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Thoughtgraph Ltd

Screenshots

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What they say

"Debatemapper is a free web-based tool for collaboratively modelling and evaluating debates in politics, public policy and other spheres.

It enables us to gain a full and fair perspective on every point of view in contentious debates, with all positions and arguments articulated concisely in a colour-coded map built on sound argumentation principles, in which every element is editable.

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Observations

This has now been absorbed into Debategraph

Their website

http://debatemapper.com/

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Collaborative mind mapping.

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Collaborative thinking (created in Finland)

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Collaborative platform with integrated, engaging, pedagogical activities

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Roam Research - A note taking tool for networked thought.

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The Web is about IDEAS+PEOPLE.

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.
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Control screen lighting by warming up the color of the light (free for personal use)

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Open source video transcorder software (rotate videos, compress, convert)

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Analysis of photos and paintings to quantify the object.

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This post was first published in 2017. It was updated October 27, 2018.
Students' classwork is becoming increasingly digital. Whether creating a slideshow, blog post, presentation, or document, images are always needed. Teachers also regularly need images for class blog posts, assignments, presentations, course work etc.

This guide walks you through the process of easily and ethically finding quality images for classroom use.

Want a free eBook to learn the basics of copyright, Creative Commons and finding free images? Just enter your email address here and I'll send it to you. It's an extension of the information in this post plus a number of printable posters you can use in your classroom.

Where Do Students And Teachers Find Images?

There are five main choices for teachers and students looking for images. Let's go over the choices (spoiler alert: number 5 is the easiest option!)...

1) Do they create their own images?

This is a safe option. Students and teachers can take their own photographs and/or create images with online tools like BeFunky, Canva, Piktochart, Adobe Spark etc.

The downsides are:

They might need an image of something they can't photograph or create

The image creation process can be time-consuming and take away from the actual point of the assignment

Some online tools are 13+

2) Do they purchase images?

We know purchasing stock photography isn't really an option for students and schools BUT it's still important to talk about.

We pay a hairdresser when we get a haircut, pay a baker for a loaf of bread, so why not pay a photographer for their work? Many businesses pay for stock photos when they need images for their documents, websites, and other work.

This is worth students and teachers being aware of.

3) Do they use Google Images?

From my experience, many students learn how to search and download Google Images early in their schooling. They might pick up this skill themselves or learn it from friends, teachers, or parents. Unfortunately, this is also often the default option teachers fall back on.

While this is a quick way to find the image you desire, it's generally not a good option to rely on Google Images.

Although you can do an advanced search to find Creative Commons images, most images in your standard Google search are protected by copyright.

Even if you cite the source of the image, you are not allowed to use images that are protected by copyright. This is called copyright infringement; it is illegal and unethical.

4) Do they use Creative Commons Images?

5+ years ago I was teaching my student bloggers (aged 7-10) how to source and attribute Creative Commons images for their blog posts and online work. I created a handout to guide students through this process.

This was a worthwhile task, yet it required a certain investment in time to develop the students' understandings.

There are a number of Creative Commons licenses to understand, not to mention the concepts of locating, saving, and attributing images. Again, going through this process repeatedly can take away from the actual learning intentions for your lesson.

Tip: Not sure what the difference between copyright and Creative Commons is?

Copyright means the person who took the photo (or created the work) does not allow anyone to use it. Everything that's published online is protected by copyright by default.

Creative Commons means the person who took the photo (or created the work) does allow people to use it IF they agree to certain terms, called licenses. Read more about Creative Commons Licenses.

Learn more about copyright and Creative Commons in simple terms in my free eBook.

5) A Solution: Copyright Free Images

Fortunately, over the past few years, there has been a rise in the availability of free images that are licensed under public domain or Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This is the easiest way to find images for your work.

Public domain works can be used freely for any purpose. Their licenses have expired, or they are released with no restriction on their usage.

CC0 is a Creative Commons license that allows copyright owners to release their works with no usage restrictions.

Some of these sites with CC0/public domain images can be very useful in the classroom, however, they're not all created equal.

Some copyright free image sites:

Include some inappropriate content

Have age restrictions

Have confusing advertising for other websites with paid stock images

All these obstacles can lead back to an ineffective workflow and present obstacles to digital fluency. Let's break down the best sites so you can decide what will suit you and your students.

Six Useful Options For Copyright Free Images

I have curated six useful sites where students and/or educators can search for free images to use without restriction.

