Sunday, January 5, 2020

QUIZLET

What Is Quizlet?

Quizlet is a free website to help students learn vocabulary terms. Students can study flashcards, play games and take practice tests. Quizlet is basic framework that students fill with their own information. Students can remix existing sets or create their own. For each study set, Quizlet offers up to nine study activities, including matching and fill-in-the-blank games and timed quizzes. Adaptive learning technology helps students study effectively by offering more difficult questions as mastery increases.


BLACKBOARD

What Is Blackboard?

Blackboard is a teaching management system that allows educators to present lecture materials electronically, communicates with students, and creates lesson activities in electronic environment.

Blackboard is a tool that allows faculty to add resources for students to access online.

If you want more information about Blackboard, you can watch this video:


SEESAW

What Is Seesaw?

Seesaw: The Learning Journal is a robust digital portfolio and learning system where teachers can create meaningful multmedia experiences for students. Using Google, student emails, or a QR code, teachers assign tasks that engage students with a variety of work in the form videos, photos, text, images, and files. Teachers follow up by approving posts, offering feedback, and, if desired, making items accessible. It is beneficial in building reflective learners who took the time to think through their work and monitor their own progress.



Finally, students are eager to use Seesaw and share their work products with one another as well as comment or "like" each others work. This tool helps educators become more reflective and mindful of their planning and pacing.

POWTOON

What Is PowToon?

PowToon is web-based animation software that allows you to quickly and easily create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs. PowToon can be used by educators to create animated presentations of content for students to view. Educators can also use PowToon as a form of assesment by asking students to create their own animations.


There is a video for you about how to use PowToon. If you are interested, it will be helpful for you!


MOODLE


What Is Moodle?

Moodle is a free online learning management system that enables educators to create their own private website filled with dynamic courses that extend learning anytime, anywhere. With Moodle, you can easily create online courses. You can upload your content, add gradable assignments and quizzes, and then add collaborative activities to make online learning effective and fun.



There is a video for beginners. You can watch it. 


SOCRATIVE



What Is Socrative?

Socrative is a cloud-based student response system. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops- or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their smartphones. That makes these devices a more robust replacement for special purpose "clickers".



Quizzes can be true/false, multiple choice, graded short answer or allow open-ended short responses. Activities can either be teacher-paced (for use during a classroom discussion) or student-paced (for use as a more traditional class). Socrative quizzes can be shared with other teachers.



KAHOOT

What Is Kahoot?

Kahoot!, a free student-response tool for all platforms, allows teachers to run game-like multiple-choice answer quizzes. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or find, use , and/or remix public quizzes. Questions, along with answer choices, are projected onto a classroom screen while students submit responses using an internet-connected device (computer, tablet or phone). Questions and polls can contain images and videoto help further appeal to all learners.

Is It Good For Learning?

With Kahoot!, teachers and students can create multiple-choice quizzes as well as polls and surveys. You can also incorporate questions that don't award points so that you can gather opinion data, or include a question with multiple correct answers without skewing point totals. Quiz questions and polls stimulate quick instructional decisions as well as whole-class discussion.