Shared writing - Part 2: Creativity Tools

Create a simple review to share with your class. Consider the cost, time
commitment, ease of use and final result. Add to the section and improve if you can.
Add a comment if you have a question. If you know of another ICT creativity tool, add
it to the list at the bottom.

Tool Name Target Cos Ease of Resources Pros and Other comments
Audience t Use / available / Cons
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Debate Primary Fre Simple to Resource Pros: Makes Extremely useful

Graph and e use allows for learning fun for learning for
Secondary students to due to it being students
school collaborate colourful, as
students information well as it
and allowing for
opinions in collaboration.
regards to Cons: Slightly
any topic difficult to use

Answer All age free Simple to Allows Pros: can use Very useful tool for
Garden students use students to in collaboration brainstorming and
collaborate with a whole class discussion.
ideas and group to
information generate a
, then the consensus.
website Con: some
generates valuable ideas
the most may be lost, no
common room for
answers feedback
and brings
them to the
centre. The
more
common a
response
is, the
larger the
font is.

Kahoot Students of free Simple Resource Pros: It is easy I have found that
all ages and fun allows for both students really
to use teacher to teachers and enjoy using this
create a students to application and it is
fun and use. Students a fun way for the
competitive enjoy using it. teacher to assess
quiz, Students can how much learning
tailored to answer has occurred,
what the individually or roughly.
students in pairs -
have been different levels
using. of autonomy.
Students Cons: Some
can answer students arent
individually competitive
or they can and don't like
do it in competing with
groups/pair and being
s. tested in front
of their
 classmates.
If there are
any
questions
students
struggle
with, the
teacher
can identify
areas of
weakness,
that can be
applied to
further
teachings.

Socrative Primary, Fre Easy-to- Resource Pros: feedback Also can be used
secondary e use, allows is immediate, to assign exit
and tertiary simple teacher to teacher can cards yay
test monitor who
students answered what
on prior (i.e. who
knowledge understands,
and test who does not).
understand Cons: students
ing of might give the
lesson wrong/fake
names

MS Paint All ages Fre Very Allows Pros: Simple to https://www.newsie

e simple, students to use, lots of nt.com/10-years-
lots of fun draw and drawing tools, hard-work-man-
colours colour Colourful finally-illustrates-
simple Cons: Can be book-using-ms-
pictures difficult to paint/4605
and colour create complex
them in images

Spiderscribe Primary Fre Easy to Mind It helps you Greater degree of

and e use mapping organise functionality
Secondary and add thoughts/ideas compared to other
students links and into a structure, mindmapping tools.
images and by sharing The ability to add
it you can date boxes makes
collaborate as it particularly useful
a group or for planning.
class. Difficult
to change the
size of boxes
or manipulate
some basic
formatting
functions.

Popplet High Fre Easy to Mind Pro: easy to You can add
School e use mapping. use once the photos and export
Students Great way concepts are to pdf, or embed. If
of creating fully grasped. you have trouble
cool Con: Editing snipping tool is
looking tools not very always
mind maps clear at first go.
Converting to a
PDF was
challenging
Piktochart Secondary Fre Simple Infographic Pro: highly Very flexible tool.
Students e navigatio maker aesthetic Can be used for
n, lots of product presentations,
preset reports, posters,
options, Con: Limited flow-chart,
difficult to information can graphing etc.
make fine be presented
movemen on each page.
ts Very hard to
arrange,
nowhere near
as good as MS
publisher.
Cant change
the single font
size of words,
you need to
add different
text boxes
instead.

Quizlet Students Fre Easy to Fun, Pros: Easy to Enjoyable for all
e use innovative use, flexible students. Can be
way of and adaptable competitive,
testing to any content. collaborative,
students Cons: Takes individual work or
knowledge. time to create just for casual
Great way questions and study use.
to make answers
flashcards
for study.

Prezi Secondary Fre Easy to Profession Pro: flexible A more visually

students e use al and and auto- appealing
resolved saving feature, experience
way of teacher can be compared to
creating added in as a PowerPoint
slide collaborator.
shows with
interesting Con: quite time
and consuming
engaging process and
transitions does take
awhile to adjust

QR Code Secondary Fre Easy to Used as Pro: Ease of Unlikely to be used

Generator students e use digital link use very often. Can
Con: Reliance look messy and
on internet aesthetically
connection, unpleasing
need access to
mobile device,
need to
download QR
scanner

Brain Pop All ages Fre Easy to Collection Pro: Ready

e use of science made
videos, resources for
interactive the class
games and Con: There is
animations. only a small
amount you
can access
without a
 subscription

Word Art All ages Fre Easy to Used to Pro: appeals to Use is limited,
e use creatively visual learners works best if all
display key who can words wanting to
words or customise be inputted are
ideas mind map to known prior to
about a suit interests commencing.
topic. Con: not an
effective
brainstorming
tool

Google Earth All ages free Easy to Interactive Pro: HD Extremely good for
use mapping imaging and historical based
and street view subjects such as
geography capability History and
tool, Can Religion, as well as
be used to Cons: Can get Geography of
navigate easily course.
through distracted as is
environme very fun
nts
throughout
the world.

