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Inspiration is a great app for creating information in a non-linear way.

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An excellent 'first time' account

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Teachers using pen-and-paper assessments, or already onboard with more simple quizzing tools such as Kahoot! or Poll Everywhere, might want to take a look at Socrative as a more robust tool to experiment with. Need a Monday jump start? Set up student teams and plan a Space Race to review last week's material. Check out the data and further plan the week using content-rich, standards-aligned quick questions or exit slips. Quick reading or skills check? Allow students the chance to receive feedback using the quizzing option. Use particular poignant questions to foster further whole-class discussion after students are able to review their results. Also, make use of the short-answer question type at the end of quizzes to gauge student confidence: "Was there anything on the quiz you need more help with?"

Looking for more teaching tips for effective formative assessment? Check out our suggestions for how to Make Formative Assessment More Student-Centered.

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Teachers using pen-and-paper assessments, or already onboard with more simple quizzing tools such as Kahoot! or Poll Everywhere, might want to take a look at Socrative as a more robust tool to experiment with. Need a Monday jump start? Set up student teams and plan a Space Race to review last week's material.

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You can set up accounts for up to 40 students and continuously track their progress through the site (or Chrome app). Students can build new websites using the step-by-step instructions that are intuitive and well-organized. Have students practice uploading an image and then rotate, crop, or fade its opacity; they can also choose from numerous template designs and add headers and other written content.

Because teachers create classroom accounts and control access, Weebly for Education offers a safe learning environment. There could be privacy concerns if you opt to make students' sites public, but you can choose to set privacy to classroom-only viewing when registering. You'll control the account through Weebly's teacher dashboard, and you can view recent student updates and disable sites if needed. Teachers can also accept homework assignments from students through their Weebly teacher site.

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You can set up accounts for up to 40 students and continuously track their progress through the site (or Chrome app). Students can build new websites using the step-by-step instructions that are intuitive and well-organized. Have students practice uploading an image and then rotate, crop, or fade its opacity; they can also choose from numerous template designs and add headers and other written content.

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Mentimeter helps to solve the problem of always calling on the same students by getting feedback from the entire class. Start your day with a class poll to gauge mood, warm up, or ask an essential question. Use an Action Priority Matrix to determine which skills to teach first (involving students in instructional planning) and perform quick assessments using the quiz feature to anonymously check for concept mastery. Host a March Madness-style tournament, letting students vote weekly on their favorite books, scientists, characters, or historical figures. Crowdsource a word cloud to brainstorm character traits of famous leaders throughout history, innovative inventions, or solutions to real-world problems. Group discussions with questions related to themes or scientific discoveries are easily implemented.

Teaching a foreign language or ELL class? Ask questions in different languages to practice authentic classroom conversations. Or empower students to create interactive presentations and teach small groups or the whole class a skill or concept. Collect usable data in seconds while giving students a voice. Knowing their opinions will be asked or that questions will require their input along the way will encourage them to be more engaged in the lesson. Mentimeter is also a great tool for professional development, allowing presenters to engage participants while providing high-quality content.

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Mentimeter Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Mentimeter helps to solve the problem of always calling on the same students by getting feedback from the entire class. Start your day with a class poll to gauge mood, warm up, or ask an essential question.

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Teachers can use Nearpod to support student learning in a variety of ways. Give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map or diagram, respond to a poll question, post a note or image to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz. Bring the world to your classroom by taking kids on a virtual field trip to a national park or a different country. Help students review key learning concepts by watching videos, reviewing notes, or taking their own notes. Let kids design their own slideshows and teach each other. Incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) and digital citizenship skills with pre-created lessons on empathy, cyberbullying, or Internet safety.

