Using tools that match the way your students learn, Content Creation Tools for Education helps you give each student the opportunity to create, think critically, and collaborate with their peers. These imagination-inspiring apps and online resources can be used at school or in the classroom at home.
The Content Creation Tools Kit includes everything educators and students need to create, critique, and share content. These creation tools include a variety of ideas for improving student engagement through content creation activities.
Book Creator
“Create. Read. Publish.” That’s what Book Creator is all about. Let your students create and write their own stories. Students can combine text, images, audio and video to create interactive stories, digital portfolios, journals, poetry books, science reports, manuals, comic adventures and much more. You name it, they create it.
Afterwards, students can publish their books and show you (or their parents) their masterpieces. Book Creator is an example of an easy-to-use authoring tool for students (and teachers).
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an interactive screen casting whiteboard. This means that students can make a presentation, and record everything they are drawing and saying. Draw, add pictures, highlight and write text. They even have a nice red pointer.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is intuitive app that lets you or your students create animated videos in minutes. Choose a video lay out, import videos and images, add text and choose some music. That’s it!
In this video creator/editor, students can easily add and trim video clips to make their videos stand out in the classroom.
Students can choose an image from the Spark library that has over 25,000 beautiful iconic images or add their own photos to highlight what they have to say. Spark automatically adds cinematic motion to their story so they don’t have to be a pro in video editing.
And there’s more. Students can create their own webpage with Adobe Spark Page or create a good looking image with Adobe Spark Post.
MySimpleShow
Looking for a fun way to let your students do a lecture? Then, you should introduce your students to MySimpleShow. MySimpleShow is a simple online tool that empowers anyone to make professional videos.
MySimpleShow is very easy to use. Students can write their own video script, or they can even upload a PowerPoint file.
The first option lets them write a story and it will suggest some suitable images students can choose from and use in their video. At the end, students record their own voice, or they choose between voiceovers that are given.
MySimpleShow has some educational templates available as well.
Canva
With Canva, students can create presentations, social media graphics, compelling images, and much more. Canva provides thousands of beautiful layouts like magazine templates, presentations, letters, business cards, etc.
Tired of using PowerPoint or Keynote? Canva is the solution. Students can search instantly for good images and icons. There are also other creative elements like grids, frames, shapes, lines and charts.
Some of Canva’s images, icons and other designs are for free, and they offer a large range of premium ones as well. Don’t worry, students can just find a free image on another website (like these websites) and add it to their presentation.
Storybird
Storybird is a powerful app that combines creative tools for writing, reading, and storytelling in educational settings. Students can make their own story. It makes students of all ages feel like “real authors” and bring their fantasy to life.
It’s also an adaptable, creative tool to enhance lesson plans and assignments for any grade level or subject matter. History? Let your students write a history-related story. Math? What about letting them create a story of a boy that encounters a problem in his life, and how he solved it with math?
Another really good option of storybird is the ability to purchase digital or print books and poems made by your students. Or even better: activate the optional fundraiser mode to involve families and raise money for your school.
Padlet
Padlet can be used by students (and teachers). With padlet you can create an online post-it board that you can share with any student or teacher you want. Just give them the unique Padlet link. Padlet allows students to insert ideas anonymously or with their name. It’s easy to use and very handy.
Whoever has the Padlet board opened on his smartphone or computer, can see what’s on it and what everyone is writing. Students just have to take a device and start adding little sticky notes online. They can see all the ideas gathered on the teacher board immediately.
Zoom
You’ve probably never heard of zoom in your entire life. That’s because this software is mostly used in the business world. So what is it? Well, this content creation software lets you host webinars.
As a bigger project, let your students host their own webinar, by giving a presentation about a certain subject. The webinar can be about anything. Two birds, one stone. Students are creating content about your lesson topic and you’re preparing them for the business world already! Bonus: Zoom is free.
Tellagami
Tellagami helps you bring your messages to life. By combining photos, voice, 3D characters and personality on a mobile platform, they help you communicate in a way that’s never been possible.
Choose a character and personalize it. Then choose a mood (sad, happy, neutral, silly, angry,…). Change the background and record your voice. It’s as easy as it sounds.
The app is only available for Apple, though. But that doesn’t make it less cool. You can still share the video with your students via mail or social media.
Meme generator
Student created content can also be something out of the ordinary. Take a meme for example. Let students summarize a lesson by creating memes about the subject. Expect some hilarious outcomes that actually represent your lessons. It’s also a fun way that correlates with your student’s environment outside the school, which makes it easier for students to remember.
Moovly
Let students create their own explainer videos, animations or YouTube introductions with Moovly. Moovly has over 600000 free templates, videos, animations and sounds. Students can also use their material and upload their own media. Moovly is very easy to use because of its drag and drop interface. Pick a video template or start from scratch; drag & drop, export & share the video. That’s it!
Kidblog
Kidblog is a blog environment that provides tools to safely publish student writing. Teachers can monitor the student activities within the community of “student authors”.
Kidblog gives students a voice and lets them write blog posts that can be published for real. Students write with a purpose for a real audience. Students are digital citizens within a secure environment.
Edmodo
Edmodo is an educational tool that connects teachers and students, and is assimilated into a social network. In this one, teachers can create online collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure student performance, and communicate with parents, among other functions. Edmodo has more than 34 million users who connect to create a learning process that is more enriching, personalized, and aligned with the opportunities brought by technology and the digital environment.
Socrative
Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, Socrative is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can see the results of the activities and, depending on these, modify the subsequent lessons in order to make them more personalized.
Projeqt
Projeqt is a tool that allows you to create multimedia presentations, with dynamic slides in which you can embed interactive maps, links, online quizzes, Twitter timelines, and videos, among other options. During a class session, teachers can share with students academic presentations which are visually adapted to different devices.
Thinglink
Thinglink allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs. These can be shared on other websites or on social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook. Thinglink offers the possibility for teachers to create learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive content that can expand their knowledge.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collaboration of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas. This website allows democratizing access to information, both for teachers and students. Here, people can have an active participation in the learning process of others.
Grammarly
Grammarly is an all-in-one spellcheck and grammar tool. It helps users write error-free copy on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and almost anywhere else on the web.
Grammarly works by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to scan your text for common and complex grammatical mistakes, including everything from subject-verb agreement to article use and modifier placement. It also goes beyond regular checking to provide users with explanations and helps them improve their writing skills. The plugin is free for individual users, with premium and business plans also available.
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