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Inventory of ICT tools and open educational resources

Welcome to the inventory of freely available online tools and open educational resources for language teaching and learning developed by the ICT-REV project! The inventory contains a list of tools that have been evaluated with specific criteria in mind. Read more
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This tool was developed within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the European Centre for Modern Languages and the European Commission

Wheel Decide

Principal function(s): Poll and survey creators

A free online spinner tool that makes it possible to create your own digital wheels. Educators can use it to pick a random student in class to answer a question or participate in a classroom activity, spin a wheel of questions, topics, or vocabulary terms, or randomly assign groups or teams. One has to fill the choice boxes, give a name to your wheel and apply the changes. To save a wheel, one has to register with a Facebook account or simply bookmark the URL, and the choices will be saved. Evaluation: Wheel Decide is engaging and easy to use. Users can give wheels a title, and pick advanced options regarding colour schemes that can be changed, seconds to spin, and more. Wheel Decide is great for having students pick topics for presentations and projects. Teachers could also use it to pick topics for review games in class. Another option would be to randomly call on students during class time. Wheel Decide is also very useful for studying vocabulary or even assigning teams. After creating a wheel, teachers can copy the embedded code to their classroom learning management system or website.

Cost: Free without registration

Website: http://wheeldecide.com/

  

Categories

Type Of Interaction

  • Group/pair work - classmates
  • Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)

Skills

  • Vocabulary

Content

  • You supply

Usability

Interface User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface

Easy to use

Time efficiency Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task

High

Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to

English only

Respect for privacy Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?

Medium (?). Wheel Decide does not have a proper privacy section so it is difficult to assess. It uses cookies and displays advertisements, which seem to be tailored to user location. Wheel Decide employs Google Analytics on all pages, so wheel choices that are created with the individual choice entry method will be visible to Google and to the administrators of the website. It acknowledges users’ rights to data deletion and provides a form to request it. Wheel Decide does not state compliance with the GDPR. See more here.

Saving work for future use Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction

Yes

Tailorability (If so, how?) Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)

High

Interactivity

Engagement

Collaboration

Communication

Technical requirements

Installation required?

No

Compatibility/ Operating System

Web browser

Other technical requirements


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Vocabulary
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Content
You supply
Website/other users supply

 


Latest addition to the ICT-REV inventory

Playphrase (Tool to find the pronunciation of words from movies )

Playphrase is a tool that searches specific words or phrases out of movie snippets from a database of audiovisual media with over 60,000 phrases. In this manner, it provides real-life examples of words’ and sentences’ pronunciation. Users just have to type specific phrases, watch them being used naturally in context within popular movies and TV shows, and listen to their pronunciation. Playphrase works mainly with English. Playphrase is not open-source, but it is freely available. It does not require setting up an account or signing in. ... View details

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