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"If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. The scare resource is the human attention needed to make sense of the enormous flow of information, to learn, as it were, how to drink out of the firehose."  -Richard Lanham

The resources here are provided to help educators manage to digital world, rather than being overwhelmed by the flood of increasing distractions of the electronic world.


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Finding and Keeping Stuff

  • Flipboard (aggregate your reading)
    https://flipboard.com/ 
    • Follow # example
    • Save as Magazine
  • Pinterest (curate your findings)
    http://www.pinterest.com
    • Example - My Boards
  • Weebly (curate everything- including this)
    https://education.weebly.com/?session-expired=1&redirect=userHome.php#login
  • Flipgrid (curate student video responses)
     https://flipgrid.com 
    • Example: Monuments

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Useful Tools & Sites

  • Bitly (shorten awkwardly long links)
    https://bitly.com 
  • ​Reverse Image Search (find image origin)
    ​https://tineye.com/
  • Online-convert (change file types)
    https://www.online-convert.com/ 
  • Doodle (set meeting times)
    https://doodle.com/dashboard
  • Search Engine (that doesn't track you down)​https://duckduckgo.com/ 
  • ​Browser (that doesn't follow you everywhere)
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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"Freegal" Stuff You Can Use

  • Archive.org (the internet's attic)
    https://archive.org/
    • Music, Images, Video, Text
    • Search Macintosh Computer 
    • Wayback Machine - Time Travel the Web
  • Tons of Freegal images
    https://www.pinterest.com/randydnichols/images-for-multimodal-composition/
    • Bitly link: bit.ly/rhetoricsoupimages 
    • Pexels, Pixabay, Morguefile
  • Tips and Tricks for Photography
    https://www.pinterest.com/randydnichols/digital-literacies-photography-videography/​
    • Bitly Link: http://bit.ly/LC-phototips
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Free and Easy Graphics

  • Canva
    https://www.canva.com/ 
    • All these graphics (with freegal images!)
  • Spark
    https://spark.adobe.com/ 
    • Examples
  • Autodraw
    https://www.autodraw.com/  

Two Free* Teaching Tools you might want to try

  • Insert Learning (guide students through articles)
    https://insertlearning.com/
    • ​​Plain Article: without InsertLearning 
    • IL Article: with InsertLearning
  • Thinglink (make interactive images(
    https://www.thinglink.com
    • Free for teacher content delivered to students
    • $35 for 35 student creator seats

ThingLink Sample from Dr. Nick's "Narratives Across Media" class

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