ISTE Standard 1: Empowered Learner
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. |
ISTE Standard 6: Creative Communicator
Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. |
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Communication, Collaboration & Creativity
Voice & choice tools; students take ownership over their own learning and express their own original ideas freely.
Voice & choice tools; students take ownership over their own learning and express their own original ideas freely.
Google's free collaboration space to brainstorm and share ideas. Add text, images, draw and more. Go to jamboard.google.com. Ideas for K5 classroom here.
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Post a prompt, participants video record a response & respond to others.
Educator's Guide, Educator's Blog, Follow #flipgridfever &Ideas for the Classroom |
Students can create & collaborate using multiple medias; text, images, audio, videos, drawings & more! Tap here for more info & tutorials.
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Create images, videos & scrolling web stories. Create a classroom; students join via class code. View projects in real-time. Set up Classroom here. Watch tutorial here.
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Book Creator
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Biteable
Create quick, fun animated videos; add text, images, video, music and more! Tutorials, templates & how-to videos.
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Buncee
Create slideshows with text, images, animations, stickers, drawings, youtube videos and more! Learn more here. Watch how-to videos here.
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Powtoon
Create animated videos w/text & animated images & objects that fly in/out. Get
Powtoon tutorials here. |
Pear Deck
Make gSlides interactive! Add open ended or multiple choice questions & more.
Get started here. Training webinars here. |
Canva
Create awesome flyers newsletters, brochures and more. Premium account for teachers > Apply here. Get tutorials here.
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Thinglink
Create very "unique" presentations w/interactive images, videos & 360° media
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Design "out of the box" presentations, websites, ecards, blogs & more. Watch a 10 min tutorial here.
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Seesaw
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Create a digital environment where students can share their learning in any form they choose, eg., text, drawings, photos, videos, or any combination of these medias. Use together with Google Classroom.
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Talk and Comment Extension for Google Chrome
Make voice notes and comments on any site! Collaborate with your voice, anywhere on the web. Talk & Comment plays nice with all things Google, so it lets you create voice notes inside any Google App, including Docs, Slides, Forms, Classroom, plus any service on the web like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Reddit, Slack, and so much more! Simply record your voice from the widget inside your browser, and paste the generated voice link anywhere you want. Learn more about it & how to get it here.
Add to Google Classroom & Other Apps
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Add to Google Doc & Slides
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Add to Google Forms
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Audio/Podcasting Tools
Go Synth
Teachers can create audio prompts and students can leave short audio responses to the prompt and also respond to each other’s recordings, making it feel more like an asynchronous conversation over time.
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Vocaroo
Students can create audio recordings of what they know. Super easy to use; no account needed. Share a link or QR code to the recording or download it as an .mp3.
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Other Creation & Presentation Apps to Explore:
- Animoto - Create 30 second animated movies using images, video clips, music, text, etc.
- Microsoft Sway - Create newsletters, presentations and more. Add photos, videos and other multimedia.
- Vocaroo - Very easy online voice recorder; Record audio in seconds, then share the link to the audio file.
Mind Map Apps:
- Bubbl.us - visual mind map tool for organizing information - only 3 maps for free (See MindMup 2.0 below)
- MindMup 2.0 - FREE tool for brainstorming and creating mind maps. Because it is fully integrated with Google, students can create & store unlimited maps directly in Google Drive, plus they can share & collaborate with their peers. It is simple, clean & easy to use and students can import their maps into docs, slides, etc. Learn more details here. For a tutorial, go here.
Word Cloud Apps