Scroll down to see a table that compares the features of all six resources.

This popular website has a large range of excellent quality images, regularly donated by photographers worldwide.

Images can be used freely for any purpose without permission or attribution.

The user experience is excellent. The Unsplash website is easy to search and browse. The advertisements are minimal/unobtrusive.

There is the option of signing up to join the Unsplash community where you can organise image collections and even submit photos yourself. However, you don't have to register to download photos.

There is an app available for iOS and a Google Slides Add-on.

Users are required to be 13 +.

This is another excellent site. It is similar to Unsplash in that:

High quality images are donated by photographers

Sign up is optional

Images can be used freely without attribution

It's easy to search and navigate

Unlike Unsplash, Pixabay also includes free videos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Another benefit is the availability of a free app. iOS | Android

A minor interruption to the workflow is that a Captcha image needs to be typed in before downloading and image, unless you're a registered user.

When you're on the download page some suggested similar images show up from paid stock photo sites. Students would need to be made aware of this so they understand they are not free photos (this could be a worthwhile teaching point: how to distinguish between free resources and paid advertisements).

Pixabay does have a SafeSearch option which would certainly be a good option if used properly.

Another handy feature is the addition of a Microsoft Office plug-in to grab images for Word and PowerPoint without leaving your document.

Users are required to be 16+.

Images on Pexels are either sourced from other photo sharing websites, or uploaded by users.

Photos can be used freely without attribution. Additionally, there is a free video page, and an app.

This site also has the option to sign up but it's not a requirement.

Like Pixabay, there is some suggested content from paid stock photo sites.

This service is for users aged 13+.

Photos For Class is a good option for younger students. The terms of service state that children under 13 can use Photos for Class under the supervision of a parent, guardian, or teacher.

The other advantage of Photos For Class is the images are apparently filtered and age-appropriate. They come from Flickr and Pixabay.

Unlike the three above options, the images require attribution, however, this information is automatically included when you download an image. The attribution appears as a caption below the image. See the example below - the attribution information does appear blurry in a smaller sized image.

Another handy feature of Photos for Class is that you can embed a search bar on your class blog or school website like the one below.

Clip art and vectors can be useful for students' creations. Rather than just an attractive image, their work might require a map, sign, icon, or flag etc.

Openclipart provides hundreds of thousands of images that can be used freely without attribution.

I couldn't find information about age restrictions on the site, but an email confirmed that this site can be used by students under 13 (it doesn't seem to be totally filtered so I'd recommend supervision).

While Openclipart doesn't present the most modern interface, it's easy enough to search for images.

There is advertising for paid services on this site which would need to be pointed out to students.

Openclipart includes a tool where students can edit clipart. They might enjoy playing around with this feature as you don't need to be signed in to use it.

Images can be downloaded, or you can use the HTML code to embed the clipart like I've done here.

I added Pics4Learning to my list as a late 2018 addition.

I didn't add it originally because I found the images a little restrictive and amateurish, however, some teachers have mentioned they find it useful. It's probably an easy option if you teach students under 13.

Pics4Learning actually contains "copyright-friendly" images meaning the creator maintains the rights to the image but allows teachers and students to use them. The images can only be used for educational purposes and not commercially.

Comparisons

I have created the following table to easily compare the six tools mentioned so you can decide what best meets your needs and your students' needs.

Discussion Points

There are a number of issues that can be discussed in the classroom around the topic of Creative Commons and free images.

Should photographers and artists give away their work for free? Why are artists and musicians more likely to be asked to give away work for free than professionals in other industries?

Why do photographers give away their work to copyright free sites like Unsplash and Pixabay? What are the benefits for them?

Who is hurt by copyright infringement?

Some free sites have the option to either donate to the artist financially, or publicise their work through voluntarily giving credit or sharing to social media. Should we always attribute, even if it's not required?

To encourage a discussion on attribution and Creative Commons with younger students, check out this post and video by Linda Yollis and her third grade students. You might like to try the experiment they conducted yourself.

Safety Concerns

All of the sites I've reviewed, apart from Photos for Class and Pics4Learning, are not designed for children. Not surprisingly, some inappropriate content can be found on these sites when you search for it (especially Pixabay and Pexels it seems, although Pixabay does have a SafeSearch option).

While I don't think this is a reason to ban these sites for older students, it's certainly something to be aware of. Using these resources would just provide an avenue for discussing appropriate online behaviours in an authentic way.

