I hope you are all doing good and healthy!
Today I ve discovered some apps which can certainly be made use of by every teacher!!! They are EdPuzzle, Nearpod and Mindmeister. To create a better, interactive environment, these three are only some of the platforms that technology gift us...
EDPUZZLE
EdPuzzle is a platform where teachers can access informative videos from tens of sites such as Youtube, Tedx, National Geographic etc. As a teacher, you can create your own video there, or you can use already existing videos. You can record your voice to make clarifications or explanations or commends about video content for your students. To emhasize some points, you can cut the video. In the end, you can add some questions for your students aboutthe video and you can monitor their answers and the percentage of their correct answers. I think this wouls be an effective activity for students listening abilities and their motivation for the class.
Nearpod is actually similar to EdPuzzle with some differences. In this app, again you as a teacher have a large access to the videos but these videos are some other teachers' lessons. I mean online -recorded- lessons. Apart from these teacher can create his/her own video record. Teachers can add their documents (such as pdf, slides or whatever activity or material to be used) to this platform and share them with their students. To assess their students, they can create quizes, polls, open-ended questions, fill in the blank etc. Apart from these what I admired about this app is the opportunity it gives for "Virtual reality". Especially for language classes, the opportunity of seeing one culture's concrete values as if they were there would effect their motivation surely positively.
MINDMEISTER
Do you have difficulty in linking things? Are your topics too complex for you students to grasp? Here is what you need. Surely, mind-maps are the best way to make subject much more concrete, basic, simple to learn. Because they give students an opporutunity of overallview, to grasp or to make links will surely be not as difficult as they are listed in paper. In this platform, you can create linked maps to show the relationships between themes, notions, words, terms etc. I created an example of this kind of mindmap via Mindmeister about tenses in English language.
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| An example from another app which is very similar to Mindmeister: Mindmup See you soon❤ |
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