This document provides suggestions for using technology and gadgets to make classes more lively and develop speaking and listening skills. It recommends using web content like videos and PDFs, integrating social media like Facebook and Twitter, having students create digital content like videos and podcasts, reviewing web content, flipping traditional student and teacher roles, and using online apps like Book Creator, Insert Learning, and Quizizz which allow adding instructional material and assessing students in an engaging way. The overall goal is to empower teachers and students with technology to enhance learning.

1. How toMake theBest Use of Technology and Gadgets to
Make the Class Lively and DevelopSpeaking and
ListeningSkills
A Presentation by:
Mrs. Mousmi Majumdar
Department of English
D. A. V. Public School, Hehal, Ranchi

2. Use Web Content
• Webpages
• YouTube Videos (for listening skills also)
• Pinterest
• Download Grammar Books and other related pdfs
• Use Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri….

3. Integrate Social Media
• Create a Facebook Group.
• Monitor Twitter Accounts of Subject Experts, Authors, related people
and organizations and share with your students.
• Monitor Instagram Accounts of the above and share.

4. Create Digital Content
Ask your students to:
• Make Videos (develops speaking and presentation skills)
• PPTs with attractive editing
• Write blogs
• Podcasts (for speaking skills)
• eBooks
• Flyers
• Other digital art

5. Review and Critique
• Webpages
• News Reports directly from the website
• Articles
• Any other web content

6. Flip the Roles

7. Some Online Apps
• Book Creator — An app that students can use to imagine, research, create,
publish and share their own books — students can easily combine text, images,
audio and video to tell interactive stories, create reports or build digital
journals or portfolios. Teachers can also use the app to create instructional
books, as well as build libraries to easily.
• Insert Learning — This tool, enables teachers to take any page on the internet
and easily add structional content, questions, videos and interactive
discussions in order to engage students and deepen their understanding of the
topics in question.
• Quizizz - Quizizz aims to make formative assessment more fun by enabling
educators to easily create engaging quizzes or choose from millions prepared
by teachers around the world. The multiplayer quizzes at Quizizz are enlivened
with gamification elements like avatars, leaderboards, funny memes and
additional features designed to maximize student engagement.

8. Empower yourselveswith technology
Embrace the change