Best Online Tools for Collaborative Learning
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The document lists various educational technology tools and resources that cater to today's tech-savvy student generation, featuring platforms for online collaboration, gaming, storytelling, and multimedia presentations. Highlights include websites like Whyville, Animoto, and Quizlet, which provide interactive learning experiences across subjects. These tools are designed to enhance engagement and improve learning outcomes for students in K-12 education.
Best Online Tools for Collaborative Learning
- 2. Today’s student generation is Edtech from gadgets, online and Internet-savvy. They are all computer heroes, and they often engage better with their electronics than they do with paper and pencil.
- 3. #1 www.whyville.net WhyVille is a free, online community where every children is a valued citizen. Your students can play geography, science and art games with each other, or with other kids from around the world.
- 4. #2 This incredible tool allows you to create short video clips and vibrant slideshows that will wow your students. Add music, text and other extras for full-featured presentations. www.animoto.com
- 5. #3 A free account lets you make recordings up to 3 minutes each, which you can then share on your class’s wiki, blog or other media – or even as a simple link. www.audioboom.com
- 6. #4 Work together to create artful stories to share, print and read. Your students can even play their stories like games, or send their works of art to friends and family, as books or greeting cards. www. storybird.com
- 7. #4 Arcademics, an online gaming site where students can collaborate on multiplayer games to test their math, language, social studies and other skills. www.arcademics.com
- 8. #5 Take your dry erase board online with Twiddla, a virtual whiteboard app. Billed as a meeting playground with a trial sandbox, www.twiddla.com
- 9. #6 Circling back to educational games, FunBrain serves up a smorgasbord of classroom-friendly games for the K-8 crowd. www.funbrain.com
- 10. #7 This award-winning website lets elementary learners read anytime, anywhere – and allows teachers to monitor students’ progress, www.raz-kids.com
- 11. #8 For classrooms that practice phonics-based learning, Starfall has a suite or games, plays, magic tricks and more. www.starfall.com
- 12. #9 For language arts and culture classes, nothing beats group storytelling. This innovative, free site lets your students collaborate on stories you assign, www.foldingstory.com
- 13. #10 Your students can collaborate to create multimedia presentations that incorporate audio, video and even original cartoons! www.creazaeducation.com
- 14. #11 The name may be a little, well, dweeby, but Dweeber is a great place for middle school kids to meet for online study sessions. www.dweeber.com
- 15. #12 For every kid who has ever struggled with math, HeyMath! offers an easy, totally fun answer. And the collaborative part? www.heymath.com
- 16. #13 Cool Math is more than just math: it’s science, reading and geography, too! All games are designed for classroom use, www.coolmath4teachers.com
- 17. #14 If the 21st century classroom needs an online, collaborative video-creation tool, WeVideo fits the bill. www.wevideo.com/education
- 18. #15 Innovative and well designed, this online tool can be your go-to for collaborative projects. www.scootdoodle.com/educators.php
- 19. #16 Whiteboards are a great tool for sharing ideas, outlining projects and more. Simple Surface allows students to share thoughts… www.simplesurface.com
- 20. #17 This online meeting hub is designed to create a web-based, group study group. There’s also whiteboard capabilities… www.thinkbinder.com
- 21. #18 Discuss a project, maintain contact with a sister school, take international penpals to the next level – the possibilities are many. www.99chats.com
- 22. #19 Sometimes student groups just need to have a real conversation, not a group email or text chat. Conference calls are the solution… www.speek.com
- 23. #20 each your students about social conscience with DoSomething.org, where every week begins with a new challenge… www.dosomething.org
- 24. #21 Quizlet’s study sets work like flashcards, helping students memorize or reinforce information on any subject under the sun… www.quizlet.com
- 25. #22 If you’re tutoring students in language arts, English, poetry or a foreign language, Wordle makes vocab fun. www.wordle.net
- 26. #23 Though targeted to customer service reps, ChannelME is a great tool for tutors, too… www.channel.me
- 27. #24 Hop onto Vyew for real-time, online collaboration through video chat, document sharing, and annotation. www.vyew.com/s/
- 28. #25 Sometimes, keeping students on task is half the battle. With Toodledo, you can set due dates, outline tasks, and set time estimates for every item. www.toodledo.com
- 29. #26 Chances are, your students would benefit from a multimedia approach to learning: instead of reading words on a page, they’d prefer to see… www.glogster.com
- 30. #27 TED-Ed originals (and they’re awesome), and even YouTube videos. Or, you can view lessons other teachers have created and use them in your own classroom. www.ed.ted.com
- 31. #28 Mind-mapping is a great way to get your students thinking visually. Chat with your students about ideas, tell stories… www.mindomo.com
- 32. #29 This colorful, interactive site was created just for kids with special needs. You’ll love all of Do2Learn’s resources… www.do2learn.com
- 33. #30 So whether you have visual, auditory or kinesthetic learners, everyone will have a chance to see, hear and participate in the day’s lesson. www.cosketch.com
- 34. eTutorWorld Corporation Personal Online Tutoring Services in Math, Science and English for Grades 3-12, and Test Prep for SCAT, SSAT and AP courses. 6594 Ellies Way Fairfax Station, VA 22039 Phone: +1-269-763-4602 Website: www.etutorworld.com