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Animoto: an Online Tool to Create a Video

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another post. I hope you are all doing well. In this post, I'd like to talk about an online tool called Animoto.  Animoto is basically a free online tool that helps us create a video. We can combine several different videos, pictures, and music into one video using this tool. Animoto also offers a lot of kinds of music that we can use directly as the background sound of our video. In addition, it offers lots of interesting templates and layouts that we can use for making our video more engaging and eye-catching. Here are the steps of making a video using Animoto: 1. Open the website of Animoto ( https://animoto.com/projects ). You have to log in or you can s ign in using your email if you haven't had an account yet. 2. Click the “CREATE” button to start making the video. 3. After you click it, you will see a lot of templates offered by Animoto. You may choose one of those templates to start making your video or you can also create your own video

How to Teach with Technology

Welcome to my first post, everyone! How are you doing? I hope you are staying safe and healthy. 😊 Readers, do you know that we are every day enjoying the development of technology? Perhaps, you are familiar with social media, YouTube videos, and Netflix. You may also frequently seek information from the internet. We can enjoy those things thanks to technology.  In addition, technology has also been very helpful in the field of education. We can learn a great deal of knowledge using technology. There are also a lot of useful online tools out there that help people to learn and teach English. A lot of teachers are starting to integrate technology into their classrooms. However, to have an effective teaching and learning process, teachers have to know the effective ways to teach with technology. According to the article "How to Teach with Technology" by Y. G. Harto Pramono, there are several tools that could help teachers teach English better. Those tools include websites, int