This year at MLA, the Educational Media and Technology Section hosted a special content session called My Favorite Tool. Eighteen participants had 3 minutes to describe their chosen tool and its features for a chance to win a prize!
MLA’s Favorite Tools (in order of presentation)
- Free
- Poll your audience with printed response cards for live feedback without the risk of mobile device distraction.
- Free (2 questions and 5 quizzes per presentation); additional pricing levels
- Engage your audience, team, or committee with icebreakers, voting, prioritizing, assessment, decision-making, session evaluation, and more, using this versatile audience response system.
- Free
- Import, clean, reformat, and reconcile your messy data, or link to and explore other open data sets.
Symplur Healthcare Hashtag Project
- Free; additional pricing levels
- Find and analyze trending hashtags for diseases, conferences, tweet chats, or other health topics on Twitter.
- Free
- Koha provides a web-based open source integrated library system (ILS) to make your library services hassle-free.
- Free
- Import or embed cool, interactive HTML5 tools such as questions, games, multimedia, or social media into your Wordpress, Drupal, Moodle, or other site.
- Free
- The interactive web blog links to interactive videos, animation, and other info for teaching, learning, and clinical practice.
- Cost
- Type, write, draw, or record audio on PDFs, DOCs, photos, slides, and more.
Bonus tools! (mentioned during the presentations)
- Free (one grid); additional pricing levels
- Create a grid (classroom or community of learners) and pose a topic. Students input a code and record a 15- or 90-second video response without having to create an account.
- Free
- Enter a piece of text or upload a document to see an instant visualization of the most common words and their relationship to each other.
- Free
- Pocket integrates with your browser (even on your phone) to save articles and websites for later with just the touch of a button.
