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I chose Notion as the application that I use, because this Notion application provides lots of features such as task lists, movie lists where we can put movie links, reading lists, daily lists and many other features. Apart from that, this concept is also very interesting to use, where we can change the cover according to what we want and use interesting emojis, we can also create and edit it to our heart's content, there is also a reminder feature, such as we can include calendar deadlines for tasks that we haven't yet. do it. Another feature is that we can edit tables, to-do list pages, quotes and others, the website or application is also very easy to access.

Here are the basic steps to get started :
1. Create an Account
- Download notion app or Open the Notion website.
- Sign up for an account with your email address.
2. Create a Workspace :
Notion is organized into Workspaces. You can create a new workspace or use an existing one.
3. Add Content:
Click on a page to edit it.
You can add text, images, videos, and other elements. Notion supports a wide variety of content types.

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Gamification is not a game but gamification is the application of game mechanics and game design elements to non-game contexts. gamification, taking the characteristics of a learning game in the form of gamification makes traditional teaching methods more interesting. To make gamification, the game elements must be complete, at least 3/5 game elements and cannot be completed in one meeting. In gamification we can make the difficulty level of the task, it can be part of a larger indification architecture.

Some ways to gamify your lesson:
Digitizing quiz
Unlocking content
Setting levels of difficulties
Giving rewards/badges

In doing gamification, using the scaffolding method is also possible because scaffolding is part of gamification.

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I chose the random picker wheel because it is very easy to use and there are grouping features such as gender, labels, and defaults that can make it easier for us to group them there we can also choose how many groups to create and the maximum number of people in one group, the web is also very easy to access so I think this is highly recommended.

How to use this app :
1. Insert text or inputs.
Insert the text inputs one by one by clicking the + button or return key from your device. Here we can input the names of the students that we will divide into groups.
2. Controller
here we can enter student names and we can also group them through the controller, here we can group according to gender, defalut or use labels and we can also edit how many groups we will create such as 3, 2 or 4 groups after that we can edit the maximum people/group.
3. Set Team Names By default, we use Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, etc., for the team naming. You can change the team names by clicking the "Set Team Names" button. Write your desired name beside the team you want and click save for example team 1 change became team sakura.

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Tools for teaching grammar and vocabulary

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Tools for teaching grammar and vocabulary

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Duolingo is an application that is very helpful in learning vocabulary and so on by using this application we can easily improve and add new vocabulary, we can learn it from scratch because in duolingo there are several levels that we can learn, we can use the web or download it on the phone because access is also very easy.

How to use duolingo :

1: Download Duolingo from the App Store / click the web

The first step is to go to the App Store and download Duolingo if you haven't already! The app is available for free for iOS (iPhone) and Android or click on duolingo web to access it.

2. “Get Started” on Duolingo

After you download Duolingo, you can open the app and you will have the option to “Get Started.” If you’ve never created an account before on Duolingo, that’s the option you would choose.

3. Choose the Language You Want to Learn

After you click “Get Started”, you will choose which language you want to learn on Duolingo. Right now, you will only choose one, but I will show you how to add more later on.

4. Course Overview

The next slide shows you a little course overview of the language course that you chose. You don’t have to do anything here, you can just continue to the next step.

5. Choose Why You Are Learning a Language

Here you will choose why you are choosing to learn a language on Duolingo.

6. Pick Your Daily Goal (You Can Change This Later)

Now you will choose your daily goal on 7. Choose Your Language Level

Next, you will choose whether you want to start as a complete beginner or whether you think you know a bit more. If you choose the Placement Test, it will give you questions that will test how much you know.

8 .Take Your First Duolingo Lesson or Placement Test

After you choose, you will immediately start your first Duolingo lesson or your Placement Test. The first lesson is the most basic and is actually the first lesson in your Duolingo tree.

9. Create Your Duolingo Profile

Now, you finally get to the part where you create your Duolingo profile! Don’t worry, it will save all the progress you’ve made so far and the lesson that you have completed will be included in your profile.

