I’ve just discovered this great tool called THINKIO. It’s a free and simple tool which enables teachers to share exercises with students, view and mark online. Upload your exercise as a pdf or an image file and share the link with your students. Once your students write their names, do and save their homework,…
Wordwall is one of the platforms that I’ve been using since we went online. The idea is simple sign up and start creating. There are really cool templates. You can create an activity on a template but then you can switch the templates if you want. You can also print the activities. I usually assign…
I’m very excited about the new feature of Quizizz. It now allows teachers to prepare lessons on Quizizz. You can prepare your whole lesson there; warmers, tutorials, explanations, reading passages and then if you like to ask a question, add a poll, you can do so. It still has the ‘gaming’ option. You can follow…
Jamboard is an online interactive whiteboard tool that can easily be used to in distance learning. The App can easily be reached from Google Drive. Click on Jamboard and you’re ready to create your first board. Tap the orange + to start. Now you are ready to use the board. Choose the background. I really…
Suddenly we all went online.. The techy, the old school we are all on the same boat, trying to sail safely to the shore. Language teaching will not be complete with student interaction. We need to find ways to make students more productive instead of keeping them in front of the screens pretending they are…
The new normal is the remote learning until we enter our classrooms again. Online classrooms will also give us a chance to interact with our students, to participate the lessons actively. If we just follow a PowerPoint presentation or the lesson material, they will pretend that they are in the class but they will find…
Zoom, an online conferencing tool that can be handy during these crisis days.
Quizizz is a free online tool to create games for your classroom. It enables the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments. It is almost similar to all the other Web 2.0 tools. First sign up, then start creating your quiz. Once you create the Quizizz, you can assign it as homework or host it to…
Baamboozle is a tool that allows you to create games for your classes. The tool is very easy to use. It is free so just sign up and start creating your game for your class. You can also use the games existed on Baamboozle. Browse the library and choose the most suitable game to play….
Padlet Galleries If you are working on a “theme” that you think can be photographed easily, you can ask your students take photos and add them to the Padlet wall you’ve created for that specific “theme” and ask students to write what made them to take the photo, how they felt about that photo. You…
