STORYBIRD

Storybird is a language arts tool. We use illustrations to inspire Members to write stories, and encourage ongoing writing practice with badges and other rewards. Storybird is free to use for everyone. Purchases such as memberships (not sold to students) and printed copies of your own story are optional and not necessary to use the Site.

All stories in the public library are fully moderated by humans, and public comments are tightly filtered through a combination of human and machine moderation to remove PII, and to foster a positive environment suitable for all ages. Stories written by students are not allowed in the public library. There are some user options such as educator, student, regular, artist, writer, parent. 

Since we are in the  last days of 2019 and we are about to enter new year, I choose a topic about Christmas.  You can read my story experience here 
https://storybird.com/longform-story/curious-candice-

VOOOKI..

Voki is an application that allows you to create characters online and allow them to speak text you type. The characters you create with Voki have the ability to speak texts written in many languages. I created my avatar as my favorite English teacher who is still in the same primary school and wear like a shirt and sweater. I speak about the importance of vocabulary study and one vital problem about keeping words in mind briefly. If you want to watch my avatar you can just click below 

http://tinyurl.com/sc392u2

AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL EVEN OLDER THAN ME : HOT POTATOES

Hot Potatoes is a programm for creating questions and quizzes whose name evokes beautiful French fries to me :) There are some options for creating quizzes such as multiple-choices, short answer,hybrid, multti-select, matching exercises,gap-fill exercise. Theacher can create their question and gives feedback by using these options. This application is quite old compared to similar applications.

You can look at my little Hot Potatoes quiz example below

BLACKBORD

Blackboard LLC was founded in 1997 by two education advisors, Matthew Pittinsky and Michael Chasen, as a consulting firm to provide technical standards for online learning applications. This platform integrates data and applications for e-learning.

Benefits of the Blackboard Learning System

Students and faculty may benefit from course management systems such as the Blackboard Learning System. Potential benefits include: (1) increased availability, (2) quick feedback, (3) improved communication, (4) tracking, and (5) skill building.

1)  Blackboard can be accessed from the internet at anytime and anywhere. Students can retrieve all of their course materials including assignments, lecture notes, slides, internet hyperlinks, and audio/visual aides. They can submit their assignments as soon as they are complete. It is this accessibility that most appeals to students

2)  , students can take their tests and have all objective-based questions graded and scores available immediately after they submit their responses

3)  There are several features of Blackboard that allow for communications with students. Four of the more distinctive options are announcements, discussions, virtual classroom, and email.

4)  Tracking. Blackboard tracks student usage of courses and posts these results in the course statistics area. Instructors can obtain statistics on all students or individual students within the course. Individual assignments can also be tracked

5)  Skill building. There are several additional skills that are promoted with the use of Blackboard. These skills include organization and time management, which go hand-in-hand in helping students carry out their assignments efficiently. Blackboard provides the ability to include a calendar for each course in which a student is enrolled, thus optimizing students’ efforts to match course expectations. 

For more information you can also read this article http://www.gilfuseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/learning-management-system-Blackboard.pdf

GLOGSTER

Glogster is a cloud-based platform for creating presentations and interactive learning. A platform that allows users, mostly students and educators to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster called glogs on a virtual canvas

On the left is my first poster experience about the relationship between classroom management and teacher skills in Glogster and you can visit in here   

https://edu.glogster.com/glog/classroom-management-skills/37ig4ddig1c

KAHOOT AND QUIZLET

Kahoot is a free web-based program that allows teachers to pose questions to student who then respond from a selection of answers electronically on their own devices. It records the answer each child gives to a question, as well as how quickly they respond, so teachers can use the data to assess their children. Ultimately, it a fun and engaging tool that can be used to challenge and assess learners. I think the most original and fun features of Kahoot is teaching new words and information with a sweet competition. You can look at my mini Kahoot quiz in here :) https://create.kahoot.it/share/classical-drama/9a51c0da-1ec7-43c2-83e6-64b4c9c7cc41

Quizlet is a free website which enables teachers and students to create digital flash cards. Especially if you need to memory vocabulary , Quizlet is great study tool for subject with visual or auditory content so you can also listen the pronunciation of the word that you want to learn. I can quitely say that Quizlet is uniqe for vocabulary study. If you want to try my little flash card,  you can click this link :)

https://quizlet.com/_7r5qws?x=1jqt&i=1z2sus

MOODLE..

Nowadays, with the use of technology and the Internet, education is undergoing significant changes The Internet access and use of Laptops have created the technological conditions for teachers and students can benefit from the diversity of online information, communication, collaboration and sharing with others. Moodle is also one of these significant conditions and systems. This platform is widely used worldwide by universities, communities, schools, instructors, courses, teachers and even businesses.

The Moodle platform has three levels of use, with features of differential use and access : Administrator, teacher and student.   Administrator manages the whole environment, teacher generates events, courses or subjects according to the thematic areas defined generates training or events which are designated, student accesses and interacts with a specific event and participates in the subjects they are subscribed. 

As consequence, The Moodle is an e-learning platform used throughout the world. Universities, communities, schools and teachers serve up to her to communicate and transmit information to their educational communities. Developed by Martin Dougiamas is a platform with technological characteristics and satisfactory teaching, gaining users and developers working collaboratively. The great success of this platform due to the fact that a open source system, providing programmers the opportunity to make new contributions, with new applications, making it one of the most widely used in courses distance. It seems to us that the integration of such platforms deserves special attention and should be included in educational settings, despite all the limitations and lack of existing at the different levels, such as difficulty in accessing the platform, because the connections are very slow or that the servers can not manage the information when there are many users, or because there is no availability of computers with Internet connection.