Easy Digital Storytelling with Sutori

Sutori is a free digital learning tool that allows users to create interactive stories. Both teachers and students can get an account and use this free tool (premium version available as well). Sutori is an instructional presentation tool which enables the user to engage in critical thinking, research, and inquiry, enhance literacy, allow creativity and collaborate.






This tool works in multiple disciplines such as social sciences, English and communication, Math, and many others. It allows for a different way to tell stories!  Add text, images, links, audio, video, and quizzes to the presentation and share in a number of ways and formats for your users.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: 

Bloom's Level: 1-6  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-Creativity
-Promotional
-Infographics
-Digital Storytelling
-Presentations
-Student-centered
-Visually appealing

Kahoot! Latest updated to this easy to use formative assessment tool to create interactive quizzes

Kahoot - formative assessment, game-based interactive quiz tool.

Use a free game-based formative assessment platform to stimulate thinking, reflection, and provide evidence of student learning.  Kahoot has been out for a number of years, but as its popularity increases, so does its functionality.  Currently, there is a free version, a plus version ($1 a month, annual billing) and a pro version ($3 a month, annual billing) - no downloads of any software are required, and students can participate with computer or mobile device (with the proper app download).  There is plenty of power in the free version, and this tutorial shows some of the new features added, so take a look!  Kahoot.com will get you to the site, students can log in with the app (mobile device app for iOS or Android) or go to kahoot.it to use a computer.  A great tool to use in a face-to-face environment, using the PLAY button and run it live, but if you are online you can click the CHALLENGE button and assign a time frame for students to complete it.

Instructional Strategy: Lecture

Blooms Levels= 1-2 without activity (knowledge, comprehension)

  3-4 with activity (application, analysis)

• Stimulate reflection
• Challenge the imagination
• Develop curiosity and sense of inquiry
• Push content
• Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered in the lecture
• Lecture method should include the types of experiences students will be afforded and the kinds of learning outcomes expected
• Teacher-centered (unless activity is involved)
• Incorporating an activity can help to enforce learning as the attention span of students may be limited
• Lecture should not repeat the textbook but should provide additional information and examples
• Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course 

Create interactive assignments for website and online articles, using Insert Learning

Insert Learning is a Google Chrome Extension that can be easily accessed to add interactivity when you assign a website or an online article activity.  It is an easy one click add to the Google Chrome tool bar, both instructors and students have to install the extension in order to use it.




Have you every shared a website or an online article with your students and wondered whether or not they actually bothered to look at them?  Would you like to create an activity around this link?  The Chrome Extension Insert Learning allows you to do just that.  Add sticky notes, questions, discussions, and videos to links of content you provide for your class in a lesson.  These lessons can be shared with your students and using the built-in dashboard you can check their progress on these activities.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Reflection, Formative assessment, Express an opinion, Justify your position, Concept Formation

Bloom's Level 2-5 (Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating)

-Flipped Classroom
-Blended Learning
-Formative Assessment
-Didactic Questioning
-Interaction