Teacher Tools:
1. Nearpod - www.nearpod.com
Nearpod is an exciting way to create interactive lessons. While you are teaching students about a particular skill or standard, you can give students quizzes, surveys, drawing activities, and more. As the teacher, you can view all of your students' progress and even see reports. To sign up, go to http://www.nearpod.com/signup and choose the free educator plan.
2. Typeform - www.typeform.com
Typeform allows you to type beautiful surveys, reviews the reports on Typeform's webpage, and export and analyze the data. You can do most common question formats, and it's all free.
3. Kahoot! - www.kahoot.com
Like an interactive game show with music and timers, Kahoot! allows teachers to check for understanding dynamic team formats. Results can be saved and viewed as reports. Students can even earn points for how well they do and how quickly they respond. Students can participate using many types of mobile devices as well as regular desktop computers.
4. Socrative - www.socrative.com
Socrative is similar to Kahoot! in that it is a web-based student response system. Socrative allows a teacher to go into more depth for the assessments. Also, there are less multimedia aspects and time pressure, making Socrative more like a traditional kind of assessment and less like a game. Teachers can create quizzes, surveys, and exit slips to check for learning.
Student Tools
5. Prezi - https://prezi.com
Microsoft PowerPoint has been standard in the classroom for quite some time. Prezi allows you to bring movement and energy easily to your slide shares. With Prezi, students do not have to have licenses to software to create slide presentations, just a free account.
6. Booktrack Classroom - http://booktrackclassroom.com
Have you ever thought about the soundtrack of the text you are reading? Do you have students who struggle with reading and need ways to make text more compelling? Booktrack allows you and your students to create soundtracks to text, public domain texts, or your students' own stories. There are free sound clips including public domain songs, ambient sounds and sound effects.
7. Zaption - https://www.zaption.com
Zaption allows you to take videos from passive tools to interactive ones where you can add links, questions, surveys, and so much more. There are even reports to see progress.
8. Piktochart - https://magic.piktochart.com
Piktochart is a free, web-based tool that allows students to create infographics. Students can use their own images, visuals from the web, or icons from the tool. By tying together images, text, charts, and other visuals, students can make information come to life.
-Lara EnglishHill, Catapult Learning
