Leveraging digital

In every C (créativité, collaboration, communication, caractère, citoyenneté et pensée critique (see previous post)) there is a leveraging digital component. Students need to be able to explain what tools they are using as how it is facilitating their learning. During our biodiversity inquiry,  here are the tools we used and what students said the tools allowed them to do.

Google Slides
- speaker notes
- animation, transitions, effects
- visuals
- templates - themes
- liens

Google Sites and Wordpress
- to share information
- to reach a bigger audience

Powtoon
- very visual!
- video
- voice and music

Prezi
- well organised
- easy to use
- very visual!
- sharable
- multimedia uses (video, links)

Read and Write for Google 

- word prediction

- dictation

- read the text aloud and highlights

Google Doc/Drive

- more than one person can be looking/writing the same doc at the same time

- Easier to read

- more visual appeal  - images
- copy/paste
- collaboration
- easier to share with other people - different publishing options
- Mme has access to everyone's work - she can give feedback, correct and comment much faster
- Revision history
- saves automatically (no more my dog ate my homework or I lost it)
- liens  

Twitter
- to tweet
- connect with others
- share
- many ideas and opinions
- limited amount of writing possible

Padlet
- shareable - different publishing options
- many boxes
- visuel
- multimedia
- collaboration - people can work on it at the same time

- Google Translate

- Google Search 

- Dictionnary.com

- Youtube

- Chromebook 

- Voicethread