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Elizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO Recently launched, FluentKey is designed to gamify the use of videos for comprehension. FluentKey is currently in beta testing, but open to all. Edpuzzle already allows teachers to design online quizzes
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By Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) Wakelet is a free web-based tool that allows you to curate and share multimedia resources from around the web: webpages, videos, tweets, images, PDFs and a whole lot more. It seems similar to
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by Megan MacNicol, Spanish teacher in Hershey, PA Formative, which is also known as GoFormative, is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic device:laptop,
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by Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Associate Professor of Spanish, Elmhurst College Edpuzzle is a web-based interactive video tool that allows teachers to customize existing online videos in ways that encourage active learning. The basic version is free for
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) In previous articles, I introduced you to H5P’s Interactive Video and Audio Recorder activity types. In this article, I would like to introduce you to the H5P Course Presentation activity type. It is
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Nathalie Ettzevoglou, French Teacher at Alpharetta High School, Georgia. Quizalize is a web-based tool that allows teachers to collect and track student-specific data generated automatically by the zzish platform in order to personalize instruction. The company’s platform zzish was
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. For quite some time, clickers (or student response systems) have been popular tools in large lecture courses to elicit student participation. Kahoot, a game-based quiz platform has also become commonly used
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By Anna V. Torres Mallma, Spanish PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago Recap is a free web-based tool that allows users to record and post videos for private and public interactive discussions. It is a product from
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By Lincoln Bain, MAT graduate student, Northern Arizona University. Perusall is a free web-based reading tool designed by a small team of professors from Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. Perusall allows users to create collaborative reading
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By Cheryl Gil, Spanish teacher at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School in South Carolina. Padlet is a virtual wall that allows users to post words, pictures, attachments, and links onto a single post. If the link is shared, whether through
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By Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). Kaizena is add-on tool for Google Docs that allows teachers to give extensive and varied feedback to their students. For anyone who has previously commented on students’
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. The impending demise of the Flash player has been wreaking havoc with many apps that teachers use to create speaking assignments
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Meloddye Carpio Rios is a Spanish Phd student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. VideoAnt is a free web-based tool created by the University of Minnesota that allows for the adding of annotations and observations to online
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. H5P is a free application by Joubel that allows you to create a variety of interactive and mobile-friendly activities that
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