Here you will find links to our favorite places for learning about and using educational technology sites and software.
Technology Learning and Help Sites
General
- Kirkwood Tech Scouts Blog
- Computer Basics Tutorials (free)
- More Computer Basics Tutorials (free)
- Learn Touch Typing Tutorial (free)
- Kirkwood Student Help Desk
- Kirkwood’s T4LT Podcast Technology for Learners and Teachers
- Kirkwood Library FAQ
- Kirkwood Library LibGuides (help pages)
Microsoft Office
- Office 2016, Tutorials on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (free)
- Office 2019 & 365 on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (free)
- Office Download for Kirkwood Students (free to Kirkwood students)
- Cloud Convert convert Pages to Docx file
Talon/D2L/Brightspace
- Kirkwood’s Talon Instructor Resources
- Kirkwood’s Talon Resource Guides & Tutorials, in Kirkwood’s Talon Instructor Training course
- Kirkwood Student Help Desk
Multimedia
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
- Meta Quest virtual reality gear
Closed Captioning
- Kirkwood’s Closed Captioning in Course Videos
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Technology Applications
General
- Tech Tool Reference Guide for Kirkwood employees is a an annotated list of many of the software applications being used by Kirkwood faculty and staff.
AI (artificial intelligence) agents and guidance
- The Best AI Tool for the Task (from Kirkwood’s own AISD Dept.)
- ChatGPT is a tool from OpenAI that creates documents or text based on prompts you provide
- A Short Overview of ChatGPT video aimed at teachers curious about the technology
- Google Bard is another AI tool similar to ChatGPT
- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts is simply a collection of prompts that act as examples for various types of uses of the AI software
Multimedia: creation & editing
- PressBooks is an ebook authoring platform with built-in H5P capabilities. Kirkwood faculty and staff can create their own PressBooks account to get started.
- Edpuzzle is a web based software to transform videos into lessons.
- ScreenPal is a simple and free screen capture software to record your computer screen and add narration. (Formerly Screencast-o-matic)
- Screencastify is another simple and free screen capture and narration application. Automatically saves videos to Google Drive and has a Chrome add-on.
Multimedia: content
- Kirkwood Library, distance learning site
- Kanopy Kirkwood Library subscription database of streaming videos
- Films on Demand Another Kirkwood Library subscription database of streaming videos
- YouTube Site for posting or streaming online user-created videos
- Vimeo Site for posting or streaming high quality user-created and professional videos
Video Creation & Lecture Capture
- Zoom: contact Kirkwood’s Media Services for more information, or to request an account
- Classroom equipment: Document camera/ELMO
- StreamLabs OBS Free software that allows live streaming or recording of video. Allows inclusion of multiple sources in your video (e.g. a camera on you, screen capture of your computers, a document camera, etc.)
- PowerPoint allows simple video creation based on an existing PowerPoint presentation. Timings, animations, pen/mouse, and narration all captured.
Classroom Management
- Miro is a diverse tool with Mind mapping, Kanban options, flow charts, and brainstorming. Educators receive a free “pro” version of the account allowing for access to templates and voting.
- SimpleMind Mind mapping tool. For Mac, Windows, iPad or Android
- Bubbl.us Mind mapping tool
- Coggle Mind mapping and creating diagrams
- Trello is a web based project management software. Has free and paid versions
- Calendly for scheduling meetings
- Remind Send quick simple text messages to any device. Text your students without needing to use your personal phone number.
- Socrative app for classroom engagement and on the spot assessment
Collaboration
- Google Drive suite of applications that can be shared among groups of people (free)
- Airparrot 2 program to wirelessly display your device onto another monitor or screen (Mac, Windows, or Chrome. Free trial)