Hello everybody and welcome to my blog! This blog is entirely dedicated to pedagogical ICT tools which might be very handy for you as teachers in your professional futures at the schools. As a matter of fact, everything related to computers and technology attracts a great deal of attention of our children. Actually, it has been demonstrated that they perform better if the content and activities to do are in an ICT format. In this way, this blog is going to show you some alternative tools to work on many of the English skills while students also enjoy. We are going to talk about Symbaloo, an alternative home page where you can introduce your favourite educational web pages. Then, Storyjumper which is a perfect alternative to create audiobooks with your own stories and promote reading in class. On the third place, we have Powtoon, an innovative presentation format which can help students to maintain oral communication in the classroom. In the fou...
This post is one of the most important of the blog from a pedagogical point of view. With Educaplay and Quizlet we are introducing two very useful tools for the teaching and learning process. On the one hand, Quizlet is a web page that allows you to create some flashcards for learning mainly vocabulary (however, you can try to introduce also grammar or phonetic topics) and then, it provides you also the opportunity of testing your pupils' knowledge on the chosen topic. In this way, you, as teachers can fulfil the task of evaluating them, too. On the other hand, following the evaluation matter, we have Educaplay. This online tool is known as one of the most popular webs for learning while children are playing. It gives you the opportunity of creating games such as Crosswords and Wordsearch puzzles, matching activities, ordering words to make sentences... and doing so, you can take a look at your students' progress on the topic. To conclude, these online tools are a...