The start of the new school year 2021-2022 comes amidst exceptional times as the entire world is still struggling to contain the nefarious effects of the current pandemic. Apparently, the post-pandemic education, as I argued elsewhere, is different. It is mainly characterised by a predominant hybridity in which both modes of online and in-person instruction fuse together in such a way that it becomes hard to conceive of one without the other. Digitality, to say the least, has become a central component in the pedagogical equation of the post-pandemic classroom.
To help you make the best of this new school year, I am sharing with you this collection of educational technology tools that you can use to boost your instructional practice and enhance your overall productivity. This post is part of a series of posts featuring back to school resources for teachers.
Assessment tools
- Kahoot
- Quizizz
- Quizlet
Collaborative content curation
- Wakelet
- Padlet
- Symbaloo
- LiveBinders
Online meetings, webinars, video conferencing
- Google Meet
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Webex
Creating interactive presentations
- Google Slides
- Peardeck
- PowerPoint
Creating interactive visuals
- Canva
- Piktochart
- ThingLink
- Google Draw
Audio feedback and voice notes
- Mote
- Kaizena
- Vocaroo
Create and share tutorials and educational screencasts
- Screencastify
- Loom
- Screencast-O-Matic
- Snagit
- Camtasia
Web annotation tools
- Hypothesis
- Weava
- Kami
- Read&Write
- InsertLearning
Interactive video lessons tools
- Edpuzzle
- Flipgrid
- iSLCollective
- Playposit
- TedEd.
