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Creating Stunning Presentation Video Using Canva

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Hi, everyone! How are you all? I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy :) In this post, I'd like to introduce another online tool called Canva that allows everyone to make presentation videos. Canva is a helpful, practical, and time-saving tool and it does make designing presentation slides for the video a lot easier. Some of the features include elements, interesting font styles, and various media that we can use to make our presentation slides stand out. In addition to that, Canva offers millions of beautiful templates with various outlines that we can include in our video. With Canva, we can be sure that our presentation video would be more engaging, eye-catching, and interesting than ever before! Let's see how to make one through these steps: 1. Open  https://www.canva.com/  and sign up for free if you haven't made an account before. You can sign in using your email and password if you've had an account.  2. After you sign in, you'll see this screen. 

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.co

Making Fun Games Using SuperTeacherTools

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Hello everyone! In this post, we will discuss another tool to support our teaching and learning called  SuperTeacherTools . It is a very easy online tool that allows everyone to create a lot of types of fun and interactive games. In addition, you will also find other tools that can help you arrange the classroom. To begin with, first of all, open  https://www.superteachertools.us/# . Afterward, you will see all the tools offered by the website. In total, there are 11 tools offered by SuperTeacherTools. There are 4 tools that can be used for making games and 7 tools that can be used for arranging the classroom. The tools for arranging the classroom include the tools to make a random seating plan, to generate groups for students, to get the name of one student randomly, etc. However, in this post, we will focus on the tools to make games. The 4 tools that can be used for making games are:  1. Jeopardy Style Custom Review Game 2. Multiplayer Rocket Review Game 3. Who Wants To Be A Million

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