This document provides information on various online tools that can be used for educational purposes, including the Snipping Tool for capturing screenshots, TinyURL for shortening long URLs, Prezi for interactive presentations, Pinterest for sharing images and videos, Audioboo for sharing audio content, Showme for recording audio over drawings on a tablet, Quipio for creating study materials by overlaying images and text, Socrative for student response games and exercises, Edmodo for online classroom discussions, Dropbox and Google Drive for file storage and sharing, YouTube for embedding and sharing videos, and Twitter for microblogging.

1. Developing & Managing
Resources
Nikki Gilbey
Learning Technology Manager

2. The Snipping Tool!
A complete life saver!
Use this to ‘grab’ any part of anything you can see
on your screen and save it as an image file.
Perfect for snipping exam questions from past
papers and adding to other resources!
http://windows.microsoft.com/enGB/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool

3. Tiny URL
TinyURL is a URL (uniform resource locator) shortening service, a
web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long
URLs.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=url&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.
microsoft:en-GB:IEAddress&ie=&oe=&surl=1&safe=active&gws_rd=cr&ei=7_bTUpS
MN82thQeKnICQDg
becomes
http://tinyurl.com/otfpy2k
http://tinyurl.com/

4. Prezi
Prezi is a useful alternative to Powerpoint that
gives flexibility and a more 3D experience
through the use of zooming and depth.
It has a feature to embed current PowerPoint
presentations to avoid recreating work.
www.prezi.com

5. Pinterest
A content sharing service that allows members
to "pin" images, videos and other objects to
their pinboard. Also includes standard social
networking features such as like, share,
comment.
http://www.pinterest.com

6. AudioBoo
Share audio content online and completely free
of charge with Audioboo. Post it on the site and
to other social networks, available online and via
an app.
www.audioboo.com

7. Showme
A fantastic app that allows you to use a tablet as
a whiteboard and record audio over the top of
your drawings/writing. Saved as a video, they
can then be uploaded to the VLE.
http://www.showme.com/Nikki-Gilbey
http://www.educreations.com/

8. Quipio
Coined as “Instagram for words” a great site to
create resources and revision materials. Overlay
images and text to link concepts and develop
connections between ideas.
www.quipio.com

9. Socrative
Socrative is a smart student response system that
engages students with a series of educational
exercises and games. The apps are super simple and
take seconds to login. Socrative runs on tablets,
smartphones, and laptops.
www.socrative.com

10. Edmodo
A secure and safe learning environment. On
Edmodo, teachers can continue classroom
discussions online, give polls to check for
student understanding, and award badges to
individual students based on performance or
behaviour.
www.edmodo.com

11. Dropbox
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your
photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share
them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
www.dropbox.com

12. Google Drive
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization
service provided by Google, which enables user
cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.
Google Docs, which is found within Google Drive is
a free, Web-based office suite and data storage
service offered by Google. It allows users to create
and edit documents online while collaborating in
real-time with other users.

13. YouTube
A video sharing website owned by Google.
Find videos, share, embed, upload, create
playlists.
www.youtube.com

14. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service
and microblogging service that enables its users
to send and read text-based messages of up to
140 characters, known as "tweets".
www.twitter.com