Success trainer Claudia Grajek wanted to know from trainers and coaches: What creative tools do you use for interactive online learning? Subsequently, Claudia tested the tools in blink.it and discussed them in detail in one of her Success webinars. The result: Four tools are perfectly suited to integrate training interactively in online courses – so that blended learning can also be completely successful in digital formats.

Note: This article directly follows the previous article: 19 Creative Tools for Your Digital Learning Content – There you will find a list of tools with which you can, for example, edit videos or modify images. In THIS article, however, you will find tools that are suitable for interactive live training.

Whiteboard, bulletin board, survey: Digital tools for classic tools

If you want to offer training and coaching online, you have probably already searched for replacement tools for classic aids like whiteboards or bulletin boards. As with many digital tools, the selection is enormous. And besides your own user experience, other factors are important for the selection:

• Which tools are GDPR-compliant, so your clients can actually permit their use?

• Which tools do your participants handle well?

• And with which tools can you provide them with as easy access as possible?

E-learning expert Claudia Grajek works a lot with digital tools for further education, both as a freelance coach and as a success trainer. In one of her regular topic webinars, Claudia collaborated with other trainers to identify four tools that can be well integrated into a blink.it course.

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Make it easy for everyone: Embed live content in the online course

The great advantage of being able to embed interactive tools directly in the blink.it course is: In blended learning, you can ask your participants questions and give them smaller tasks for preparation only during the online course. For a subsequent live online training, you can easily provide them with a digital whiteboard or other tools – integrated with a click in the online course.

Example: Use Conceptboard in blink.it:

Another criterion: Interactive working directly in the online course

Some digital tools can not only be integrated into your blink.it course – you can even work directly in them or let your participants work! This means your participants can do everything directly in a learning environment. A real plus regarding easy access to learning tools.

Example: Use Mentimeter in blink.it:

Our test winners: 4 tools for interactive learning in the online course

Conceptboard, miro, padlet, and Mentimeter: These are the four tools that trainers and coaches liked the most in Claudia Grajek's topic webinar. We examined these together with Claudia based on the following 5 criteria:

• Country of origin (possibly important regarding data protection)

• Tool type

• Embedding in blink.it

• Working in blink.it

• Costs / Prices

Here’s the result summarized in a clear table:

| | Tool type | Embedding in blink.it | Working in blink.it | Costs | || -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------- || Conceptboard 🇩🇪 | Digital whiteboard | +++ | + | Free, Pro version from 5 Euros/month || miro 🇺🇸 | Digital whiteboard | ++ | + | Free, Pro version from 8 USD/month || padlet 🇺🇸 | Digital bulletin board | ++ | +++ | Free, also available as an app || Mentimeter 🇸🇪 | Survey tool | +++ | +++ | Free trial version, Basic version from 11.99 Euros/month |

The 4 interactive learning tools in detail

Interactive whiteboard from Germany: Conceptboard

• Interactive presentation

• Develop something together with the participants

• Video recording for embedding in the course possible

• Advantage: German servers, important for some clients

• Share via link or QR code

Pro tip: Sharing via QR code is especially useful if your participants need to access something via smartphone or tablet. Usually, that's the second device – while the webinar, for example, takes place on a computer.

Screenshot: Work and learn interactively with Conceptboard

Interactive whiteboard (USA): miro

• Similar to Conceptboard, but from the USA and with more options

• Advantage: complete work in blink.it is possible

  
  
  
  

  

Screenshot: Work and learn interactively with Conceptboard

Interactive bulletin board: Padlet

• A kind of digital bulletin board

• For introduction rounds, SWAT analyses, voting phases

• Advantage: Also wonderfully usable directly in blink.it

  
  
  
  

  

Screenshot: Work and learn interactively with Padlet

Interactive polling tool: Mentimeter

• Live polling, very easy to implement

• As with Conceptboard, embedding via link or QR code is possible

  
  
  
  

  

Screenshot: Work and learn interactively with Mentimeter

Extra tip as a live online tool for blended learning: Gathertown – Working in the metaverse

Besides the mentioned tools, Claudia Grajek recommends the tool gather.town for live online training: With this, you can create a virtual environment in which your participants can move freely and interact with each other. A nice example of live online training with gathertown can be found at www.confidos-virtuell.de.

With tools like gathertown, you truly achieve a comprehensive digital approach: Let your participants "walk around" and interact with one another as they approach each other. Almost like in real life, flexible from their own desk. You can also easily embed gathertown in your blink.it course and bundle all measures in one place.

The crowning achievement: Create a digital home in the online course

You can easily embed all the mentioned tools into your blink.it course: The course is basically the digital home for your learners. Here they find all information regarding your training or coaching, can answer quiz questions, watch videos, or download PDFs. And when the self-learning phase is over, they can also access live online tools there. Thus, you bundle all your digital learning offerings in one place and make access easier for all participants.

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