10. Complete 9 Lessons to Unlock Leagues

Now that you’ve created your account, you will need to complete 9 lessons in order to compete in Duolingo Leagues! Duolingo Leagues are basically a competition against other users who are at the same level as you.

11. Earn 10 Crowns to Unlock Stories

The next step is to earn 10 crowns so that you can start using Duolingo Stories. Duolingo Stories are short stories that get progressively harder and test your listening comprehension and help you learn vocabulary.

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I chose lyrics training as a tool to learn listening, speaking and pronunciation. This web is very easy to access, there are many interesting features that we can use such as music features that we can choose ourselves in the search feature section, we can also choose what genre we want, lyrics training can also be set up such as for begginer, advanced and others.

To use LyricsTraining, follow these steps:

1. Choose Your Target Language: Access LyricsTraining online or via the app and choose your target language from the available options, in addition to English.

2. Select a Song: Once you've chosen your target language, select a song from the extensive catalog available in various languages and genres.

3. Play the Game : As the music video plays, the lyrics will be presented in one of three ways: karaoke style for reading or singing along, with gaps for you to type in the missing words, or with gaps for you to select from multiple choices. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

4. Practice and Enjoy: LyricsTraining helps you learn new vocabulary, improve language skills, and reinforce grammar concepts through continuous exercises of writing the missing words. It also has a special Karaoke mode that lets you sing and enjoy the full lyrics.

LyricsTraining is a fun and effective way to learn and improve your foreign language skills through music. It's suitable for self-study and can be a great tool for language learners of all levels.

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For many students improving their listening skills is the hardest of the four skills to master. Unlike reading, listening happens in real time and it can be hard to control the speed of the information coming at them. They may also have to deal with a range of unfamiliar accents, noise interference from background environment and the pressure to respond to the person they are listening to.

Traditionally, listening skills have been developed in the classroom by the teacher using audio files and graded listening activities. The audio file is usually played by the teacher and the students work through the activities in lock-step together. Although this model may be easy to manage for the teacher it doesn't allow much differentiation for the students or give them much choice or autonomy regarding what they listen to or how many times they listen.

This, however, is an area of language learning where digital technology and mobile devices can have a significant impact. There are now a great many websites and apps that students can use to develop their listening skills independently and which teachers can use to create interesting learning and support materials for their students.

In this article I'd like to share a cross section of what's freely available for teachers and students.

This app has long been a favourite of mine as it combines listening to songs with learning a language. Students can choose songs in a variety of languages then watch the video of the song and try to reconstruct the lyrics. Students can choose the level of difficulty by selecting either to reconstruct the whole of the lyrics or to just have a few of the words taken out.

The app is gamified, so as they listen to the song, the music stops at the end of each line and they then have a time limit to fill in the missing words. If they don't complete the line they have to start from the beginning of the song again.

Using songs in this kind of text reconstruction activity helps students to listen multiple times without getting bored. The app works in the web-browser, but there is also a free app for both Android and iOS.

The app gives a much better user experience in my opinion. Students and teachers can register on the site and the app will then track student scores. As a teacher you can also add videos and lyrics to songs you want to use with your students and so add to the LyricsTraining collection.

This is a great app to get students listening intensively, but remember they can successfully recreate the lyrics of the song without necessarily understanding them so it's good to follow this up in class.

This is a podcast search engine with a huge collection of podcasts on a wide range of topics. Podcasts are a great source of listening materials for students and can easily be downloaded onto mobile devices for replay at any convenient moment.

Listen Notes can help teachers or students to find listening materials that fit their interests. If they log in, students can start to 'curate' collections of different podcast episodes that they like and keep working on their listening skills while listening to them whenever is convenient.

The site also provides an embed code for each episode so if you are designing online learning materials for your students, this makes it easy to embed the podcast into your site, materials or blog.

Most of the podcasts are authentic so these are more suited to higher levels, although there are some made for ESL/EFL podcasts available too.

This is a great app for any of your students who use Facebook. It is a simple free app that works with Facebook Messenger and sends students short audio clips. The students have to listen to the audio clip and write down what they hear.

