty Resources

Videos

• Camtasia Relay
  
• Vimeo: http://vimeo.com Create channels for class based videos
• YouTube: http://youtube.com A video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos.
• Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org  Provides a free online collection of more than 2,600 micro lectures via video tutorials teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics and computer science.
• Extranormal: http://xtranormal.com. “If you can type, you can make movies” This online movie maker encourages creative expression and visual demonstration of content mastery

Collaboration & Documents

• Crocodoc: http://crocodoc.com Share and mark up documents online
• Creately: http://creately.com/ Online diagramming, collaboration and workflow tool.
• Google Docs: Document collaboration, storage and creation.
• Wikispaces:http://wikispaces.com Free to educators and students, wikispaces is perhaps the most efficient way to add wikis to your course.
• Google Forms: http://mail.humboldt.edu Create and embed simple to use forms for data collection. Forms can be embedded directly in Moodle or emailed to your students.

Synchronous Communication

• Sync in: http://sync.in Real time Document Conferencing. This tool has a time slider that allows you to go back in time to view the document creation process. This is a tremendously useful tool.
• Elluminate: http://learn.humboldt.edu Officially supported web conferencing software of Humboldt State University. Elluminate sessions can be scheduled right in Moodle.
• Scriblink: http://www.scriblink.com  A free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time.
• Today’s Meet: http://todaysmeet.com . This tool allows you to instantly create an online chatroom to help facilitate “back channel” conversations.

Images

• Blabberize: http://blabberize.com This simple little tool adds an interesting twist on image/audio communication. Create talking images quickly and easily.
• Prezi: http://prezi.com For bridging linear and non-linear information, and as a tool for both for free-form brainstorming and structured presentation
• ToonDoo: http://toondoo.com World’s fastest way to create cartoons!

Webpages/Blogs

• Google Sites: http://mail.humboldt.edu Looking for a way to create a class website? Google sites is your answer.
• Blogger: http://mail.humboldt.edu Blogger is and convenient way for you to add blogging to your course. Students can create and maintain their academic identity from anywhere.
• Google Groups: http://mail.humboldt.edu Need an alternative to Moodle’s discussion forums. Google groups arrives right in your email and can be shared with just the members of your class.

Social Bookmarking

• Diigo: http://diigo.com The best social bookmarking tool on the web.
• Delicious: http://delicious.com With Delicious you save, stack and share the web. Instantly save your favorite links, collect your discoveries in stacks, share what you find, and dig deeper into your favorite topics.

Multimedia

• Voice Thread: http://voicethread.com. Voice thread allows for the creation of social slideshows. Mash up documents, videos, images and audio.
• Jing: http://jingproject.com In need an amazing and free screenshot/screencast tool. Jing is your best bet

Misc

• Dipity: http://dipity.com find, create and embed interactive timelines
• Go2Web20: http://www.go2web20.net Great index of web 2.0 tools