Educational Technologies for PBLs

Formative Assessments:

• Padlet - live and sharable message wall
• Poll Everywhere - take reliable polls; gather data
• Blogger - easy to use blog
• Kidblog - a blog platform for younger learners
• Tumblr - another easy to use blog
• Google Forms - collect and map data
• Pinterest - collaboratively build knowledge/learning walls
• Popplet - sharable mind map
• Instagram - pictures of learning as it happens
• Google Classroom - an online place for your classes
• Paper.li - create your own digital newspapers

Products (which can also be considered assessments)

• Google Sites - easy website builder
• Wordpress - a slightly more advanced website builder
• YouTube - upload and share video
• Prezi - collaboratively build and share interactive presentations
• Screencasts

• Movenote - works great on Chrome Books
• Screencast-O-Matic - free and reliable. Great for desktops/laptops
• Screencastify - a great Chrome App

• Google Earth - create Earth tours
• Google Cultural Institute - create unique galleries
• Easel.ly - easy to use infographic generator
• Scratch - easy coding for animations
• iMovie - create trailers or more advanced film
• Adobe Spark - captivating visual stories, videos, and images.
• Sway - interactive presentations
• Slides - Collaboratively build presentations

Other potential assessment opportunities

• Twitter - the latest news. Use hashtags for real-world connecting
• Symbaloo - curate your sources
• Diigo - collect and annotate articles
• Hypothes.is - collaboratively annotate online articles
• Videonot.es - annotate and share notes on video
• Subtext - a collaborative reading app
• Google News - curate your news
• iSense - collaborative collect data
• Google+ - communities in Google’s network
• Edmodo - teachers join other teacher communities