Educational Resources
A collection of online educational resources in a variety of disciplines tailored for students and teachers
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5 min readDec 7, 2018
Cyberbullying:
- Media Smarts: Media Smarts is a Canadian resource for general information, statistics and studies on digital and media literacy. It is an extremely useful resource on a variety of topics such as cyberbullying and diversity in the media.
- Project Someone: Project Someone is an online educational project created by students and staff at Concordia University in Montreal. The aim of the project is to facilitate discussions about online harassment, doxxing, and other negative social-media oriented activities.
- Affordable Colleges Online: Understanding Cyberbullying in College: Because cyberbullying and online harassment are activities typically associated with children, teenagers and other young adults, discussions about cyberbullying at college and university levels often get swept under the rug. This resource deconstructs and analyses what cyberbullying means, and how people of all ages (even post-secondary students) can be affected negatively by it.
- Canadian Department of Justice: Cyberbullying and Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images: This resource, run by the Canadian Department of Justice, serves as a resource for information on Cyberbullying in Canada, and even more specifically, the dangers of disseminating intimate photos on the internet. It addresses the illegality of sending sexually-natured photos as a minor, and how strangers on the internet could use these photos to blackmail, and threaten young people into dangerous circumstances.
- Cyberbully Zombies Attack!: Cyberbully Zombies Attack is an educational kid’s game on cyberbullying. The enemies in the game will try to steal your identity, disseminate pictures of you and send you mean instant messages, and the goal is to fend them off.
Video & Audio Production:
- Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is an online database of books, films, and articles free to use and share with credit. This website also includes podcasts and radio shows on millions on topics which benefit students in a variety of educational disciplines.
- FreeSound: FreeSound is a database of user-created audio content free to use and share for personal and educational projects. The front page also contains community forums and a post with the most popular sound or audio file of the day, attached to a rating.
- VideoMaker: Videomaker is an excellent online resource for aspiring filmmakers and students looking to create videos. The website is divided by courses on video production, articles, product reviews, buyers guides, forums and downloads. This facilitates the discovery of video production tools courses for people of all ages.
- PauseCam: Because the start/pause feature is not a feature built into iPhone and other smartphone cameras, PauseCam is an application that allows users to film and pause the video, automatically arranging the clips in sequence for quick and easy film creation.
- Anchor.fm: Anchor.fm is an application for professional podcast production. The phone application allows users to host and record discussions and dialogue on just about anything. It is very user-friendly, and the sound quality is automatically adjusted for clarity and podcast-style listening.
- Teacher’s Guide on the Use of Podcasting in Education: This is an excellent resource that specifically targets teachers, and how teachers can use podcasts to teach their students. It explores not only the value of podcasting as an educational tool, but also as a personal creative tool and the different websites and applications students can use to listen to and create their own podcasts.
Educational Games and Apps:
- Typeform: Typeform is a really cool web and phone application used to create visually stunning online quizzes. Typeform has a very clean interface which makes it very easy for both students and teachers to add photos, colors, illustrations and fonts which makes the learning experience memorable for all.
- Seterra: Seterra is a phone and web app tailored to geography enthusiasts, students, and teachers. There are hundreds of games, maps and quizzes containing questions on flags, countries, states, continents. It is a whole lot of fun to fill one’s time educationally. There is a satisfying reward system and a leaderboard which allows you to compete with your friends and other people around the world.
- QuizUp: QuizUp is the largest online trivia game in the world. QuizUp has thousands of topics, from politics, film and television, pop culture, current events, food, and many more. QuizUp instantly pairs you with another person anywhere on the planet and forces you to answer the questions in a certain timeframe. Players are given points based on the accuracy of their answers and answer time.
- Memorado: Memorado is a Canadian phone application that provides users with skills and strategies that improve their cognitive abilities and memory. Memorado uses science skills and math skills specifically for their games and quizzes. Memorado, unfortunately, requires a paid subscription after the 7-day free trial has expired, but on the bright side, it is ultimately cheaper than a Netflix subscription!
- Luminosity: Luminosity is a great alternative to Memorado. It is designed to help users improve their memory skills and strategies, however, the games are not limited to science or math. There are a variety of subject areas that users can explore to help develop and enhance their cognitive abilities.
- Drivetime.fm: Drivetime.fm is a radio show/quiz game that is released every morning at 6:00 am. Users have a whole day to play the quiz, which contains a variety of subject areas and topics. What separates Drivetime from other quiz games is that it is to be used while driving. Users listen to the hosts banter and ask questions, and respond appropriately by shouting out the answers. Drivetime provides great learning opportunities for bored commuters.
- OfficeLens: OfficeLens is a phone application designed by Microsoft as a part of the Office365 experience. OfficeLens automatically turns pictures into readable PDF files with an easy share feature. This is great for students to take pictures of their notes, or their teacher’s notes, without having to recopy them all down.