Whether students label planets in the solar system, respond to a poll question on climate change, watch a video on how to find the volume of a cylinder, review notes on the different parts of speech, or submit an open-ended response analyzing a primary source, they're interacting with content in meaningful ways. Thousands of certified publisher- and educator-created lessons are available for use or modification, some for free and others at reasonable prices.
Editor's note: Common Sense Education has a partnership with Nearpod. However, Common Sense Education's reviews maintain editorial integrity and independence.
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Nearpod Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Teachers can use Nearpod to support student learning in a variety of ways. Give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map or diagram, respond to a poll question, post a note or image to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz.

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Kahoot!, a student-response tool for all platforms, allows teachers to run game-like quizzes and build presentations with embedded quizzes. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or find, use, and/or remix public quizzes. Kahoots can be presented live or assigned for self-paced learning. During live Kahoots, questions with answer choices get projected onto a classroom screen while students submit responses using an internet-connected device (computer, tablet, or phone). Questions and polls can contain images and video to help further appeal to all learners. For live Kahoots, teachers can choose between Classic mode and Team mode. The Team mode allows groups of students to cooperate with each other and compete against other teams. Assigned Challenges can be completed asynchronously, but students still earn points for their quick responses and compete against their classmates; the leaderboard appears after all participants have responded. Playing a game of Kahoot! doesn't involve student accounts, only a game PIN from the main screen and a gameplay name for each participant.

With a free account, created quizzes can be multiple choice or true and false, and creators can adjust the time limit and point value for each question. Premium accounts add more options, including multi-select options for quizzes.
Full Disclosure: Common Sense Education is a Kahoot! Academy partner; however, our initial rating and review of Kahoot! was completed prior to this partnership. We also maintain our editorial independence, and don't allow this relationship to impact any updates to this rating or review.

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Kahoot! Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Kahoot!, a student-response tool for all platforms, allows teachers to run game-like quizzes and build presentations with embedded quizzes. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or find, use, and/or remix public quizzes. Kahoots can be presented live or assigned for self-paced learning.

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Quiziz is a quiz type website that allows you to create Quiz's based around your chosen subject.
Website: www.quizizz.com

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Teachers need to know that Blogger can be a versatile tool for classroom use as long as kids are well supervised. The problem is not so much the Blogger platform itself as the possibility that kids will poke around on other blogs that aren't age appropriate. There are safeguards that keep blogs relatively private (only visible to family members, classmates, etc.), so kids are safe on that end.

Blogger also allows group blogs that can be edited by a number of contributors. This could lead to a fun class project that everyone has a hand in. Depending on students' ages, topics could range from "Mrs. Johnson's First Grade Chickens" to "12 th Grade Honors English Discovers Gilgamesh." Teachers can use Blogger to post updates on class activities for both kids and parents. Tailoring Blogger to specific needs is easy, and as long as safety features are in place, there's definitely a place for budding bloggers in most classrooms.

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Teachers need to know that Blogger can be a versatile tool for classroom use as long as kids are well supervised. The problem is not so much the Blogger platform itself as the possibility that kids will poke around on other blogs that aren't age appropriate.

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Free online resources and learning linked to digital skills, shared by Durham County Council

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We help organisations and their people cascade basic digital skills through our premium Digital Champion learning, training and support. Our Digital Champions Network is a proven foundation for delivering meaningful digital participation.

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We help organisations and their people cascade basic digital skills through our premium Digital Champion learning, training and support. Our Digital Champions Network is a proven foundation for delivering meaningful digital participation.

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Great lessons begin and proceed with well-thought-out questions, and Plickers can help teachers revamp warm-ups, quick checks, and exit tickets while collecting valuable data to help them monitor student progress. Start or end class in a meaningful, engaging manner by asking insightful, thoughtful questions, or challenge students to create questions to be used for quick reviews of information or texts. Begin a unit with a pretest of sorts, gaining valuable information on how to meet students where they are, and determine from the start who may require additional challenges or support. Promote metacognition by asking students procedural or reflective questions. Test-drive quiz and exam questions beforehand, providing time to self-reflect on your instruction before giving students a summative assessment. Need a little pick-me-up in class discussion or behavior? Create big-picture questions to jump-start class discussions and engage students, and break up multiple-choice monotony by letting kids debate the answers or stand up as they respond. Any way you use it, students are sure to prefer the interactive answer cards to paper-and-pencil assessments.

