1. GREAT WAYS TO TEACH ENGLISH WITH TECHNOLOGY
By Myrzakerimkyzy Akniyet
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2. The latest technology trends are transforming our learning and teaching
ways.
Teaching English Online is getting more popular as it enables teachers to
adapt classroom activities and provide an interactive and fruitful distance
learning process for their students.
On the other hand, teaching online can be challenging when it comes to
students’ engagement, class management and motivation.
However, teachers can overcome these obstacles by getting equipped
with practical online tools. Here we have some stunning online tools that
modern teachers enjoy using.
3. 1. Edmodo
Edmodo is an online social network platform that allows teachers
to create groups, share materials and activities with their students or
check their progress. Thus, Edmodo enables them to enjoy
personalized and enriching online learning.
2 . TED-Ed :
TED-Ed is a great educational platform which allows teachers to
create and share interactive lessons with their students and track
their progress. TED-Ed provides a library of a large number of
original animated videos that teachers can use in their lessons.
4. 3. Socrative
With Socrative tool, teachers can easily create a variety of online
engaging activities such as exercises, games, etc. … which students can
work on using any devices (smartphones, laptops, …. ) What’s
more, Socrative allows teachers to monitor their students’ results and
track their progress.
5. 4. Quizlet
Quizlet is an easy tool for boosting vocabulary. It offers a library of
millions of flashcards for teachers to use with their students. More than that,
teachers can edit or design their own flashcards, short tests and spelling
Quizzes and easily share them through links or Google Classroom.
6. 5. Kahoot
Kahoot is a free game-based learning platform for teachers to create
personalized quizzes and use pre-made games with their students. Via their
account dashboards, teachers can check their students’ game scores and quiz
answers.
6. Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a free web service that allows teachers to share files,
create assignments and communicate with their students online.
7. 7.Lyrics Training
This tool allows teachers to take videos from Youtube and ask
students to fill in gaps while listening. Lyrics Training platform
provides a number of settings for teachers to create different types of
blank-filling quizzes. Teachers can choose the appropriate level of
difficulty and the way they want their students to answer.
8.Canva
A stunning graphic design tool that teachers can use to create
anything such as visual aids, worksheets, presentations, posters, etc.
Canva platform provides a large number of premade templates to
make the task fast and easy.
8. 9. AWW App Online White Board
AWW APP is an amazing online whiteboard
app for tablet, smartphone, or
computer. Teachers can use it to draw mind
maps, explain lessons, correct exercises. You
can share your board and collaborate with your
students in real-time. AWW APP not only
allows you to screencast your board live, but
also to create recorded videos so you can use
them later.
9. 10.Get Pocket
GetPocket is an outstanding organization app which allows you to
organize everything you come across on the internet. For example, if you
come across a post on social media, an article, or a video that you never
want to miss, this practical tool helps you save them all in once place
with a mouse click.
11. WeTransfer
Are you suffering from sending large files? WeTransfer is another highly
useful platform for teachers who do a lot of sharing. It enables you to
transfer large files effortlessly to your colleagues or students. More than
that, it’s free and no registration is required.
10. 12. Grammarly
Grammarly is a must-have tool for students
and teachers. It helps them write clearly and
effectively. Grammarly analyses writing,
corrects errors and shows editing suggestions.
13. Storybird
Storybird is a creative language arts platform
that seeks to promote young learners’ writing
skills. This tool allows teachers to create visual
stories in seconds to inspire their students to
write.
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11. 14. Quizziz
Quizziz makes it super-easy to create great
quizzes in no time.
15. ClassMarker: Class Marker’s secure,
professional web-based Testing service is an
easy-to-use, customizable online Test maker
for business, training & educational
assessment with Tests & Quizzes graded
instantly saving you hours of paperwork.
16.Whatsapp Web: This app was created to
enhance communication, you can use it to
send all kinds of information to students,
you also can use it as a forum in specific
moments.
You can also send dialogues so students go
around the classroom talking to others.
12. 17. Google Forms & 18.Microsoft Forms You can create surveys and
quizzes that students can answer from their phone browsers and you will
see all the results in a spreadsheet.
19. Your StocK Music Player
Your Phone Stock Music Player When you have a Whatsapp group you
can send tracks so students listen and answer questions.
13. 20.Your Collage Maker App: You can tell your students to describe a
picture or make conversation around a collage you sent via Whatsapp.
Another idea is that you tell them to make a collage with the vocabulary
you just introduced.
21.Your Phone audio recorder: Use those things that most people don’t
use, tell students to record a conversation or to answer questions
orally and send them to you via Whatsapp.
22. GoConqr is a personal learning environment that allows students &
teachers to create, discover and share learning resources.
14. 23. WordSalad is an app for generating “word clouds” from text that you
provide. It lets you tweak the word clouds by changing colors, fonts and words
orientation.
The app detects the language your text is in, does some magic and draws a pretty
picture.
Once you have finished crafting your word cloud you can export it on your
device or share it with your students.
24.Quill
Help your students advance from fragmented and run-on sentences to complex
and well-structured sentences with Quill Connect !
Using the evidence-based strategy of sentence combining, students combine
multiple ideas into a single sentence.
They then receive instant feedback designed to help them improve the clarity and
precision of their sentences.
15. 25. Crossword Labs is a very nice website to create your own
crosswords, don’t expect others to do them for you.
Students can solve them online.
26. Plickers is a wonderful tool for teachers to create quizzes
and collect formative assessment results in real-time. This app
also offers an amazing feature that allows your class to share
their answers without using their tablet, smartphone, or any
device!
16. 27.Powtoon: Make cool animated explainer videos and animated presentations.
28.Pixtoon: The world’s most popular and easy to use comic and storyboard creator.
Based on creativity, you can teach English through comics, definitely a nice way for
students to become artists.
17. 29. Memrise makes learning
languages and vocab so full of joy
and life! Create your own courses
of rich, multimedia flashcards.
30. My Free Bingo Cards has
the best Bingo Card Generator and
Bingo Games in the world to print
or play online, and a growing
selection of beautiful bingo cards
for all occasions.
All their bingo cards can be
customized by changing the title,
words and even the colour and
background.
18. We can conclude that a teacher's life is too short
for all the strategies and methods she/he can use
to shape minds and lives, but a dedicated,
passionate teacher will use them all “to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge” as
Albert Einstein stated.