Fun Tools & Apps to Engage Your Audience - During a Live Conference, a Corporate Training or Inside the Classroom

The gamification of learning and instruction provides learning professional, teachers and instructors with the help they need to put the power of game design to work. Whether you are training your millennial workforce or delivering a classroom session for K-12 students, there are tech-enabled tools out there that will help you delivering a more meaningful learning experience. These tools help educators to reinforce educational material, assess knowledge retention, measure overall teaching effectiveness, and improve learning outcomes.

Below I list 11 tools that are redefining the way training professionals and teachers around the world engage and motivate their audiences. Topping the list is Kahoot, which is "the gold standard" of game-based learning with its over 70 million unique monthly active users. Given its widespread use, some students/audiences might begin showing a "Kahoot fatigue" (its signature background music might get annoying after a while). Good news though, there are numerous alternative tools presented here that you might want to explore. Have fun!

1. Kahoot! | Make Learning Awesome!

Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together!

2. Quizalize - Pinpoint classroom progress in real-time

Quizalize lets you engage your class and deliver instant assessments for personalised learning on any computer, tablet or smartphone.

3. Mentimeter: Interactive presentation software
Create fun and interactive presentations for your meeting, event, conference or classroom. Mentimeter is a free, easy-to-use software that you can use online.

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4. Quizlet Live | Quizlet
Quizlet Live is a free in-class game where students work in teams to learn study sets on Quizlet. Enter your game code to play on a computer, tablet, or phone.

5. Typeform: Turn data collection into an experience
Build conversational forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and more. Typeforms are easy to make and refreshing to take.

6. Wooclap - An Interactive Platform that Makes Learning Awesome

A collaborative platform for your classes, conferences and training sessions. Intuitive and simple, Wooclap makes your presentations interactive.

7. Triventy | Collaborative Classroom Quizzes & Surveys
Triventy is a collaborative game-based learning platform, which allows teachers & students to co-author and play quizzes in class.

8. Quizizz: Fun Multiplayer Classroom Quizzes

Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together. Avatars, leaderboards, themes, music and memes! Create quizzes in minutes!

9. Socrative

Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. No matter where or how you teach, Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens.

10. Slido - Audience Interaction Made Easy

Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.

11. Poll Everywhere: Live interactive audience participation

Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites — anywhere with internet.

Join the conversation

What is your favorite tool? How do you normally use them? Do you have any tips & tricks to suggest? Do you have any other tool to recommend? Write to me or join the conversation on Twitter.

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Andrea Naletto

andreanaletto@gmail.com

@nale_andrea

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