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Canva is an online tool that allows users from creative designers to amateurs making layouts or create their own designs from scratch, for use in presentations, posters, infographics, social media, business cards, and much more.
Canva also can be used for students to make their own creation for any subject to create unique presentation, infographic, or poster. This medium also helps students to develop their creativity with shape, font, colour, images, and many more for presenting their purposes when learning in the classroom.

WHY: Canva is a very intuitive tool, it can create a visual communication process easier. Not only easy to use, it also has many templates. Moreover, this is free app so it's very economical for both teacher and students

ADVANTANGES: The best things on using Canva is that it allows us to take visual learning to a new level: Students and teachers can become "design thinkers," meaning that we can become skilled in imagining and creating solutions to problems rather than identifying existing ones. Learning and teaching occur as we imagine, create, share and revisit.

▪︎By involving students in making projects with Canva for Education, children can make an authentic and interesting work. They will be able to learn while training their visual communication skills in the classroom.

▪︎Children are involved with visual literacy because it involves design, picture, colors.
With Canva, children can develop their English skills such as writing skills, (when working writing proces,  creating slide presentations, and other works), reading (when students reading their or others works) speaking (when students try to explain the results of his work).

▪︎Canva allows us to take visual learning to a new level in which Students and teachers can become “design thinkers,” it means that we can become skilled at imagining and creating solutions to problems.

MORE: There are several ways to use Canva in your Classroom, including:
1. Practice Design Thinking
Instead of teaching students to solve problems with existing solutions, let them explore and innovate to get a better stumbling block.
2. Design your own Lesson Plan
Regardless of whether you brainstorm ideas, outline a lesson plan, write instructional text, create lecture slides or just experiment with various ways to present concepts, Canva makes it easy to visualize and create effective lessons.
3. Help Students Create Learning Portfolios
Students can use Canva to create their own portfolios to better visualize their learning and to record it.
4. Create Lecture Slides and Presentations
Canva is a fantastic resource for creating slide presentations and lectures. When designing your next lesson plan, choose to present new material in a colorful, engaging way from thousands of templates. You can also take advantage of the Presentation Mode feature , which allows you to expand your design to fill your entire screen with the left and right arrows of your keyboard to navigate between slides.

Some information needs to be considered by the teacher before asking students to use Canva in teaching English

1.The materials have to fit while using Canva, for example like "introduction ourselves", "Procedure Text", etc

2. Giving basic guidence for the students how to use or creating something through  Canva media

3. Giving example of products by using  Canva, such as poster, infographic, slides, presentation.

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Tutorial Mudah Bikin Poster/Flyer dengan Smartphone

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What is Schoology?

Schoology is a website and an app that you can utilize to share information, resources, and files. It is a learning management system designed to provide a digital medium to enhance classroom interactions and support webpage and content creation as well as collaboration. Schoology focused on collaboration, that allows users to create, manage, and share academic content.

Why use Schoology?

Visually and functionally similar to Facebook so it easy to use, and there are a lot of feature such as attendance records, online gradebook, tests and quizzes, and homework dropboxes. Schoology is free to use, too!

What the advantages?

Create classes and folders: Teachers can create specific courses that students can join. Then you can create folders and post materials for students to access.

Have discussions: You and your students can have online conversations (as a requirement or purely casual) and post questions to one another through Schoology’s discussion board.

Post and Receive Assignments: Posting assignments to Schoology is a breeze—you can include its title, the details and requirements, attachments, and due date on a calendar.

Create Requirements and Steps: In Schoology you can organize each step and create restrictions so that students cannot go onto step two until they complete step one (or achieve a specific score), and so on.

Create Quizzes: You can create assessments inside of Schoology itself.

If you want to know more information about schoology please check this url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YF5czmrEg

The tutorial how to use Schoology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nQ07PoLLew

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Make your class more vocal with Flip Grid

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Make your class more vocal with Flip Grid

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What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid is an app or tool that an educator can use by creating a grid, where teacher and student can have  discussion by creating a topic then student can record their  response and upload it in the grid.  Also teacher and student can observe other student response and give feedback with varying length from seconds to minutes.

The next is why use Flipgrid? Flipgrid can create a web of response or dynamic discussion where everyone, teacher and student be more involved, even like student that like to sit at the corner of the class, that way nobody left out. In other word, in Flipgrid teacher and student can be exposed to more varying ways of thinking because every student will give their own response.