They can then send their text back and get instant feedback on how much they got correct. This is a great way for students to regularly work on developing their listening skills.

This is another app that combines listening with watching videos. TeachVid uses video from YouTube and builds a range of different activities around them, varying from text reconstruction, translation, multiple choice, jumbled sentences and many more.

One of the nice things about TeachVid is that students can choose the types of exercise they want to do for improving specific listening skills. If you register as a teacher you can also create activities using the videos of your choice and create 'classrooms' so that you can share assignments with students and track their results.

This is a great way to set listening for homework and know that your students have done it.

This is a text to speech voice reader that can be plugged into the Google Chrome or Firefox browser. Adding the plug-in takes a couple of seconds and once added students can go to any webpage and simply click on an icon on the tool bar of the browser.

The app will then open and read the text of the page to them. As it reads, it highlights the text so students can see the words as they hear them. It's also possible to pause and rewind if they feel they have missed something.

The quality of the voice isn't perfect, main problem being with intonation, but it is very good and synthetic speech is getting better all the time. This is a great way to help develop both students' listening and reading skills at the same time.

Synth is an interesting way to make podcasts more interactive and engaging for students. You can record your podcast, a message, a question or an audio file for your students to listen to and they then have to record a reply, or add to your message.

This is a great way to either collect knowledge together or create dialogue with students while developing their listening skills. It can be used on iOS or in the web-browser.

This is a really interesting tool for anyone who is interested in improving their listening skills and learning how different lexical items appear in authentic speech. It is a little like a corpus, but has a wide collection of audio files that can be searched for specific language items.

You do this by typing the word or phrase you want to find into the search field. Fluid Data then shows you a list of audio clips with the part of the clip that contains the example phrase highlighted by an orange bar.

When you click on the orange bar you can hear the specific part of the clip. This is great for finding listening materials when you want to teach a specific item and can also help students to review words or phrases they are learning and find authentic example sentences that show how they are used.

This app is similar to LyricsTraining, but has a wider variety of source materials. Again it is based around listening to what you hear and writing it down and like LyricsTraining you can select the level of challenge by deciding how many of the words of the script you need to type in.

Generally, the texts used are of a higher level and have more complex vocabulary than those in LyricsTraining, so this would be better for higher level students who would like to specifically develop their listening skills or ones practicing for Cambridge exams.

This is a great tool for motivated students who want to work on their own and improve their listening vocabulary and spelling.

This app allows you to create your own short video files, upload them to server and get a link that you can share with your students.

This is a great tool for helping students who have specific problems with remembering pronunciation of words or phrases or for recording example sentences or very quick listening activities for students.

Just click on the record button record your text and then click on 'Save on sever'. The recording will be saved on the server for three months and you'll get a link that you can share with students so that they can listen.

This is a great tool for backing up the work you are doing in class on listening and pronunciation.

This is a really useful tool for separating audio from video or for converting files for uses in different formats on different devices.

Although the combination of video and audio can be really useful, sometimes it's also great to split the two, so that students can focus silently on what they can learn from the body language and expressions of the characters and then, see how that corresponds to the actual words they are saying in the sound track.

Video converter makes it easy for you to either upload a video or add a link to the video and then save the file as either an audio file or a silent video file.

I hope this article gives you some idea of the range and variety of resources that are now available for helping you develop your students' listening skills.

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Listening Skills: 10 Online Tools For Developing Your Students' Skills

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Discover our top 10 most effective and engaging online tools for developing your students' English language listening skills.

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Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments without having to meet face-to-face. The main goal of Google Classroom is to streamline the file sharing process between teachers and students. By using classroom teachers can provide material without having to meet face to face, teachers can also provide assignments and notifications through classroom easily.

To use Google Classroom, follow these general steps:

1. Sign In and Join a Class:

- Go to classroom.google.com and sign in with your Google Account, using your school or personal email address.

2. Navigate the Interface:

- After joining a class, you can explore the Home page, Stream page, and Classwork page to view class information, assignments, and materials.

