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 Hello everyone, we will look at Kahoot, today. What is Kahoot! Kahoot! is a cloud-based quiz platform that is ideal for students and teachers. Since the game-based platform allows you to create new quizzes from scratch, it's possible to be creative and offer learning options for students. Kahoot! offers more than 40 million games already created that anyone can access, making it quick and easy to get started. Ideal for distance learning, when time and resources are at a premium.Since Kahoot! is free, it simply requires an account to be created to get started. Students can use Kahoot! across most devices from any location with an internet connection. How to use Kahoot! To get started head to getkahoot.com and sign up for a free account. Select "Sign Up," then pick "Teacher" followed by your institution be it "school," "higher education," or "school administration." You are then able to register using your email and a password or wit...

 Hello everyone, today I will introduce you Quizlet.  Quizlet is a fantastic tool for all courses but is especially useful if you have a course that is heavy with terms and definitions and/or a course with no textbook.  Textbooks often include an online site where students can access practice quizzes and flashcards among other tools to help self-assess their knowledge and to study for upcoming tests/exams.  Quizlet provides these same practice-type tools and can be customized by the course instructor.  As an added feature, Quizlet can also be used “live” in a classroom setting for active engagement with course material and for reviewing concepts. Here is the link for the study set I have created with my friends on Quizlet. You can see pictures of my Quizlet account below. This video will help you gain more info about Quizlet, enjoy it!

 Hello everyone, today we will learn about Socrative. As company itself reveals,  Socrative  is an online tool for teachers to give quizzes and on-the-fly assessments to students. With  Socrative,  you can create your own quizzes, quizzes are automatically graded, and you can create reports to evaluate how everyone did.  Socrative is a free web application that offers an easy and friendly experience to teachers to engage and assess their students. It is a full-featured application that can be used on Android and iOS devices.  Socrative is an easy to use tool that is used for creating formative assessments  and getting result in the actual-time.  Socrative’s student response system authorizes educators by engaging their class with a number of educational games and exercises. There is simple procedure to login this wonderful app that can be run on laptops, smartphones and tablets.  Students log on to https://www. socrative .com and click o...

 Hello everyone, today we will look to Canva. Canva  is a free graphic design platform which is a great tool for making invitations, business cards, Instagram posts, and more. A drag and drop interface  makes  customizing thousands of templates simple and easy.  Canva's  wide array of features allow you to edit photos without extensive photo editing knowledge or experience. There are five easy steps to produce your work on Canva: Step   1: Select Size and Shape. Head over to   Canva .com. Step   2: Set your Background. With the blank   canvas   in front of us, let's choose a background.  Step   3: Add Your Text. Step  4: Add Your Name or URL.  Step   5: Finish and Save.   Here you can see my poster on Canva. You can see pictures of my Canva account below. By watching this video, you can get more information about Canva.

 Hello everyone, today we will learn about Sutori. Sutori  is a free digital learning tool for the classroom. It allows teachers and students to create interactive stories through a simple and intuitive interface. From Social Studies to Science,  Sutori   can be used in every content area and for every grade level.  You can sign up with any email address or register directly with your Google and Microsoft accounts.  You can then immediately start creating or add a teacher to your account. Here is the link for my work on Sutori. Here are some pictures of my Sutori account. You can be more familiarized with Sutori by watching this video, enjoy it !

 Hello everyone today we will look at Storybird which is a Digital Book platform. Storybird is an online social platform for storytelling. Students act as authors, pairing their words with  licensed art. Students can compose text, but they can't upload their own art; they must use Storybird's  collection in their picture books and illustrated poems. There's a 7-day free trial, but after that most features will ask for a premium account both for teachers and students. Teachers can also set up a paid classroom account that supports a number of students based on how much they pay. After signing up or logging in with teacher-provided credentials, students can read published stories or create their own. They can repost favorite stories to their own Storybird account feeds, "heart'' stories they like, and comment on them.  To get started, students choose which format they want, then browse Storybird's art collection to find illustrations that would...

 Hello everyone, I am here to introduce you Animoto, an animation platform. Animoto is an online, cloud-based video creation platform. It can be used to create videos from video content and photos. You don't need to worry about formats of  files as Animoto does all the conversion work for you.  Animoto is super simple to use, from creating presentation slideshows with audio to making videos with soundtracks. The platform includes templates to make it even more user-friendly.  Animoto also makes sharing very simple, ideal for teachers who want to integrate videos in teaching platforms such as  Google Classroom, Edmodo   and others.  Since the video is created online, sharing is as simple as copying a link. This means that a video can be made on many devices, unlike traditional video-editing tools that require a lot of processing power on the part of the device being used. Here is a short, trial video I have created on Modal Verbs on Animoto platform. He...

 Hello everyone today we will talk about Seesaw.  Seesaw for Schools is a digital app-based platform that provides students, teachers, and parents with the chance to complete and share their classroom works. As the company itself says, Seesaw is a platform for student engagement. Additionally, See saw for Schools is a  platform that allows collaboration in education. Using the Seesaw app, students can show what they know using various media materials, from photos and videos to drawings, text, links, and PDFs. This is all can be found on the Seesaw platform,  which means it can be seen and evaluated by teachers and even can be shared with parents and the other parts of education. You can see pictures of my SeeSaw teacher account below. Here is a demonstration video for SeeSaw. I hope you enjoy using SeeSaw.

