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Jamboard is a great online collaborative tool teachers can use to have students post their ideas and fellow classmates can view and respond.

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Steven Hope, Head of Independent Learning, Leeds City College

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Google Jamboard: Collaborative Digital Whiteboard | Google Workspace for Education - Google for Education

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A collaborative, digital whiteboard makes it easy to create without boundaries and share ideas in real time. Jamboard moves the whiteboard to the cloud.

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Students’ passion for learning and solving the challenges teachers and administrators face in making it happen.

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"Peardeck is a highly flexible tool that is great for lesson delivery, formative assessment and student feedback."
Homepage | Pear Deck

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Pear Deck is on a mission to help teachers create powerful learning moments for every student, every day - using the tools you already know and love.

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The online tool for students voices and choices I chose was BookCreator. BookCreator is a eBook creation tool. Where students can organize and communicate their thoughts. Students can create PowerPoints as well, and record themselves reading or talking. I personally really liked this tool, it was easy to use.
https://bookcreator.com/

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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The technology tool I would use is Vocaroo it will allow for students to record lessons and speak about what they are learning. Vocaroo allow for students to listen to each of their peers talk about their learning experience.

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Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

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This online student allows the teacher to create a classroom like you would google. It allows for either the teacher to assign projects or let the students create there very own story.

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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My tool I chose is Livebinders. If you need better organization skills without carrying loads of papers and notebooks it provides an online binder format to organize anything from text to uploaded images and documents.
- Sydney Couick

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Organize and share education, small business and non-profit resources into virtual binders. Use LiveBinders for hassle-free access from anywhere.

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One that I found is called FlipGrid, which is an interactive online tool. Using this students take videos similar to tik tok or youtube and voice their concerns.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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I think this is a wonderful list of digital learning tools that would progress students' voices and choice in the school setting. I personally liked number 1 on the list because I have used Flipgrid before and also google forms, so I know how these platforms work for the most part. I also look to research some more of these others on the list as I have not had the chance to come across these so they could better than the ones I have experienced in my school days. I just really liked this list! Thanks for reading :)

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In episode 28 of the Educational Duct Tape Podcast, Mike Mohammad joined me for a chit-chat. One of the topics that we discussed was student voice. I posed the question, " How can educators provide opportunities for student voice?"

Mike promptly made the distinction between student voice and student choice. While both are powerful things to leverage in the classroom, they are very different (though we often lump them together, as Mike pointed out).

I think that educators' definitions for the term student voice are inconsistent - some seem to believe that it simply means
- hearing each student's answer or thinking
- while others believe that it means empowering the students to have a voice in some (or all!) aspects of their education.

Mike made it clear in his response that he subscribes to the 2nd "definition" of student voice. His response fits with the description that Edutopia uses: student voice involves letting "students' input and expertise ... help shape their classroom, their school, and ultimately their own learning and growth."

I definitely believe that that is the type of student voice that we want to strive for. In a recent #EduDuctTape chat, educators shared their favorite tool for empowering student voice. It's important to note that simply using the tool doesn't provide opportunity for or empowerment of student voice. It's all about how you use it.

Here are some of their responses:

1. Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a fantastic tool for hearing from each student! Students can respond with a video-with or without their face showing-and can leverage lots of creative tools to personalize their video and message. Check out the Educators' Guide to Flipgrid here.

A3: My favorite tool for giving students a voice is @Flipgrid. From a private grid for students to communicate questions and concerns with T to grids with QR codes for students to share projects with everyone- the options are so expansive. #EduDuctTape https://t.co/6H8Z3aaM69

- Kristen Vollmar (@k_vollmar) October 10, 2019

A3: My go to tools for #StudentVoice are @Flipgrid, discussion questions, and comments in #GoogleClassroom. It does take time and trying to get kids responding. I use @ShakeUpLearning TAG to get kids communicating effectively. #EduDuctTape https://t.co/1ef2LQ3wnB

- Kimberly Wren (@kwren18) October 10, 2019

2. Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark gives students the chance to create visually appealing videos, pages or posts of their own using Adobe's templates and easy-to-use tool. If the important part is the student's voice (rather than the product itself), it can be a great way for students to quickly make an impressive product in which they express themself.

