Five Online Tools to Enhance your Teaching and Learning Experience

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Hello, everyone! How are you all? I hope you are all in a good condition. 😄 In this post, I'd like to talk about how teachers and learners can maximize their teaching and learning by integrating technology. 

Being a teacher and learner is never easy. Boredom is one of the biggest problems that teachers and learners mostly have during their teaching and learning process. Traditional textbooks, conventional classrooms, and a limited variety of learning activities may not be fun and engaging anymore. Considering this, why don't we try integrating technology during our teaching and learning process?

In fact, there are lots of wonderful online tools out there that we can use for free. Not only are these online tools free, but they also provide various designs, models, and a lot of interesting features. Even if you are a beginner and never used to technology, these tools are very easy to use. So, without further ado, let's check them out!

1. Flipgrid (https://info.flipgrid.com/)

Flipgird is an online tool that makes online collaboration become fun, easy, and interactive. Teachers are able to create an online group discussion, but it's not just an ordinary online forum. There are a lot of features offered by Flipgrid to make the group discussion interesting. Some of the features include ready-to-use topics from Flipgrid and the feature to put media resources in the discussion. For other features of Flipgrid, you may watch my classmates' video talking about Flipgrid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r170ih_2O1o&feature=youtu.be. (Group 1)


2. Jamboard (https://jamboard.google.com/)

Jamboard is an online whiteboard that allows people to collaborate together in real-time. This tool allows everyone to share ideas together by contributing to the whiteboard. Everyone can contribute on the online whiteboard by writing a text, drawing, inserting pictures, and many more. In addition to that, Jamboard also allows everyone to drag and move the pictures or text on the whiteboard easily. To help you use this tool, you may watch my classmates' video talking about Jamboard here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1arpESyOROaX3p8FTKbN4dAYOHC4t4ayO/view. (Group 2)


3. Stormboard (https://stormboard.com/)

Stormboard is an online tool that allows people to collaborate together. This tool is very effective and practical for those of you who would like to brainstorm ideas together or have a meeting. Everyone can share and organize their ideas on this platform in real-time. In organizing ideas, Stormboard allows people to make sticky notes and attach many files including video, pictures, etc. For more detailed features that Stormboard has to offer, you may watch my classmates' video talking about Stormboard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGou2CYGGtw. (Group 3)


4. Canva (https://www.canva.com/)

Canva is a very useful tool to create beautiful designs where we can make presentation slides, posters, social media posts, postcards, business logos, presentation videos, and many other projects. Canva offers lots of eye-catching and interactive templates and layouts that can guide us make our projects, especially if we never learn or do anything related to designing. To get to know more about the features of Canva, you may watch my classmates' video talking about Canva here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWeLMNjUHg. (Group 4)


5. Nearpod (https://nearpod.com/)

Nearpod is an online tool that offers lots of features to help you make lessons and presentations more engaging and interactive. In making our Nearpod project, we can start from scratch by choosing the tools provided one by one, or we can also choose provided learning materials inside the Nearpod library. Nearpod library offers ready-to-use learning materials such as videos, lessons, and many more that we can choose based on our needs. For other features offered by Nearpod, you may watch my group's video talking about Nearpod here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fPhW6l5glkESQlGYBGjTddJQHSXpL-67/view. (Group 5)


So those are some online tools that you can use to enhance your teaching and learning experience. I hope this post could help you integrate technology into your classroom and allow you to be creative in developing your ideas. At last, I also hope that the presence of these tools can help your teaching and learning experience more interactive and rewarding than ever before. I'm looking forward to hearing from you all. 🙋

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