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Text / PDF AnnotationPerusallCollaborative tool for social reading and commenting; asynchronous reading before class. Log-in with TMAIL! If your students previously purchased books outside of Perusall, and you’d like to move to Perusall now, we may be able to help. We have arranged with an increasing number of our publishers to offer free textbook rentals in Perusall for students in ongoing courses affected by COVID-19. Those currently participating include:Broadview Press
McFarland
McGraw-Hill Education
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
SAGE
Taylor and Francis (including Routledge and CRC Press)
Wiley		If you’d like to take advantage of this offer for your course, email us at support@perusall.com and let us know what book(s) you are using in your course and how many students you have. If permitted to by the publisher, we’ll provide you with an access code your students can use to bypass the paywall for your book(s) until at least May 25. (Let us know if your semester extends beyond that date.)
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PeerGradePeerGrade is a free online platform to facilliate peer feedback sessions with students
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HypothesisThe Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site.
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KamiKami enables teamwork and caching through collaborative annotation and discussion. You can retain the classroom learning environment online. The embedded audio and video comment tools, so teachers and students can discuss problems or deliver instructions or feedback in real time. The signature tool, so documents can be signed and returned if you don’t have a printer at home.Free license for your entire school domain to end April 30th, but we will extend this if necessary! You don't need a code for this license, as domain-wide means that anyone who signs up to Kami with an email on your domain "trinity.edu" will be automatically added to your license. Let me know if you need any others to be added, such as if the student emails are on a separate domain.If you need further assistance, or help onboarding new users - this is completely free! contact support@kamiapp.com. If you would like to book a PD session with us to help get you up and running there is a link to our Calendar here: https://calendly.com/aden/availability-for-pd
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Active Learning SoftwarePollEverywhereCollaborative feedback mechanism for active learning: real-time assessment of learning
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Kahoot!Kahoot! offers free distance learning tools during the coronavirus outbreak
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Frame.ioVideo commenting: heightens the social experience of online learning
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Synchronous meetingZoomVideo teleconferencing app for meetings/classes. Like Skype but easier!
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Google Hangouts/Meet AccessibilityGoogle Hangouts is a unified communications service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats, either one-on-one or in a group.
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HousepartyHouseparty is a social networking service that enables group video chatting through mobile and desktop apps. Users receive a notification when friends are online and available to group video chat. Available on IOS, Android, and Mac
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DiscordDiscord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text, whether you’re part of a school club, a nightly gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to hang out.
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RemindRemind is a private mobile messaging platform that aims to help teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to communicate with everyone at once. Professors can use this app to instantly message students without needing to share their personal phone numbers.
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GroupMeGroupMe is a mobile group messaging app owned by Microsoft. Many Trinity students are already familiar and use this app to communicate with classmates and groupmates on assignments, notes, class updates, etc. These messages can be sent through the GroupMe app or through SMS.
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YouTube LiveAn alternative to Zoom, YouTube Live allows for live streaming and is easy to set up and share with your class!
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TwitchAs an alternative to Zoom (in case it crashes due to too many users):Twitch is a video live streaming service that is typically used for video game streaming; however, has the capacity to maintain about a million concurrent users.
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Asynchronous CollaborationTrelloTrello lets you work more collaboratively and get more done.
Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.
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SlackSlack is an instant messaging platform that offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging.
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VoiceThreadA VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).Great for foreign language practice!
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FlipGridFlipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.Great for foreign language practice!
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Computer Video CaptureCamtasia All-in-one screen recorder and video editor. Record your screen, add video effects, transitions, and more.
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ScreenCast-o-MaticCreate screencast videos with our screen recorder. Free and easy to use. Capture your screen, add a webcam, and use narration to customize your video.
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Presentation softwareGood ol' PowerPointUse PowerPoint to record your animations and slides with the audio or use PowerPoint to record your screen.
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ShowMe iPad AppTurn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online.
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Adobe SparkAdobe Spark is an online and mobile design app. Easily create stunning social graphics, short videos, and web pages
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Adobe Creative CloudAdobe is making temporary at-home access to Creative Cloud available until May 31, 2020 for schools and colleges who currently have only lab access for students, at no additional cost. Download the Adobe Creative Cloud app and then use your full Trinity email to sign in. This will allow you to install Adobe apps on your personal computers. For more instructions on how to download and install Adobe Creative Cloud, click here.
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Online Grading SoftwareGradescopeGradescope streamlines the tedious parts of grading paper-based, digital, and code assignments while providing insights into how your students are doing.
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CrowdmarkCrowdmark is an online platform that helps instructors manage and grade assignments and tests quickly and efficiently. Paper assignments and tests can be scanned and input into Crowdmark, while online assignments can be submitted to Crowdmark directly by students.
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Miscellaneous ToolsWorldTimeBuddyWorldTimeBuddy can help students and faculty keep track of group members' timezones. This can be especially helpful if you want to group students in similar time zones together for group projects.
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SpeedtestSpeedtest allows you to know your device's digital speeds
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