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Quicktipps
TIPP 1: RULES FOR TOOLS
Tell the students at the beginning of the lesson what they may and may not do.
TIPP 2: Select MEDIA according to USE!
What is the benefit of the tool? If it has no benefit/added value, then it should not be used!
Change the Moodle icon
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Playlists available for Moodle beginners to experts
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Curriculum support, analyses and quality assurance
Here you will find “Curriculum help and analysis” from the MoodleMootDach 2024.
Interested in Moodle plugins? If so, write to us!
Here you can find the possibilities offered by BookWidgets. Or via Github or directly at Moodle.
REMEMBER: What is the benefit of the tool? If it has no benefit/added value, then don't use it!
Tool list
FeedbackR: Audience Response System (Tu Graz), easy to use https://www.feedbackr.io
Pingo: Free survey tool developed at the University of Paderborn to activate students in large groups, easy to use, clearly laid out, you can also insert previously created questions into the “session” via the question catalog. If you want, you can make questions public and of course also use public questions https://pingo.coactum.de/
Surveymonkey: Popular, widely applicable survey tool. Limited free version https://www.surveymonkey.de/
Kahoot! Free: single choice, true-false; other question types: Premium version. https://kahoot.com is well received by students
Mentimeter: e.g. word clouds, queries, surveys, ratings (free, very easy to use; unlimited number of mentimeters in the free version) https://www.mentimeter.com
Answergarden: https://answergarden.ch/
Padlet: Very easy to use: e.g. create a “wall” together and rate/comment, simply share a link, in the free version: 4 padlets. https://de.padlet.com for Moodle E-tivity 4
Etherpad: for collaborative writing (= shared notes at BBB). Click on 'https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/' to open the resource.
Yopad: https://yopad.eu/; pads are automatically deleted after a freely selectable period of inactivity.
Flinga: Collaborative tool. Flinga Whiteboard. Flinga Wall: Click on https://flinga.fi/. Fully GDPR compliant
Ayoa: Create mind maps collaboratively (free of charge). https://www.ayoa.com/
Conceptboard: very versatile and structured collaborative work, fully GDPR-compliant, free basic version https://conceptboard.com/
Miro Whiteboard: for collaborative work: very diverse and structured tasks/display forms, free version: 3 boards for free. https://miro.com
Mural: for collaborative work, versatile, first 30 days free trial https://www.mural.com/
Cacoo: for collaborative work: Mindmaps etc. (free trial). https://cacoo.com/
Discord: for structured communication. https://discord.com/
Learning Apps: Many interactive task types (for individual learners and group mode; free of charge; easy to use); 'https://learningapps.org
Wonder me: https://www.wonder.me/ Virtual meetings/events/parties
Gathertown: https://gather.town/ Virtual meetings/events/parties, max. 25 participants, data protection ?
Learningsnacks.de: Chatbot, cloze text, DnD... Chatbot e.g. for quotes
Addpuzzle - open questions and cut video (like h5p)
Quizizz: also live whiteboard possible, students can be chosen randomly.
Quizlet: live game
Fobizz.com: AI assistant, where knowledge is stored beforehand. Studies can then be looked up there
AI TOOLS
The following table lists a selection of recommended AI tools sorted by category. As the market for AI tools is very volatile, this list can only be truly up-to-date at the time of compilation (August 2024). However, it provides an initial overview and can be used for further research.
Option #1 | Option #2 | Option #3 | |
Chatbots | ChatGPT | Gemini | CoPilot |
Präsentationen | Gamma | MagicSlides | Tome |
Teaching Assistants | MagicSchool AI | EduGPT | Almanack |
Kurserstellung | LearningStudio | Coursebox | SC Training |
Contenterstellung | ChatGPT | Gemini | Copy.ai |
Bildgenerator | Canva AI | Midjourney | Bing Image Creator |
Bildbearbeitung | Clipdrop | Pixelcut | Remove.bg |
Animationen | Animated Drawings | Scribble Diffusion | CapCut |
Videoerstellung | Pictory | D-ID | DeepBrain AI |
Talking Head Videos | D-ID | Synthesia | HeyGen |
Video Editing | Lumen5 | Descript | Pictory |
Research | ChatPDF | CoPilot | HumataAI |
Audio Editing | Adobe Podcast Enhance | Audiocraft | Cleanvoice |
Text-to-Speech | Speechify | Elevenlabs IO | Synthesis IO |
Productivity | Perplexity | YouTube Summary | Notion |
RULES FOR TOOLS tell students at the beginning what they may and may not do.
We need to teach Media competence
AI: Fobizz, camtasia, uniGPT