Recommended Digital Tools

Google Slides as an Ebook

Podcasts with Synth

iMovie - use on your iPad or Mac or iPhone if you have one

Apple Clips - create videos that incorporate stickers, fun in-the-app green-screen backgrounds, memojis, and graphics-  available on the iPads

Davinci Studio - Free video editing software for all computers

Stopmotion

Loom - the tool we officially recommend at BFIS because you can upgrade to the education version for free and don't have a 5 minute time limit. (You need to be 13 or older to qualify for the Loom education version. 

Screencastify - this Chrome extension version works great! You can edit videos right in the browser,  and you can also use it to create GIFs! Limit is 5 minutes.

Quicktime- Built-in screencasting on your Mac.

All of these allow for curation of multimedia sources.

Padlet - I love using padlet for students to post their work and ask for feedback. It's also a great place to curate digital text sets.

Wakelet - Wakelet is create for creating collections related to a topic. A student might use wakelet to curate Tweets about a current event.

Miro - Think mood board but collaborative.

Thinglink allows you to add hotspots to any type of visual media. So you might start with a map, a poster, a video, or a 360 degree video. Then link spots on the image to audio clips of you talking, to a caption describing what something is, to a link to another resource, etc. 

Canva is a free, online design platform. You can use this tool to create presentations, infographics, posters, websites, video, graphic organizers... the possibilities are endless. Ask your teachers if they use Canva and can add you as a student so you have access to the pro features. Sign up with your school gmail address. 

Prezi - On Prezi you can create engaging presentations, posters, infographics, or screen recordings.  You must be 13 years old or older to use Prezi. You can create up to 5 free presentations.