Kahoot! is an online platform that is mainly used in education for gamebased learning (GBL). These are fun learning games that you can create yourself. As a teacher, you ask multiple-choice questions and the students answer them using their PC, laptop, tablet or smarthone. If you answer correctly faster, you get more points and this score is shown on the screen after each question. Competition and excitement guaranteed! The great thing is that your students can answer these questions simultaneously with students who are located somewhere else. You could use a Kahoot! to evaluate together what you have learned during the eTwinning project.
Edpuzzle is a free and simple tool that allows you to create interactive videos. You can add voice overs, oral explanations or questions to your video. First you create an account. Afterwards, you can start editing a video. You can upload a new video, or select one from different video libraries including YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy, TedEd, TeacherTube .... You don't even have to use the entire video and can therefore decide for yourself which fragment you want to work with. Edpuzzle is interesting for blended learning or flipping the classroom. It's also a great way to work with colleagues and students from your partner school.
Vizia is very similar to Edpuzzle. If you need fewer bells and whistles, you can get started with Vizia. The good thing is that you have immediate results, that you can immediately share the video as a link or that you can choose to embed it. Two extra options are the possibility to download your video on the one hand and the possibility to have viewers write down their name and e-mail address before they start watching the video on the other hand. As an example you can find an example of a quickly edited video in Vizia.
Mentimeter is an online tool that ensures interactivity between audience and speaker or teacher and student. No external voting boxes, but with a tablet or smartphone you can vote for questions that are asked online. A word cloud or open questions are possible too. The possibilities of the free version are unfortunately very limited, but still worth a try. The results can be exported after using Mentimeter. How to use Mentimeter is explained in detail on this website.
It's a useful and pleasant idea to keep some kind of timeline during your eTwinning project. Every time your class takes an action in the project, you can add it to this timeline. If your partner also does this, you will get a comprehensive, well-arranged overview of all the actions. Not only nice to go back to, but also very handy when you want to apply for an eTwinning Quality Label. Timeline is a tool that - based on a Google Spreadsheet - allows you to make a nice visual representation of the progress of your project. It is not only possible to add text, but also image and video material.
Prezi is an online presentation tool that allows presentations to be created in a different way than, for example, with the commonly used PowerPoint. Prezi is a presentation programme in which, instead of using separate slides, you work with a large canvas through which you may or may not navigate according to a predetermined path. During the presentation, you can zoom in and out as you like, skip pieces or return. The way of presenting can be compared to a mindmap, because in a Prezi you will also be guided visually through related information. The advantage of Prezi is that the audience keeps a complete overview of the presentation. Of course you can also add hyperlinks, images and videos. You can use a Prezi online, but you can also download the presentation and use it offline. This means that you are not dependent on the internet connection during your presentation.
Suppose that during your eTwinning project you have taken pictures of your students and their achievements (e.g. Christmas cards, handicrafts, robots, logos...), then of course you want to show them. Many presentation tools are rather static, although Prezi is certainly an exception. If you want it to swing even more, then you can try Emaze. Here you'll find a lot of templates ranging from a 3D museum, a spectacular mountain landscape, a lifelike newspaper page... Don't want to start everything from scratch? You can even upload an existing PowerPoint presentation in Emaze. The tools convert everything automatically! Worth a try.
PowToon is an online animation platform that allows you to create animated presentations. These animations really look like cartoons. By dragging and dropping you can place objects on your slides. You can choose between different styles in which you can insert various (including animated) elements. PowToon videos are ideal to make something clear, to encourage your students, but also to announce or present project results. You have the choice to start from scratch or you can start with a ready-made template of PowToon and customize it to your liking. It's easy to put your video on YouTube or share it on Facebook or Twitter. With the free version you will see the PowToon logo and a PowToon outro.
Very often an eTwinning project leads to an end product such as a collection of drawings, paintings, works of art of all kinds. All these creations can be digitized (for example, you take a picture of them) and bundled together. With Book Creator you can create your own digital book in no time at all. With this tool you can link your images to texts you have written and you can even add audio and video to them. The tool is intuitive and exists as an iPad app (at a charge!), but also works in Chrome. When your book is ready, you can easily export it as a PDF file or as a video file.
Do you recognize this situation? You have developed a strong eTwinning project in terms of content, but if you want to create a nice visual overview that you can show to colleagues, parents or other eTwinners, you lose heart because you don't have any graphic skills. Canva offers the solution. With this free online tool you can easily create beautiful designs based on templates that are pre-optimised for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, newsletters... Or you can choose one of the many professionally-looking templates and edit them to your own preference. What you create can be downloaded as a jpeg, png or pdf file.
In an eTwinning project, it is very important that you keep track of all activities. This not only makes it easier for you if you want to apply for a Quality Label, but it also makes you realise that your project is 'alive'. Some things happen with visible but also invisible results. Sutori is a tool that helps you to keep an overview. You can easily create a timeline in which you can record all the actions taken. The possibilities are almost endless: photos and images, videos, audio, quizzes, forums or simply text: it's all possible. Do you want to embed social media posts? No problem with this tool. Sutori provides a nice and clear layout.
