ENGL1010: Instructor Resource Guide

This interactive concept map creation tool allows you to diagram ideas, brainstorm, outline, and visualize relationships with your students -- in real time

Create up to three mind maps for free. If you love it, it's only $6 a month for unlimited maps...and it's really pretty cool.

Easy and intuitive way to manage research documents and references. Free to students with an academic email address.

Everything you need to learn RefWorks. Get your citations organized. It's easy.

The value of this site cannot be overestimated. From teacher's guides to social media and badges to twitter tips for students and articles about how to avoid burnout...and that's just the front page. This site is a teacher's goldmine. Dig in.

Engage your classroom in polls using the technology they already have - their cell phones and laptops. Take quizzes, guide discussions, demonstrate surveys. Free and low cost options available for higher ed.

The free level gives you the opportunity to create quizzes and questionnaires that your students cant take online from any device. You get their answers on your own device and can follow up on assessment immediately. Great for group work and homework.

Interested in flipping the classroom or pre-recording elements of lecture, but can't afford lecture-capture software? Here's an easy, free hack using Google Hangouts and YouTube. Makes you wonder why you didn't think of it.

Create surveys to poll your class -- teach them primary research and get data (about an assignment, maybe?) to analyze in real time. The basic level is free.

Create a web space for you and your students to exchange ideas and collaborate in real time.

Another internet-based classroom collaborative share tool that works in real time. Makes learning a game by making learners into players and encouraging focus and social learning.

Need music, visuals, or media but don't want to run afoul of the law? Creative Commons allows you to search content you can share, use, and remix.

Reward students for good work, creativity, and positive attitudes by offering badges to work toward. They'll be competing not for grades, but for sticker recognition.