Webinar from April12, 2016, by Barry Dahl and invited guests from the D2L Community. Twelve technologies that can be used by educators in conjunction with Brightspace.

1. Today’s Webinar
Technologies and Apps for Everyone
in the Brightspace Community
Barry Dahl and special guests
for the Brightspace Teaching and Learning Community

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6. Today’s Webinar
Technologies and Apps for Everyone
in the Brightspace Community
Barry Dahl and special guests
for the Brightspace Teaching and Learning Community

7. Tech Tools for Educators
Sarah Griffiths, D2L
Team Lead, Documentation,
Client Enablement
Amy Minneman
Midlands Technical College
LMS/Technology Educator
Mike Condon, D2L
Senior Technical
Account Manager

8. 1. Relax.li http://relax.li

9. Relax.li - 16 choices

10. 2. Text Yourself with ReminderGuru
https://reminderguru.com

11. 2. Free plan is five texts a month

12. 3. AirDroid www.airdroid.com

13. 3. AirDroid – access phone
apps on your PC

14. 3. AirDroid - music, photos, files,
etc.

15. 4. Zamzar for file format conversion
http://www.zamzar.com

16. Zamzar fun facts
• For free, you can convert
a maximum of 10 files in a
single session, and up to
50 files in any 24 hr period
•Receive an attached file
you can’t open? Chances
are that Zamzar can
convert it for you.
• Convert Word docs into
28 different file formats.
• Convert PDF files into
32 different formats.
• Convert PowerPoint
files into 22 other
choices

17. 5. Pixabay www.pixabay.com

18. 5. Pixabay search results

19. Sarah Griffiths – D2L
Team Lead, Documentation, Client Enablement

20. 6. Trello
• Make lists
• Add cards to lists
• Add labels, members, and due dates to cards
• With additional plugins, add points to cards and
therefore utilize capacity planning in your work

21. 6. Trello Interface

22. 6. Lists and Cards in Trello

23. 6. Using Trello for a Group

24. 6. Trello in Calendar View

25. 7. Habitica
• Gamification of tasks/project management/self-
management
• Add items to your To Do list
• Add items to your Habits
• Encourage others by battling monsters with your
friends (if they don’t level up at a similar rate….
Well…. )

26. 7. Habitica Interface

27. 7. To-Dos in Habitica

28. 7. Check enough to-dos off your
list, and…

29. 7. Get in the habit…

30. 7. Stay in the habit…

31. 8. Analyze my Writing
www.analyzemywriting.com

32. 8. AMW Features

33. 9. Titan Pad https://titanpad.com

34. 9. Collaborative real-time writing

35. Amy Minneman – Midlands Technical College

36. 10. Flipboard
1. Search
2. Preview
Article 3. ‘Flip’ - Add to
Magazine

37. 11. Explain Everything
1. Set-up your
whiteboard(s)
2. Record screen
and narration
3. Export
4. Upload to D2L

38. 12. Pexels videos.pexels.com

39. Mike Condon – D2L
Senior Technical Account Manager

40. 13. Office (PowerPoint) Mix
• https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home
• https://mix.office.com/en-us/Education
• https://mix.office.com/Gallery
• Why Mix?
• Screencast
• Capture Streaming Video
• Voiceover your own slides
• Kids love it ;)
• (Works with Office 2013 and later)

41. 13. Capture Streaming
• You’ll have to take my word for it, but … tweak your
audio feed, and viola!

42. 13. Screencasting
• ScreenCasting,
with VoiceOver
• Again – take my
word, but …

43. 13. Lots of other functionality
• Did I say VoiceOvers?
• Here’s some more:
• It’s “free” – if you have access to Office 2013 and
beyond.

44. 13. Quizzes? – did that last menu
say “Quizzes”?
• Add-ins…

45. 13. And…media compression
• Before 26,206 kb
• After:
• PQ: Same
• IQ: Save 11.5 MB
• LQ: couldn’t compress more

46. 14. Multcloud
www.multcloud.com

47. 14. Multcloud – access all cloud
storage in one place

48. 15. Last Pass lastpass.com

49. 15. My LastPass – 282 Passwords

50. 16. Cold Turkey blocked me from
shopping at Amazon

51. 16. Set a timer for Cold Turkey

52. 16. Choose websites to block

53. Q & A
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