A3: #edtech allows students new ways to show their passions and learning. Tools like #adobespark and @Flipgrid give them a multitude of ways to show their creativity. Also #GoogleSlides and info graphs are awesome. #eduducttape #ditchbook

- Heather Shaw 👻 (@msshaw27) October 18, 2019

PearDeck is a highly flexible tool that is great for lesson delivery, formative assessment and student feedback. In the podcast episode, Mike talked about the types of questions that he asks his students to hear their voice about how his instructional design is or is not supporting their learning... and what he can do differently. Check out the educator guide, which Mike co-wrote, here.

Google offers an easy way to develop a survey, assessment or form with Google Forms. They are easy to create and, as Craig points out below, can be anonymous, allowing students to respond freely. They can also ask the students for their name and/or email address if the teacher prefers to be able to follow up with the students.

A3: I love using @PearDeck to hear from students because they have confidence in knowing that it is anonymous to the class. If I want anonymous feedback for me, I'll use Google Forms. Like at the end of the year I would let Ss grade me as a teacher #EduDuctTape https://t.co/STmU8FRsKb

- Craig Klement (@craigklement) October 10, 2019

Padlet is a great tool for organizing, curating, collaborating or communicating. For these reasons, it's also a great tool for empowering student voice!

Nearpod, like Pear Deck above, is a great tool for delivering lessons, gathering feedback and performing live formative assessments. It also has some features that Pear Deck does not, including the Collaborate Board. Collaborate Boards are a lot like Padlet walls (above), but have the added benefit of being nested inside of a Nearpod lesson or activity.

At its core, Seesaw is a digital portfolio tool, but it actually provides opportunity for so much more! Their website says: "student portfolios, formative insights and family communication all in one place," but even that doesn't completely capture all that is possible with this tool. Regardless, since students are able to express themselves and communicate with teachers & parents through this tool, it certainly can empower student voice.

A3: My three favorite tools I use for student voice are @nearpod, @Flipgrid, and @Seesaw. The three of those tools provide an endless amount of ways for students to share their learning! #EduDuctTape

- Jana Linehan (@jana_linehan) October 10, 2019

If you're looking for a video creation tool for students to use on Chromebooks, WeVideo is almost certainly the option that you'll end up selecting. And, since students can create just about anything with WeVideo, it's a great place for them to share their voice, too!

A3: Like Mike, I think @Flipgrid is an excellent tool! Moreover, I love the pixel filter for students who have great things to say, but are camera shy!

Another great tool is using @wevideo to let students create video blogs or podcasts to share out on a topic! #EduDuctTape

- 𝙳𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚣𝚎𝚕 (@mr_stitzel) October 10, 2019

BookCreator offers a fantastically easy-to-use eBook creation tool. What a great way for students to organize and communicate their thoughts!

If your students use iPads, DoInk is a great video-creation (and expression!) tool!
Pam also mentions Discovery Education - it's a great tool as well!
Synth is a relatively new tool that, as their website says, enables the creation of "Podcasts in bytes." What they are implying by that phrase is that you can record and share short (bytes) segments of audio (podcast). The maximum length is 256 seconds. It offers a great way for anyone to start sharing their voice and dipping their toes in the water of podcasting, but can also be used for students communicating with their teachers, peers or family. One great feature about Synth is the "walled garden" for students under the age of 16 - their "podcasts" can only be found or listened to by their teachers, parents or people that they share with directly (i.e., classmates).

A3. So many tools! It's more about how you use them, what you ask, if you listen and how you react. Done right, @flipgrid @gosynth @PearDeck @nearpod and #GoogleForms are some of my faves for this. There are plenty more though! #EduDuctTape

- Jake Miller (@JakeMillerTech) October 10, 2019

Screencastify is one of a handful of great screencasting tools that work on Chromebooks and other computers. While I recommend Screencastify, other teachers also love Loom, Screencast-o-matic and Nimbus Capture. Any of them could be used to empower student voice.

