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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,

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