Cool Classroom Online Tools
and ideas for how they can be used
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a bulletin board; can be collaborative or teacher created
anonymous response platform- the largest word is the most frequent response- teacher could type the same word and respond several times with that word to make it be the largest to give students focus
1.use as a probe for previous knowledge
2.entrance or exit ticket short response
3.get a general idea of the mood for the day
A drag and drop presentation/video creator.
An online quiz game. Students log in with a unique code, create a game name (a new one each time if they like) on personal devices or laptop.
The teacher starts the quiz and projects from their computer for everyone to watch as the questions come up and are answered. Each time a question is answered, the score is added to the last and the students are informed of their standing compared to the class.
Competitive and fun for all.
More on how to use Kahoot!
1.Hundreds of ready-made quizzes for you to add to your account and edit if you need
2.Can set up as a survey
3.There is a discussion setting too
Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together.
Similar to Kahoot! but students take the quiz on their own and see their score compared to a key at the end.
Teacher can download results in Excel spreadsheet.
Questions can be randomized so students next to each other can’t just look on and answer the same as their neighbor.
This wonderful tool affords teachers many ways to engage students to collect the feedback we need from them to use to “monitor and adjust” for more student learning.
There are three main choices:
1.Quick quiz or Exit Ticket
this is a teacher created quiz to use before, during or after an activity- save and share, there is a shared database from teachers around the world
results populate teacher live results table which can be saved to use later
Socrative-more uses
2.Quick Question
Great for taking a poll. A teacher can type and push out a question to the class to get a feel for how they are grasping a concept or even just how they are feeling
Students can anonymously ask questions, then use the vote feature to decide which is the most pressing question they want answered
Socrative-more uses
3. Space Race
can be used with quizzes as students work in groups or individually to make the quiz visually competitive. A choice of different objects “compete” in a race that the teacher projects on the board for all to see.
it still populates a graded report to give details about student understanding
Quizzes can be created in an Excel template provided by Socrative and then uploaded.
Easel.ly and Piktochart
These two websites offer easy drag and drop platforms to create cool infographics. Free accounts are more than adequate for teachers and students to create presentations and posters to share.
Free diagramming software. Easy to use.
Teacher can create blank for students to fill in or students can create to process information that they have been gathering about a concept.
Teachers make free account and then take any video from Youtube and other sites, clip them to the sections they want students to watch, then add questions for students to ask along the way. Large choice of vids from other teachers. Searchable by content.
The student responses are collected along with data about how many times each student watched a section.
Teachers make free account and then take any video from Youtube and other sites, clip them to the sections they want students to watch, then add questions for students to ask along the way.
This tool offers more than EDpuzzle in the way of student interaction responses. When the student answers a multiple choice question, the teacher can set up some automatic feedback. One of the possibilities is to give the student a chance to respond with a reason for their answer to show higher order thinking skills.
Notice that this video was created by a teacher with Powtoon about eduCanon.
Pretty cool!
Easy free online video creator that you use to make professional looking videos to upload to the platform you prefer (you could then use it in Educanon or EDpuzzle for creating an embedded quiz!)
Students can create free account too and use to make presentations.
There are several uses for Youtube that you may not have known about.
2. Blur faces in your vids
3. Create interesting slideshows with annotations or captions.
4. Create a stream of videos about connected concepts for students to follow by including links in the first video. It could be a “choose your own adventure”
This online voice recorder will record student responses or teacher instructions or comments.
You then create a link to it or even embed it in your website.
Great way to hear students use language and vocabulary they are practicing.
Google add ons
Add ons are third party tools that help make your Google docs, spreadsheets and forms have more functionality.
To get add ons you open a new doc, spreadsheet or form and click on the add on menu to open the add on store.
Google add on: Flubaroo
This add on helps you grade quizzes you have given with Google forms.
After you add Flubaroo, you are prompted to give a value to each question.
You submit the correct answers in a form and choose it as the key.
After Flubaroo grades the submissions, it creates an adjacent sheet called “Grades”
The Grades sheet includes itemized responses, averages, points and percentage and number of times the student filled the form.
Google add on: Super Quiz
This add on can be used in Google forms and, like Flubaroo, helps with grading and sorting data from quizzes.
Automatically generates personalized teacher feedback in a Google doc sent to the students.
Create an educator account and ask students and parents to join your private classroom feed.
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Post a mystery picture to generate curiosity about the next day’s class.
Post pictures from class activities.
In instagram students can comment and post pics. More ideas: Instagram Presentation
On online platform in which students can create their own comic strips. Choose from a variety of characters, poses and props.
Teachers can make templates for students to fill out as well.
Save as a PNG file and download to Google Drive.
Upload a presentation, embed quizzes and polls along the way. Share a join code with students and they enter it on their device and follow along after entering their name. Data is collected on quiz results. Can be done in class or as homework. There is an option to have students draw something or even click on an external link.
Nearpod
Mix and match digital content into learning sequences that can be personalized and assigned to meet student needs.
Create a classroom and invite students with a code.
Make a playlist or choose one that is already created and modify it.
Add assessments and tasks along the way to evaluate student progress.
Can have the platform be in Spanish!
This website introduces students to actual data from experts in many fields. By crowdsourcing their data analysis, they can process much more information. Students can be part of real research. There are teacher created lesson plans that can be accessed here: Zooteach.org
Another platform like Power My Learning. Create a classroom and then add lessons within tiles that students can move through forward or backward. Videos, links to documents in Google, online articles, quizzes, interactive sites; all can be put into a lesson for students to learn at their own pace. Teachers collect formative data from quizzes.
TED-ed (technology, entertainment, design)is a wonderful resource that has a library of already created video lessons to choose from or you can take any YouTube video and create your own lesson. Watch the introduction on the next slide.
Free tech 4 Teachers:
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This is a way cool site where you can create real interactive online lessons for your class with gadgets. Students can add Versal app to Chrome and be automatically signed in.
Watch the intro video on their homepage.
Cool presentation website. Drag and drop your PDF, JPG, PNG or ppt 2007 files into this platform, then student can enable the camera and record themselves presenting. Then they can link to a Google form for students who watch their presentation to respond with feedback either to help or to show that they really paid attention to the information in the presentation.