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Enrich your Virtual Classroom with These Wonderful Platforms!

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Hello, readers! How are you doing? Hope you are in a good condition. :) Readers, since the pandemic, we have been staying at home and having online learning. We no longer meet our teachers or students face-to-face and we use video conference applications such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams instead. However, things can get really boring for students if there are barely any variations of learning. Teachers may try several platforms to deliver the lessons so that students would be interested and refreshed during their learning! In this post, I will cover 5 free platforms that can be used during online learning. These platforms have been tried by my CALT classmates for delivering English lessons, and all of them are approved to be effective, interesting, and even helpful for the teachers as well! So, what are you waiting for? Let's check them out! 😏 1. Edpuzzle ( https://edpuzzle.com/ ) Edpuzzle is an online platform that helps teachers to create customized lesson videos. T
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Create Online Quizzes in Easy Steps Using Socrative

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another post! How are you? Hope you are doing well. 😃 In this post, I'd like to introduce another online tool called Socrative. Have you ever heard of this tool before?                                              This tool is extremely useful for teaching and learning as it can be used to create online quizzes. The quizzes made using Socrative can also be given to the students to work in real-time so it also works well during online learning. In addition, this tool allows teachers to track the students' responses to the quizzes, allowing the teachers to review each individual student's progress. Isn't it nice? 😏 So, without further ado, let's learn how to create online quizzes using Socrative in the following steps: 1. Open Socrative website:  https://www.socrative.com/ . If you are new to Socrative, you can sign up for free as a teacher by clicking the Login button, then click Sign up now! You need to provide an e-mail and a pas
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Jump-Start your Class with Quizlet

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another post. How are you doing? I hope you are all doing great. 😊 Readers, in this post I would like to talk about another tool to help your teaching inside the classroom. The tool is called Quizlet. Have you ever heard about it? Quizlet is an online tool that allows us to create a lesson in the form of flashcards containing the target terms and their definition. Later on, these flashcards can be transformed into different types of exercises and games. Sounds fun, right? 😃 With Quizlet, the learning activities inside your classroom will be interesting and varied. So, without further ado, let's learn how to create flashcards using Quizlet through the following steps: 1. Open  https://quizlet.com/login?redir=https://quizlet.com/latest  and sign up. You can sign up by providing your email or using your Google or Facebook account. If you've made an account previously, you can directly log in. 2. Click Create and choose Study set .  After that, y
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How to Create Online Exercises Like a Pro Using Hot Potatoes

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Hello, everyone! How have you been? Hope you are all doing great. 😃 Readers, have you ever been struggling to find online tools to create exercises for your students? If yes, then this post will help you with that! Recently, my CALT group (Group 5) has tried a free application called Hot Potatoes which can be used to generate multiple types of exercises. In order to help you comprehend the use of the Hot Potatoes application, feel free to have a look at our group's presentation video about Hot Potatoes here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/18WzAbJF0K0QEOQTGLsF5_UjVVodUNBgI/view?usp=sharing . In our presentation, we explain the function of Hot Potatoes and give a short tutorial on using each tool in the application.  In Hot Potatoes, you can make 5 different types of exercises and compile them into one exercise. In addition, students can directly do the exercises through a webpage and even get their score. Isn't that awesome? 😄 Therefore, we may also use Hot Potatoes to asses
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Turning Videos into Meaningful Lessons Using TED-Ed

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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to another post. 😊 How are you? I hope you all stay safe and healthy during this situation. In this post, I'd like to tell you all about one of the exciting features of TED-Ed: TED-Ed lessons. Probably most of you are already familiar with TED talks and TED videos. Some teachers may access and share TED-Ed talks and videos inside the classroom for many purposes such as learning English. But, do you know that TED-Ed also provides video-based lessons? Under the slogan ' Lessons Worth Sharing' , TED-Ed lessons contain exercises, activities, and discussions that are already perfectly designed. They are wonderful learning resources and they definitely help save teachers' time. But, what makes them even better is that we can create our own lessons to facilitate our needs! So, let's check out how to make our own TED-Ed lesson here: 1. Open TED-Ed website:  https://ed.ted.com/  and sign up to make an account. If you've signed up previously,
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Padlet: Perfect Tool to Engage your Students during Online Learning

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another post. How have you been? Hope you are all doing great. 😄 Readers, most of you have known that one of the teachers' jobs as the facilitator of learning is to hold the students' attention during the class. In order to keep the students engaged, motivated, and enthusiastic, teachers have to provide the students varied classroom activities. To do so, teachers may benefit from an online tool called Padlet. What is it, actually?  👀 Padlet is an online tool that allows different people to interact and collaborate in real-time. The appearance of Padlet is a kind of discussion forum where everyone could post text, pictures, etc.  Source:  https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2017/08/30-creative-ways-to-use-padlet-for-teachers-and-students To make a discussion forum using Padlet, sign up to its website here:  https://id.padlet.com/ , then you can begin making your Padlet by choosing one of the provided layouts. To help you understand more about the
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Engage Your Students with Interactive Lessons Using Nearpod

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Welcome back to another post. How are you all? Hope you are doing well and staying safe. 😊 In this post, I'd like to talk about Nearpod, an online tool that helps teachers make interactive lessons. This tool offers a lot of features as well as learning materials. With Nearpod, not only can the teachers compile their own files such as PDF files and PowerPoint slides in one lesson, but they can also combine their materials with all features from Nearpod such as quizzes, exercises, slideshows, and many more. Nearpod allows us to arrange a wide range of materials, exercises, and activities and unite them into a single lesson. This lesson can then be shared with all students through a link to learn or do a review. Teachers can be creative and organize the lesson to meet students' needs. Now, let's see how to make a lesson using Nearpod through the following steps: 1. Open  https://nearpod.com/  and sign up for free. You can sign up using your Google or Office 365 account or you
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