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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

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

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