Episode 22: Techie Alternatives to Written Reports
Benefits to using techie alternatives to written reports
Although students definitely need to know how to do a written book report or research paper, there are other ways to see what your child has learned. And there are benefits to mixing it up. 3 major benefits:
- techie assignments are fun
- they are easy to share with family/friends
- students learn tech skills in the process
9 Techie Alternatives to Written Reports
- Slideshows – Google slides / Prezi
- Videos – talk to the screen, screencast, illustrated with photos/clips, animated (See Free Video Creation Tools episode for free tools)
- Comic strip – Google slides / Google drawings or Makebeliefcomix.com
- Social media profiles / posts: Classtools has nice templates
- Posters / Book covers (See Free Graphic Creation Tools episode for free tools)
- Choose your own adventure – use Google slides or Text Adventures (select ‘Gamebooks’) or Twine for a more complex option
- Create a quiz / game – use Classtools, Sporcle, Quizlet or Google forms. Students could also code a game using Scratch or create a Digital Breakout
- Websites / Blogs – Strikingly, Wix, Weebly, WordPress
- E-book – Storyjumper
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some of these sites are new to me. Thanks for introducing me to them.
You are welcome – glad to be able to share!
Thank you for the wealth of inspiring ideas, Meryl!!
You are welcome! Glad others can enjoy all the cool things I find 🙂