Interactive Tool #1: Peardeck
Peardeck allows you to amplify your Google Slides presentations by having the audience join the presentation and complete activities throughout the presentation. Depending on your access level, students have the opportunity to type responses, draw, drag and drop, and more to check for understanding while also learning or reviewing materials.
Interactive Tool #2: Mentimeter
Mentimeter allows you to gauge your audience as you present. After you create a poll on the Mentimeter site, you can easily integrate the poll into your presentation, like on Google Slides, so you can turn a regular presentation into something more interactive. Students can enter a code on the Mentimeter site and answer the questions and then the live results appear on the slide.
Interactive Tool #3: Thinglink
Thinglink allows you to create an interactive image with a variety of ways for students to interact. First, you have to pick a background - it can be a 3D image, an infographic, a regular image, a map, a presentation, and way more. Once you pick your background, you add a "tag" on the piece of the background that you want students to interact with. The tag can contain information about that part of the background or text in general. The tag can also be a link to an outside website, an image and text, or an audio recording. Each tag has its own icon and you can change it to a variety of choices, like numbers, which would allow you to tell the students the order that they should interact with each tag on the background.
Interactive Tool #4: EdPuzzle
On EdPuzzle, you can explore their video library or select a video from YouTube and create your own questions that students answer as they watch the video. You can add multiple choice or short answer questions, or even notes if some of the video needs clarification. While students watch the video, you can see each student's progress in the assignment in real time. There is an option for both live and asycnhronous instruction.