Profiles

Creating Profiles

Will you create a survey for the learners you are working with?

Or will they create a profile as a project?

Or a combination of both?

Below are several resources to choose from. Look at each one before deciding which one you would like to use to create your own learner profile.

Learners can share information about their passions, interests, and learning preferences that can help you make suggestions and guide their learning when you begin to offer them choices and support them as they determine their own learning path.

Surveys

Google Forms

Save as Doc (a Chrome add on)

Google Forms can be used as a survey-creation tool. Whenever people enter responses to a Form, Google allows the form creator to view responses in charts and graphs. Google Forms collects student answers to questions in a spreadsheet, while Save as Doc turns any student's responses into a text document with the questions and answers listed.

Survey Monkey

You can have ten questions and up to 100 responses for the basic account. Here are instructions for creating your first survey. After your students have taken the survey you can see a summary view of your data; browse individual responses; create custom charts; use filters to focus on specific data views and segments; and easily download your results in multiple formats.

Kwik Survey

Kwiksurveys allows you to design surveys by answering a series of questions about what you want the survey to do. You can create a survey, distribute it and analyze the results all in one place. "Utilize our survey maker and expansive range of advanced features to build forms in a way that suits you."

Storytelling

Infographics

Piktochart or Eas.ly

Learner Profiles are a form of story telling and infographics are one way to represent a story.

There are excellent tutorials and a basic guide for the creation of infographics on the Piktochart Help page.

Watch the video tutorials to learn how to use Easel.ly.

BookCreator

You can make one book for free with the app. Teachers can set up a library with 40 books for free on the website.

Creating books using this tool can be as simple or complex as you make it. Students who prefer more structure can choose a comic book layout and insert Google images straight from the app into locked panels. Those who want more flexibility can choose a completely blank page and upload their own artwork. Students can customize the font, add shapes and stickers, hyperlink the text to other online resources, and import audio and video files.

When the book is ready to be published, the pages turn like a real book, and the audio and video play right inside the app.

Voicethread

Creating

Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Over 50 different types of media can be used in a VoiceThread.

Commenting

Comment on VoiceThread slides using one of five powerful commenting options: microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload.

Sharing

Keep a VoiceThread private, share it with specific people, or open it up to the entire world. Learn more about sharing VoiceThreads.

FlipGrid

This is an app where someone, usually a teacher, poses a question or prompt, and students respond to it with short videos. Students and teachers can respond to the videos.