The document provides information about various free online tools that can be used in the classroom, including blogs, document upload sites, voice recording tools, animation creators, image editing tools, and games. It includes the name of each tool, its website, a brief description of its functions, and suggestions for how it could be used for educational purposes.

1. Jon Meier, Verulam School, St Albans

2. Blogs
• A website for your class – use Blogger or
Typepad (free sign up)
• Network support will provide you with an email
alias so pupils can email work to you
e.g. jpmwork@verulam.herts.sch.uk
You can then put their work up on the blog e.g.
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/7french
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/y8german
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/y8german/

3. Document upload
• You can upload documents to
Docstoc, Scribd or Slideshare
And then link these to your blog
e.g.
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/11german

4. Google: Voki
Voki Website: www.voki.com
What it does:
Choose a character ‘avatar’ and type
in text (or record) to make it speak.
Works in lots of languages.
Example: click image, or link below
Ideas for use in the classroom
Make your avatar summarize the
main learning point,
Make it ask the class questions
about a topic
or give true/false statements
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/mflteaching/

5. Fakebook
Google:classtools.net
Website: www.classtools.net
What it does:
You can make a fake Facebook page
for a celebrity
Ideas for use in the classroom?
Homework: create a Fakebook page
for
Historical personalities
Theorists, Writers or characters
Places, regions

6. Twister
Google:classtools.net
Website: www.classtools.net
What it does:
You can make a fake Twitter entry
Ideas for use in the classroom?
Homework: create tweets for
Historical personalities
Theorists, Writers or characters

7. Go Animate / Domo Animate
Google: Go Animate
Website:
http://domo.goanimate.com/
What it does:
Pupils can create animations and add
speech bubbles; select from a range of
characters, add props and backgrounds
Examples plus all sorts of effects to animate the
character. Free sign up required.
http://domo.goanimate.com/movie/
0yTbSeR6_qf4/1
Ideas for use in the classroom
www.verulamvle.typepad.com/7french Illustrate a lesson point
Topic revision
www.verulamvle.typepad.com/y8german
A joke/ story/ dialogue etc

8. Xtranormal
Google: Xtranormal
Website:
www.xtranormal.com/
What it does:
Pupils can create a movie style
animation; has ‘text to speech’ – so it
will speak the dialogue you type in.
Free sign up required.
Ideas for use in the classroom
Illustrate a lesson point
Topic revision/ news-style report
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/1253 joke/ dialogue/ story etc
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5858/blagues-pour-enfants

9. Fotobabble
Google: Fotobabble
Website: http://www.fotobabble.com/
What it does:
Upload a photo. Pupils can add their own
audio commentary. Free sign up required.
Ideas for use in the classroom
Illustrate a lesson point
Topic revision/ news-style report
Beginners German Project work
My town/ my hero etc
Mes deux chats
MeineFamilie

10. Audioboo, Audiopal or Vokaroo
Google: any of the above – audiopal is
the best
Website: http://www.audiopal.com/
(etc)
What it does:
Quick audio clip recording tool
Audiopal lets you record your voice or
input text (text to speech)
Ideas for use in the classroom
Some pupils may prefer to just do an
audio recording instead of a piece of
Audioboo Example
writing

11. Tagxedo / Wordle
WORDLE Google: Tagxedo or Wordle
Website: http://www.wordle.net /
Or http://www.tagxedo.com
What it does: you paste text into a box
and it turns into a ‘word cloud’
Tagxedo highlights the word when you
hover the cursor over it
Ideas for use in the classroom
Pupils could: guess the topic
Spot words in a category e.g. verbs
TAGXEDO Use selected words

12. Popplet
Google: popplet
Website: http://popplet.com/
What it does:
user-friendly diagram creator. You can
add youtube videos, images. You can also
collaborate on a page. Free sign up.
Ideas for use in the classroom
Essay planning
Presentation planning
Topic summary and revision (pupils could
do a Popplet hand-out for each other)

13. Easyprompter
Google: easyprompter
Website:
http://www.easyprompter.com/
What it does:
Input your text into a box, press start and
the text scrolls up the screen like a TV
autocue / teleprompt
Sample Text to paste in:
Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we
bear witness to the enduring strength of our Ideas for use in the classroom:
Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy.
We recall that what binds this nation together is not
the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the
Reading practice (spoken fluency)
origins of our names. What makes us exceptional –
what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, News report (History, English, Drama)
articulated in a declaration made more than two
centuries ago:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
Lesson starter – pupils watch the scrolling
are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among text and see how many key points they
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
can remember

14. Star Wars Crawling Text
Google:Star wars crawling text creator
Website:
http://www.easyprompter.com/
What it does:
Input your text into a box, press start and
the text appears as Star Wars style titles,
with music
Ideas for use in the classroom:
Reading practice (spoken fluency)
News report (History, English, Drama)
Lesson starter – pupils watch the scrolling
text and see how many key points they
can remember

15. Text mechanic
Google: text mechanic
.erehdesrev
erunrodesre
verebottxet
Website: http://textmechanic.com/
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What it does: flips, reverses text
It also does lots of other stuff- e.g.
randomize lines of text
Try also: Toggle Case
http://www.togglecase.com/ Ideas for use in the classroom:
Or Text scrambler As a starter– decode the secret message
http://www.rjwoerheide.com/ Put sentences in the correct sequence

16. Gap-Fill Generator
Google: Random Idea English gapfill
generator
Website: http://random-idea-
english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-
gapfill-generator.html
What it does: Generates a gapfill (cloze
test) you enter text, add square brackets
round the words you want to disappear.
Click create.
Ideas for use in the classroom:
Ideal as a keyword exercise as a starter or
plenary

17. Top 10s
http://www.aneki.com/lists.html
In Powerpoint edit mode,
you could move shape this
over the lists to hide some
of the text. Pupils can then
guess or predict.

18. Unusual Pictures &
Optical illusions
Talking Points for Form Time

19. Countdown Timer
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/bomb-countdown/
Online Dice Roller
http://dice.miniwebapps.net/

20. ‘Dicey’ Sentences
Use Activ Inspire
software for dice
roller or online
here: http://dice.miniwebapps.net/
I read Alone In the sitting room
1
I wash With my cat In the kitchen
2
I sleep With my pet snake In the garage
3
I play on the PS3 With my friends In the bathroom
4
I do my homework With my mum & dad In my room
5
I watch TV With my class In the garden
6

21. Toondoo
Cartoon strip creator (not animated)

22. Blockbusters
Google: teachers direct + quizbusters
Great for keyword revision

23. Thanks for Listening
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