Material Use in Teaching English

Hey again! Have you heard about Pixton? If you haven't, you'll be informed about it after reading this post. Let's get started! Pixton allows teachers and students to construct their own comic strips. There are a variety of comic strip layouts, numerous character and background choices, and a ton of creative options. This is a great learner-centered tool that allows students to construct their own knowledge and display it in a way that is meaningful to them by allowing them to create comics representing their concepts and ideas. For teachers, there are a ton of resources. You are able to create your own assignments or borrow from pre-existing ones. There are a variety of layouts to suit your instructional needs including timelines, mind maps, and storyboards. Pixton also allows for a lot of creativity. You can upload your own images for the background, you also have direct access to creative commons images. You can also create a virtual class and take a picture of it! This

I know, I know... The ones I talked about before on my posts were amazing tools that can help in our teaching, but you also need to check this!  Sutori is another interactive teaching tool that lets users create story timelines that can include photos and documents. If you are using many presentations in your class, Sutori is just for you! Or you can make your students prepare presentations or story timelines about a particular topic. This will help them work collaboratively and provide an entertaining atmosphere in which they can both learn & enjoy! Students can add a range of media and the simple visual design helps make complex ideas more approachable.  With a super-simple design and tons of flexible features, this is an appealing and intuitive way for teachers and students to organize and share class content. There are premade stories and templates which include some excellent details and embedded resources, and it's worth spending the time to dig in and find content that m

 In this post, let me introduce 'Canva'. Canva is a graphic design platform which is used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. The app includes templates for users to use.  You can choose Canva to create your logo, posters and many more things with ease and fun! They were once time-consuming tasks, but now they will only take a few minutes. Teachers can use Canva to create wonderful posters to catch students' attention. For example: Here are some samples from the website of it:  

Powtoon is a visual communication platform for creating engaging, animated videos and presentations with zero design skills or technical background. Users can choose from a range of over 200 ready-to-use templates and customize them with company branding, content, and visuals. You can create animated videos for personal, educational or business use. It is free, web-based (with options to upgrade), user- friendly software that creates presentations via three simple and easy steps: writing a script, recording a voiceover, and adding visuals.   It's now so easy to catch students' attention to the course! PowToon has the potential to be a powerful animated presentation tool. Whether teacher or student-created presentations are the plan, the slide-based format allows presenters some control over how they present their information. Powtoon offers energetic and vivid way to present your ideas, reports, assignments etc. In my opinion every class should make use of it! Here is a video t

I have an amazing tool for you which we, as teachers or future teachers, can use on our English teaching/learning journey. It's called 'Storybird' aka Artful Storytelling. '9 million writers in more than 100 countries around the world use Storybird to tell their stories. Read the best writers, publish your work, and get expert feedback from teachers, professional editors, and authors.' These are from the original website of Storybird. Well, they got me. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It is basically:  And here is an example for you: PROS * Without requiring any artistic ability, students drag and drop characters and images onto a digital storyboard.  * A visual representation of their thoughts can now be transformed into wonderful writing. Students can use the finished Storybird to write a paper that expands their abstract thoughts into a traditional essay. * Students now can experience writing formal essays and expressing themselves in a meaningful manner. * With a tool such as Storybird

Virtual reality is an experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. It enables a person to interact with an artificial three-dimensional (3-D) visual or other sensory environment. I'm sure you all are familiar with a picture of a person wearing goggles and enjoying the time. Yes, I'm talking about this. A user can tour a simulated rooms, experience different viewpoints and perspectives that are related to his own head turnings and steps. Electronic devices such as special gloves with sensors provide the sensation of touch, user can even pick up and manipulate objects that she/he sees in the virtual environment.  Virtual Reality in Education Traditional methods used by traditional teachers are out of date nowadays. There needs to be new approaches that entegrate technology into our teaching/learning journey. So what are the options, then? We can make use of this amazing technology in our field since it has the power to engage and inspire students

Augmented reality (AR) is an enhanced version of the real world via technology. It is an experience where the parts of users' physical world is enhanced with computer-generated input. Augmented reality uses the existing real-world environment and puts virtual information on top of it to enhance the experience. AR experience includes 25% digital reality and 75% existing reality. It means it doesn't replace the complete environment with the virtual; rather, it integrates virtual objects into the real world.  The most commonly used AR applications these days use smartphones to display the digitally augmented world: users can activate a smartphone’s camera, view the real world around them on the screen and rely on an AR application to enhance that world in any number of ways such as: *  Adding real-time directions * Inserting labels * Changing colors * Changing the user's or their environment's appearance via filters on Instagram, Snapchat and other apps Augmented Reality

  Hello everyone, I want to share my certificate I received from Coursera on 'Teaching English: Foundational Principles'  Coursera is massive open online course provider. It works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications and degrees in a variety of subjects. I highly recommend you to go and search an online course on Coursera which is suitable for your choice!