Technological tools for your use
Tools for processing, displaying, and sharing visual content
|
Presentation ppt |
Tips for Building Power Point Presentations from an Engineer's Perspective Using a Presentation for a Teaching and Learning Experience Adapted for the Digital Age, Keren Kalif, Programming Teaching Expert info@kerenkalif.co.il |
|
A tool for creating dynamic presentations that uses effects such as motion, zoom, and spatial relationships. Allows for collaborative presentation creation, using focus on different parts of the presentation. An existing Power Point presentation can be imported into Prezi. Based on the Internet, and does not require the purchase or download of software. Cost: Free basic version, paid Edu Pro version (downloading the presentation to a computer and displaying it without an Internet connection, producing a printable version are only possible for Pro subscribers) Instructional video for building quality presentations using PREZI – Ministry of Education |
|
|
A free tool that allows you to create digital books and share them online User Guide and Training Video – Ministry of Education Sample Digital Book: SPSS Study Guide |
|
|
A digital tool that allows you to enrich and motivate the learning process by revealing information hidden within images. Thinglink allows you to create an interactive image with links to text, images, and videos. You can share the image using a link. Example: Brain Structure |
|
|
A tool for creating interactive visual content – posters, infographics, presentations, and more. Possibility to add interactivity to content: links, transitions between pages, displaying floating text, and more. The product is available online and can be distributed via link. |
Tools for creating, saving, and sharing videos
|
Intelligent search for videos on Youtube, Dr. Dovi Weiss, widgets and simulations for illustration, see slide 11 Examples in the field of physics
In the field of engineering |
|
|
A cloud service for video storage. Used to store video content of courses at the Technion: video recordings of the Center for Promotion of Learning and Teaching studio, lectures recorded by faculty independently in Panopto or using other software, and recordings of Zoom meetings. On the Panopto website, you can also edit the videos, as well as add various components to them such as a table of contents, notes, and accompanying questions. |
|
|
A tool for processing videos. The workflow includes a link to a YouTube video, allows you to place closed and open questions or comments on the selected video, and share them. |
|
|
A digital tool that allows you to create a video-based session. You can add comments, questions, and a discussion topic to a YouTube video and share it with students via a link. |
Tools for collecting information and engaging learners
|
A tool that allows lecturers and practitioners to collect information in real time during class. Students connect using any device with an internet connection (smartphone/tablet/computer) and answer the lecturer's questions. Can be used to assess understanding and knowledge in class, the results can be presented as a basis for discussion. |
|
|
A game-based learning platform that allows the creation of multiple-choice quizzes. |
|
|
|
A tool that allows the teacher to broadcast a rich presentation directly to the students' desktop and mobile devices. Suitable for LIVE activities where the teacher determines the pace of the presentation or for asynchronous activities where the student determines the pace of viewing the content. The free version is limited to 40 participants |
|
Interactive presentation tool that allows for a combination of interactive tools: word cloud, closed and open questions. The presentation can be shared with learners so that what the lecturer presents, including the students' responses to the various tasks that appear on their screens. |
|
|
Poll Everywhere is a platform for creating and conducting real-time surveys, used by lecturers in the classroom to collect information from students, increase active learning and enable active participation of all learners in the classroom. Learners answer the survey online using their device (smartphone, computer or tablet). The tool allows the creation of a variety of question types (closed multiple-choice questions, clicking on an area in an image, sorting and ranking options, regular open questions and more). The uniqueness of the tool is the possibility of embedding the questions within the lecture presentation (optional). The survey result can be presented graphically to participants, thus stimulating discussion and discourse on the topic being studied. |
|
|
One of GOOGLE's tools, used to create online questionnaires and surveys. |
|
|
|
Communication and sharing tools
|
A platform that provides an environment for conducting video-based discussions. The instructor opens a discussion board for the course and can start a discussion on a specific topic. Students are asked to respond with videos of up to 90 seconds. |
|
|
An online collaborative board that allows students to share texts, images, links to websites, and more. Can be used as a space to present students' ideas and products or group work. |
|
|
A tool for synchronous video-based meetings. Includes interactive tools: chat, poll, whiteboard, room division, and small group work. |
|
|
Forums |
The moodle system contains a variety of forum options, including an anonymous forum option. |
Tools for building personal and collaborative knowledge
|
A collaborative reading tool for articles, developed at Harvard University by Prof. Gary King, Prof. Erik Mazur and Brian Lukoff. The tool is integrated into the Technion's Moodle system. For more information, visit perusall.com. For a detailed guide for lecturers and practitioners, visit Perusall Instructor Help. |
|
|
A free tool that allows you to save, share and organize bookmarks from anywhere. With Draggo, students can store favorite links. In the account, you can edit up to 10 tabs, add pages to store, and share and organize the links. You can keep the information private or make it public using Draggo's custom URL. |
|
|
A tool that allows you to document and organize thought processes in a clear graphic form while referring to central ideas, key concepts and the connections between them. The tool allows you to brainstorm, organize ideas, plan projects and link various items to a visual map - a mind map. You can add text, images, YouTube videos, notes, icons, task schedules and links to websites to the map. |
|
|
A digital tool that allows you to create animated videos combining sound, image and video, and combine media in a creative way. You can upload the video to YouTube and share it. |
Simulation tools
|
– Interactive simulations in science and mathematics |
The University of Colorado Phet website has a variety of interactive simulations at a variety of academic levels. Simulations can be filtered by content area and academic level. Options for integrating simulations into course teaching:
|
|
Free dynamic mathematical software that combines geometry, algebra, tables, graphs, statistics, and differential calculus.
|
|
|
An online tool for drawing graphs by writing and updating equations. |
|
|
Three-dimensional, multi-layered models of systems in the human body. |
|
|
A database of simulations and virtual laboratories in science and engineering |
Collection of digital resources, interactive simulations and virtual labs in engineering, exact sciences and mathematics, life sciences and medicine. For example: Flowsqure |