Top Five Tools to use in Religious Education!!!

Today I will introduce five new tools to use within your Religious Education class. They range from digital newspapers through to gamification.

1. Digital Badges: https://www.badgelist.com/

Badgelist is a free app that allows teachers to create digital badges for student achievement and evidence of learning. You can upload a range of different badges for areas students have mastered within a topic.

To get started here is a great badge template and a badge requirement template.

2. Quizizz: http://quizizz.com/

Quizizz is a game-based formative assessment website that lets you assess your students in a fun and engaging way. Quizizz is self-paced which allows the students to finish as quickly or slowly as they need to. Quizizz also offers a homework option which allows students to complete the assessment game on their own time using an access code provided by the teacher.  

3. Smore: https://www.smore.com/

Smore allows users to create digital flyers that can be easily shared and accessed by anyone interested. The great thing about Smore is that it allows admin/teachers to embed photos and videos right in the flyer to easily share what is going on in the school.

4. Google Forms (Quiz Option)

Turning a Google Form into a quiz got much easier with the addition of quiz options! Now, with a few clicks of a button, your Google Form can be transformed into a self-grading assessment you can share with students as a formative assessment.

After completing your Google Form, click on the settings button. You will then notice you have a few different options now, one of those being the Quizzes tab! Click on this tab and slide the "Make this a quiz" button and your Google Form is now set up to be a self-grading assessment.

Once you have made your Google Form a quiz, you can then select your questions, change their point totals, select the correct answers, and provide feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.

5. HSTRY: https://www.hstry.co/blog/using-hstry-in-the-classroom

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HSTRY allows users to create interactive, digital time-lines that can be easily shared online. Teachers can create timelines using pictures, videos, text, and gifs, and upload those timelines to their HSTRY class page. Students in your course can create their own timelines or collaboratively work on content shared by the teacher.