App Name Link Type Description Ideas for Use Commentary *faculty can blog on topics Platform for student and of interest to class. Pretty basic blogging site with a faculty blogs; owned by *students can be asked to decent set of tools that is most Blogger blogger.com blogging Google so it plays well with blog on class topics (as useful for classes where other other Google products like individuals or in groups) and google tools are being used Google Docs and Google+. can comment on the blogs because it integrates well. of others.

*if you are using multiple platforms in class (like twitter and google plus) it Great app if you are using a Site that allows you to allows you to manage them number of tools in the classroom. social media manage multiple social media Hootsuite hootsuite.com all from one spot If you are only using twitter, you management accounts from Twitter to *allows you to set release should choose tweetdeck as this is Vimeo. dates and times for content more complicated. so that you can plan material ahead of time.

*can choose cases, exercises and simulations from a variety of sources (such as Harvard and Columbia) This is a great site for faculty who Run simulations and other *assign student roles, have use simulations and negotiations iDecision exercises online, such as them engage in the exercise, idecisiongames.com educational exercises as part of class. It runs everything Games group decision making tasks report their outcomes and through the site (from payment to and negotiations. get real-time results in results) and the students love it. graphical form. *option to create your own exercises/simulations if you wish. *can use existing games to complement course material and add an Easy to use and fun interface. Educational platform that interactive element to class. Combines gamification and allows you to create and play *can create your own games teamwork in one tool. If you think educational games; originally for class or have students Kahoot getkahoot.com education your students are too advance to created for K-12, it is being create their own and benefit from playing an existing adopted by many college challenge others in class to Kahoot game, you can have them faculty. play and rate the games. create their own. *now has a team mode to allow teams to create content. *can have students blog A beautiful blogging platform that Blogging app that allows regularly on course content, works really well for those fields students to publish rich create a few blogs that Medium medium.com blogging where visuals are as important as content with both text and connect concepts or work as writing. Easy for new users to visuals. a team to tackle a big learn. project. *can use it to create infographics that Students seem to enjoy learning it summarizes class concepts. Resource for creating and report using it in other classes. Piktochart piktochart.com infographic design *can have students make infographics online. Learning curve a little steeper than infographics to showcase with other tools. class material (works in groups or individually). *faculty can create collections for students to interact with and comment Platform that allows uses to on. Great app for courses that have lot Pinterest pinterest.com social media share content, particularly *can have students curate of visual content or where images and videos. collections of ideas related categorizing material is important to class concepts and share and have students give feedback to one another. *you can create polls with Easy to create polls and the all kinds of questions - open- feedback is immediate. Can use it Site that allows audience ended, multiple choice, Poll Everywhere polleverywhere.com polling for grading purposes if students response to questions. voting, etc. to gauge student are registered so can grade and understanding or to increase count participation. class engagement Students tend to like this tool and *can create content for will often use even without your Online study tools such as students or have them Quizlet quizlet.com education prompting. You can choose study flashcards and quizzes. create their own to review sets that match your content or material. create you own quizzes. *allows you to create a Fun and engaging app for students. number of activities to App that allows for audience Great if you are using some form engage students from Socrative socrative.com polling response - used as polls or as of gamification in your class as it simple polls to setting up competitions. has a built in competitive element fun competitions between ("space races"). students or teams. *can use it to create your own storyline, for example, organizing all of the tweets Site that allows Nice tool if you want to organize with a particular hashtag. faculty/students to create material in a topic area for *can have teams collaborate Storify storify.com social media/storytelling stories and timelines using students to access. Particularly to create stories. popular social media apps like easy to integrate with Twitter by *can use to have students Twitter and Instagram. using hashtags to categorize. explore and create content in particular topic areas in class. *can choose favorite TED talks and upload with Tool that allows you to Super easy tool that now allows questions for students to TedEd ed.ted.com education structure lessons around TED you to embed videos both from watch and think about (and Talks. TED talks and YouTube. even discuss) before or after class. *allows you to plan tweets Site that helps you manage in advance - can curate Easy to use and integrates Tweetdeck tweetdeck.twitter.com twitter management Twitter feeds. content and then set release seamlessly with twitter. dates/times. *faculty can tweet out to students - information, extra material, questions to consider before class. Twitter is really easy to use and *students can be required can be used in a creative variety of Social networking and to tweet about topics relate ways. Highly suggest that you social microblogging site that has Twitter twitter.com to course materials, connect create unique hashtags for your media/microblogging users tweet messages of 140 with others students, classes to make your tweets (and characters or less. summarize class each day. those of your students) easy to *D2L has a widget that find. allows you to embed your twitter feed - shows up on your homepage. One of the biggest advantages of Vimeo over YouTube is that it *can create videos of your won't disable content if you have own to engage students. copyrighted material (usually *can have students create background music in student Vimeo vimeo.com video sharing Video sharing platform. videos on class videos). Also allows you to concepts/topics and upload password protect material which for viewing and commenting means users don't have to have an by classmates. account to view a video, just the password. No ads. *can have students blog Blogging and website regularly on course content, Easy to use and more options than publishing platform that has a create a few blogs that blogger. Good if you just want WordPress wordpress.com blogging number of themes and connect concepts or work as something fast and simple for templates available. a team to tackle a big students (or self). project. *can create channel for class Students typically love videos and use existing videos or (both watching and creating) so faculty can create videos for adding this to your course will be YouTube youtube.com video sharing Video sharing platform. use in class (great for well-received. It is pretty easy to uploading your audio slides). use. Drawback in that you have to *can have students create have a user account to view a videos for class and upload. videos classified as "private".