This week we are reviewing one of my favourite classroom tools, Kahoot! Kahoot is a free online quiz tool that enables you to design quick fun quizzes for students for use within the classroom. It can be played competitively, cooperatively,…
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Fun online quizzing with Kahoot!
Tagged with: Active learning, Kahoot, Mobile, Quizzes
Posted in Active learning, App review, Mobile learning
Posted in Active learning, App review, Mobile learning
Padlet for collaborative learning.
Over the last couple of years we have often mentioned Padlet in our blog posts* and workshops but never devoted a whole blog post to this versatile tool. As there have been some useful updates recently this seems like a…
Tagged with: App reviews, Apps, Collaboration, Engagement, Multimedia
Posted in App review, Mobile learning
Posted in App review, Mobile learning
No time to read it now? Pop it in your Pocket for later!
This week we are introducing a useful tool for organising and collating interesting articles you find on the web. Pocket lets you save articles, videos or images you find online in one place. You can then access them from any of…
Tell a story with Sutori
Sutori (previously known as HSTRY) is often thought of as a timeline tool, but Sutori ‘stories’ can be much more. With options to embed videos, sound files, create quizzes and add discussion forums it can be used by teachers and…
Technology Rich Formative Assessment
From Poll Everywhere to Socrative to Google Forms, there is a huge range of tools available for formative assessment both in and out of face-to-face teaching hours. These methods of formative assessment can be extremely useful to gauge students’ understanding,…
Tagged with: App reviews, Events, Interactive teaching, Quizzes, TEL Seminar Series
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Gamification using Poll Everywhere’s Segmented Responses
Gamification in education is a pedagogical approach in which elements of games are incorporated into teaching sessions and/or online delivery, with the aim of increasing student engagement. This could be achieved by introducing a competitive element (through, for example, the…
What’s new in the A-Z of apps?
Have you seen the Technology Enhanced Learning A-Z of apps recently? We now have nearly 100 entries on our list! If you’ve not yet had a chance to look through our selection of teaching and learning tools, head over now to see…
Tagged with: A - Z of apps, Anchor FM, Apps, Box, Cogi, Photos for Class, Slack, Wix
Posted in App review, Images and Copyright, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in App review, Images and Copyright, Technology Enhanced Learning
5 more tips for multimedia enhanced teaching and learning
Why is a teacher like an artist? How can video, audio, digital annotation and other forms of multimedia be used in education? Due to the overwhelming response we had to our previous blog post 5 Tips for Multimedia Enhanced Teaching…
Tagged with: Annotation, Audio feedback, Blog, Multimedia, Screen capture, Vlog
Posted in App review, Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in App review, Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Technology Enhanced Learning
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