FlipGrid is a the perfect tool for asynchronous communication, collaboration and reflections.
Teachers can create a class, importing lists from google classroom, then create an assignment, where students respond with a short video. Teachers have control over the length of the videos, as well as moderator options.
There are many similarities between the two platforms but each has a slightly different focus: Kahoot is teacher directed, it displays the questions and answers on the teacher's device; whereas Quizizz is student directed, it displays all the information on the student's device.
EDpuzzle is an incredible-easy-to-use video platform that helps teachers save time, boost classroom engagement and improve student learning through video lessons. EDpuzzle also collects data as students watch and interact with the video.
Creating videos is easy to do with extensions such as Screencastify or apps like QuickTime.
Pear Deck is a powerful add-on for Google Slides that allows you to create presentations and modify existing presentations to include custom questions (text, number response, multiple choice, web slide, drawing, and draggable). It can be designed to be synchronous (teacher led) or asynchronous (student paced)
Zoom.us is a conference calling program that is free for 40minutes of conferencing with up to 100 participants.
The meeting host can control the video and audio of the participants (on/off) as well as share their screens.
1. First install chrome extension - click here
2. Click the Zoom Extension icon - sign in with Google, accept permissions (only need to do this once)
3. Open your calendar, then open a class calendar event --> edit event.
4. You should now see a Blue "make it a Zoom meeting" button. Click this, then save.
5. Then all participants of that class will be able to access the meeting via the calendar invite link generated.