A screenshot of my toolkit is below, but here's the link to it if you want to check it out!: http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/technologytoolkit11
Here's a description of all of the resources located on my toolkit. I've made it a combination of tools from multimedia creation, formative assessment tech, to even a tool about brain breaks. These are all tools that I'd want to use in my future classroom, so it is nice to have them all in one place.
Adobe Spark: Free graphic design website (and mobile app) that allows you to create images, videos, and web stories with ease.
Canva: Simple graphic design website that allows you to create designs for a variety of uses (cover photos, social media, flyers, invitations, etc...)
Weebly: Free website creator that lets you customize your own high quality website, blog, portfolio, or shop. Customizations are endless and fairly user friendly after playing around with it.
Socrative: Formative assessment creator app that allows educators to easily create fun and engaging assessments through the use of a variety of question types. These formative assessment results can be crucial for checking understanding before progressing through a unit. It can be accessed on the computer as well as through a tablet and smartphone.
Kahoot: Formative assessment through the facade of a fun online game. This website allows teachers to create a series of multiple choice, true or false, or "jumble" questions. Unlimited amount of students can play and there is also a competitive point aspect of it which can be turned on or off.
Edueto: Online exercise creator that can make quizzes, fill in the blanks, matching, writing prompts, sorting, and sequential questions (among a few others). Students can complete their activities on their own time, and teachers can assign different students various exercises. Teacher can track each students progress on her own screen
Seesaw: Student created digital portfolios that are accessible by parents as well. Students demonstrate their knowledge by inputting photos, text, drawings, videos, and PDFs onto their SeeSaw portfolio. Students organize their materials and teacher can view it, assess their progress, and take notes.
Go Noodle: Website that features many different types of active"brain breaks". These are quick dance driven educational videos that promote mindfulness, movement, and learning. Great to use if students are getting antsy and need to let out their energy.
Edutopia: Website that features a community of educators whom collaborate, discuss, and learn from each other. This is a great website for quick tips, technology integration, lesson plan ideas, educational articles and more. Highly recommend for all educators to check out!
Hi Elaina! I really love the resources you have in your toolkit. I'm going to have to go back and add a few of them to mine! I was not previously familiar with Socrative, but I'm looking for new ways my teachers can incorporate formative assessment, so that is of particular interest to me. When I was teaching, my students loved Go Noodle! They were especially fans of Maximo, the yoga guru. :) Thanks for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteElaina--My co-worker uses Symbaloo for some of the assignments and research in her class. She has showed me it but I never took the time to use it. After seeing how you used this for your toolkit, it inspired me to learn more about it. It was very simple to use and puts all the items nicely in one location. It can be very useful in the classroom where there are research projects. You can organize the material the students can access to research specific topics. For this activity, I found it very nice to put all my sites together in a way that would be easy for any of my co-teachers to access. Your use of websites are great. I've used some of the programs above. Kahoot is always a hit with the kids.
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