Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Edmodo is a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. It is commonly thought of as the Facebook of schools, as called by pupils and teachers alike.
LiveBinders are a free, virtual 3-ring binder. LiveBinders are a place to group, store, classify and share documents, links, PowerPoint presentations, images, videos, text, PDFS, etc. One nice feature of LiveBinders is you can view the external link (or file) within the LiveBinder page, so you’re not constantly loading new windows, media, or pages. They are a great way for students and teachers to gather together information and other resources for various educational purposes (Fisher, 2012).
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows.
educaplay is a free tool where you can easily create different kinds of educational interactives that you can link to or embed in your site. These include Riddles, Crosswords, Wordsearch Puzzles, Fill in the texts, Dialogues, Dictations, Jumbled Word, Jumbled Sentence, Matching, Quizzes, and Maps. For some of the them, including dictation, it provides the ability to record audio.
tildee allows you to easily create a simple step-by-step tutorial for just about anything. You can add text, maps, videos and photo. And you don’t even have to register for the service.
Swayable lets you create a simple survey that can include two photos (you can either upload them or grab them from the Web) and a question.
Magisto is a Animoto-like service that lets you upload several short videos and it then recognizes the most important parts and turns it into a one minute video.
PhotoCollect lets multiple people upload images to the same account — perfect for field trips.
Fakebook Teachers and students can use it to:
- chart the career of a historical character
- create a timeline of important events
- outline the main plot of a book, play or film and so on!
Little Bird Tales lets you easily make slideshows where you can add text and, more importantly for English Language Learners, provide an audio narration. You can virtually paint/draw artwork in addition to uploading images.
Thumbscribes lets you create private groups to collaboratively create a story. That private option makes it stand-out from many other similar sites.
Scoop.it lets you first identify a topic.Then, it continually finds items on the web related to that topic in a nice interface. Then, with one click, it lets you “scoop it” into your own personalized newspaper which you can then share.
Popplet allows you to make an online “bulletin-board” with virtual “post-its” (called “popplets).
Write Comics is a tool to create comic strips without requiring any registration.
Imgur is a photo-sharing site that you can use to upload photos or insert image url addresses. It can come in handy in the classroom because of it’s ease in creating albums where you can title individual photos and write captions — all without registering. Students can categorize photos and describe them.
Knovio allows you to upload a PowerPoint presentation, record a presentation with your microphone and webcam, and then it’s done!
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Edmodo is a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. It is commonly thought of as the Facebook of schools, as called by pupils and teachers alike.
LiveBinders are a free, virtual 3-ring binder. LiveBinders are a place to group, store, classify and share documents, links, PowerPoint presentations, images, videos, text, PDFS, etc. One nice feature of LiveBinders is you can view the external link (or file) within the LiveBinder page, so you’re not constantly loading new windows, media, or pages. They are a great way for students and teachers to gather together information and other resources for various educational purposes (Fisher, 2012).
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows.
educaplay is a free tool where you can easily create different kinds of educational interactives that you can link to or embed in your site. These include Riddles, Crosswords, Wordsearch Puzzles, Fill in the texts, Dialogues, Dictations, Jumbled Word, Jumbled Sentence, Matching, Quizzes, and Maps. For some of the them, including dictation, it provides the ability to record audio.
tildee allows you to easily create a simple step-by-step tutorial for just about anything. You can add text, maps, videos and photo. And you don’t even have to register for the service.
Swayable lets you create a simple survey that can include two photos (you can either upload them or grab them from the Web) and a question.
Magisto is a Animoto-like service that lets you upload several short videos and it then recognizes the most important parts and turns it into a one minute video.
PhotoCollect lets multiple people upload images to the same account — perfect for field trips.
Fakebook Teachers and students can use it to:
- chart the career of a historical character
- create a timeline of important events
- outline the main plot of a book, play or film and so on!
Little Bird Tales lets you easily make slideshows where you can add text and, more importantly for English Language Learners, provide an audio narration. You can virtually paint/draw artwork in addition to uploading images.
Thumbscribes lets you create private groups to collaboratively create a story. That private option makes it stand-out from many other similar sites.
Scoop.it lets you first identify a topic.Then, it continually finds items on the web related to that topic in a nice interface. Then, with one click, it lets you “scoop it” into your own personalized newspaper which you can then share.
Popplet allows you to make an online “bulletin-board” with virtual “post-its” (called “popplets).
Write Comics is a tool to create comic strips without requiring any registration.
Imgur is a photo-sharing site that you can use to upload photos or insert image url addresses. It can come in handy in the classroom because of it’s ease in creating albums where you can title individual photos and write captions — all without registering. Students can categorize photos and describe them.
Knovio allows you to upload a PowerPoint presentation, record a presentation with your microphone and webcam, and then it’s done!
