Materials Development


 

MS Word - make all sorts of worksheets, etc.   Stay digital and embed audio and video!

 

PowerPoint - add graphics, create comics, make charts, embed video and voice

 

PDF - print as poster or banner

 

 

 

Wordle.net - word clouds

 

Create comics (Yellow wiki)

 

Piktochart or Canva - create infographics - examples

 

 

Voki - add your voice

 

VoiceThread (Yellow wiki) - Create stimuli for student conversations, 3 threads for free
     Tip:  Use PowerPoint to create "slides" and dump them into VoiceThread 

 

EDpuzzle and PlayPosit - stop videos to ask questions or supply additional information

 

Screencast-o-matic (free) or Screenflow ($99) - create a video of what you are doing onscreen and add voice narration - site tour

 

 

 

Tool Collections
 

Interpretive Activities (yellow wiki) - you create texts that students read/listen to and respond

 

Presentational Activities (yellow wiki) - student presentations, but these tools also work for teacher presentations

 

PLN Tool Browser - a way to search for a useful tech tool by what you want it to do

 

 

 

 

Additional Useful Tools

 

Graphic Organizers from CARLA's CoBaLTT Project

 

RubiStar - create your rubrics online

 

Photoshop Express Editor - or Pixlr - no need to download, and free!

 

KeepVid:

  Tutorial:

 

MPEG StreamClip

  Tutorials:

 

 

 

Please feel free to browse all of the tech tools from the CARLA Technology Summer Institute (yellow wiki).