One way to organize and curate a lot of video content is student YouTube Channels. If your students have gSuite (Google) for Education accounts they likely already have access to creating a YouTube account. While YouTube can present a slippery slope, users do have the ability to set their videos as "unlisted" so that they can't be found by anyone outside of their intended audience (i.e., teacher, parent, etc.). Also, if we hope to help our students become good digital citizens in the "real world" it makes sense to expose them to these tools and teach them how to use them appropriately.

A3: Curated student YouTube channels. Students can easily record videos on iPads, edit in iMovie and upload to, in my case, my YouTube channel. It's easy to set viewing to private, unlisted, only with link etc...and then you can share with parents and others. #EduDuctTape

- Stacy Ford (@StacyFord77) October 10, 2019

Need a simple tool for hearing your students' voice? In #2 up above, Heather mentions Google Slides. There certainly is no reason that you can't use familiar tools like Slides or Docs to empower student voice.

You can certainly do it without technology! Here are a few "unplugged" options.

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In episode 28 of the Educational Duct Tape Podcast, Mike Mohammad joined me for a chit-chat. One of the topics that we discussed was student voice. I posed the question, " How can educators provide opportunities for student voice?" Mike promptly made the distinction between student voice and student choice .

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A jamboard is really good for students because it allows them to post their ideas and allows for discussion with others.

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Flipgrid is a tool that was introduced to me by one of my professors a few semesters ago. This tool allows for students to engage via video about any topic they may be learning about in class. They can click on any fellow students video and listen to them to talk about any given topic. I think this tool is great use especially during the pandemic because it gives children the ability to see their peers and at the same time learn from them.

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I learned about classtag when I took Digital Learning Competencies 1 last semester. This is a link to a mock classroom that I set up using classtag. Class tag is great for collaboration with students and parents as well as allowing students to share their voices. Using classtag, students can collaborate different ways to showcase their work and ideas to their parents and peers.

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Free all-in-one parent communication app with free supplies and exclusive offers for teachers!

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More support for amazing teachers! ClassTag is the only app that transforms how you connect with parents, saves time on communication and brings in free supplies for your class. Sign up today; it’s totally free >>

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Storyboard That is a tool that offers many opportunities for anyone looking to share information, tell a story or produce a product in a visually engaging way. It promotes critical thinking, communication and creativity. This is a great way for students to express themselves but in a more visual way.

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Storyboard That: Easy online storyboard creation! Perfect for filmmakers, teachers, and students. Create storyboards and comics with Storyboard That today!

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The Jamboard is a great tool for a classroom because it allows everyone to post and get responses from peers.

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A Jamboard allows students to post a "sticky note" answering a question or to share a thought. Anyone on the Jamboard can see the post.

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Using google forms to collect student opinions is a good way to facilitate student voice. Google forms can even be done anonymously, so students might share things they otherwise wouldn't with their names attached.

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I learned about FlipGrid from my professor, Dr. Lowder. This is a platform that gives students a voice directly. They can engage in thoughtful discussion via video. They post their initial thoughts, and then they can respond to their peers via video.

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Collaborative jamboard
This is an interactive tool accessible online for students to convey their initial posts on a certain prompt and allow to respond to their peers.

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This digital tool allows students to share their screen and include an audio voiceover. This tool allows students to share their research, pictures, what they found, etc. and discuss them verbally through video. It seems to have a close resemblance to Soundcloud (which I am not familiar with).

Link: Screen Recorder & Video Editor | Screencast-O-Matic (screencast-o-matic.com)

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I just learned about this tool for social voting. I'm planning to use it to collect ideas from students and enable them to vote on which ones they want to move forward with and explore further!

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The Common Core directs that students should be speaking in class, but for some students, especially those with communication or anxiety disorders, that can be terrifying. I give all my students the option of recording what would usually be an in-class speaking presentation in Soundcloud. I can then share it with the class as appropriate. Even giving this tiny bit of voice and choice reduces student stress and allows them to flourish.