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10 Tools for Technology Integration - SCC Workshop 2016

Learn what free, freemium, and premium tech tools may work for your library!

Practical Uses

Why would you want to use  ?

  • To easily share files and links to webpages in a visually appealing way
  • Go digital and avoid paper
  • Remotely collaborate with other librarians or students
  • Find similar collections with new digital content you haven't discovered yet!

What are some practical applications?

  • Teach about evaluating web sources (see example)
  • Collect and easily share information about a topic to a large audience
  • Have students work together in groups and aggregate files, notes, and websites
  • Create visual collections - like a new books collection

Hoax Websites (Pearltrees)

Alternative Tools

FREE online content curation tool (marketed for educators). Create "boards" by "clipping" files, images, websites, videos, embedded content (PreziShowMeGlogster, etc.). Multiple users can clip to one board.
FREEMIUM content curation tool. Create a topic page, then collect, annotate, and share digital content.
FREE cloud-based writing tool. Create storyboards by adding notecards and images. Compatible with tablets and smartphones. Multiple contributers can edit one storyboard.
FREEMIUM (see page in this LibGuide)