Most teachers relish in the creativity they can express when choosing activities to engage students in a content area they love. There are many technology tools that can be incorporated into fully online learning or classroom learning to provide solutions to some of the most important issues in K-12 education, issues such as teaching literacy skills to young learners, complex math and science skills at advanced levels, and problem-solving skills in authentic contexts. There are innumerable ways to incorporate innovations in technology into your teaching to motivate students and vary the instructional methods you use. In this section, you will explore several general and specific online tools that can be used to supplement instruction. Please note that this list is in no way exhaustive and keep in mind that a tool is only novel and engaging for a small window of time—instructors must constantly use new techniques to keep students engaged.
Kahoot: A game-based, web and mobile device real-time quiz program, Kahoot lets an instructor premake a quiz and students can enter answers on their mobile device or browser while the live results are broadcast. This can be shared during a live, virtual classroom session as a means to check understanding and provide engagement.
Poll Everywhere: Also designed for real-time responses, participants can send their responses to prepared questions via text message or a web browser and the results can be displayed live in a synchronous session. This tool makes a great warm-up or ice breaker to a lesson.
SurveyMonkey or Google Forms: These tools are great for asynchronous surveys or quizzes. The best online instructors are those who frequently solicit and use feedback from students regarding what they’d like to see in their online course and what they are interested in. (There are free versions of these tools available.)
FlipGrid:Free for educators and students, FlipGrid lets users record and share videos. Students can reflect on what they are learning, carry out discussions, and show their work in their own time and place in a secure platform they find very engaging.
Screencast-oMatic, TechSmith Capture, and ScreenCastify: These tools let you make short screen recordings with or without an embedded webcam image. Instructors can use them to provide brief instructions on navigating a course, using a particular technology, or completing an assignment; students can use them to complete those assignments.
Bitmoji: This tool allows users to create an avatar that looks like themselves and create many different possible clipart images using Bitmoji. A virtual instructor can use a Bitmoji in an email signature, throughout a lesson presentation, and in many different ways to provide visual interest and engagement to the learners. A Bitmoji classroom can even be created to link resources in an engaging view that students can click on to navigate.
Summary
In this module, you examined the terms and tools used in online learning as well as features of synchronous and asynchronous instruction platforms. The technology at the core of an online school is the learning management system (LMS)—the set of tools that houses course content and provides the framework for communication between students, teachers, and caretakers. There are common features among learning management systems though each platform differs. There are also many supplemental online tools instructors can use to engage students in virtual instruction.
Source: https://www.coursera.org/learn/virtual-school/supplement/YIYNL/other-online-learning-tools
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