Presentation delivered as part of Forth Valley College's Creative Learning Conference. A selection of 4 learning technologies that can be utilised in a creative way.
5. Kahoot!
Okay this is really good … and staggeringly popular
with 50M+ players in just 3 years.
Kahoot! is a free web-based quiz tool, designed
for any device. A games-based approach for
individual/team play combined with a simple
interface make this one of the best tools for
formative assessment.
Let’s have a go …
6. MySimpleShow
A free presentation video authoring system, with
an embedded storyline tool.
MySimpleShow lets you to create Commoncraft-
type presentations; the workflow focuses on you
developing a script according to a template – the
software then automatically adds images and a
voiceover (which you can tweak).
Let’s have a go …
7. Vizia
Add your own questions to any YouTube video and
then embed the video on any webpage (including
Moodle courses).
Vizia is a free tool that allows you to add multiple
choice questions, polls and/or open text questions
to videos. Data is collected via a downloadable
spreadsheet.
Let’s have a go …
8. PollEverywhere
A flexible ‘audience response’ tool that collects
responses via the web, SMS and Twitter.
Although the free account is limited to 25
responses, it’s still an impressive application with
a variety of response types from open-ended text
to clickable images.
Let’s have a go …
Wow, I really love this one. Kahoot! is so simple to set up, run and play that it’s generally an instant win with users (assuming of course, you have a good set of questions and a purpose for the activity).
It’s still pretty fantastic. There’s a nice guide that helps you get started:
https://files.getkahoot.com/academy/Kahoot_Academy_Guide_1st_Ed_-_March_2016.pdf
And the team continue to develop the service, with recent updates to the editing interface and new functionality.
MySimpleShow can be a little hit and miss with its automatic video production, but the results can be surprisingly good … and with a little adjustment, you can produce an impressive eye-catching presenation.
The storyline approach can be restrictive, but it can prove useful when explaining the structure of a presentation with learners. As an (ex)English teacher, I would be pretty excited about using this with my learners – and am definitely interested to hear what uses you can come up with!
There are quite a few tools out there that allow you to add questions to YouTube videos, but I find Vizia to be a nice solution as you can embed the content into other resources – also, users don’t need to register their details to access the questions (though that option exists).
If you do need to capture the names of people attempting your questions (but don’t want to force them to supply their email addresses), you can simply make the first question an open text question asking for their names.
PollEverywhere has been around for quite a while, but it’s still one of the best options if you need a quick audience response option. It’s a shame that the free account has had the number of responses allowed for each poll reduced from 40 to 25, but if 25 works for you, then it’s worth looking at the application.
Some of the question types (Q&A, clickable images, ranking) are only accessible via a web address. Only the multiple choice and open-ended question types can be used with Twitter and SMS.