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Web Tools To Be Using In An Online Space

In our current situation of lockdown and online learning at home, just about everything; school wise, is completed online.

So how do you keep your students motivated and interested? Try introducing or using some of these web tools for them to display and show their learning in a different format;

Posters/Brochures/Presentations

  • Canva Education - access thousands of high-quality, educational templates for every subject, grade, and ability. Discover worksheets, lesson plans, presentations, posters, reports, and more, all ready to customize

  • Visme - recently discovered this great site for bringing designs to life - so many images and fonts for creating printables, presentations, infographics, documents, charts and content. Have your students sign up for free

  • Buncee - with an ideas lab full of templates and inspiring activities. Great place for your students to get creative

  • Break Your Own News - Today's top story... you! Or, whatever you want. Add your pic, write the headline and we'll go live to the scene

  • Nearpod - makes teaching easier with the interactive tools, resources, and content teachers need, all in one place

Mindmaps

  • Padlet - choose visual images to show your ideas

  • Popplet - simple way to visualise ideas

  • Jamboard - a whiteboard app to brainstorm and share ideas

Books

Word Clouds

  • Tagxedo - make word clouds with style

  • Wordle - make a word cloud and feel free to re-font, re-colour, resize, move, rotate, add and delete words to create custom visualizations

Drawing

  • SketchPad - create and save drawings at the click of a button. SketchPad is a simple to use free Chrome extension that allows you to create and save quick and fun drawings.

Oral Responses

  • Flipgrid - simple, free video discussions to make learning fun, fulfilling, and empowering

Animations

  • Stop Motion - students are able to make a movie using this app

  • Fodey - create an animated tomato

  • Toontastic 3D - draw, animate, and narrate swashbuckling adventures, breaking news stories, science reports, and all your other wacky ideas

Which ones have you used with your students and were a hit? Which ones have not worked so well in your class? We would love it if you joined the conversation and left a comment below.

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