Tech Play 3: Creativity Tools



My Top FIVE Creativity Tools

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I am happy to say that I found dozens of creativity tools that can be used in meaningful and developmentally appropriate ways. I am constantly looking for creative ways to pique my students interests and create a wow learning experience. As a Special Education Teacher it's important to me to find new ways to differentiate instruction in such a way that all students are able to achieve. The following sites allow students to CREATE 


5. Nearpod

I love the concept of Nearpod! With Nearpod it not only allows teachers to find or create lessons but the multimedia platform creates engaging interactive discussions with students. I really enjoyed playing around with Nearpod. As a teacher one of our most valuable commodities is time! I love that Nearpod gives you access to thousands of ready to run lessons with the option to customize. It allows students to save prep time by easily importing existing lessons and adding interactive features such as Virtual Field Trips, 3D Objects, Quizzes, Polls and opened questions. As teachers we love data, data, data and Nearpod delivers with the ability to do quick understanding checks in real time as well as assessment reports. 



4. FlipGrid

I love FlipGrid! The first thing that FlipGrid reminds me of is a social media vibe which students loved! FlipGrid is the leading video discussion platform and it allows educators to extending the learning environment beyond the classroom. With FlipGrid, teachers create discussion topics and students can record with video recordings. Peers can then respond to keep the discussion going. It's a great way to allow students to THINK and formulate their ideas before sharing and allows everyone to make their points without being talked over. 


3. Buncee

Buncee is an all in one multi-media technology tool that can be easily used by students, teachers and administrators. It allows users to easily create and share visual representations of content, across grade, age and learning levels. Buncee is a one-stop-shop to build media-rich lessons, reports, newsletters, presentations and so much more! Buncee offers multiple ways to help students visualize, voice and communicate their learning in a fun and engaging way. I can really see my students using this tool and enjoying the process of creating projects. 



2. Glogster

Glogster is a multi-media interactive poster that allows students to easily create posts and other graphic designs to enhance their learning experience. I love the concept of Glogster because it allows students to express their ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video and text on one digital canvas. It also allows for teachers to find some pretty amazing content from the site's "Glogpedia" which is an amazing resource of over 40,000 globs from all over the world. 



1. TinyTap

TinyTap has more than 100,000 learning activities for students and teachers to use. Looking over the site it looks as if it's geared more toward younger students and I could see also using this as a tool to engage my exceptional students as well. With TinyTap you can search for games for students to play to help reinforce concepts and students can even create their own games. I love that this is a simple tool that allows educators to quickly and easily create fun educational activities that engages students in learning. 



References
https://blog.ozobot.com/2018/04/19/26-tech-tools-teachers-can-use-inspire-classroom-creativity/ retrieved on June 26, 2019



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