Great tools for working with PDFs: Skim and Foxit
If you didn’t know, PDF files (or Portable Document Format) is a great format for sharing your documents electronically. It’s different than sending a...
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September 11, 2023
Edit Video with your SMEs using Text Transcription in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into...
March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 17, 2023
Clean Up your Browser when Screen Sharing
This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether...
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Jing Project- Free Screencasts for Mac or PC
Jing is a cool little screencast app that allows you to make instructional videos. You can capture your actions on video and record your...
SiteAdvisor: Lets you know when you’re on a shady, sheisty website so you can stay safe!
This is a Firefox plugin that sits in your browser and turns red when you stumble upon a suspicious site. It also alerts you...
Musicovery: Music Discovery based on your mood!
Musicovery asks you for the mood you’re in, then picks out a playlist you might like. You can set the genre and time period...
ChunkIt: Search Behind the Links!
ChunkIt is a crazy Firefox plug-in that “chunks” your web search results– basically, it follows all the links in your Google search results for...
Widgetbox: Embed any blog feed into your own page!
This site lets you add the content from your favorite web feed to your website, myspace, facebook, or blog. Free your content! Put it...
StumbleUpon: Like Channel Surfing for the Web!
StumbleUpon is a toolbar that allows you to rate websites and save them for later. You can also easily send them to friends. But...
Zotero.org – A researcher’s best friend!
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do...
From two of a kind to a full house: Google Sets suggests search terms!
Google sets is an experimental search tool from Google that allows you to type in two or more words that you think belong together...
Google Toolbar for Firefox
Google Toolbar for Firefox: “Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web The Google toolbar is a great tool for quickly...
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