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Shared writing - Part 2: Creativity Tools

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Tool Name Target Audience Cost Ease of Use / Resources available / end Pros and Cons Other comments
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Debate Graph Primary and Free Simple to use Resource allows for Pros: Makes learning fun due Extremely useful for
Secondary school students to collaborate to it being colourful, as well learning for students
students information and opinions in as it allowing for
regards to any topic collaboration.
Cons: Slightly difficult to use

Answer Garden All age students free Simple to use Allows students to Pros: can use in collaboration Very useful tool for
collaborate ideas and with a whole group to brainstorming and class
information, then the website generate a consensus. discussion.
generates the most common Con: some valuable ideas
answers and brings them to may be lost, no room for
the centre. The more feedback
common a response is, the
larger the font is.

Kahoot Students of all free Simple and fun Resource allows teacher to Pros: It is easy for both I have found that
ages to use create a fun and competitive teachers and students to use. students really enjoy
quiz, tailored to what the Students enjoy using it. using this application
students have been using. Students can answer and it is a fun way for
Students can answer individually or in pairs - the teacher to assess
individually or they can do it different levels of autonomy. how much learning has
in groups/pairs. Cons: Some students arent occurred, roughly.
competitive and don't like
If there are any questions competing with and being
students struggle with, the tested in front of their
teacher can identify areas of classmates.
weakness, that can be
applied to further teachings.
Socrative Primary, Free Easy-to-use, Resource allows teacher to Pros: feedback is immediate, Also can be used to
secondary and simple test students on prior teacher can monitor who assign exit cards yay
tertiary knowledge and test answered what (i.e. who
understanding of lesson understands, who does not).
Cons: students might give the
wrong/fake names

MS Paint All ages Free Very simple, lots Allows students to draw and Pros: Simple to use, lots of https://www.newsient.co
of fun colours colour simple pictures and drawing tools, Colourful m/10-years-hard-work-
colour them in Cons: Can be difficult to man-finally-illustrates-
create complex images book-using-ms-
paint/4605

Spiderscribe Primary and Free Easy to use Mind mapping and add links It helps you organise Greater degree of
Secondary and images thoughts/ideas into a functionality compared
students structure, and by sharing it to other mindmapping
you can collaborate as a tools. The ability to add
group or class. Difficult to date boxes makes it
change the size of boxes or particularly useful for
manipulate some basic planning.
formatting functions.

Popplet High School Free Easy to use Mind mapping. Great way of Pro: easy to use once the You can add photos and
Students creating cool looking mind concepts are fully grasped. export to pdf, or embed.
maps Con: Editing tools not very If you have trouble
clear at first go. Converting to snipping tool is always
a PDF was challenging

Piktochart Secondary Free Simple Infographic maker Pro: highly aesthetic product Very flexible tool. Can
Students navigation, lots be used for
of preset Con: Limited information can presentations, reports,
options, difficult be presented on each page. posters, flow-chart,
to make fine Very hard to arrange, graphing etc.
movements nowhere near as good as MS
publisher. Cant change the
single font size of words, you
need to add different text
boxes instead.

Quizlet Students Free Easy to use Fun, innovative way of Pros: Easy to use, flexible Enjoyable for all
testing students knowledge. and adaptable to any content. students. Can be
Great way to make Cons: Takes time to create competitive,
flashcards for study. questions and answers collaborative, individual
work or just for casual
study use.

Prezi Secondary Free Easy to use Professional and resolved Pro: flexible and auto-saving A more visually
students way of creating slide shows feature, teacher can be appealing experience
with interesting and added in as a collaborator. compared to PowerPoint
engaging transitions
Con: qute time consuming
process and does take awhile
to adjust

QR Code Secondary Free Easy to use Used as digital link Pro: Ease of use Unlikely to be used very
Generator students Con: Reliance on internet often. Can look messy
connection, need access to and aesthetically
mobile device, need to unpleasing
download QR scanner

Brain Pop All ages Free Easy to use Collection of science videos, Pro: Ready made resources
interactive games and for the class
animations. Con: There is only a small
amount you can access
without a subscription

Word Art All ages Free Easy to use Used to creatively display Pro: appeals to visual Use is limited, works
key words or ideas about a learners who can customise best if all words wanting
topic. mind map to suit interests to be inputted are known
Con: not an effective prior to commencing.
brainstorming tool

Google Earth All ages free Easy to use Interactive mapping and Pro: HD imaging and street Extremely good for
geography tool, Can be view capability historical based subjects
used to navigate through such as History and
environments throughout the Cons: Can get easily Religion, as well as
world. distracted as is very fun Geography of course.

Kahoot Secondary Free Fun and Quiz creator. Usually utilised Pro: very fun and engaging. Students love it. Great
students engaging as a teaching tool, but could Students really enjoy. formative task at the end
be used as a creative task of a lesson.
where students must create Con: Very fast paced,
their own quiz for the other students who have difficulties
students and a revision task. with reading may be
disadvantaged
Padlet Secondary free Relatively easy Resource that allows users Pro: simple to use, allows all Simple to use and easy
students once you have to collaborate their ideas or forms of media to share. It is a great
used it once store information. application for
Con: can get confusing if not collaborative projects as
used correctly you can work online
simultaneously.

YouTube Anyone Free Takes some Students or teachers can Very popular with the kids, Often inappropriate
time to learn create their own content; creative and engaging; takes images and language is
creates flipped learning some learning; can be very not mentioned in titles
distracting. and can be opened in
front of children.
Comments are
unsupervised and needs
to be intensely
monitored by teachers.

Comic LIfe Students Free (for Fairly intuitive Provides a format and Easy to get the hang of, and Could be used as an
1 month) templates to create comic suitable for a range of alternative to traditional,
books. intentions and abilities. written report
assignment.

Powtoon Anyone Free Quite easy to Powtoon allows users to Pro: Relatively easy to use, Powtoons are a creative
navigate. make their own professional and the result is a very way for students to do a
looking cartoons. professional looking cartoon. summative assessment,
Con: It is quite time as opposed to simply
consuming, so it is not writing an essay or
suitable for a quick activity. doing an oral
presentation.

Educreation Anyone Free Simple way of Allows teacher to create a Pro: Easy to use Great way of providing
creating a fun and simple lesson that illustrations and voice
lesson others students can watch Con:Difficult to draw without a overs for different topics
can watch. anywhere proper tools

Sutori Secondary free Easy to Great free resource for Pro: Easy to use, Very useful for HASS or
students navigate generating timelines in professional, collaborative English classrooms
individual or collaborative learning supported, supports
settings. Includes support for range of media types
multimodal information Con: Time consuming, not
appropriate for a short lesson
Silk Anyone Free Easy to Free online creative drawing Pros: Aesthetically Pleasing, Used carefully can be
http://weavesilk. Navigate application. Perfect for creative, easy to use. an effective tool for
com/ simple graphic design, Cons: distracting, limited motivation and
spirograph work and brain educative application incentivising productivity
breaks.

Animoto anyone Free first Easy to Online creative tool that Pros - appeals to students A creative way to do a
try then navigate allows you to make videos who dont write well and the summative assessment
you have presentations are very rather than the
to pay professional traditional essays -
Cons - you have to pay after appeals to students who
the first try and you would struggle with writing
need to have quite good large amounts of text.
rubric for assessing this type
of resource.

Pixton Anyone involved Free Can be difficult Allow for students to create
with schooling to navigate at comic strips in various styles
(teacher/student). times, however and design avatars t
after
experimenting
with the website
you can use it
easily.
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