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Written by Alessandro Pumpo

Course Director in Barcelona

Schools these days make use of technology more than ever before; in fact, for teachers, there are always more and more apps to download on their and their students' mobile devices that are created specifically for educational purposes.

In the online stores and in particular, in those of Google Play and Apple store, there are many free-of-charge apps with each one including its own specific features. In this regard, here is a list of 15 useful apps for teachers.

Apps and tools for teaching

1- Nearpod

The first app that proves ideal for livening up lessons, and made especially for teachers, is the one called Nearpod. This application allows teachers to present multimedia lessons that students can upload to their mobile devices. The Nearpod app is completely free and offers different layouts, which make it suitable for various teaching activities.

nearpod.com (ios) / nearpod.com (Android)

2 - Attendance

The third app that proves effective for teachers, who have an Android device, is the one called Attendance. Teachers can use it to draw up a list of attendance in their various classes and to help them keep track of the studies and classwork of each individual student. This app also allows a photo to be added to each name so that the teacher can better verify and follow the necessary information.

Attendance (Google Play)

Audience response

3- Mentimeter

This online tool enables teachers to engage with students using live polls, word clouds, quizzes, multiple-choice questions, and more. So, it's time to put the old folders and A4 papers aside and get out the smartphones and laptops. There are different memberships available, but it is possible to use Mentimeter for free on the website.
Mentimeter
4 - AnswerGarden

With this free tool, teachers can ask their students a question that can be answered with a single word or short phrase. Responses are received through a web link, QR code, or AnswerGarden's iOS app, and begin to populate on a display screen in a word cloud. The words that are submitted most often will appear as the largest in the cloud. This is a very handy tool to use for brainstorming activities with a group in the classroom.

answergarden.ch (ios)

5 - Slido

With Slido, students can submit questions through a regular web browser using a unique event code. Questions that appear on the presenter's screen can be upvoted by other participants, moving the most popular questions to the top. Once a question has been answered, the presenter or teacher can remove it from the queue. Slido also offers audiences polling with multiple-choice and word cloud options.

Book publishing apps

6 -Blurb

This site helps teachers create photo books with text that use templates for a variety of book types: cookbooks, children's books, portfolios, memoirs, magazines, and more. Books can be kept in digital form or purchased as a paperback, a hardcover, a magazine, or an e-book. Printed books are not cheap; save this for something special.

7 - Book Creator

This flexible tool allows students of any age to create e-books. These books can contain photos, text, audio and video files, and even hand-drawn images, which are embedded in content like Google Maps or Flipgrid grids. Finished books can be shared through a link, downloaded as an EPUB, or even sold through iBooks and Google Play. Teachers can create classroom libraries, and the site has tons of resources and ideas for classroom use.
bookcreator.com
8 - Lulu

For student writers who want to publish their works, print-on-demand sites like Lulu are growing in popularity. By using this tool, authors upload manuscripts, which they can sell in print or as e-books through markets like Amazon. Authors are not charged a fee to publish, but when a book sells, Lulu earns back the cost of production plus a percentage of the profit, with the author keeping the rest.

9 - WriteReader

This is a great book-making tool for emerging writers. As students type in a text, WriteReader will say either the name of the letter or the sound it makes, allowing students to get auditory confirmation that they are choosing the right letters. To enhance their books, students can add images or voice recordings. Teachers are able to include the adult-written text below each student's writing task. Finished books can be printed or downloaded as PDFs.
writereader.com
Classroom management apps

10 - Google Classroom

This app is available to download for free on Google Play. It pulls together all of the G-Suite apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Draw). Teachers can create assignments and announcements for individual classes, attach worksheets, slides, or web links (among many others), and set due dates. Completed work from the students is saved automatically to their Google Classroom class folders in their Google Drive.
google.classroom
11 - Apple Classroom

While the name "Apple Classroom" suggests an app similar to Google Classroom, the two are quite different. The Apple Classroom app for iOS and macOS is a student monitoring solution. It is possible for teachers to see what students are doing on their Apple devices, and what other apps they have open (handy for those sneaky game players!), and it is possible to control their devices!
apple.classroom
12 - Class Dojo

This app is a classroom behavior management reward system. Students get a +1 or -1 point for behavior, but unlike other behavior management systems that focus on unspecified gold stars, ClassDojo allows you to emphasize positive feedback, and teachers can create their own targeted behaviors. Each student has a little monster avatar (very appropriate in some cases!) that makes the app more fun.

ClassDojo (ios) / ClassDojo (Google Play)

13 - Bouncy Balls

This fun web-based tool helps to keep noise at a reasonable level in the classroom. Teachers can open the website and set it up for students to view. When the classroom is quiet, the balls stay settled at the bottom of the screen, but when the noise in class starts to rise, the balls get more active, giving everyone in the room a visual cue about how noisy they're getting in class.
bouncyballs.org
Apps for quizzes

14 - Kahoot

This app is fantastic and provides a huge amount of educational and fun user-made quizzes. Students answer questions on their devices, and leaderboards are created on the classroom home screen. It is possible for the teacher to join the quiz from their own device, which creates a huge level of interaction with all the students trying to beat them.

