https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2l5924P_2k |
I propose you three of them:
a) Blogger http://www.bloggerthemes.net/
b) Wordpress http://theme.wordpress.com/
c) Weebly http://www.weebly.com/themes/
- You can give online assignments to your students http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/assignments/possessive-case#comments
- You can check their homework online
- You can assess students' speaking, writing skills http://www.utellstory.com/viewstory/view/a2cccb63486118a875a3f755f632e4cb#player
- You can assess their creative works (online projects) http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/projects/on-recreational-activities
- You can plan a lesson and let them work individually http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/assignments/travelling
| Let me greet you using on the online tools. You can register your own voice or you can use a native speaker's voice. For registering you voice you can also use http://vocaroo.com/ http://www.voki.com/create.php Learning a foreign language without a dictionary (synonyms, antonyms, picture dictionaries, pronunciation and others) is impossible. Internet gives you a variety of online dictionaries and the Blog allows you to embed them into your blog and use them creatively. |
www.thefreedictionary.com
http://quotes.dictionary.com/
Merriam-Webster Visual online dictionary
http://itools.com/tool/cambridge-international-dictionary-of-idioms
http://www.forvo.com/
http://www.ozdic.com/
Google forms is another interesting tool and it has a lot of advantages: we, teachers can create various diagrams (analysis of students' written tasks, test papers, etc) and bring to the classroom and analyze them . Here is an example of a survey created with Google forms https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G4z0VZpc3nqUcF-TqepXP3vQSIaBa1HfXTfBh17klnI/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G4z0VZpc3nqUcF-TqepXP3vQSIaBa1HfXTfBh17klnI/viewanalytics https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yJaDNMQToioGMGzCNlxjLogLDfI-O3LuSGr1GJi0W_4/edit#gid=1856921138 Surveys and quizzes can be found online, on different topics (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading quizzes), but why not to create your own quizze, on the topic you need and not to search for something which may suit you? | Here are are some other online tools to create your survey: https://polldaddy.com/ http://www.micropoll.com/ https://ru.surveymonkey.com/ and some examples of already created quizzes http://a4esl.org/q/h/vocabulary.html http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1302/130207-safer_internet_day.html http://iteslj.org/v/ei/ |
- In order to enhance students' vocabulary we may use a diversity of online tools and creative exercises to make it a more interesting activity to them. Wordle and Tagxedo are tools which your students will like playing with. http://www.wordle.net/create http://www.tagxedo.com/ http://lingro.com/ And some examples of Tagxedos or Wordle. |
- Now we are going to explore Web 2.0 tools which combine words, images and links. They can enhance students creativity, they can help us keep all our useful sites in one online collection and can offer tools to keep our blog visually appealing.
http://ru.padlet.com/Nicoleta/4m8n2ik14utm
http://colericii.weebly.com/hometasks/nature
http://gruscadumitru.weebly.com/the-11th-grade/the-exclusive-circle-health-hazards
http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/second-language/life-in-the-future12th-form
- We can create assignments for our students but they can also use online tools to do their hometask. Let's put your students to work! I will show you online platforms which turn pictures into videos and can become valuable teaching gadgets: Animoto, Picovico and Stupeflix. Enjoy our collection of online video making tools!
Stupeflix is a tool that allows users to create video montages using their favorite images and audio clips. Stupeflix allows users to drag and drop their images into a desired sequence. You will want to upload your own audio clips as Stupeflix offers only one default soundtrack |
https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/education/
http://www.picovico.com/app/index.html?ref=picovico.com&at=1422303414
https://animoto.com/business/education
Brows through these pupils videos
https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/x47EyOyihK4H/
https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/kcviH3TW06Gs/
https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/dBZ9qICDZYUh/
UtellStory, Narrable and Voicethread projects are good for creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and share your story through them you can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support your entire story. Your students can illustrate their essays with pictures and read them using these tools. You can assess with their help pupils' speaking abilities.
You may find here pupils' works:
https://voicethread.com/new/share/6481394/
http://vickypostovic.weebly.com/showcase.htm
teacher's assignment using video tools:
http://cazacuveronica.weebly.com/assignments/video-task
http://classroomblogzabriceni.weebly.com/our-english-classroom/lets-flip-it
http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/assignments/travelling
http://colericii.weebly.com/hometasks/january-hometask
http://vgaidar.weebly.com/-students-blog/9th-form-lesson-plan
Let's have a look at my students e-Portfolios. They just started to create them, but in time they will be richer and more useful. http://nasteluuu.weebly.com/ http://deanne-s-diary.weebly.com http://vickypostovic.weebly.com/ http://straightedgeisme.weebly.com/ http://www.gmarchitan.weebly.com | Very often we ask our students to create porfolios, in order to keep all their written works, gathered information grammar tips and projects together. In the era of internet, I think it is better to make an e-Portfolio and keeep all the information their. Students create video presentations, and of course, a simple portfolio can't keep such kind of information. So, let's forget about paper and use internet. |
- I have shown you how to use different online tools for teaching and learning process and now I would love to show you some tools you can use to asseess your students' work:
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
Feel free to experiment with Rubrics, which will help not only you but your students to do their hometasks according to certain criteria.
I hope the information presented was useful for you. I will post some more links and useful tools which can help you. Discover the world of new technologies and be creative. Good luck!
http://eflbloggingmoldova.weebly.com/assignments
Thank you!
I wanted to thank you for coming and being active during the training. I hope my presentation will be useful for you. I am waiting for your comments.