Wallwisher is an online notice board maker.
Voki
is a tool to create animated speaking avatars. You can create class
pet/mascot/puppet that can ask questions of the students or talk about
weather, day, month, the activities that the children will be doing in
class that day. You can also ask students to create their own avatars
that talk about themselves. If you have a class website, it's also a
good idea to have a Voki avatar that introduces you to the kids and the
parents.
You can start a talk group using Voxopop. You can talk about yourself or ask questions to the kids that you want them to talk or start a discussion on any topic.Voicethread
can be an alternative to Voxopop. If you give the students a book
report assignment for the summer, you can ask them to leave their
comments on a Voicethread by using different commenting styles. The
activities that you can do with Voicethread throughout the year truly
endless.
Online
surveys or polls can be an interesting and a fun way to engage your
children. You can use them to get to know them better or you can design a
survey to learn their opinions about school or what activities they do enjoy in class. SurveyMonkey, Polldaddy, PollEverywhere can be the tools where to start!
If you want to give a quiz at the first days, you can choose a more techie way and use some online quiz generators. EasyTestMaker, HotPotatoes, QuizEgg and QuizMaker are my favourites.
What about asking students to create timelines? Xtimeline or OurStory can be some examples of these tools.
Creating
an animated film may seem difficult to produce, luckily we have Web 2.0
tools to make it very easy and fun for us and for our students. Zimmertwins, Xtranormal and DVolver are
my favourite tools.You can create a film starter and ask the children
to guess the ending or create their own films on any topic you've given
them. These sites are new ways to engage your kids and improve their
creativity.
EduGlogster can
be an awesome way to use in class all throughout the year. You can
create a colourful glog for your children with links, pictures, animated
pictures, colourful background, audio or with a video. You can create a
glog to introduce yourself/your lesson, brainstorm ideas with students or
simply ask them to create a glog to introduce themselves to
each other.
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