Coordinator: Emese CĂŽmpean
10+ Tools for eTwinning 10 Happy birthday, eTwinning!
BECLEAN 2015
ISBN 978-973-0-19215-5
Argument: eTwinning is the place where I had the chance to become a better teacher. I was given the opportunity to learn, to grow, to share and enjoy being part of this community. All the resources and apps I use are because of eTwinning. In learning labs, webinars and projects, I discovered that I can make my teaching and learning more effective, using these resources. This is why, on eTwinning`s th 10 anniversary, I decided to celebrate eTwinning by making a collection of the most appreciated resources among eTwinners.
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Teacher contributors to this material: -
Emese Cîmpean, „Petru Rareș” National College Beclean, Romania (coordinator)
Collaborators: -
Valentina Marinova, Kindergarten “Sinchec”, Bulgaria Irena Raykova, 137th Secondary School “Angel Kunchev”, Bulgaria Anahit Baghdasaryan, 24th secondary school ‘’Gevorg Chaush’’, Armenia Vivi Hamilou, Primary School of Sourpi, Greece João Canas, Almeirim, Portugal Işıl Gülmez, Turkey Vasilica Gazdac,School „Tiberiu Morariu” Salva, Romania Dumitrița Postolache, Colegiul Tehnic „Mihai Viteazu”, Vulcan, Romania Cristina Nicolaita, „Gh. Magheru School”, Caracal, Romania
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1. Padlet (https://padlet.com/) One of the best apps I found and used in my eTwinning projects is Padlet Advantages: ● It is free; ● Allows collaboration; ● Every content is visible by every student/teacher (transparency); ● It gives you the possibility to edit your post, but you cannot change what others have written there (only if you are the Administrator of the Padlet); ● It is easy to share (everyone who has the link can edit); ● You do not need to create an account to post on a Padlet (this is why my students adore Padlet); Here is an example: http://padlet.com/cimpean_emese/christmascarols2013
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2. Photopeach (http://photopeach.com) â—? The combination of images, music and text helps students learn about presentation, expression, writing, communication skills, art appreciation and media literacy. The quality of the finished work is great and students will remember it forever. â—? Here is an example: http://photopeach.com/album/h90wgb?ref=est#spiral 5
3. Meeting words (http://meetingwords.com) â—? MeetingWords is a simple text editor for the Web. â—? Your text is saved on the web, and more than one person can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody`s changes are instantly reflected on all screens. â—? Work together on meeting notes, brainstorming sessions, homework, team programming and more!
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4. Thinglink (https://www.thinglink.com/) On Thinglink, you can create and share interactive images and videos.You can upload, tag, share and manage your images across different platforms. http://www.thinglink.com/scene/638307672000561153 It works great with picmonkey (http://www.picmonkey.com/), a digital tool for posters - collages
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5. Prezi
(https://prezi.com)
Prezi is an online presentation tool that allows you to design your own distinctive, eye-catching presentations. Prezi unique non-linear approach to presentations sets it apart from other tools.Your presentation will not be the same old slide-by-slide format that is commonly used today. Prezi creates nonlinear, flowing presentations. You will create your presentation on a simple canvas, arranging your text and images in any way you like. Prezi lets you choose the order and amount in which each element will be zoomed into, creating a unique story-telling experience. More information here.
Here is an example.
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6. Kizoa (http://www.kizoa.com/) ●
Make slideshows of photos, videos with Effects, Text, Music
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Create still or animated collages & Ecards with templates or freely
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Masterly edit photos with amazing filters, effects, and frames
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Share online: Email, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Websites
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Convert to video, upload to YouTube
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Burn to DVD
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7. AnswerGarden (http://answergarden.ch/) AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. Post it in a tweet or you can embed it on your website or blog to use it as a poll or guestbook.
You create an AnswerGarden by entering a topic on the Create New AnswerGarden-page.
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8. Titanpad (https://titanpad.com/) Titanpad allows people to work on the same document simultaneously! Titanpad is ideal for discussions or even collaborative writing! Participants contribute to Titanpad with differently coloured font backgrounds. You can create a pad here! Here is an example of this tool use! 11
9. Greeting cards animated http://iwishyouto.com/
It’s a great and fun tool to create all kinds of (christmas, easter, greeting) cards for students to send to their peers!
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10.The Newspaper clipping generator (http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper) This tool is great for disseminating the results of a project, for creating an announcement regarding the project. It is suitable as a short task for the students from the group (ex. for presenting themselves).
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11. Strikingly (https://www.strikingly.com) â—?
The best website builder for the mobile age has just arrived! â—? Advantages: - Absolutely no code or design experience needed. - You can do everything on one screen. - Click anything to edit, and publish instantly. - Build a beautiful website in under 30 minutes. - Here you can find one example: http://site361167-1094-980.strikingly.com/
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12. Kahoot (https://kahoot.it/#/) Kahoot is a game-based digital learning platform in which students will have a competition and evaluate themselves. You can create and play quizzes, surveys. Students just love this app.
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13. Smore(beautiful flyers online) https://www.smore.com/ Smore is a service for quickly creating great-looking webpages. Smore markets itself as a service for creating online flyers, but it's a little bit more than that. To me "flyer" implies that you're creating a single-use PDF and posting it online. Smore's flyers are dynamic and changeable, they're not single-use PDFs. Your Smore flyers can include many types of media including videos. Deleting or adding elements to your Smore flyer is as simple as dragging and dropping them on or off your page. Example of smore in eTwinning. https://www.smore.com/t0dp-our-ideal-european-neighbour 16
14. Pinterest (https://ro.pinterest.com ) Pinterst allows you to collect into one dashboard all the images, materials you have used in a project. Pinterest is great for keeping track of the activities, for diseminating your results. You can discover new ideas and resources and save them here (just a click). Easy to use, you just have to register. 17
15. Google Docs Google Drive is a great tool for collaboration. You can create surveys (like the one here), documents, presentations. What is amazing about Google Drive is the fact that work is saved automaticly and you can see what modifications have been made to the document by all partners. More, you can have it with you wherever you have Internet connection. 18
16. Learning Designer Learning Designer is suitable for lesson planning (or even project planning). It allows you to add resources you want to use, the aims and outcomes, descriptions. 19
17. Animoto (www.animoto.com ) Animoto helps you create short videos on different topics, using your pictures. You can add text and music. This is one of my students` favourite tool.
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18. Slideshare (www.slideshare.net ) Slideshare offers help in publishing materials and uploading them to other sites.
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19. Issuu (www.issuu.com ) Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications with Issuu.
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20. Skype Since eTwining is all about collaboration between schools, teachers and students, the best way to plan or run projects is having a chat or discussion with collegues. I think that students need to know each other as a group, in order to work better on the project. Therefore, Skype is a good tool to use.
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21. Linoit (www.linoit.com) It is a wall, similar to Padlet, where students can post their messages (text, image, video). It allows collaboration. It can be used for brainstorming ideas for projects, for feedback, for a collection of ideas on a topic.
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Online resources: ●
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https://www.pinterest.com/etwinninguk/ict-tools-for-education-adatabase/ http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/52-of-the-best-apps-forclassrooms/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem&utm_content=55568c47 04d301122b000001&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/37199QWOMDx
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