Tools for teaching in apocalyptic times - the learning remains to be evaluated!

This is a blog of esoteric teaching and learning tools that may be of useful when moving to fully online delivery during the #covid19 lockdown.

• The recommended tools are not for all disciplines.
• The initial focus will be on programming, data science and maths related areas with a bit of collaborative knowledge sharing, branching scenario/problem based learning and problem solving thrown in.
• Each blog post will cover a new tool.
• Comments/suggestions for each tool or additional tools are welcome.
• No mainstream tools will be included. Enough information is available on tools like Zoom and Skype. There is a broad assumption that a range of different tools are required to create engaging courseware - not just videos and quizzes.

This site is built with fastpages, an easy to use blogging platform with extra features for Jupyter Notebooks.

Posts

• Klipse - embed interactive code snippets in a web page

  A Tool for Embedding Interactive Code Snippets in Web Pages

  Sep 14, 2020

• GroupMap - A Tool for Brainstorming and Group Decision Making

  A Tool for Brainstorming and Group Decision Making

  Mar 28, 2020

• hypothes.is - Collaborative Annotation

  Add social annotation to an LMS or any web page

  Mar 22, 2020

• Fastpages - Rapid Courseware Authoring

  Using the Fastpages blogging platform to create courseware.

  Mar 20, 2020

• Twine - Interactive Fiction with a Twist for Scenario/Problem Based Learning

  Using the Twine interactive fiction authoring tool to create branching scenarios and problem based learning exercises.

  Mar 19, 2020

• Spreadsheet Convertor - Convert Excel to HTML

  Using the Spreadsheet Convertor to build models, calculators and simulations in Excel and then embed within a Web page.

  Mar 18, 2020

• CodeTour - A VS Code extension for code walkthroughs

  Annotate code and files to explain programming code instead of recording a video.

  Mar 17, 2020