Communication Tools:
These tools allow messaging and chat between students and faculty inside or outside the classroom settings
Remind
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Padelt is a digital pinboard that lets you gather a variety of items and share it with your students. It also allows using an interactive tool to use live in the classroom.
Remind is a communication tool that helps instructors connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device.
Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform.
Skype in the classroom allows connecting with the students, with other classrooms, invite experts to talk and take students on a virtual field trip.
Content Development Tools:
These tools allow building presentations, lesson plans and infographics that are appealing with easy to use graphic design and presentation software applications.
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Prezi is a presentation software that uses motion, zoom and spatial relationship.
Graphic design online application that is made easy. You can create lesson plans, notes, infographics..etc.
A platform for creating and editing various contents: animated videos, videos, infographics, or any type of videos that includes information and charts.
Pear deck assists active learning in the classroom with in class activities, formative assessments embedded in google slides.
Quizzing & Testing tools
Tools that allows assessing students' previous knowledge. This could be formative or quiz format.
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Multiple-choice mobile games. Easy to build and use in classrooms.
Multiple-choice mobile-based questions that instructors can import as study sets.
Using Quizlet study sets, students can play a collaborative game in a group of three to review the vocabulary.
This tool is similar to a Jeopardy game.