Printables

To make life easier in your classrom, I have created some free printables which I can email to you. You'll be able to print them off as handouts, embed them on your blog, or display them as posters.

1. Task Card for Students Under 13

This document walks your younger students step-by-step through the process of finding and downloading an image on Photos for Class and Openclipart.

Remember, younger students could try Pics4Learning too but it's not the most comprehensive site.

2. Poster for Older Students and Teachers

This document references the five sites that are most useful for teachers and older students.

3. Summary of Options For Finding Images

This poster reminds students of the 5 main ways they can find images for their digital work.

Digital Fluencies

Most students and teachers regularly need images to enhance their digital work. I believe a clear and simple workflow is required for this process.

The skill of legally and efficiently obtaining images is something students need to be fluent in, otherwise, time and focus can be taken away from learning goals.

If students or teachers see the process as too arduous, they often default back to using a picture from Google Images. Not a good idea.

A little time invested in getting used to sourcing free images can really pay off!

Final Thoughts

To gain more of an understanding of Creative Commons and copyright beyond images, check out this post by Sue Waters and Ronnie Burt.

It's important to note that I still think it's a worthwhile skill to teach students about the full range of Creative Commons licenses and attribution, however, sometimes a shortcut is needed to save time and improve workflows. Public domain, royalty free, and Creative Commons Zero images are a better shortcut than using an image that's protected by copyright.
How do you or your students find images for your work? Do you know of any other useful websites? Please leave a comment and share any tips!

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Bookable Schedule: Set up a schedule of available times and share it with as many people as you like. Supports multiple-calendars, Zoom and Google Meet integration, dual time zones, and more.

Share Free/Busy: A lightweight way to share your availability without giving up your privacy, even across domains!

Suggest Times: Schedule one-off meetings in a single email - no more back and forth.

Make your meetings happen

With Boomerang, you can write an email now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time. Just write the messages as you normally would, then click the Send Later button. Use our handy calendar picker or our text box that understands language like "next Monday" to tell Boomerang when to send your message. We'll take it from there.

There are times you need to make sure you follow up within a specific time frame after sending a message. You can select to only be reminded if nobody replies, or regardless. This way you won't let messages slip through the cracks and will never forget to follow up with people.

Want a cleaner inbox, but don't want to lose track of important messages? Use Boomerang to take messages out of your inbox until you actually need them. Just click the Boomerang button when you have an email open, and choose when you need it again. Boomerang will archive your message. At the time you choose, we'll bring it back to your inbox, marked unread, starred or even at the top of your message list.

Have you ever been out at dinner and remembered that you need to do something when you get to the office tomorrow morning? Now you can write an email while you're on the go, and have it arrive exactly when you need to be reminded - like 8AM the next morning.

Respondable: write perfect emails

Add an assistant that uses artificial intelligence to help you write better, more actionable emails in real time.

Based on data from millions of messages, Respondable makes every email you send more effective:

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Inbox Pause stops new email from coming into your Inbox until you're ready for it. Studies show that checking email only a few times a day reduces stress and boosts productivity.

Remove interruptions so you can finish important projects

Block off times for deep focus work

Reclaim hours of lost productivity

NEW Set up a schedule to automatically turn off email after work hours, block off focus time, or only get email in a few batches a day

End the interruptions!

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Boomerang for Gmail: Scheduled sending and email reminders

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https://gmelius.com/

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Gmail artificial intelligence for scheduling meetings through natural written conversation -not free any longer.
https://x.ai/

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November 4, 2023 Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don't use it if you hate humor!

A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.

Grok is still a very early beta product - the best we could do with 2 months of training - so expect it to improve rapidly with each passing week with your help.

Thank you,
the xAI Team

Why we are building Grok

At xAI, we want to create AI tools that assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge.

By creating and improving Grok, we aim to:

Gather feedback and ensure we are building AI tools that maximally benefit all of humanity. We believe that it is important to design AI tools that are useful to people of all backgrounds and political views. We also want empower our users with our AI tools, subject to the law. Our goal with Grok is to explore and demonstrate this approach in public.

Empower research and innovation: We want Grok to serve as a powerful research assistant for anyone, helping them to quickly access relevant information, process data, and come up with new ideas.

Our ultimate goal is for our AI tools to assist in the pursuit of understanding.

The journey to Grok-1

The engine powering Grok is Grok-1, our frontier LLM, which we developed over the last four months. Grok-1 has gone through many iterations over this span of time.

