Hafiz’s EdTech Tools for Teachers

Useful tools for teaching and learning

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Here is a repertoire of tools that teachers can use to develop teaching and learning materials. Tools and platforms listed here have been carefully curated to only include those that are easily picked up and used by teachers. This list will be updated periodically. Best if you bookmark this entry for future reference.

Last update: 18th Sept 2021

Table of Contents

General Tools

1. Polls & Surveys
2. Collaborative Whiteboards
3. Video Conferencing
4. Website Building
5. Classroom Management
6. Collaborative Document
7. Graphic Design
8. Video Content Generators
9. Quiz & Tests
10. Presentations
11. Audience Interactions
12. Resources Management
13. Audio Podcasting
14. Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality
15. Backchannel Communications
16. Project Management
17. Annotating
18. Screen Recording

Subject-specific Tools

1. Geography
2. History
3. Mathematics/Computational
4. Science

Polls & Surveys

1. Poll-Maker: https://www.poll-maker.com/
2. Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms
3. StrawPoll: https://strawpoll.com/

Collaborative Whiteboards

1. Google Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/
2. Miro: https://miro.com/
3. ExplainEverything: https://explaineverything.com/
4. Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/

Video Conferencing

1. Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/
2. Zoom: https://zoom.us/
3. Kumospace: https://www.kumospace.com/ 🆕

Websites Building

1. Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/
2. Wix: https://www.wix.com/
3. Webflow: https://webflow.com/
4. Google WebDesigner: https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

Classroom Management

1. Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/
2. Edmodo: https://new.edmodo.com/
3. Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-teams/
4. Nearpod: https://nearpod.com/
5. ClassDojo: https://www.classdojo.com/
6. ClassCraft: https://www.classcraft.com/

Collaborative Document

1. Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document
2. Microsoft Office 365: https://www.office.com/
3. MindMeister: https://www.mindmeister.com/

Graphic Design

1. Canva: https://www.canva.com/
2. Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/
3. Visme: https://www.visme.co/ 🆕

Video Content Generators

1. Lumen5: https://lumen5.com/
2. Plotagon: https://www.plotagon.com/
3. Biteable: https://biteable.com/
4. Toonly: https://www.toonly.com/
5. Powtoon: https://www.powtoon.com/
6. Animaker: https://www.animaker.com/
7. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/
8. Vyond: https://www.vyond.com/

Quiz & Tests

1. Kahoot: https://kahoot.com/
2. Quizizz: https://quizizz.com/
3. Formative: https://www.formative.com/
4. Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/
5. Wordwall: https://wordwall.net/
6. Plickers: https://get.plickers.com/
7. Socrative: https://www.socrative.com/
8. Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/

Presentations

1. Google Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/
2. Prezi: https://prezi.com/
3. Genially: https://genial.ly/

Audience Interactions

1. Slido: https://www.sli.do/
2. Mentimeter: https://www.mentimeter.com/
3. FlipGrid: https://info.flipgrid.com/
4. WooClap: https://www.wooclap.com/ 🆕
5. Parlay: https://parlayideas.com/ 🆕

Resources Management

1. Padlet: https://padlet.com/
2. Wakelet: https://wakelet.com/
3. Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/
4. BlendSpace: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons
5. Google Keep: https://keep.google.com/

Audio Podcasting

1. AnchorFM: https://anchor.fm/

Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality

1. CoSpaces: https://cospaces.io/edu/
2. PlugXR: https://www.plugxr.com/ 🆕

Backchannel Communications

1. WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/
2. Telegram: https://web.telegram.org/
3. Discord: https://discord.com/
4. Slack: https://slack.com/
5. Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/
6. Google Currents: https://currents.google.com/

Project Management

1. Trello: https://trello.com/
2. ClickUp: https://clickup.com/

Annotating

1. VideoAnt: https://ant.umn.edu/ 🆕

Screen Recording

1. Loom: https://www.loom.com/
2. Screencast-o-matic: https://screencast-o-matic.com/
3. Screencastify: https://www.screencastify.com/

Subject-Specific Tools

Geography

1. Google Earth Engine: https://earthengine.google.com/
2. Google Earth: https://earth.google.com/web/

History

1. Pleiades: https://pleiades.stoa.org/home
2. TIMELINE: World History: https://www.wdl.org/en/sets/world-history/timeline/#0

Mathematics/Computational

1. WolframAlpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Science

1. BrainPop Jr.: https://jr.brainpop.com/science/beascientist/sciencetools/
2. NatGeo Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/