LibGuides: Library Online Learning Tools: Teaching Tools

Interactive Lessons

Insert Learning
Turn any webpage into an interactive lesson with this chrome extension. You can assign questions or quizzes, start discussions, and require students to leave comments on any internet page.
Triptico
A great free tool for teachers to help create, share, and edit interactive lessons.
Timelinely
Add comments, images, links, and maps to the timeline of a video. Just enter the URL and start creating!
Thing-Link
Image interaction technology that helps students become fluent in using digital media to express themselves and demonstrate their learning. With ThingLink, teachers and students can easily create interactive infographics, maps, drawings, and engaging 360 documentaries in a classroom setting, at home, or on field trips.
Edji
Readings revolve around your students interacting with text through comments. As they read, students highlight interesting or important parts of the text and leave a comment to express their thoughts about it. Comments can be written with text or strings of Emoji that convey complex thoughts. You can see all comments being made in real time to keep an eye on what your students are thinking.
EDPuzzle
Empowers teachers to make any video your lesson. Crop a video, explain it with your own voice and embed quizzes at any time. If you use videos in the classroom, EDpuzzle is a must have. Take any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, etc. make it perfect for your classroom and more engaging for your students. Make any video a true lesson by making it to the point, personal and effective, plus get all the data about your students so you know if they truly understand the lesson.
eStory
Visualize the key elements of a timeline. Create interactive timelines with text, images, and videos. Great for student projects or to use as a teaching tool.
FlipGrid
A social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a “web” of discussion.
Open Explorer
”is a community platform for explorers and scientists to document their expeditions in real-time from the field and share their journeys with the world through digital storytelling. Anyone with a story to tell or a place to explore can now share their journey and crowdfund their fieldwork, including university researchers, citizen scientists, students and professional explorers. The online platform aims to democratize exploration by lowering the barrier of entry, giving access and allowing anyone to share their stories of curiosity and adventure.” – National Geographic

Digital Bookmarking

Track Star
Collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a “track.” Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme.
Symbaloo
A wonderful way to organize educational sites into one location for students.
Digio
Social bookmarking for teachers where they can create free student accounts.

Spelling and Vocab

Spelling City
One of the best sites around for teaching and learning Spelling and Vocabulary. A very user-friendly and engaging site to use.

Websites/Blogs

Weebly
Create a free class/student blog or website.

Learning Games

Educaplay
A excellent way to create interactive multimedia educational activities. This tool is so cool! Tap in to your students’ gaming obsession by creating games based on class content, or have the students create their own games as an assignment!
Game Builder
Create educational games that reinforce learning with these free, classroom-ready digital resources. Build interest and engagement with interactive formats that students can play from any computer, tablet, or smartphone. The game templates are designed to be flexible and work with any curriculum.
Kubbu
A free site for teachers to create games, quizzes, or crosswords and then share them with students and view/analyze their results.

Creative Activities

ACMI Generator
This is a great site for older students for digital storytelling and creating a storyboard scene with a script. There are also resources for creating a video game from the ground up! From the home screen, just click on Menu > Education > Online Learning and then scroll to see all the resources available!

Forms/Responses/Surveys/Worksheets

Jot Form
An engaging, intuitive platform for creating online forms, surveys, etc.
Microsoft Forms
Create surveys, feedback forms, etc. Part of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Live Worksheets
allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets (doc, pdf, jpg...) into interactive online exercises with self-correction. Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher. Worksheets may include sounds, videos, drag and drop exercises, join with arrows, multiple choice... and even speaking exercises, that the students must do using the microphone. You can use liveworksheets to make your own interactive worksheets or you can use the ones shared by other teachers.