After announcing xAI, we trained a prototype LLM (Grok-0) with 33 billion parameters. This early model approaches LLaMA 2 (70B) capabilities on standard LM benchmarks but uses only half of its training resources. In the last two months, we have made significant improvements in reasoning and coding capabilities leading up to Grok-1, a state-of-the-art language model that is significantly more powerful, achieving 63.2% on the HumanEval coding task and 73% on MMLU.

To understand the capability improvements we made with Grok-1, we have conducted a series of evaluations using a few standard machine learning benchmarks designed to measure math and reasoning abilities.

GSM8k: Middle school math word problems, (Cobbe et al. 2021), using the chain-of-thought prompt.

MMLU: Multidisciplinary multiple choice questions, (Hendrycks et al. 2021), provided 5-shot in-context examples.

HumanEval: Python code completion task, (Chen et al. 2021), zero-shot evaluated for pass@1.

MATH: Middle school and high school mathematics problems written in LaTeX, (Hendrycks et al. 2021), prompted with a fixed 4-shot prompt.

On these benchmarks, Grok-1 displayed strong results, surpassing all other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1. It is only surpassed by models that were trained with a significantly larger amount of training data and compute resources like GPT-4. This showcases the rapid progress we are making at xAI in training LLMs with exceptional efficiency.

Since these benchmarks can be found on the web and we can't rule out that our models were inadvertently trained on them, we hand-graded our model (and also Claude-2 and GPT-4) on the 2023 Hungarian national high school finals in mathematics, which was published at the end of May, after we collected our dataset. Grok passed the exam with a C (59%), while Claude-2 achieved the same grade (55%), and GPT-4 got a B with 68%. All models were evaluated at temperature 0.1 and the same prompt. It must be noted that we made no effort to tune for this evaluation. This experiment served as a "real-life" test on a dataset our model was never explicitly tuned for.

We provide a summary of the important technical details of Grok-1 in the model card.

Engineering at xAI

At the frontier of deep learning research, reliable infrastructure must be built with the same care as datasets and learning algorithms. To create Grok, we built a custom training and inference stack based on Kubernetes, Rust, and JAX.

LLM training runs like a freight train thundering ahead; if one car derails, the entire train is dragged off the tracks, making it difficult to set upright again. There are a myriad of ways GPUs fail: manufacturing defects, loose connections, incorrect configuration, degraded memory chips, the occasional random bit flip, and more. When training, we synchronize computations across tens of thousands of GPUs for months on end, and all these failure modes become frequent due to scale. To overcome these challenges, we employ a set of custom distributed systems that ensure that every type of failure is immediately identified and automatically handled. At xAI, we have made maximizing useful compute per watt the key focus of our efforts. Over the past few months, our infrastructure has enabled us to minimize downtime and maintain a high Model Flop Utilization (MFU) even in the presence of unreliable hardware.

Rust has proven to be an ideal choice for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable infrastructure. It offers high performance, a rich ecosystem, and prevents the majority of bugs one would typically find in a distributed system. Given our small team size, infrastructure reliability is crucial, otherwise, maintenance starves innovation. Rust provides us with confidence that any code modification or refactor is likely to produce working programs that will run for months with minimal supervision.

We are now preparing for our next jump in model capabilities, which will require reliably coordinating training runs on tens of thousands of accelerators, running internet-scale data pipelines, and building new kinds of capabilities and tools into Grok. If that sounds exciting to you, apply to join the team here.

Research at xAI

We give Grok access to search tools and real-time information, but as with all the LLMs trained on next-token prediction, our model can still generate false or contradictory information. We believe that achieving reliable reasoning is the most important research direction to address the limitations of current systems. Here, we would like to highlight a few promising research directions we are most excited about at xAI:

Scalable oversight with tool assistance. Human feedback is essential. However, providing consistent and accurate feedback can be challenging, especially when dealing with lengthy code or complex reasoning steps. AI can assist with scalable oversight by looking up references from different sources, verifying intermediate steps with external tools, and seeking human feedback when necessary. We aim to make the most effective use of our AI tutors' time with the help of our models.

Integrating with formal verification for safety, reliability, and grounding. To create AI systems that can reason deeply about the real world, we plan to develop reasoning skills in less ambiguous and more verifiable situations. This allows us to evaluate our systems without human feedback or interaction with the real world. One major immediate goal of this approach is to give formal guarantees for code correctness, especially regarding formally verifiable aspects of AI safety.

