Use these tools to facilitate communication between students in real time presentations, or class projects.
Upload images or PowerPoint slides and then invite others to comment on them. Comments can be an text or an audio or video recording. It can be used for presentations, book reports, research projects, and more. Login required to use and save. The (paid) education version will allow you to create up to 50 student accounts.
Interactive online bulletin board. Login required to build a wall, but students do not need a login to post as long as you give them the code to access your wall. Posts can be text, image, audio, video, or a combination.
Create open ended or multiple choice questions to poll your students. Teachers will want to create a free account to save polls. When you create a poll, you will get a link or text message id to share with your students. When you login to your teacher account, you can see the results of the poll, the number of people who have responded. You have many options for exporting your poll results, including PowerPoint & Prezi downloads, web link, Twitter, Blog, and Web page embed codes. No login is required for students to use.
A free student response system that can replace clickers in your class. Teacher creates an account and gets a room number to give to students. You can create multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions for your students. The quiz can be paced by the teacher, self-paced by students, and even run as a game. Student responses are collected in an Excel spreadsheet that you can access in real time, or have emailed to you.
The companion app/site for students. They do not need a login to use, but will need the teacher room number.
Upload an image and then create hotspots with links to text, images, audio, video, and web sites. Great tool for interactive presentations that can be used by teachers or students. Final products can be shared by email, links, and embedded on Web pages. Login required to use and save.
Documents can be shared between users so that they can collaborate on a project. GoogleDocs tracks and saves every change that is made so that you can see who is responsible for each edit and retrieve any deleted versions. Login required to use.
Another great collaborative bulletin board. You can post texts, images, audio and video files. Sticky notes are available in 4 different colors, which can be used to identify who is making the comment, or categorizing comments. No login required to use and share. Login required to save.
Upload a video, then add comments, surveys, and questions for students to answer. Login required to use.
Create a live blog to supplement showing a video in class. Teachers must register for a free account to create a blog event. Then, students can be given the event code to login and post questions/comments and respond to polls and questions posted by teacher. You can choose to moderate all comments before they are posted to the group.