With this tool, you can take any page on the Internet and turn it into a lesson. Suppose you find a great article that you’d like students to read, but you’d also like to ask them a few questions about it, add a bit of commentary of your own, insert a related video and add discussion question right in the article. With InsertLearning, you can do all of that.
Socrative is a free, web-based "Student Response" tool. It allows the faculty member to create quizzes (using multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions) and polls that they can show in class. The students can access and take the quiz from a computer or phone without needing a login to the Socrative site. They receive immediate feedback that the faculty member can also see, allowing them to determine if the students are 'getting it.'
Including quick quizzes and polls throughout your lecture is a great way to promote active learning.
Padlet is a web-based tool that students can access without a login during class on a phone or computer. It allows the instructor to create polls, solicit feedback and encourage participation. Student input to these activities looks like electronic post-it notes on the Padlet webpage. Padlets can be saved, linked to a blog or other website or deleted to start fresh.
Playposit allows a faculty member to insert active learning activities, like multiple choice, true false or short answer questions, into any video accessible online--their own video, or one they can link to. It gathers student responses and allows faculty members to grade student learning. It is a great, free formative assessment tool.
Quizlet allows faculty or students to create web-accessible flashcards. The flashcards can contain text only, pictures or even voice recordings. They are great ways to study both vocabulary and concepts.
Flipgrid is a free, web-based video discussion board. The free version allows instructors to post a question and students to record a one minute and thirty second video recorded answer to that question. Flipgrid is a great tool for asynchronous discussions and simulated interviews.
Fotobabble is a free, web-based tool that allows a student or faculty member to add voice over narration to a still picture. Students can take pictures during field trips or during field work and add narratives. Instructors can use fotobabble to explain math, cultural images, anatomy or anything else that can be captured in an image. Instructor fotobabbles can be used as study aides for online or traditional classes.
Video power point presentations are great ways for students in both online and traditional classes to record their presentations. Faculty can also use recorded power point presentations to record their lectures.
Once created, video files are almost always too large to email or upload to Moodle. Use one of the following methods to share a video:
Zoom Meeting is Midway University's online meeting platform. Zoom meetings can be scheduled via the Zoom website (https://midway.zoom.us/) or they may be added as a Moodle activity and accessed inside your course. Zoom meetings allow students and faculty to meet online, speak live, and share video or their computer screen. Zoom is great for synchronous class meetings, online office hours and advising.
Book Creator is a Chrome-based, flexible tool that allows instructors and students of any skill level to create, publish, and share online books. You can include pictures, text, videos, voice-overs and links in your book. When the book is ready to be published, the pages turn like a real book and the audio and video play right inside the app.
Adobe Spark Video is a free, web-based tool that allows you to create a video using your computer or phone. Spark Video supplies images (or you can upload you own), icons, a variety of fonts for text, and music for your video. You can choose a story board (or create your own from scratch) for your video and you can add narration. Spark Video is a great way for students to collaborate on and create presentations or reports on field trips or field work.
Adobe Spark Page is a free, cloud-hosted web page building tool. It allows you to build a very sophisticated web page without any knowledge of web development. It provides layout options, linking, free images (or you can upload your own), icons, and a variety of text fonts. It is a great tool for students to use to create collaborative, interactive papers, reports and presentations.
Adobe Spark Post is a free, web-based tool that allows you to make attractive graphics for websites, posters, or infographics. It provides layout suggestions, free images (or you can upload your own), icons, and a variety of fonts.
Coggle It is a mind map or concept map tool that allows students to collaborate.
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