Long-context understanding and retrieval. Training models for efficiently discovering useful knowledge in a particular context are at the heart of producing truly intelligent systems. We are working on methods that can discover and retrieve information whenever it is needed.

Adversarial robustness. Adversarial examples demonstrate that optimizers can easily exploit vulnerabilities in AI systems, both during training and serving time, causing them to make egregious mistakes. These vulnerabilities are long-standing weaknesses of deep learning models. We are particularly interested in improving the robustness of LLMs, reward models, and monitoring systems.

Multimodal capabilities. Currently, Grok doesn't have other senses, such as vision and audio. To better assist users, we will equip Grok with these different senses that can enable broader applications, including real-time interactions and assistance.

We believe that AI holds immense potential for contributing significant scientific and economic value to society, so we will work towards developing reliable safeguards against catastrophic forms of malicious use. We believe in doing our utmost to ensure that AI remains a force for good.

If you share our optimism and want to contribute to our mission, apply to join the team here.

Early Access to Grok

We are offering a limited number of users in the United States to try out our Grok prototype and provide valuable feedback that will help us improve its capabilities before a wider release. You can join the Grok waitlist here. This release just represents the first step for xAI. Looking ahead, we have an exciting roadmap and will be rolling out new capabilities and features in the coming months.

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A research assistant that helps you ask the right questions, find information online and make sense of the world.

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Gmail add-on for scheduling one-to-one meetings w clickable time buttons
https://www.assistant.to/

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Book Meetings with One Email - Assistant.to

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Put your UberConference link in the Assistant.to "Location" field. Once the recipient selects a time, you will both receive an invite with a unique UberConference link.

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Invented at UMN, post a question and ask students to respond on video with a time limit. https://info.flipgrid.com/

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Press Play, David Carr's online syllabus/course/blog

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Press Play, David Carr's online syllabus/course/blog

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https://medium.com/press-play/press-play-4b26bed77b7d

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https://www.frankchimero.com/writing/what-screens-want/

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https://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcKW7CT (Bloom's Taxonomy for ed tech)
Substitution
Augmentation
Modification
Redefinition

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Twitter for teams to work collaboratively on projects, or to join a community like Purdue's Digital Humanities Slack team. https://slack.com/

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Reclaim Hosting - service where students and educators control their own domains (web sites)

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Reclaim Hosting - service where students and educators control their own domains (web sites)

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https://reclaimhosting.com/

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"Our CB Select agents are experts on the properties and communities they represent. With SpeakingPhoto they now share their knowledge in an easy, personalized, and engaging way." Jenny Lopiccolo, Director of Agent Development

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Upload an image and an audio file to get artwork video to upload to YouTube, Instagram, or embed in a website.

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Maps Excel location data
https://batchgeo.com/features/map-excel-data/

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Use to help communities make decisions on complex issues.
http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=61932&vt=rgraph&dc=focus

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http://amara.org/en/

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simple interface to create a timeline and tell a story http://www.timetoast.com/

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Accessible and 3D versions https://www.tiki-toki.com/

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annotate YouTube videos in private forum - intersperse questions to make videos more interactive. Adds text forum functionality to videos. https://ant.umn.edu/

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Free audio recorder and editor https://facultycentral.wordpress.com/campus-aecs/workshop-materials/audacity/

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Tutorials, Examples, Long list of tools #rabbithole

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dhresourcesforprojectbuilding [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Digital Humanities Tools

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Contents: Animation & Storyboarding | Audio Tools | Authoring/Annotation | Code Versioning | Command Line Tools | Content Management Systems | Crowdsourcing | Exhibition/Collection | Internet Research (tools for studying the Internet) | Mapping | Network/Social Network Analysis | Programming Languages Tools | Simulation | Text Analysis | Text Encoding | Text Collation | Text Preparation | Topic Modeling | Video Tools | Video & Film Analysis | Visualization | Deformance Tools Also see Tutorials for DH Tools and Methods

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Wiki #rabbithole

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Trove (DH tools for Australian historic newspaper)

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Trove (DH tools for Australian historic newspaper)

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Map people networks

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Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

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Created by Stanford - map data to show relationships

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Copy and paste out of your spreadsheets, drag-and-drop to upload tabular data (e.g. .csv, .tab, .tsv), or link to a file in a public Dropbox folder to create a new Palladio project. In the Map view, you can see any coordinates data as points on a map.