How can you have your students evaluated if they cannot (yet) read or write? Then let them talk, of course! With Online Voice Recorder, your students can easily have their voices recorded without having to download or install anything. Even though it sounds too good to be true, it is true. After the online recording you can choose to download the audio file as a .mp3 file. I bet the students who are able to write (already) would like to try out this method of evaluation as well.
What is one of the favorite ways for young people to spend their free time? Video! So play it smart and let them watch videos. Or play it even smarter and let them make their own videos. With Flipgrid, your students are able to formulate an answer to a question by means of a self-made video. Other students can also respond to videos (note that you as a teacher can still moderate everything). Flipgrid can therefore perfectly be used as an evaluation tool, but you could just as easily use it as an introduction tool. Plenty of choice!
We are all more or less familiar with existing presentation tools such as PowerPoint. So why change? It's worth leaving this train of thought to try out Sway. The possibilities of Microsoft's Sway are almost inexhaustible. Sway is much more than just a presentation tool: newsletters, portfolios, CVs, reports, blogs ... everything is possible. Moreover, everything is very user-friendly and intuitive in approach. With their handy 'How to Sway' page, they can convince even the largest digital illiterate to start working digitally.
At Adobe Spark, the emphasis is on the visual aspect. For static presentations, Spark is not the right place to be. You can create fantastic stories, summaries and reports with all the trimmings in no time at all. Integrate (moving) images, play with colours and fonts, make posts (with the right size) for social media, create videos or even mini websites. You can also work from an app to get an equally fresh result.
Of course, a presentation is first and foremost about content, but also about the visuals. And Genially certainly helps there. Once you start surfing through the possibilities of this tool, you become enthusiastic. A selection from the range: a graphically attractive presentation, a video presentation, a so-called 'dossier' in which you bring together various data in a nice overview, a quiz, an e-card and so on. The limitation in the free version: you can't download your results. Fortunately, you can put the link in your TwinSpace.
As a teacher, you have already made a lot of evaluations. And sometimes you want to do things differently. That is certainly possible with BookWidgets. The possibilities are almost endless: a quiz, an interactive timeline, flash cards, a webquest, a split whiteboard ... But you can also put some fun in it with a bingo, word search, crossword or hangman. Visit BookWidgets and discover the possibilities for your students to make all kinds of evaluations together with the students from your partner school. Everyone will enjoy it and learn something from it!
Do you like working with Google Slides? Then you might know that you can expand its features by using Google add-ons. One of those add-ons is Sli.do. You can use it to integrate survey or multiplechoice questions into your slides. At the end of your eTwinning project, you could organise a simultaneous evaluation with the participating partner schools. The students enter a Sli.do-code on their laptop, tablet or smartphone and can participate in the poll without having to log in. On the slide itself, everyone will immediately see the results.
Do you know the feeling: you are presenting your slides, but you are not sure if you have your students' attention. And when you ask a question, it's always the same student who responds. Zeetings can help you here. This tool enables you to involve everyone interactively in your presentation. How does it work? The students navigate (without download, installation or login) to your Zeetings page and get to see your presentation. When you click through to the next slide, it will appear on the student's device (laptop, tablet, smartphone). But there is more. You can interact with the students in many ways, e.g. by opening a poll, asking questions, etc. A great bonus: the students can take notes in the margin during the presentation and save these data so they can review everything afterwards. Just imagine to make a presentation across borders together with your eTwinning partner class.
Instead of fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. Involve all participants in your presentation, have them answer all kinds of questions, have them ask questions themselves and immediately show everything to the whole group. Wooclap offers a lot of possibilities. You can start from an exisiting PowerPoint-, Google Slides or Keynote presentation. Integrate PDFs, export the results into Excel files... The students do not have to download or install anything. Surf to the right address, enter a code and you're done!
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What do students prefer to do? Watch videos. But many children and young people also want to make their own videos. Let them do so! Turn it into an eTwinning activity. WeVideo is a powerful online tool that allows you to edit the video as you wish. Aren't you curious now about the gems your students will come up with?
Over 90% of students who use Quizlet report receiving higher marks. That's the quote you read on the Quizlet homepage. Even though you may not be interested in scoring in your eTwinning project, Quizlet can be a motivating factor in the project. On the website you will find educational material from colleagues elsewhere in the world, but you can also create (and share) your own material. Play an interactive game with your partner class in Quizlet Live and even follow the progress of the class. A simple tool with many possibilities.
When you ask the students what they like most about an eTwinning project, a video conference is always in the top 5. Such a videoconference can only be organised at class level. If you want everyone to participate on an individual basis, Talky can offer a solution. It is a free tool that offers video chat without login or download. You can also share screens. There is even an iOS app. Grant your students this form of learning and enjoy!