 Hello everybody, today I will introduce you Nearpod. What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an online student engagement tool which is a great resource for teachers'  use in class to help students learn because it allows the teacher to give students questions like open-ended ones where you type the response, or the answers can be published in drawings where the students can actually draw on Nearpod to show their work in writing or drawings if they need to. Nearpod lets students to gather in one classroom, and each one is in their own personal space where their teacher can give them feedback on their answers. It also allows students to see others’ responses on these online boards where each student writes a response and can review their peers’ responses on that online board, as well. Why to use Nearpod? By using Nearpod, you can give quick feedbacks to your students. You can work on Nearpod whenever/wherever you want as long as you have Internet connection. It can be used to include your...

 Hello everyone! Let's see one of the helpful noticeboard tools: Padlet! What is Padlet? Padlet is a digital tool that can help teachers and students in class by offering a single place for a notice board. It  is a place where you can create a single or multiple walls that contain all the posts you want to share. From videos and images to documents and audio, it is literally a blank slate. It's collaborative, too, allowing you to involve your students, as well. Via Padlet, you can announce assignments, exams, start a discussion and many else activities. Why to use Padlet? It gives teachers the chance to create announcements, assignments and discussions. It is free up to 1 months but if you do not want to pay, you can sign up with different accounts and get your 30 days trial. It allows students and teachers to keep in touch even out of classroom. Teachers can receive and arrange assignment submissions on a single platform as students can submit their homeworks to the post. It ...

 Hello everyone! We will look at a useful organizer tool: Trello! What is Trello? Trello  is a collaboration tool letting you organize your projects into boards. On a layout,  Trello  shows you what's in process, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. Think of a white board which is full of lists of cards, with each note as a task, announcement, text or image for you and your team.  Why to use Trello? Trello is free for everyone seeking for an organizer tool. Who is working on what can be seen by everyone. It is very easy to use. You can reach your boards from everywhere and everytime if you have Internet connection on your devices. You can change the appearance of your board. Here , you can see my Trello board: Here is the link for the Trello board that I've created. You can gain deeper information about educational tools by visiting my board. You should login to your own Trello account to see my public board. https://trello.com/...

 Hi everyone, today, I would like to introduce you Flipgrid. What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid  is a website that allows teachers to create grids to make video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can ask questions or start discussions, called topics and their students can create and send video responses that appear in the grid display.   Why to use Flipgrid? It offers students experience online discussions. It can help students improve their speaking and listening skills. Teachers can watch their students' recordings many times. It proves that online education can be carried out everywhere. You can see some pictures of my Flipgrid account below. Here is the link directing you to the topic I created. If you want to gain more information about Flipgrid, you can watch the video below.

  The educational technologies have developed with the advent of Web 2.0 tools. These tools let students and teachers create, change and share their content for their learning adventure. Web 2.0 also creates a cycle of information sharing, thus people can learn and teach through their social networks. These social networks mainly form as a result of the interaction between learners and mentors via channels like Wikipedia, blogs, podcasts and Youtube, etc. People can comment on their peers' contents and link to each other. These Web 2.0 tools have made learners work in groups more. Regarding users of Internet are mostly young people, these young learners can collaborate on works and it is more engaging and attractive to them. However, some experts are in the opinion that Internet can have much information which is not filtered and which may not be trustworthy. Scholars criticizing the intensive use of technology in education think that students may not be able to decide whether the ...

 Hello everyone, I will introduce you Voki, which is a platform on which you can practice languages by creating an avatar. Voki  is an educational tool  that can be  used to  enhance instruction, engagement, and  understanding of  lesson.  Voki  can be  used in  class (for student work), as an animated presentation tool, for assignments, and as a virtually monitored discussion forum  enabling users to create their own character of speech. You can both type your text and let Voki pronounce it for you or you can record your voice and upload it.  You can customize  Voki  characters to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals and even you! Why to use Voki? It enables you create avatars. It brings comfort to students who feel anxious while speaking. It enhances the speaking thus improves speaking skills. Students can also improve their listening skills via Voki. Discussions, virtual forums can be carried out vi...

 Hello everyone, today we will look at the online whiteboard from Google: Jamboard Jamboard is the online and interactive whiteboard provided to teachers by Google. You can engage your students in lessons by using it. Jamboard provides you with a whiteboard on which you can share images, texts, tables. You can interact with your students thanks to the Jamboard. Google Jamboard Why to use Jamboard? It provides the infrastructure to work in collaboration. It lets teachers to divide their class into small groups so they can manage their class more effectively. Students can brainstorm and share their ideas on a topic. It can be synchronized with online meeting channels like Zoom and Google Meet, etc. Here is an example of Jamboard that I created  Also you can see my Jamboard here . Here is a short guide video on how to use Jamboard, have fun in your teaching!