Orna Farrell presented her top 10 tools for teaching with technology (TEL). She discussed the importance of pedagogy over technology and learning design frameworks. The top 10 tools included Pikochart for infographics, Thinglink for multimedia annotations, Atavist for interactive ebooks, Animoto for video creation, and Pixton for comics/storyboards. Other tools were PeerWise for student-generated questions, Camtasia for screencasting, Jing for screenshots, Wix for websites and eportfolios, and Livebinders for content curation. Flipping the classroom with tools like Articulate was also mentioned. Attendees participated in activities using some of the tools.

1. Orna Farrell
orna.farrell@dcu.ie
@orna_farrell
DBS- Digital Learning Workshop
My Top 10 TEL Tools for Teaching

2. About me
Orna Farrell
Academic Co-ordinator/Digital
Learning Specialist- Humanities
Programmes, Open Education
Unit, NIDL, DCU
Phd candidate TCD- dissertation
title “An exploration of criticality,
reflective learning and eportfolios
among third level learners”
My first eportfolio-May 2009

3. • Context
• Some thoughts on learning design
• Flipping the classroom
• Top 10 tools
Outline

4. Context
•NMC Horizon report 2016
•National Forum
•Cassells report

5. Pedagogy vs. technology
• “Learning is the desired outcome and
technology is the enabler or enhancer”
(Kinash, Knight, McClean, 2015)
• “It is a fallacious deterministic notion to
state that technology can enable learning”
(Selwyn, 2012)
• “trying to create pedagogy anew- we
should be in the business of locating the
new technologies within proven practices
and models of teaching.” (Beetham &
Sharpe, 2014)

6. Learning Design
• Pedagogical affordances:
“design a tool so that it supports
activities which are seen as
desirable or necessary for
learning.” (Hammond 2010)
• design patterns for learning
framework, and will examine
firstly the problem, the context
and the outline a solution.(Maina
& Mor 2015, Laurillard
2012)

7. 1. Pikochart- infographics
2. Thinglink
3. Atavist-interactive ebooks
4. Animoto
5. Pixton-comic strips
6. PeerWise
7. Camtasia- Video/screencasting
8. Jing- screencasting/Video
9. Wix
10.Livebinders
My Top 10 TEL for Teaching

8. 1.Piktochart
•http://piktochart.com/
•Easy to use infographic
tool, visual learning
•Possible uses: research
activity-students create
their own infographic,
way of presenting
research results

9. 2. Thinglink
•www.thinglink.com
•Allows to embed rich media links to
photos and videos- create “hot spots”
•Possible uses: to publish student work,
project, way of presenting a multimedia
bibliography
•My example:
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/82904
6145106837505

10. 3. Atavist
•https://atavist.com/
web based ebooks, you can
embedded videos, links,
interactive tables and its
mobile ready.
•htps://assessmenttoolkit.at
avist.com/the-history-lab-
digital-research-skills

11. 4.Animoto
•www.animoto.com
•Online animation tool-creates videos
from photos
•Possible uses: advertise something,
student projects/presenations, digital
storytelling
•My animoto example:
https://animoto.com/play/8xf2ySYMc
HSei1a0xaog5w

12. 5. Pixton
•https://www.pixton.com
•Create your own
cartoon
strips/storyboard
•Possible uses: student
activity to explain
terms/projects/difficult
concepts

13. Activity-10 minutes
1. Choose a tool from the top 5
and create an artefact
2. Consider how you would use
this tool with your students
3. Post a link or screenshot of
your work and how you would
use it on this Padlet wall
https://padlet.com/wall/wcdfmy
0lzgz5

14. 6. PeerWise
•https://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/docs/
•PeerWise is an online repository of multiple-
choice questions that are created,
answered, rated and discussed by students
•a course using PeerWise begins with an
empty repository. This grows gradually as
the course progresses and students author
and contribute relevant

15. 7. Camtasia/Jing/Screencast-o-matic
•https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
•https://screencast-o-matic.com/home
•Make video tutorials, screengrab and
annotate, screencasts
•Possible uses: first person video
diary (vlog), short videos, explainers,
how tos
•Youtube video editor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2
Srr1RY-2BM

16. 8.Wix
•www.wix.com
•Wix is a free website
building tool
•Uses: eportfolio, blog,
digital resume
•Here is my wix:
http://ornafarrell.wixsit
e.com/website

17. 9. Livebinders
•www.livebinders.com
•An online binder for
content curation
•Uses: eportfolio, shared
class notebooks, group
projects/collaboration,
class textbook
•Pre-set templates
http://www.livebinders.c
om/play/play?id=45796

18. 10.Articulate
•piece of software designed
to produce e-learning
content and courses
•Create interactive learning
objects which combine
quizzes, screencasts video
•Could use to flip class room
•Could make a how to guide

19. Activity 2
•Go to www.kahoot.it
•Game pin: ….

20. MOOC-Head Start Online
https://academy.moodle.net/

21. Thank
You!

22. Interesting Links/References
Interesting Links
• Project 252 http://project252.donenda.com/
• Jane Harts Top 100 Tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
• # 1 Minute CPD: https://1minutecpd.wordpress.com/
• Yishay Mor: http://www.yishaymor.org/lds
• Flipping the classroom Dr. Roddy Flynn:
https://whatworksandwhy.ie/tel-week/seminar-recordings/
References
• Hammond, M. 2010. What is an affordance and can it help us
understand the use of ICT in Education? Education and Information
Technologies, 15(3).
• Laurillard, D. 2012. Teaching as a Design Science. London: Routledge.
• Maina, M., Craft, B., & Mor, Y. (Eds.) 2015. The art and science of
learning design. https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/2398-the-art-
and-science-of_learning-design.pdf
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