As part of my agenda to foster digital literacy in academic
contexts, I always ask my students to develop multimodal projects to either present, synthesize, or summarize the readings for the week. I also ask students to create digital multimodal projects to present their research and other kinds of papers. Below is a list of the digital sources that I commonly use, and that my students widely use. The list is not exhaustive. At the end, there are some links to other lists that are more exhaustive than this one. I hope this helps you also find new ways to present your projects.
Google Classroom:
Multimodal Presentations
- PPTx (Microsoft PowerPoint)
- Prezi
- Haiku Deck
- Sway
- Thinglink
- Nearpod
- PowToon
- Screencastomatic (make videos of your presentations)
- Voki
- Sidury’s Pinterest (for other ideas)
- Peardeck
- SlidesMania
Video-making/Animation
- Wideo
- GoAnimate
- Filmora
- Wevideo
- PowToon
- VoiceThread
- Adobe Spark
- moovly
- kapwing
- Toontastic
- Edpuzzle
- Voki
- Educreations
- PlayPosit
- Vocaroo (App)
- And Apps:
- Tellagami
- animoto
- TouchCast
- Biteable
- Supporting apps: Teleprompters: cueprompter
Screen Recording:
- Screencastomatic
- QuickTimePlayer (the one I use the most)
- CamStudio
- educreations (for iPad)
- explaineverything
- UniDoodle
- Screencastify
Cartoons/Memes:
Note-taking/Studying:
Quizzes:
Collaborating:
- Google Drive and Docs
- Zoho
- Dropbox
- Class Dojo
Video Conferencing/Video Collaboration:
- Adobe Connect
- Go to meeting
- zoom
- Google Meets
- Uberconference
- Skype
- Flipgrid
- Edmodo
- Microsoft Teams
- PlayPosit
- Loom – Video Messaging
Create Visually Engaging Content/Infographics:
Websites/Digital Portfolios:
Social Media Websites:
- TikTok
- Snapchat
K-12 Content:
- Brainpop
- Colorin Colorado – ELL Resources
- Virtual e-books – Epic
- gonoodle – content for kids
- iStation (app)
- Kahoot – Gamified learning
- Kami – Digital Classroom
- Nearpod
- PebbleGo
- Remind
- Schoology
- Seesaw
- Socrative
- Tumble Books
- MyPBLWorks
- Formative
- HyperDocs
- WizerMe Worksheets
- Book Creator
- GooseChase – Scavenger Hunt
- Fliphunt (Flipgrid)
- ThoughtExchange
- Gimkit
- Buncee
- CoSpaces
- 3D Bear
Other Resources:
- Scanners – CamScanner (phone/tablet), Officelens,
- Content curators – Storify, clipboard, symbaloo, diigo, pinterest, educcliper
- Free Images/photos free to use – multiple websites, Creative Commons
- Audio: CCMixter, Freesound, sound effects, more websites to find free CC music, Jamendo
- Everything (music, photos, websites, content): Creativecommons.org
- Second Language Learning: Duolingo (App), Culips (ESL Podcasts), FluentU Language Learning, SpeakEnglishApp
- Communication: Telegram App, Voxer
- Organization: Symbaloo App, Wakelet – save and organize,
- Podcast: Synth, Anchor, Soundtrap
