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There are wide range of freely available tools 

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that teachers and trainers can use. 

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In this video, we will look at the role that Google tools, Prezi, 

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and Audacity can play in supporting your teaching 

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and improving your learners' success. 

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Google offers a suite of tools designed for collaboration. 

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These are all free available and 

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include tools for collaborative writing, presentation, drawing, and much more. 

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Content can be shared between teachers and learners 

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encouraging team working. 

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Listen to Johnny from Sheffield College 

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describing the benefits of Google tools for personalising the learning experience, 

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increasing engagement, and offering flexibility.

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In terms of the use of Google tools in a blended learning setting. 

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It certainly allows for a lot more personalisation of the learning experience. 

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So in advance of the class, for example, 

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if you were publishing resources, materials, documents, 

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students can access that at their convenience 

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prior to a timetabled session. 

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Once in the class, tools do allow a lot of teamwork, collaboration, 

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but also in terms of, I guess, innovative approaches. 

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What we found is it's very engaging for the learners 

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if they're using a range of devices, 

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if they're able to see the real value of an activity 

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as opposed to filling in a worksheet, 

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which they may not receive feedback on for a period of time.

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In addition to Google classrooms, 

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there's a wide range of Google tools 

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that tutors can use. 

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Students are able to use that. 

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There's apps available so they can download that on their smartphones or 

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even access it through home, 

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whether that's a laptop or fixed PC. 

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So accessibility is key that-- 

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I feel that the biggest benefit of these tools 

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is that students could start to personalise their own approach to 

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learning as well as the structured formal teaching timetable 

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that they may be following. 

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In addition to Google tools for producing presentations, 

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there are a number of web-based tools 

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for creating, engaging, and interactive presentations. 

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One such tool, Prezi, is very popular.

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Prezi is a powerful tool 

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that allows users to create multimedia based stories for presentation. 

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It can be more engaging than a traditional presentation, 

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and it's easier to use. 

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Prezi particularly supports learning outcomes 

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where learners are gaining skills in narrative and storytelling. 

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Prezi is a flexible tool with cloud-based storage, collaborative features, 

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and is available on mobile devices. 

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Listen to Richard at Bradford college talking 

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about how he has engaged learners with their studies through the use of Prezi.

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Prezi is an online open tool, 

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which you access through your browser 

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and allows you to create presentations in a more dynamic way. 

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So it has a sort of zooming effect or travel effect. 

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It has a number of templates that come with it to make it even more exciting. 

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Teachers can create a very engaging 

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and dynamic presentations that's interesting, interactive, and embedded 

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with different types of media stored in a VLE or other environments, 

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which could then be shared quite easily. 

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They don't need special software other than a web browser. 

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So they can access on the mobile devices, 

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on laptops, smartphones, tablets, 

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wherever they can get Wi-Fi. 

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It also allows collaboration between teachers. 

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For students, the benefits of Prezi are numerous.

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The teacher has created the path in such a way within Prezi 

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that they can follow that learning through very sequentially, 

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but they can explore it any way they want. 

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So they can really engage with that material 

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and update their own material onto the presentation 

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if the teacher has set it up to be a collaborative sharing tool with the students. 

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Increasingly, we want learners to create digital assets 

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as part of their curriculum. 

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This supports the development of their digital literacies 

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and encourages active engagement with learning in fun 

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and social ways. 

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Previously, it was hard to create and publish audio resources. 

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But now there are a range of tools available for this, 

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often on our mobile devices.

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Sometimes, however, learners may need to create high quality and professional audio resources, 

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which requires editing, mixing, and other features. 

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Many people use a tool called Audacity for this purpose, 

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as it is web-based, easy to use, and freely available. 

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Learner created audio resources can be used to support many types of learning outcomes 

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and can be used to build up a repository of resources 

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to support the whole learning community. 

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In this final case study, 

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we hear from Richard at Bradford college again 

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who has embedded Audacity successfully into his curriculum.

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Teachers presenting their material either visually 

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or through spoken word. 

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There's no way for the learners to go back over 

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that other than their own notes. 

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What Audacity does is allow you to record 

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what you say and then present it back, 

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either via a file or a link to the VLE. 

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Audacity, used to record what happens in the lesson 

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allows students to be able to go back over what has been said, 

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what the emphasis was, 

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what the context was, 

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in a way they can take their time over it, 

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so they can listen to it on the train via their mobile devices 

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or at home in the bedroom via their laptops.

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For a teacher, it gives you the power to 

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create a summary tool 

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that's very quick and easy to do. 

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And I know a lot of teachers that have recorded a one minute snapshot of 

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what the lesson was about. 

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And the learners really enjoy that, 

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because they get the sort of summary and it jogs the memory. 

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And there's a number of different types of research you can look at. 

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On average, they listen three times to something you record, 

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whereas if you're just presenting it, 

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it's a fire and forget. 

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It's a one off. 

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They'll never get to listen to that again.

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