Educreations Interactive Whiteboard – A whiteboard app that provides students the tool to share understanding and comprehension.
This tool is best for generating class discussion and brainstorming on different topics and questions.
Dotstorming – A whiteboard app that allows digital sticky notes to be posted and voted on.
Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.
Crowdsignal – Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes, and questions.
Compatible on tablets and PCs, Conceptboard can work from multiple devices.
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Conceptboard – This software facilitates team collaboration in a visual format–similar to mind-mapping, but using visual and textual inputs.
Coggle – A mind-mapping tool designed to understand student thinking.
ClassVR – Virtual environment for primary school students.
ClassPulse – A mobile and web app that increases student engagement outside of the classroom by creating a more collaborative environment.
Students can monitor their progress and work.
ClassKick – This app allows teachers to post assignments for students, so both the teacher and peers can provide feedback on the assignment.
These live chats make great companions to classroom discussion, provide exit tickets, or keep a discussion going after the class is over.
Chatzy – Use Chatzy to support backchannel conversations in a private setting.
Buncee – A creation and presentation tool that helps students and teachers visualize, communicate, and engage with classroom concepts and ideas.
BookSnap – While currently this app is only available for iOS, it provides a digital way for learners to interact with text and with other learners.
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Students also can review and recommend books to their peers on the site.
Biblionasium – This online, safe, and simple book network allows teachers to view books students have read (a digital reading log), create reading challenges for students, and track progress.
An extension of the in-the-moment conversation might be to capture the chat, create a tag cloud, and see what surfaces as a focus of the conversation.
Backchannel Chat – This site offers a teacher-moderated version of Twitter.
AudioNote – A combination of a voice recorder and notepad that captures both audio and notes for student collaboration.
The Answer Pad – Allows teachers to capture data from students using the web or the app and is touted as being ideal for the flipped or blended classroom.
AnswerGarden – A tool for online brainstorming or polling, educators can use this real-time tool to see student feedback on questions.
Animoto – Gives students the ability to make a short, 30-second share video of what they learned in a given lesson.