Web-based services and software resources:
These are web based tools and resources. To explore how to do digital catechesis and remote learning, go to the page entitled Distance Learning
GOOGLE TECHNIQUES - BEYOND THE BASICS
These are web based tools and resources. To explore how to do digital catechesis and remote learning, go to the page entitled Distance Learning
- Sr. Carolyn Cerveny's (RIP) blog, CyberPilgrim, is a collection of ways to use digital media in the classroom and for catechesis.
- Teaching Religion in the Twenty-First Century: A great example of a blended lesson using online tools, including many of those mentioned below.
- A great collection of tech tools for the classroom
- Graphite reviews and sort educational apps for you, helping you to find apps and sites that might be helpful
- Devolver Moviemaker - Makes animated movies to tell a story. (Note that there are six lines of dialogue possible, with three scenes per movie. There is no pause or rewind function. )
- Animoto - create your own 30-second videos
- Educreations - Make white board lessons with recorded voice over that can be shared. Easy for students to use.
- VoiceThread - a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
- Quizlet - an online service to make quizzes, flash cards and study aids for your students.
- Quia - make online questionaires and homework assignments. Subscription needed.
- Glogster - a way to create interactive, online, collaborative 'posters' for class projects. There is a basic, free version, as well as subscriptions.
- Blabberize - a tool to add a voice over to any picture.
- Kidsblog - a way to create blogs for your students. Here's an example of how to use it for RE homework.
- Boomwriter - ways for kids to create and share stories.
- Classbadges - create badges you can award to students as rewards or incentives.
- Create your own bar or QR codes
- How to make gifs
- A tool to make flashcards
- Sigil - a tool to make .epub books that can be read on devices
- Digital Storytelling with 30 Hands - mobile device app
- Free software to creating infographics and presentations. Think of ways older students can use these to design a project showing what they have learned. Here's an example about sacraments, done for adults.
- Kahoot is a great interactive game creator. Your students will like that they have to use their phones. Games are easy to create.
- Using Classflow to create learning units and assessments.
- How to print on post-it notes.
- Build a word search that uses clues with to review vocabulary and concepts.
- Build a crossword puzzle with your own clues to review vocabulary and concepts.
- Online Jeopardy game builder
- Moving classes online - tips and links
GOOGLE TECHNIQUES - BEYOND THE BASICS
- Making a Google Form template
- Get more value out of Google Classroom
- Creating Drag and Drop assignments and study tools in Google Slides
- More ideas for digital assignments in Google Classroom
- More tips and tricks for Google Classroom
- Some other tips for organizing your Google Classroom
- Fun add ons for Google Slides
- Adapting physical teaching aids to digital uses
- Quickly and easily turn a physical document into digital format for assignment to students.