FLIPGRID: EMPOWER EVERY VOICE

Flipgrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do. With Flipgrid you can make video assignment for every student. And give individual feedback to them. I think this feature can be very useful for shy students who are on the fence about giving presentations in front of the whole class and many more.

Here is a tutorial on how to use Flipgrid 
I found very useful: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJOoloQ7k5Q

STORYBIRD

Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

Storybird a great app for the students that loves to read, write and create.You can sign-up for a 7 day free trial. It lets you make visual
stories in seconds. It it fun as it is easy to make. Student will definity take an interest if Storybird will be used in classes. 

Here is a snipet of the storybook I made just in seconds:

Here is a excerpt from their site to show how it works:

1. Boost your writing skills: Storybird’s writing curriculum offers 300+ lessons, quizzes, and writing prompts created by experienced educators and expert authors.

2. Explore your creativity: Choose from multiple writing formats, from comics to picture books to poetry to longform. Start with a challenge for ready-made inspiration.

3. Global Community: 9 million writers in more than 100 countries around the world use Storybird to tell their stories. Read the best writers and get inspired.

4. Get inspired: Here at Storybird we have over 1,000 outstanding artists from all over the world contributing more than 10,000 breathtaking illustrations that you can use for inspiration or incorporate into your story to help make your vision a reality.

5. Publish your work: Ready to share your words with the world? Submit your stories to get expert feedback from teachers, professional editors, and authors.

HOT POTATOES

Hot Potatoes is a tool developed for the creation of web questionnaires of all sorts, from crossword puzzles to exercises to fill in spaces in texts, using various clues or multiple-choice tests.

Basically hot potatoes allows you to make interactive assessments for students. But, I didn't like that you couldn't make the quizzes online and you also had to download it. As a plus the file was not large and the download was pretty quick. Nevertheless my computer wouldn't allow me to operate it due to virus danger.

PADLET: A BLANK WALL TO POST

Hello eveyone! Today, I am going to talk about padlet. Padlet is an application that you can create an online bulletin board you can use to display information for any topic. 

When you go to padlet's website and sign-up you are given 2 options; basic and pro. After you select your membership, you can start to create your dashboard. There are various options for you to choose for your dashboard. You can add links, images, texts ad files.








Here is the dashboard I created on the go as an example:

PIXTON: EVERYONE CAN MAKE COMICS!

The world's most popular and easy to use comic and storyboard creator.

Once you go to the website, pixton gives you 3 options: for educators, for students, and for bussneses. I choose the educators option. Then like most sites, you have to sign-up. I sign-in with my gmail pretty easly. The next page has a introductory video and claims in 3 easy steps, you can make your own comic too. Even in the intro video students claim that, they would rather do comics than write essays and it is more fun to practice pixton in their lessons. Surely, pixton will grab their attention and find an outlet for them ton express their creativity.

Here you have many options for bacgrounds, characters, motions, words, faces, actions and effects.

Lastly, you can even customize your character to your will.

POWTOON

Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use our library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own! Free. Easy. Awesome.








In my experience, making a video on pawtoon was pretty easy and fun. I think giving assignments that students can do in pawtoon would encrease student participation.

Here is a example I made in just a few minutes:

PINTEREST: DISCOVER RECIPES, HOME IDEAS, STYLE INSPIRATION AND OTHER IDEAS TO TRY!

     

Description

Pinterest, Inc. is an American social media web and mobile application company. It operates a software system designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the World Wide Web using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos.

 

It borders pretty much any idea you might need from insparational quotes to funny memes to educational tools you can use in your lessons. Therefore, if you are having trouble coming up with interesting ideas, you can directly go to pinterest for activity ideas while planning your lessons.







Here is just one of those ideas: