Enriching your lessons through Technology
Top Free (or cheap) websites, applications or programmes
Quizzes and Tests
EdPuzzle https://edpuzzle.com/
Use:
- Questions and answer setting and collection for work involving a video
- Homework or lesson starters that require the use of a video
What is it?:
- Website that requires log-in. Edpuzzle allows you to combine YouTube videos (or other videos from the internet) with questions or commentary which teachers can overlay themselves.
- Will recognise your Google Classroom groupings to allow you to set work
- Multiple choice work will auto mark
- FREE
Kahoot! https://getkahoot.com/
Use:
- Fun quiz perfect for lesson starters or recap of information
- Can help the students to understand the learning objectives without categorically stating them
What is it?:
- Website that allows you to make (or borrow other) quizzes for your students.
- Quiz is shown on the main board and students play on their phones or laptop
- All students answer at the same time – in 20 or 30 second slots. Live leader board makes it very exciting
- Also has discussion application and new quiz that allows students to put things in the correct order
- FREE
Socrative https://www.socrative.com/
Use:
- Way of setting and collecting end of module tests
What is it?
- Website that allows you to set multiple choice or free-text questions that students answer on their computer.
- Also has an app – but does not seem suitable for full tests if students are doing it on their phone
- Multiple choice answers will self-mark.
- Will produce and individualised student report and class data at the end
- FREE – but with the option of a “pro” version
Building a blog and making images
Storyboardthat https://www.storyboardthat.com/
Use:
- Cartoons to explain stories or concepts for example the founding of Melacca or the Feudal System
What is it?
- Website that allows you to build your own cartoons with library of backgrounds and characters
- FREE trial version – but full version incurs a cost
Wordle http://www.wordle.net/
Use:
- Way of getting students used to key words
What is it?
- App or website that allows you to paste in text to create a cloud of word.
Snapseed Ipad App
Use:
- Editing images to make them more effective for your presentations
What is it?
- An ipad app that allows you to manipulate images
- Can use different image and filters
Word Photo Ipad App
Use:
- Way of getting students used to key words
What is it?
- An Ipad app that allows you to manipulate images and have areas of your image appear as words
- Can use different images and filters
Blogger https://www.blogger.com
Use:
- Running a blog as a central resource library`
- A way of motivating students and a chance to provide links to parents
What is it?
- Free platform provided by Google
- Very user friendly and works well with goggle docs – meaning work taken from Google Classroom can be easily shared
- You can set your own permissions for who posts – it could be just you or students as well