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Educational Technology In the Classroom – Ten
2.0 Tools for Students and Teachers
Carlton Coleman
This invaluable resource gives a new lease of
life to student surveys and polls. Quick and
simple to use, it works across multiple
platforms, with respondents able to submit
answers via mobile phone, Twitter or web
browser.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Brilliantly easy to use, Animoto produces highquality videos from pictures and text, set against
chosen backgrounds and music. A great way for
students to get creative and produce something they
can be proud of, Animoto has a wide variety of
classroom uses, from projects to reports.
http://animoto.com/
A great site for introducing students to literature or
encouraging reluctant readers, LibriVox contains a wide
catalogue of free audio books. To help students improve
confidence and presentation skills, encourage them to
submit their own content too!
http://librivox.org/
Boasting a host of brilliant ways for students to
connect with teachers, peers and world experts,
Twitter is a top tool for research and communication
in and out of the classroom.
https://twitter.com/
Simple, foolproof, easy to use… Dropbox is
the best way to share files and documents
with your students from any computer,
anywhere!
https://www.dropbox.com/
These two sites go side-by-side because there’s so
little to choose between them! Both provide brilliant
creative platforms for classroom blogs, either for
students learning to express themselves and create
online content or for teachers keeping students
updated on important information and projects.
http://www.blogger.com/
http://wordpress.com/
An invaluable tool for the busy EdTech teacher, Diigo is like an
electronic, all-purpose digital Filofax! Use it to store links,
resources, websites, blogs and more. It boasts handy sticky
notes for reminders, highlighters for personalizing documents,
and the ability to store documents and images too. An all-round
winner of a tool!
http://www.diigo.com/
One of the most striking manifestations of online
technology is the rise in digital whiteboards. This
one hosts a bunch of fantastic features, allowing
teachers to share and discuss ideas in multimedia
format with students both in the classroom and
virtually.
http://conceptboard.com/
A must-have tool for teaching presentations, this is one web
2.0 resource that really has changed the face of the
classroom. Including photographs, diagrams, flowcharts and
being able to zoom in and out makes presentations far more
engaging and visual than ever before.
http://prezi.com/