ICT Tools for teaching!
Content creation
- AhaSlides is a live audience engagement platform that can help to enrich lessons with live polls, word clouds, quizzes and more.
- Animoto is a tool which learners can use, among else, to create videos of what they have learnt in an educational activity or make short presentations.
- Canva is a graphic design platform that helps to create a variety of visual content. It offers templates and easy to use tools. It is possible to collaborate and download the final result in different formats. Recently 6,000+ items from Europeana have been integrated in Canva, they are available at https://www.canva.com/p/europeanaimages/. In addition, Canva has a free module for education to use with students, you can find it at https://www.canva.com/education/
- Cmap, as a concept mapping software, allows users to create graphic representations of concepts and ideas. It’s possible to use it online or download it on your device.
- Coggle is a collaborative mind-mapping tool that helps you make sense of complex things.
- EDpuzzle is a tool that allows educators and learners to create videos for any educational activity.
- EdWordle is a tool for creating a 'poster' (word cloud) out of words.
- Flipgrid can facilitate video discussions within a group. Through this, you can create a Grid - your classroom or community. Educators can add a Topic or two to spark the discussion and participants can share short video responses to ignite a dialogue.
- Genially is a tool for creating interactive content. Through this tool you can communicate, educate, and attract by bringing your content to life.
- GoConqr can be used to create your own personal learning environment with access to over 3 million crowd sourced resources.
- Google Jamboard is a digital whiteboard for real time collaboration. It can be used to share ideas or solve problems.
- Mentimeter is an interactive presentation software which can be used to get quick information from the participants and to highlight results.
- Pixton is a digital tool for creating avatars, making storyboards and comics.
- Prezi can be used to create an online slideshow.
- Scratch is a digital programming tool that lets students create engaging projects like games, animations, interactive art, stories.
- Sway is a digital storytelling app to create and share interactive reports, presentations and newsletters. It is also possible for the users to embed content.
Content curation
- Classroomscreen is an online tool that allows you to display the instructions for your educational activity in a clear and perceptible way. Over 13 widgets are available to support different activities.
- Linoit is an interactive board for sticky notes that can be used to brainstorm or create lists.
- MURAL is a digital real time collaboration tool, which allows visualizing your ideas. It also includes features that help you organize your work more efficiently e.g., timer, voting etc.
- Padlet can be used by learners and educators to post notes on a common page. These notes can contain links, videos, images and document files.
- Popplet can be used to capture and organise ideas (similar to mind maps).
- Postermywall enables users to create an interactive poster.
- SlideShare assists you in sharing what you know and love through presentations, infographics, documents and more.
- Wakelet can be used to save, organize and share content (link,video, notes..) from the web and create your own collections.
- Whiteboard is an interactive board with different templates for different topics, such as Mathematics and Music. It is possible to launch polls and create different boards for different users.
Evaluation
- Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.
- Quizizz allows you to conduct learner paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for learners of all ages.
- SurveyMonkey is an online survey software through which you create and send surveys and collect answers.
Source: EU
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