Educational Tools

Educational Tools

Useful educational tools for online interactive learning and teaching:

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Workshops for Staff/Students

Padlet

Virtual Canvas/bulletin boards where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect and share their creative artefacts and learning experience with each other.

Many styles are available on Padlet. Padlet can be used for class activities, brainstorm, topics discussions, creative ideas sharing, reflections, selfies, presentations… etc.

Nearpod

Nearpod is an interactive learning platform for teachers to create interactive lesson and engages students with activities. Teacher can also get real-time feedback on students’ understanding and access to progress reports to review students’ performances.

Mentimeter

A student response system featured interactive survey and polling tool to collect instant feedbacks from students during class or remote learning. Encourage knowledge sharing and stimulate class discussions.

  • Build beautiful interactive presentations in the presentation builder.
  • Collect polls, data and opinions from participants using smart devices.
  • Get insights on participants with trends and data export.

Edpuzzle

An interactive video-based lesson tool for teachers to facilitate student learning with video content. It has the ability to embed notes and formative assessment directly into video, track and grade student learning progress and performances.

Flip Screen

Flip

A video community created by teacher to facilitate online learning and collaboration. Students can build their video portfolios, practice conversational and presentation skills, and share their learning experiences.

Flip is free of charge, users can sign-up a free account at https://info.flip.com.

Workshops on Educational Tools for Staff

Using Padlet as a Multimedia Organiser and a Collaborative Learning Tool (For Staff) 

Think of Padlet as the whiteboard or bulletin board in your classroom, where you can invite students to post sticky notes of their ideas for brainstorming, or pin up their posters for peer review. You can also think of Padlet as a folder where you organize various types of notes and multimedia files. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to create Padlet of a few common layouts, embed content from the web into it, and export your Padlet. You will also get some inspiration on how to use Padlet for collaborative learning and understand the usage of Padlet from students’ point of views.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today 5 September (Tue)
schedule 11:00 am – 11:45 am
location_on Online through Zoom

Setting Up a Video-rich Classroom Community Using Flip (For Staff)

Video assignments are getting more popular. Using Flip, you can easily set up an online space (grids) for you and students (or even guests) to view and respond to video submissions in multiple formats. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to create and manage your grids. You will also get some inspiration on how to use Flip in various teaching scenarios.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today 19 September (Tue)
schedule 11:00 am – 11:45 am
location_on Online through Zoom

Synchronize Teaching and Learning with Your Students Using Nearpod (For Staff)

With Nearpod, you can synchronise your deck of slides to your students’ devices in a click, and track whether students are following your presentation or formative assessment activities. By the end of this workshop, you will get to know the functions and features of Nearpod, and be able to create an interactive lesson and control the pace of content delivery using this tool. You will also get some inspiration on how to use Nearpod in various teaching scenarios and understand the usage of Nearpod from students’ point of views.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today 21 September (Thu)
schedule 11:00 am – 11:45 am
location_on Online through Zoom

Using Edpuzzle for In-video Quiz (For Staff)

If you want to curate your teaching videos into an interactive lesson with assessment activities, Edpuzzle is for you. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to create your video-based lesson, embed assessments, audio notes or comments on it, and know how to track student progress. You will also get some inspiration on how to use Edpuzzle in various teaching scenarios.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today 25 September (Mon)
schedule 11:00 am – 11:45 am
location_on Online through Zoom

Workshops on Educational Tools for Student

An Overview of Educational Tools for Online Interactive Teaching and Learning (For Students)

All EdUHK students are welcome! This workshop will introduce three popular online applications that create a collaborative environment for interactive teaching and learning. These three apps are Nearpod, Padlet and Quizizz.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today 9 October 2023 (Mon)
schedule 02:30 pm – 3:30 pm
location_on Online through Zoom