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Plickers Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Great lessons begin and proceed with well-thought-out questions, and Plickers can help teachers revamp warm-ups, quick checks, and exit tickets while collecting valuable data to help them monitor student progress. Start or end class in a meaningful, engaging manner by asking insightful, thoughtful questions, or challenge students to create questions to be used for quick reviews of information or texts.

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Particularly useful for languages tutors but also for ESOL tutors to help with some translation

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Duolingo is a game-based language-learning tool. Students first choose which language they want to learn. Beginners can start with "Basics 1," or more advanced learners can take a quick placement test to determine the appropriate starting point. Instructional practice activities cover all four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and require users to go back and forth between the target language and their self-identified native language. When students make an error, they see the correct answer and can open a user discussion related to the question for further feedback on the mistake. Users see their streak count (their number of days in a row spent using the tool) and their hearts (like lives remaining in a video game). Users earn experience points (XP) for their time in the app, and their user profile (visible when signed in) displays badges with their level and XP and flag icons representing the languages they're learning. Users can also switch to Immersion mode to enter translations of key phrases and longer passages; this crowdsourced knowledge base plus an active message board make for a lively online community of language learners. English speakers can elect to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, or Turkish; other languages have similar (if slightly more limited) options.

Students can sign up on their own to use the Duolingo site (and Chrome app) or its corresponding mobile app (which is how most users access the service); all are free. Most relevant to the classroom, students can also sign up for a Duolingo for Schools account, which is also free and lets teachers link to their students' accounts and track their progress. Teachers can sign up for a free account, add class sections, and share a link with their students to let them sign up to join a particular section. Once students enroll, teachers can monitor their progress (with an overall course view or a detailed list view) and assign homework targeted for individual students' needs.

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Duolingo is a game-based language-learning tool. Students first choose which language they want to learn. Beginners can start with "Basics 1," or more advanced learners can take a quick placement test to determine the appropriate starting point.

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Autumn Staff Conference 2018 - Amy's Views

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Free learning management tool which merges classroom content, safe communication, and assessment with students' social media savvy - also good for parental engagement!

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Edmodo is a free Facebook-like learning management system (LMS) that teachers can use to manage online instruction. Teachers can create an account, classes, and their first assignment or quiz within minutes and can invite students and parents to join them via class code, email, or handout. Once students join, they can see content, manage deadlines, receive and submit assignments, and interact with the teacher and other classmates by participating in activities and writing posts that include embedded files, links, and media. Teachers can see all posts and can moderate content or put class members on read-only mode. Users can share documents, links, video, and images using the drag-and-drop feature, integrating files from Google and Microsoft accounts. Teachers can also use the Discover page to find apps, games, and student-focused news to add to their assignments. Plus, the Reports feature allows teachers to track assignment completion and grades.

Featured collections, such as the Distance Learning Collection, can be great time-savers for teachers who want to up their level of virtual instruction without reinventing the wheel. Plus, there's a robust community of Edmodo users who are eager to share ideas with one another through multiple discussion forums and groups, enhancing the site's educational quality and professional development (PD) opportunities.

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Edmodo Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Edmodo is a free Facebook-like learning management system (LMS) that teachers can use to manage online instruction. Teachers can create an account, classes, and their first assignment or quiz within minutes and can invite students and parents to join them via class code, email, or handout.

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Development Day 2018 - Digital Technologies

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The Potentials of Using Cloud Computing in Schools A Systematic Literature Review

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The Potentials of Using Cloud Computing in Schools A Systematic Literature Review

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The Potentials of Using Cloud Computing in Schools A Systematic Literature Review

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The Effects of Game Design Experience on Teachers’ Attitudes

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The Effects of Game Design Experience on Teachers’ Attitudes

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The Effects of Game Design Experience on Teachers’ Attitudes