Building an online learning toolkit - some great tools to get started

By ITS Education Asia

Here is a great selection of tools reviewed and compiled by The White Board blog. This selection of online tools one can use to allow students to work collaboratively on different projects, or to allow you to set quizzes/tasks to be completed online.

• Google Tools - if you’re a Google user, you can make good use of the basic Google docs features: the Word Docs, Presentations and even the Spreadsheet to collaborate. Share links in a Word Doc or Presentation, have students collaborate in documents.
• Microsoft Office 365 - also don’t forget that Office 365 now has plenty of collaboration tools. Also take a look at Microsoft One Note’s Class .
• Padlet - gives teachers a virtual cork board where anyone can post short text notes in the same way that you could put post-it notes onto a notice board in your classroom.
• Socrative - is a web-based system that lets teachers and students set up quizzes and polling questions on any device that has access to the internet via a web browser.
• Kahoot - is a fab quiz and survey creation tool that will work on any device. It allows teachers to set up and run multiple choice quizzes which their students can then answer via any device that has a web browser.
• Mentimeter - allows you to create an online presentation with questions built in to the slides. You can share these online via a unique code and automatically collate answers.
• Wakelet - is another planning/collaboration/curation tool which allows a group to create a digital portfolio in a similar way to Padlet, but it’s free. You can collate YouTube, Tweets, PDFs, documents and more.
• Screencast-o-matic - allows you to record short presentations, and you can get under 15 mins for free. These can then be uploaded to YouTube/Vimeo or added to a Google Drive or Dropbox.
• Bubble.us - is mindmapping software with collaboration features. It lets you share your mind maps easily with students via a shareable link.
• Socrative  - is a really simple to use brainstorming tool. With Popplet children can quickly jot down their ideas and sort them visually. A popplet is a big pinboard that you can put boxes or “popples” onto.
• Flipgrid - is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students AND better yet students can provide feedback to one another.
• Google Jamboard - provides a free piece of annotation software to use on your interactive whiteboard as an alternative to the expensive offerings of SMART and Promethean.

A really excellent set of suggestions — for a more in-depth review of each visit the link.

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