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Media Tools for Student Projects

In today's digital age, students have a wealth of media tools at their fingertips to creatively and engagingly showcase their learning. These "show what you know" projects allow learners to demonstrate their understanding of concepts through various multimedia formats. Explore this list of diverse, exciting options, including tools for interactive presentations, digital storytelling platforms, podcast creation tools, virtual whiteboards, and more. By leveraging these technologies, students can express their knowledge and develop valuable digital literacy skills.

Grades 4-12

ScreenPal

Students can use this tool to create a video recording of their screen that they can share with their teacher or class. Have students create a screencast of the steps in their writing, an explanation of a math problem, or slides about a science lab.

Grades K-12

Padlet

The new and improved Padlet still has the virtual sticky board feature with video and audio recording options, but it now also hosts ready-to-go templates called AI recipes that you can use for book reviews, comparison, KWL charts, and more.

Grades 8-12

Animoto

This animation tool will help you create a video or slideshow with pizzazz. Add your own sounds, videos, and media to create next-level videos for your classes. This video creator also hosts a variety of templates that make it easy for students to use.

Grades 2-12

Smore

Students can use Smore to create beautiful multimedia newsletters. Easily rearrange content with drag-and-drop editing, add ready-made graphics or images from your computer, and embed text and videos quickly and easily.

Grades 7-12

Phrase.it

Add cartoon speech bubbles to a photo in seconds—no account required! Choose a photo from your device or from the site's stock photo collection. Pick one of the four types of speech bubbles, drag it to the photo, and type your words.

Grades K-6

Story Maker

Young students can create simple and easy stories using ABCya's Story Maker without creating an account. Draw a picture using the tools provided, type the story (you can add pages as needed), then save it to your computer or print it when finished.

Grades K-12

Buzzsprout

Buzzsprout offers free, easy-to-use podcast hosting. Sign up for free and upload two hours of audio per month. Uploads remain available for 90 days. The dashboard walks students through creating and sharing podcasts and adding links, timestamps, and more.

Grades 6-12

MoocNote

Perfect for flipped learning, MoocNote allows students to add comments, links, and questions to online videos. Create a free account, then import any YouTube video or playlist by pasting the URL or import videos from Google Drive.

Grades K-12

Genially

Share this site with your students to help them show what they know by creating impressive interactive presentations, images, infographics, charts, and more using countless templates. You can easily insert maps, surveys, video, and audio as well.

Grades K-12

Image Annotator

Easily annotate images using "hotspots." Students can upload an image and click on any area to add an unlimited number of hotspots that include a title, description, and URL link if desired. Generate a link or embed code to share your annotated image.

Grades K-12

Comic Strips Templates

Challenge your students to create comic strips using the variety of free templates on Canva! Choose from colorful designs in various formats, including single strips or comics with multiple frames. Click Create and use the dropdown box to view options.

Grades K-12

Animate from Audio

Students of all ages can create animated characters using their voices and Adobe Express’s easy-to-use tools. Choose a character and a background, click to record up to two minutes of audio, and download your video to share it.

Grades K-12

FigJam

FigJam is an online collaborative whiteboard with many built-in versatile tools for classroom use. The whiteboard offers infinite space to add templates and drawings and areas for discussions and projects as students share their understanding of topics.

This Week at TeachersFirst

This week, we’re sharing a curated collection of tools for creating media and a two-part blog post to help you learn more about the new and improved Padlet. Finally, we're delighted to share an opportunity to apply to join our team as a part-time consultant. Read the details below!