Digital Tools for Activating Strategies

Wordle
is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you
provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear
more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create
with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them
out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Lino
is a an online stickies service that offers stickies and canvases.
You can post, see, and peel off stickies on canvases freely.
Poll Everywhere
is the world's largest real time web, SMS, and Twitter
polling service that lets users submit votes or comments to a
PowerPoint or Keynote slide. It is a modern alternative for expensive
hardware audience response clickers.
Gliffy
is a web-based diagram editor. With this free tool, you can
create flowcharts (mind maps), SWOT Analysis, & Venn Diagrams
that can be used to introduce a lesson or concept.
AnswerGarden
is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real
time audience participation, online brainstroming and classroom
feedback.

Digital Tools for Summarizing Strategies

Socrative
lets teachers engage and assess their students with
educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through
the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and
visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class current level of
understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can
further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of
learners. There is also an Exit Ticket feature built into the web app.
BubbleSheet
allows students to take assignments, tests, quizzes,
and common formative assessments using an iPod, iPad, or iPhone.
The Digital Media Exit Card
Today, with the explosion of digital media, teachers have so many
tools at their disposal for this kind of assessment. What would a
digital media exit card look like? Here are some possibilities that
utilize mobile devices:
A six-second
Vine
video to capture the most critical six seconds of
class

 A 16-second video to post to

MixBit
, YouTube's new video sharing
tool
A
tweet
that boils down the essence of the class to 140 characters
A photo illustrating the key learning moment that can then be
posted on a class
Instagram
account
A question posted to a class
Edmodo
account inviting a
continuation of the learning outside of class