Kaizena is a free addition to Google Drive, which makes it possible to record spoken comments. With Kaizena, you can select specific sentences in the students' written work, and record your comments as voice instead of writing them. Within the monological and dialogical form of teaching, Kaizena can be used in connection with the guidance of the students. Kaizena allows both ...
Lino.it is a free, web-based message board. The tool provides the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time, and is particularly suitable for use in the monological and polyphonic form of teaching. Within the polyphonic form of teaching, Lino.it can be used as a collaboration space for groups of students or for an entire class. It is possible to upload photos, to insert pictures ...
Soundtrap is a free web-based tool, which allows to let students to record audio, both from the computer's microphone, external instruments and from a variety of electronic instruments. It is also possible to import audio files into the tool. Soundtrrap allows students to work individually with audio production, and for them to work together online at ...
Quip is a simple text editor, which lets students cooperate on documents regardless of the devices they are using. Quip is primarily suitable for use in the polyphonic form of teaching. Within the polyphonic form of teaching, Quip can be used as the students' common writing tool. It is possible for several students to work simultaneously in a shared document, and you can always see who ...
MindMup is a free mind mapping tool, which allows you to collaborate online on a shared mind map. Where, for example, Mindmeister requires you to create an account, you can use MindMup and store your maps offline without creating an account. MindMup is primarily suitable for use in the dialogical or polyphonic form of teaching. Within the dialogical form of teaching, MindMup ...
Etherpad is a free writing tool, which allows you and your students to work simultaneously in a simple text document. Etherpad is a bit like Google Docs, but it requires no login, and is therefore easier to start using. On the other hand the editing options are not quite as good, and there is no access to ...
Mural.ly is a free, visual collaboration- and communication tool. The tool allows for multiple simultaneous users to communicate and collaborate on an online visual board. The tool is especially suitable for use in the polyphonic form of teaching. Within the polyphonic form of teaching, Mural.ly can be used as a collaboration space for groups of students or for an entire class. One of the great advantages of ...
Storybird is a free web-based tool, which allows you to let the students write stories based on pictures. The tool allows students to work alone on writing texts, and to work together on a common history. It is primarily suitable for use within the dialogical and the polyphonic form of teaching. In the dialogical form of teaching, ...
Google Hangouts is a free, web-based collaboration- and communication tool, developed by Google. Hangouts allows for many simultaneous users to communicate and collaborate in a virtual space, and the tool is integrated with several of Google's other services, including YouTube and Google Drive. The tool is especially suitable for use in the monological and the polyphonic ...
Mindmeister is a free mind mapping tool, which allows students to co-create and co-edit mind maps. Mindmeister is primarily suitable for use in the polyphonic form of teaching. Within the polyphonic form of teaching, it is obvious to use Mindmeister as the students' common mind maps, for generating ideas prior to common writing assignments, project work and similar tasks. …
