Digital Teaching Resources

Prism: http://prism.scholarslab.org/  

Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation." Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or "facets." Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical use and scholarly exploration, revealing patterns that exist in the subjective experience of reading a text.

Verso: http://versoapp.com/  

If you’ve ever stood in front of a class of students and wished the quiet ones would weigh in with a response, here’s a tool designed to give even the most reluctant learner a voice. Verso Learning has introduced the Verso app, which activates learning using authentic student voice as a driver for deeper, personalized learning design. The Verso app gives teachers the ability to create a challenge (inquiry-based learning activity) from audio, video, images —and embed content easily from other sources (YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, URL). Teachers can add questions and instructions to a challenge and reveal each student’s thinking. Students participate anonymously, and each response invites further discussion by classmates. This discussion presents authentic feedback in which students are required to submit their own ideas before gaining access to other responses. Teachers can measure students’ understanding and engagement, and can view participation data that shows quantity and quality of student engagement. Use of the app encourages collaboration, critical thinking and scaffolds learning into more challenging assignments. Perfect for project-based learning and “flipped” classrooms.

Design deep learning activities, students have anonymity, however the teacher can who is who. Students cannot see other students work until they submit therefore they are not influenced by others.

TwistedWave Online - A browser-based audio editor: https://twistedwave.com/online/ 

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.

All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.

Quill is a free service that puts a new spin on the old writing worksheets that most of us used in middle school. The service offers more than just the writing practice activities, but that is its core feature. There are three activity categories within Quill. Those activities are Quill Proofreader, Quill Grammar, and Quill Writer.

In Quill Proofreader students are shown students passages that have grammatical errors placed in them. Students have to identify and correct the errors in the passages that they read. 

Quill Grammar requires students to complete short exercises in which they finish the construction of sentences by inserting the correct words and or punctuation marks. 

In Quill Writer activities students work together to construct sentences from a shared word bank.

Little Story Creator (not to be confused with the similar sounding Little Story Maker) is a free iPad app that students can use to create multimedia stories on their iPads.

The app was designed with students in mind and is therefore rather easy to use. On the app students can create multiple page stories. On each page of their stories students can add images and videos, type text, draw, and apply digital stickers. Students can also record audio on each page to narrate their stories.