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Annotate screenshots (ex., add arrows/instructions

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Text Analysis

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Google app for making structural diagrams

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Lucidchart provides the easiest and most powerful flowchart software in the world. Create professional diagrams and flowcharts to help you communicate visually.

Because Lucidchart runs in your browser, it doesn't matter which kind of computer you use. It works for Mac, PC, and Linux!
Try it now

Start with templates

Need some inspiration? Browse our professional flowchart templates to find the layout that's right for you. Then add shapes and text to customize your flowchart to your liking. When you're finished, you can even save that flowchart as a template for your whole team to use!

More Features

Real-time collaboration

Lucidchart's feature set goes beyond just working on a Mac. You can work in real-time with anyone, regardless of their operating system. Plus, we make it easy to share your flowchart as a webpage, image, or PDF.

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Cross-platform compatibility

On the go? Easily transition between devices to create or modify any flowchart. Because Lucidchart is browser-based, you and your team members can switch seamlessly between PC, iMac, MacBook, and even iPad platforms.

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Feature Highlights

Build all kinds of different flowcharts with Lucidchart's powerful features.

Easy to start

Because Lucidchart's free flowchart software runs in the cloud, there's no download or installation required, so you can use it from any device. With its simple user interface and drag-and-drop functionality, Lucidchart minimizes the learning curve.

Visio compatible

Import Visio files (.vdx, .vsd, or .vsdx) with the click of a button. Once they're uploaded, you can view them and make your own edits with our easy-to-use tools. If your colleagues still use Visio, you can even export your original Lucidchart diagrams as Visio files!

Fully integrated

Our diagramming software integrates with other productivity tools, including G Suite, Confluence, and Jira Software, so you can work more efficiently than ever. You can also pull content for your diagrams from sources like YouTube, Dropbox, and Facebook.

Publish and share

When it's finished, publish your flowchart as a PDF or image and easily include it in a report, presentation, or web page. You can even embed diagrams into a webpage. Or post it directly to your favorite social media platform for some extra attention.

Try it now

More Examples

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collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources

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Just need to create a quick bibliography?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
Download
Available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS

Just need to create a quick bibliography? Try ZoteroBib.

Collect with a click.

Zotero automatically senses research as you browse the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

Organize your way.

Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work.

Cite in style.

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 10,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

Stay in sync.

Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your files, notes, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.

Collaborate freely.

Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.

Rest easy.

Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.

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A free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections.

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VIEWSHARE.ORG - A User's Guide to Men's Health

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Viewshare Is a Website of Men for Fitness, Nutrition, Sexual Health, Bodybuilding, WorkOut, Diet, Weight Loss and More. Read Full Reviews..

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Free ebook digital publishing

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Created embedded sound player for web site

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Historyapolis Project

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Compare images (ex., then/now)

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Create a visually and editorially engaging full-screen scrolling experience for your audience blending narrative text, maps, 3D scenes, images, videos, etc. Sections containing text and in-line media can be interspersed with "immersive" sections that fill the screen, including map animations and transition effects.

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Map series of events

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https://gradecam.com/

Grade paper quizzes - 10 MC questions (free)

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Checklists, project management process tracking

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Capture, organize, and tackle your to-dos from anywhere | Trello

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Online annotation

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Draw

Add points or draw shapes anywhere.

Find places and save them to your map.

Instantly make maps from spreadsheets.

Show your style with icons and colors.
Add photos and videos to any place.

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Discover the world with Google Maps. Experience Street View, 3D Mapping, turn-by-turn directions, indoor maps and more across your devices.

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Alternative to Google Maps

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Introducing CARTO on Google Platform: An Alternative to Google Maps Engine

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Free digital museum/collection

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Create geo-location tagged story tours using images, video, audio, from historical or other perspectives. #DH

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Online Bookmarks - access your favs from anywhere and never lose them again

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Save your bookmarks and favorite websites online with Symbaloo! The best way to store, manage, and organize your bookmarks on the web. Create a free account to share your favorites with friends, colleagues or students. With over 10 million users, Symbaloo is a trusted edtech tool of teachers and educators worldwide!

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Multi-media forums, lecture capture (needs CC work)

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Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, team chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.

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Record your screen (10 mins. or less)

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*Uses Flash**Avoid unless they change their code as Flash will not work in Chrome starting Dec. 2020** Use for feedback, add your voice to your course site, ask students to record themselves speaking