Web Based Tools for Literacy and Beyond

Featured Tools

• Haiku Deck - presentations
• Edmodo - classroom community
• Evernote - online repository
• Plickers - classroom polling made easy
• ClassFlow - lessons with assessment
• BlendSpace - brings the web to students
• Kahoot - fun quizzes as assessments
• Aurasma - augmented reality

Haiku Deck
www.haikudeck.com

Haiku Deck

• Presentation Software
• Similar to PowerPoint
• Free, Paid automated version "Zuru"
• Simple, easy presentations that look great!
• Amazing photo library for background images

Edmodo
www.edmodo.com

Edmodo

• "Facebook" for your class (in a good way)
• Create and manage groups and assignments
• Give instant feedback with assignement annotations
• Create a library of web resources

Edmodo

• Create and monitor discussions and backchannels
• Apps (some paid) can extend capabilities even further
• Calendar to keep track of assignments and events

Evernote
www.evernote.com

Evernote

• a place to store all of your important digital stuff
• upload or email pictures, audio, text, pdf files
• organize your content into notebooks

Evernote

• Great for student portfolios
• Great for recording students reading
• Create an easy blog with postach.io

Plickers
www.plickers.com

Plickers

• Free fun polling app
• A paper version of "clickers"
• Students get a unique QR code

Plickers

• Great for predicting during reading
• Also a quick check-in tool
• Results show each student's response privately

ClassFlow
www.classflow.com

Classflow

• Good for BYOD classrooms
• Students can view your lessons on their devices
• Add assessments and see students results easily

Blendspace
www.blendspace.com

Blendspace

• Add pictures, notes, videos websites as slides
• Students view slides and complete tasks at their own pace

Blendspace

• Create media-rich content quickly
• Assess at the end of the slides
• Free Edmodo integration, no extra account required

Kahoot
www.getkahoot.com

Kahoot

• Create fun, inteactive quizzes
• Students can answer on any internet connected device
• Keep track of results for assessment

Kahoot

• Hundreds of users can take same quiz at once
• Battle of the Books

Aurasma
www.aurasma.com

Aurasma

• Augmented reality
• A digital layer over reality
• Auras trigger digital events

Aurasma

• Many possibilities
• science fairs?
• book reports?

Questions?

• Email: clayton.boyer@htcsd.ca
• Twitter: @boyerclay
• Presentation: boyerurl.ca/webtools

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