Kahoot Secondary Fre Fun and Quiz Pro: very fun Students love it.
students e engaging creator. and engaging. Great formative
Usually Students really task at the end of a
utilised as enjoy. lesson.
a teaching
tool, but Con: Very fast
could be paced,
used as a students who
creative have difficulties
task where with reading
students may be
must disadvantaged
create their
own quiz
for the
other
students
and a
revision
task.

Padlet Secondary free Relatively Resource Pro: simple to Very similar to

students easy that allows use, allows all popplet
once you users to forms of media
have collaborate
used it their ideas Con: can get
once or store confusing if not
information used correctly
.

YouTube Anyone Fre Takes Students or Very popular Often inappropriate

e some teachers with the images and
time to can create students, language is not
learn their own creative and mentioned in titles
content; engaging; and can be opened
creates takes some in front of children.
flipped learning; can Comments are
learning be very unsupervised and
 distracting. needs to be
intensely monitored
by teachers.

Comic LIfe Students Fre Fairly Provides a Easy to get the Could be used as
e intuitive format and hang of, and an alternative to
(for templates suitable for a traditional, written
1 to create range of report assignment.
mon comic intentions and
th) books. abilities.

Powtoon Anyone Fre Quite Powtoon Pro: Relatively Powtoons are a

e easy to allows easy to use, creative way for
navigate. users to and the result students to do a
make their is a very summative
own professional assessment, as
profession looking opposed to simply
al looking cartoon. writing an essay or
cartoons. Con: It is quite doing an oral
time presentation.
consuming, so
it is not suitable
for a quick
activity.

Educreation Anyone Fre Simple Allows Pro: Easy to Great way of

e way of teacher to use providing
creating a create a illustrations and
lesson fun and Con:Difficult to voice overs for
others simple draw without a different topics
can lesson that proper tools
watch. students
can watch
anywhere

Sutori Secondary free Easy to Great free Pro: Easy to Very useful for
students navigate resource use, HASS or English
for professional, classrooms
generating collaborative
timelines in learning
individual supported,
or supports range
collaborativ of media types
e settings. Con: Time
Includes consuming, not
support for appropriate for
multimodal a short lesson
information

Silk Anyone Fre Easy to Free online Pros: Used carefully can
http://weaves e Navigate creative Aesthetically be an effective tool
ilk.com/ drawing Pleasing, for motivation and
application. creative, easy incentivising
Perfect for to use. productivity
simple Cons:
graphic distracting,
design, limited
spirograph educative
work and application
brain
breaks.

Animoto anyone Fre Easy to Online Pros - appeals A creative way to

e navigate creative to students do a summative
first tool that who dont write assessment rather
 try allows you well and the than the traditional
then to make presentations essays - appeals to
you videos are very students who
hav professional struggle with
e to Cons - you writing large
pay have to pay amounts of text.
after the first
try and you
would need to
have quite
good rubric for
assessing this
type of
resource.

Pixton Anyone Fre Can be Allow for Pros: Can be used to

involved e difficult to students to Fun to create fun revision
with navigate create use notes for students
schooling at times, comic Dyna or to present
(teacher/st however strips in mic information in a
udent). after various Creati dynamic way. May
experime styles and ve be good for visual
nting with design Cons: learners or those
the avatars to that like to do
Difficu
website use in creative writing or
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websit
use it I.e. Here
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easily. are some
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Potent
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and
creati
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More
suitabl
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young
er
secon
dary
year
group
s (7,
8, 9).

Padlet Students of Fre Straightfo Creates an Pros: Blank Great for the
all ages e rward online canvas, can classroom, sport
and bulletin personalise teams and beyond.
simple to board for backgrounds,
navigate teachers/st comments can
udents to be identified or
post files, anonymous.
comments, Can be a
links etc. to secret/secured
collaborate URL
and share Cons: Can
their easily become
thoughts too cluttered if
a structure isnt
followed