EL Technology Tools
Thank you, Steph Gerry from iReviews for sharing this list of language apps available for purchase. It's great to have a quick reference of the apps available to help students practice their language skills!
This is a tool you can use to upload pictures and add captions and music to create a video.
This is a great tool for formative assessment that allows teachers to post a question for students to answer, and then creates a word cloud with their replies.
This is a fun tool that allows students or teachers to upload a photo, add a mouth, and record audio to create a mini-movie.
This is a tool you can use to create free online concept maps.
This is a free tool you and your students can use to quickly create and download GIF's. This would be great and fun way to add visuals to any classroom presentation or online assignment.
This is an online tool students and teachers can use to create multimedia posters with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more.
This is a free online tool that can be used to create quick formative assessments that will allow you to instantly and anonymously assess student learning of new concepts.
This is a free tool comic strip creation tool that provides teachers and students with a variety of characters, templates, and prompts for building their own comic strips.
This tool allows students and teachers to create mindmaps that others can view and add to.
This is a free online stopwatch you can use in the classroom.
Using this tool, teachers can create a virtual wall that students can post comments on.
This tool allows students to practice their oral improvisational skills by responding to a random generated set of images.
This tool allows you to create an online journal. Entries are automatically dated and you can add images as well. Journal entries can be emailed or printed.
This is an easy-to-use tool that allows teachers and students to create comics.
This tool allows students and teachers to create virtual word webs. Students can also collaborate on the same web.
This free tool allows you to quickly and easily create QR codes for your classroom.
This is a tool student and teachers can use to create virtual flashcards to practice vocabulary with. In addition, students and teachers have access to hundreds of pre-made flashcards.
This is a tool that allows teachers and students to create and play review games.
This tool to a one-stop shop that allows you to create online polls, quizzes, and q&a for your presentations.
This is a tool teachers can use to assess student comprehension throughout a lesson. Teachers can create multiple-choice, true/false, and/or short answer questions that students can respond to online. The tool can then be used to generate excel reports that teachers can view to check student understanding.
This is a tool that allows students and teachers to make, read, and share visual stories.
This tool allows students to create their own comic trips with little technology knowledge. All they need to do is drag and drop.
This site allows your students to create and use interactive flashcards.
Using this tool, teachers can upload an image and then have students add annotations.
This is a tool you can use to upload photos and then add comments, links, video, and sounds.
This tool allows students to choose from a wide variety of art in order to design totally original cartoons.
This tool allows users to shorten youtube videos to focus in on key pieces of the video segments.
Students or teachers can easily record their voice. This would be a great tool for students to practice pronunciation and reading fluency.
This tool is great for student revision and editing. Students can create an avatar and then type in their writing assignments. The avatar will then read aloud the writing assignment so that the students can hear errors they have made.
An excellent digital storytelling tool you can use in the classroom.