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Tools for BYOT

Activity Suggestions

Examples of Individual Activities:

  • Student created podcasts/videos

  • Student publishing

  • Journaling/writing

  • Investigations, mapping skills with Google Earth

  • OR Codes integration

  • Collecting/Monitoring Data with Edmodo polls or Socrative

  • Graphing

  • Audiobooks, Storia by Scholastic, Storyline, podcasts

  • Content-specific reinforcement activities

  • Enrichment with edu-games

  • Virtual Field Trips, Tours, NASA app

  • Webquests

  • Personal Information Manager; keeping a personal calendar

  • “Visualizing” rules of BYOT: students interpret them in a creative way and share it in a wiki

  • Sight/Vocabulary Words practice with different apps

  • Examples of Paired Activities (in conjunction with others):

  • Shared whiteboard space

  • Paired tutorial games

  • Oral fluency practice

Examples of Small-Groups Activities (in conjunction with others):

  • Student-created tutorials (Show Me, Educreations, etc.)

  • Collaborative writing and editing 

  • Downloaded books for students to read and share

Examples of Whole-Group Activities(in conjunction with others:

  • Journaling

  • Writing prompts

Whole group formative assessment

  • Surveys/Polls in Socrative or Edmodo

  • Blogging or discussion boards in Edmodo

Classroom Management:

  • QR codes for easy/fast website access

 Online Whiteboards

  • Web Whiteboard - create a whiteboard that all students can access and add to from their device 

  • Padlet - an  online cork board where students can type in responses to questions, post questions, or any other comments you want them to put.  T

  • widla - an online whiteboard.  The teacher starts the board then shares out a link to students

Online Response Tools

  • Classflow - Turn personal devices into response tools for Promethean flipcharts 

  • Answer garden - an online brainstorming and response tool that creates word clouds 

  • Kahoot! - create online, action packed quizzes and surveys 

  • KwikSurveys - Create online surveys, quizzes and polls 

  • Plickers - A quick response system, where students hold up cards, and the teacher does a classroom scan 

  • Poll Everywhere - respond via the web or text message to polls.  results are displayed live in gorgeous charts

QR Code Readers and Creators

Online Creation Tools

  • Big Huge Labs - Create posters, magazine covers and other projects.  Free sign-up. 

  • Blabberize - give any image a mouth and make them talk! 

  • Glogster - an online multimedia poster creator, utilizing text, images and vide (Fee based) 

  • Screencast-o_Matic - record everything that is taking place on your desktop.  Great for creating How To videos when combined with other tools (such as whiteboard tools)

  • StoryJumper - Create online eBooks for free.  Share with others to read via a weblink, or embed in your webpage. 

  • FlipSnack - create ebooks for publication online.  Design pages using PowerPoint, upload to the site, then publish to the world. 

  • Comic Master - create online comic strips

Student Social Media 

  • Edmodo - a social media site designed for schools that looks like facebook, and allows students to comment on assignments etc in a safe environment.  All posting can be set to be moderated. 

  • Edublogs - an online Blogging site designed with students in mind.  Setting can changed set who can view posts and if posts need to be approved before being seen.

  • KidBlog - Blogging for students in a safe environmet.  Lots of safety controls.  ($36 per teacher a year.  Sometimes on sale)   

Word Clouds 

  • WorditOut - transform words into word clouds.  Words change size based on importance. 

  • Tagxedo - transform words into word clouds of different shapes.  Words do not change size based on usage.   

  • Jason Davies - A software engineer who creates software tools.  Normal Word Cloud features.