Digital Presentation and Instruction Tools

This Directory, compiled by Jane Hart, contains over 1,000 entries organized by headings.

The Top Tools for Learning 2020 was compiled by Jane Hart from the results of the 14th Annual Learning Tools Survey, and released on 1 September 2020.

This resource is curated with resources and links to video tutorials that will help you on your online or hybrid/hyflex teaching journey

VoiceThread integrates with Blackboard to allow educators to create videos and other content to embed within the course where appropriate.

"Flipgrid is 100% free for all educators, learners, and families. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together!"

Perusall automatically manages entire out-of-classroom experience, and motivates participation via social connections and automatic engagement scores.

Create microlearning, assessments, practice activities, and more using gamification and social interaction. (Get a free upgrade by emailing them with edu email!)

AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.

Choose a video, give it your magic touch and track your students' comprehension.

Created by a high school student to use gaming in the classroom to enhance learning.

"Yellowdig is the online community for learners to share ideas, to pass and absorb related knowledge, and to dig deeper throughout the important act of learning."

Incorporate collections, themes and experiments into the classroom to bring the arts, history, science and more to life.

"The goal of this guide is to explain the purpose and value of digital storytelling for the sciences, and to describe applications, tools, and tutorials to tell your own digital stories."

"We create spaces for listening to and sharing stories, to help build a just and healthy world. Our public and custom workshops provide individuals and organizations with skills and tools that support self-expression, creative practice, and community building."

"CSS bridges the gap between scholars and storytellers to support positive youth development. We offer research-based actionable insights to support authentic and inclusive content for audiences ages 2 to 25."

Record your story and have it archived in the Library of Congress, using this app.

Capture powerful feedback instantly during virtual meetings, classes, events, and more.

Create boards for students to interact with during class in real time.

Create a learning game or trivia quiz on any topic and give students a code to participate.

Designed for educators to create fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments.

Engage your audience with polls and quizzes.

"lino is a free sticky and canvas service that requires nothing but a web browser."

Create microlearning, assessments, practice activities, and more using gamification and social interaction. (Get a free upgrade by emailing them with edu email!)

Choose a video, give it your magic touch and track your students' comprehension.

Use polling features to increase audience engagement and peer-to-peer education

Use this tool to ask students to describe a complex topic using only the thousand most common English words!

"Quickly pull in images from a Google search, save work to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard."

AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.

Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff!

"Use live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As and more to get real-time input - regardless if you’re remote, hybrid or face-to-face."

"Ice-breaker? Big decision? Pop quiz? Whatever the question, Vevox’s real-time polling helps you get the answers."

Perusall automatically manages entire out-of-classroom experience, and motivates participation via social connections and automatic engagement scores.

"Collaborative annotation makes reading active, visible, and social, enabling students to engage with their texts, teachers, ideas, and each other in deeper, more meaningful ways."

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