The Best 10 Free Web Tools for Education (in my opinion)
Google Apps
for Education includes dozens of critical security features specifically
designed to keep your data safe, secure and in your control. Your data belongs
to you, and Apps tools enable you to control it, including who you share it
with and how you share it. Our data center network provides exceptional
security and guarantees* reliable access to your data, 24x7x365.25 (that’s
right: no rest, even on leap years).
EDpuzzle
empowers teachers to make any video your lesson. Crop a video, explain it with
your own voice and embed quizzes at any time. It is a great tool for teachers
that want to flip their classroom or just use videos in a blended learning
environment. EDpuzzle enables teachers to turn the video into a personal and
interactive experience. We recommend trying to have students make their own
movie trailers for a particular topic or project they’re working on. How fun is
that?!
Worth
trying out even if you’re not using the Common Core in the US. The questions
are relevant and can be good for anyone looking for some brain training!
This is a
great tool for paperless classrooms, where students can share their work with
their teachers or peer collaborators. Use it to synchronize your lesson plans
and other documents that you work on both at home and at school. It is also a
great BYOD tool since it is available on a wide variety of devices (iOS,
Android, Blackberry, Kindle).
Prezi is an
amazing presentation tool. Zooming as opposed to simply clicking to the next
slide is a neat way to keep students engaged in a lecture topic.
Users
create ‘Popplets’ on a boardm and these can be filled with almost any kind of
media – words, videos, pictures, drawings … They can then be connected to other
Popplets to create a mind-map and edited by a number of users concurrently and
shared, by link/email.
The teacher
has to pre-create their content on Nearpods cloud system, after this
prerequisite they start a class and the students join via the internet using
the nearpod app on their devices and key in a pin number supplied by the
teacher.
It’s a
bookmarking tool to make sure you can organise your digital resources in the
best way possible, while getting suggestions from others as to new tools you
can use. It works best with scale – the more teachers in there adding
suggestions, the better, and not sure its there yet, but worth a poke around.
Edmodo: Why 31
Million Users Love It
Use Edmodo to streamline your workflow, get assignments actually turned in on time, and even flip your classroom. You should also integrate some of the apps that Edmodo now offers as part of the package.
Use Edmodo to streamline your workflow, get assignments actually turned in on time, and even flip your classroom. You should also integrate some of the apps that Edmodo now offers as part of the package.
DebateGraph
is being used in the classroom to help students of all ages learn and reason,
individually and collaboratively, about topics across the curriculum. Students
can create maps live in the classroom and/or build and visualise their growing
understanding of topics across a term. The content of the maps can be also be
presented automatically in the form of a linear written essays, papers or
reports.
source: edudemic.com
source: edudemic.com
