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Flashcards:

  • StudyBlue is an online studying platform for high school and college students. The website allows users to upload class study materials, create electronic flashcards to study and share with others, and practice quizzes.
  • Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. It is currently used by two-thirds of high school students and half of university students in the United States.
  • Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games!
  • Chegg Prep is a service students can use to find, create, share and study flashcards for any subject -- without a monthly subscription. In addition, they opened up a massive repository of 20M+ already-created-flashcards for students to study or use in their own flashcard decks.
     

Comics & memes:

  • Toony Tool is a free web tool that works on any device with a web browser and allows students to express their creativity by making their own educational cartoon scenes, comic scenes, posters or memes.

Infographic:

  • Piktochart is a web-based infographic application that allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates.

Discussion platforms:

  • Flipgrid is a free tool that allows teachers to upload discussion-style questions and students to answer by adding video responses.

Interactive images:

  • Thinglink is an image engagement tool that makes it easy to add clickable tags to any image on the web and share the tagged images on social networks.

Videos editing:

  • EDpuzzle helps teachers customize video content for their classrooms by giving them an easy way to edit video clips, add voice-overs, and embed quizzes. Teachers can assign a video to a set of students and track students' viewing history and quiz results.

Word clouds:

  • Wordart is a toy for generating “word clouds” from the text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
  • Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans, and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud.
  • Wordclouds is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud generator, similar to Wordle. Create your own word clouds and tag clouds.