More Tools & Emerging Tech
🚀 Explore forward-thinking teaching strategies if you dare.
Innovation in teaching technology is constantly evolving. This collection highlights new, experimental, and creative tools that can enhance instruction, promote engagement, and inspire fresh approaches to online and blended learning.
🤖 ChatGPT
Purpose: Conversational AI for idea generation, writing assistance, and teaching support.
Best for: Drafting prompts, generating lesson ideas, or explaining complex topics in plain language.
Pro Tip: Encourage students to use AI as a study partner—but always discuss academic integrity guidelines first.
🎥 Descript
Purpose: AI-powered audio and video editor that edits media like a text document.
Best for: Quickly producing professional-quality lecture recordings and tutorials.
Pro Tip: Use “Overdub” to fix small recording errors without re-recording entire sections.
🧠 Perplexity
Purpose: Research-oriented AI that provides cited, conversational answers from trusted sources.
Best for: Faculty and students exploring topics and evaluating reliable sources.
Pro Tip: Use Perplexity’s “Copilot” mode for guided research assistance or question refinement.
🎨 Canva for Education
Purpose: Design platform for creating visuals, slides, and infographics.
Best for: Faculty and students producing multimedia projects and visual learning aids.
Pro Tip: Try “Magic Design” to auto-generate layouts and templates for course visuals.
🧩 Leonardo AI
Purpose: AI image generator for visual storytelling, course graphics, and concept illustrations.
Best for: Creating unique visuals for presentations, online courses, or marketing materials.
Pro Tip: Generate multiple image styles and formats—perfect for course banners and thumbnails.
🧭 Creality Cloud
Purpose: Serves as a marketplace and community hub for digital 3D models (STLs)
Best for: Fun with 3D printing
Pro Tip: Designers can upload and sell/share their creations, and 3D printer owners can easily find, free or for purchase, models to print on their own machines.
🧭 FutureTools
Purpose: Curated directory of new and emerging edtech and AI tools.
Best for: Staying current on the latest tools for content creation, assessment, and innovation.
Pro Tip: Bookmark this one!