Kahoot (Google Play) / Kahoot (ios)

15 - Plickers

Every student has access to Plickers because it doesn't require them to have a device at all. The quiz is displayed on the screen in the classroom. Each student receives a pre-printed card (paper clicker... Plicker!) and they will hold their "Plicker", and the teacher scans the classroom with the app's camera. This app builds engagement and students really enjoy the interactive quizzes.

Plickers (Google Play) / Plickers (ios)

Conclusion

The increasing use of technology in schools has opened up a world of opportunities for teachers. With a wide range of apps and tools available, educators now have the ability to enhance their teaching methods and engage students in new and exciting ways.

Overall, the use of online apps and tools in teaching can greatly enhance the learning experience for both teachers and students. By embracing technology and exploring the vast array of available resources, educators can unlock new possibilities and create dynamic and engaging educational environments.

What are your thoughts about using online apps and tools in your own teaching? Do you find using them easy or difficult? Which apps have worked for you and which ones are your favorite?

If you are having difficulties finding apps that fit your didactic purposes, have you considered creating your own app? We recommend you take a look at our course to discover how to build your own digital tools.

Erasmus courses on this topic:

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Examples Synchronous Tools Zoom - Synchronous audio/video conferencing tool with ability to share screens, chat, etc... Integration with Canvas make Zoom easy to schedule and use with your academic courses.

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Examples Canvas Discussions - Canvas native tool that allows for threaded asynchronous conversations. Canvas Discussions can be graded or ungraded and can also be limited to specific course sections and/or groups if desired.

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Examples

Synchronous

Poll Everywhere - Poll Everywhere is a real-time formative feedback system for in-class polling with the flexibility to be used in an online course context as well as in person. Poll Everywhere provides an expanded list of question types vs. Zoom polling including short answer, clickable images, ranking and others.

Zoom - Synchronous audio/video conferencing tool with ability to share screens, chat, etc... Zoom's native poll feature allows for multiple choice and/or multiple select questions to quickly collect information from students. Integration with Canvas make Zoom easy to schedule and use with your academic courses.

Asynchronous

Canvas Quizzes - Canvas Quizzes is a Canvas native tool that provides the option for instructors to create survey activities as well including quasi-anonymous surveys. Surveys can be "ungraded" or "graded" so that students receive credit for submitting their results to the survey but they are not graded based on the content of their submission.

PlayPosit - PlayPosit is an interactive web-based video platform that allows instructors to enrich video content with interactions including a variety of quiz question types, polls, discussions, and other tools to increase learner engagement through participation. When used with PlayPosit's synchronous BroadCast feature, PlayPosit polling can also be done synchronously.

Qualtrics - Qualtrics is a robust online survey tool which provides complex question types with comprehensive reporting and statistics. A future integration with Canvas is planned for late 2021.

Anonymous Feedback Tool - The anonymous feedback tool in Canvas allows students to provide anonymous feedback to instructors at any time during the semester. When enabled, students can go to the tool and enter in textual feedback into an open-ended text entry field.

Mid-Semester Feedback - The Mid-Semester Feedback tool is a Yale-developed survey tool created to specifically to collect anonymous student feedback during the midterm of the traditional fall and spring semesters. Open during a pre-designated ~2 week period during the midterm of the semester, Anonymous Feedback allows students to complete a separate survey for each of their courses that offer the survey.

Recommendations

Use best practices in designing multiple choice questions - If instructors assess students using multiple choice questions, resources exist for designing quality multiple choice questions that follow best practices, including testing for concepts over content, consistent structures, and clearly differentiated answers.

Assess prior knowledge and modify instruction - Research indicates many ways in which students' prior knowledge and previously developed conceptions inform and affect the ways they learn new knowledge (Ambrose, et. al, 2010). In general, ARS can be implemented to assess students' prior knowledge on a particular concept, gauging where students stand in their learning and helping instructors modify their approach accordingly.

Conduct pre-/post- assessments - ARS may be implemented as pre-/post- assessments. This approach activates prior knowledge by re-assessing students with the same or similar questions after instruction, in order to monitor learning progression.

Engage in problem solving - In class sessions where students solve problems with single solutions such as in a science, math or engineering course, instructors can implement clickers to assess whether students have arrived at the correct answer. For courses featuring problems with a variety of solutions (medicine, philosophy, management), systems like colored cards can be scaled up to measure general progress or differing strategies that students or groups are deploying.

Implement during teamwork - To promote student engagement in learning, students can work in teams and respond to polling questions in a competitive fashion. This social learning experience and competitive format has been shown to motivate student learning and improve learning outcomes.

Accessibility Awareness - Instructors utilizing software, clickers, and related technology should be aware of student accessibility concerns, and provide dynamic policies to support students who are technologically inexperienced or barred from maintaining their own electronic devices.

References

Ambrose, S., Bridges, M., Lovett, M., DiPietro, M., & Norman, M (2010). How Learning Works: 7 Research - Based Principles for Smart Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Trumbull, E., & Lash, A. (2013). Understanding formative assessment: Insights from learning theory and measurement theory. San Francisco: WestEd.

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