3. Complete Common Tasks:

- On the Stream page, you can access classwork, including assignments, questions, and quiz assignments. The Classwork page contains additional class resources and materials.

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I use idries shah foundation as my web or application to teach reading and writing because this application is very easy and they also provide free books to read, the appearance and images used are also very interesting for children.

how to use idries shah foundation:

1. Visit the Website:

Start by visiting the official website of the Idries Shah Foundation. The website tends to provide information about Shah's works, Sufi teachings, and how to access resources.

2. Explore Resources:

The foundation may offer a variety of resources, including books, articles, videos, and audio recordings. Explore the available materials to gain insight into Sufi philosophy and the teachings of Idries Shah.

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After a Swim by Idries Shah - The Idries Shah Foundation

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After a Swim by Idries Shah is a tale that operates on many layers, ‘bridging the tradition ways of thinking’ from the East, with those of the West.

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For children, Make Beliefs Comix is a somewhat basic online digital comic creator. Users of Make Beliefs Comix can alter text and pictures, and then print the final versions of the images. In addition to helping students communicate their experiences, teachers and students can produce visuals that complement the original narrative or that vary based on the students' preferences. Make Beliefs Comix includes numerous languages that allow pupils to express themselves through comics. Overall, because this comic website is simple to use and understand, I suggest it. The E-comic may have extra elements like animation, video, and sound, in which case there are some premium extras. Furthermore, teaching with this teaching tool takes a lot of time.

Here's a general guide on how to use Make Beliefs Comix:

1. Visit the Website:

Go to the Make Beliefs Comix website

2. Explore the Interface:

Once on the website, explore the interface to understand the available features. You'll likely find options for creating characters, selecting backgrounds, and adding dialogue.

3. Create a Comic Strip:

Follow the steps provided on the website to create your own comic strip. This typically involves choosing characters, placing them in scenes, and adding text to create dialogue or captions.

4. Customize Characters and Scenes:

Many comic strip creators allow users to customize characters and scenes. You might be able to change facial expressions, poses, and backgrounds to suit your story.

5. Add Text and Dialogue:

Use the provided tools to add text and dialogue to your comic strip. You may be able to choose different speech bubble styles and fonts.

6. Preview and Edit:

Preview your comic strip to see how it looks. If needed, you can go back and edit your creation to make any necessary changes.

7. Save or Share:

Once you're satisfied with your comic strip, find options to save or share it. You may be able to download the comic as an image file or share it directly on social media.

8. Explore Additional Features:

Some comic strip creators offer additional features, such as the ability to create multi-panel strips, save your comics for future editing, or even print them.

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Create Your Own Comic Strips Online with MakeBeliefsComix

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Create Comics Online, it’s Fun & Free at MakeBeliefsComix!

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Create comics online at MakeBeliefsComix. A fun way educators & parents can empower students to express ideas and stories in comix!

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Twinkl is an online education resource platform that provides teaching materials, lesson plans, and educational content for educators, parents, and students. It offers a variety of resources for different subjects, grade levels, and topics, meeting the needs of teachers in the classroom and parents facilitating learning at home. I use this Twinkl because it really helps teachers easily and the application also has many features that can be used and are very helpful.

how to use:

1. Create an Account: You can create a free account on the Twinkl website or app by registering with your email address.

2. Search Resources: Once you have an account, you can search for educational resources by typing keywords in the search bar at the top of the site.

3. Access the App: If you prefer to use the app, you can download the Twinkl App for free and log in with your Twinkl account to access the resources.

4. Sharing with Students: If you are a teacher, you can also share Twinkl resources directly with your students for in-class or remote.

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Twinkl - Penyedia Bahan Ajar PAUD, TK, SD, SMP, SMA, dan Pendidikan Inklusi.

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Ciptakan pembelajaran menyenangkan dengan ratusan ribu ide mengajar menarik, lembar kerja, materi PowerPoints, game interaktif, e-books, dan bahan ajar lainnya buatan guru Twinkl!