Padlet

Padlet is an online pinboard that you can use to get anonymous responses from students in the form of pictures, videos, text, drawings, and so on.

Flip

Flip is a short form video sharing platform that educators can use to pose questions, and students can respond with videos.

Google Jamboard

There are many virtual whiteboard softwares available, but Google Jamboard is the simplest and most user friendly in my opinion.

Teams

Teams is a messaging and forums platform provided by the Lethbridge School Division as a communication tool between students and teachers.

Forms

Create digital quizzes or questions for formative assessment. Students then have access to tools like speech to text for answering questions.

Interactive Presentations

PearDeck

Peardeck is an extension you can sign up for to make your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations where students can respond in real time.

Menti

Menti is an online tool for creating interactive presentations through the Menti presentation software. Students can join presentations and respond to slides in real time.

3D Video & VR Kits

3D video is a short classroom activity that can be used to create a more immersive learning experience.

Independent Research

Web Searches

Having a topic, a word, a person, a place, or any other specific and searchable information can give students an opportunity to research answers for themselves.

Curated Articles

Having students explore websites on their own is similar to students reading from their textbooks with more opportunities for interactivity.

Curated Video

Teachers choose videos for students to watch individually and give the students time to process the information in it.

Gamified Review

Buzzonk

Buzzonk is a web application that can function as a lock out buzzer to make it really feel like playing jeopardy for review games!

Kahoot

Kahoot is an online quiz game app where students compete to answer questions correctly the fastest. At the end of the game, there is a leaderboard to show who did the best.

Blooket

Blooket is my personal go to for review games. Students answer questions at their own pace after the teacher sets a time limit for the game. There are a ton of game modes that vary in being luck vs skill based.

Gimkit

GimKit is a tool for longer review games. It has the same basis of having students answer questions, but instead they earn resources to play a competitive game against classmates.

Tech Integration WITHOUT Devices

Factile

Factile is a tool for creating Jeopardy-like games for free, where teachers can upload their own questions!

Wordwall

Wordwall has a variety of game modes for selected response quiz questions. Play them on the board or embed them in your website!

Plickers

A quiz game without phones! Have students hold up printed QR codes to answer questions instead!

Student Response