What are the Advantages?
as mentioned above, with Flip grid a teacher can,

Teach outside of school

Make the classroom more vocal

Share feedback easily

Its free

Create a dynamic discussion

For more information you can check these links:
https://help.flipgrid.com/hc/en-us
https://www.thetechieteacher.net/2018/07/flipgrid-social-learning-platform.html

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Flipgrid Tutorial - Creating Video Assignments

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Reach your students with Google Classroom

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Reach your students with Google Classroom

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What is Google Classroom actually?

Google Classroom is firstly introduced in 2004 by Google Apps for Education. This platform is to promote interactive learning environment.

This virtual classroom serves a place for teachers to create and post materials (pictures, videos, link), invite students, assign students, conduct quiz and manage administrative needs.

Google Classroom enables teachers to create an online classroom area in which they can manage all the documents that their students need. Documents are stored on Google Drive and can be edited in Drive’s apps, such as Google Docs, Sheets, and so on.

But what separates Google Classroom from the regular Google Drive experience is the teacher/student interface, which Google designed for the way teachers and students think and work.

What does Google Classroom do? Why we should choose Google Classroom ?

·         Make assignments: When you create an assignment, you can upload the necessary documents for the students to read or work on. Students receive e-mail notification of new assignment. The students “turn in” the assignments when finished, and you can then grade the assignments.

·         Make announcements: If you have a quick announcement for the entire class, you can quickly type in the announcement, which is e-mailed to all your students in the class.

·         Store classroom materials: The materials you add to an assignment aren’t the only documents you can store. You can store any other necessary documents for students on Google Drive.

·         Allow students to interact: Students have the ability to comment on assignments and announcements, as well as e-mail each other through the Classroom interface.

The advantages of Google Classroom

Mafa (2018) states the benefits of using Google Classroom to support the learning process:

a.       Classroom management

b.      Flexibility

c.       Safety and security

d.      Promote collaboration

Youtube Link:

"How to operate Google Clasroom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkADrNhCPg&feature=youtu.be

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNImsWUxZA&feature=youtu.be

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Google Classroom Tutorial for Teachers 2019

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1. What is the quizlet application? Namely applications or learning media that students can download (free) on their mobile phones to facilitate them in practice or learning.
Quizlet is one of the media for students to remember words and vocabulary. This media allows users to create flashcard sets based on their needs. For example, based on certain learning themes. In learning languages, for example, Quizlet users can create introductory vocabulary sets, job sets, question sets, family sets using a flashcard.
2. Why quizlet, because Quizlet is a new media for us, so we want to find out more about the benefits and advantages of this media that are not found in other media. We think Quizlet is a fun learning medium for children especially those who are just learning basic English such as honing vocabulary, because the quizlet itself provides a variety of learning and game features

Why do you have to use quizlet?

1. This quizlet is free or not paid so it's easy to use for both students and teachers. There are features that will make students more enthusiastic in learning because Quizlet is a kind of game that they can play even though the game in Quizlet contains a variety of questions that come from teaching material that has been displayed on flashcards. For teachers, it will be easier to set teaching material through flashcards and the teacher can adjust whatever learning materials are needed by students
2. Quizlet provides learning media that helps students to
more independent in learning, both through laptops, personal computers, and smartphones
3. Quizlet bridges between students with visual, audio-visual, and kinesthetic learning styles. This is because in the Quizlet application, there are not only images in flashcards, but also buttons for spelling words are also available
4. This learning media is also practically used because it is on the website and application so that it can be accessed
anywhere and anytime both via laptop and smartphone
5. Because the advantage of using this media is that there are flashcards in addition to explanations, students can see the pictures that have been made by the teacher so they can quickly understand the material. And can also test how much vocabulary each student has, this application also makes science/material more simple and effective. Also, students can listen to the existing English pronunciation in each flashcard so that they are easy to pronounce it. At the end of the learning media, there is an evaluation for students so they can understand their mistakes.
6. Quizlet can be used for teachers and students. For teachers to create classes that contain sets of lessons to be taught while for students they can also make their own vocabulary sets to facilitate learning

Existing features in the quizlet

Flashcard: contains a group of cards that can be played randomly
or sequentially either by clicking on a card and the definition will open. These Quizlet cards or flashcards contain material-
teaching materials that have been set by the teacher. Flashcard is not only for eyes
just language lessons but can be for other limu like economics and
accounting can be made material / set of teaching materials in the Quizlet flashcard.
Flashcard can not only be filled with words / terms / definitions of words, it will
but can also be filled with diagrams, graphs, and images.
2. Learn (Learn): this feature contains a set of related questions
with teaching materials that have been provided in the flashcard. Learn feature
almost the same as in the form of Multiple Choice questions, where participants
students can choose one answer that feels right. True or not
the answer choices will be immediately displayed on the screen.
3. Write: Write feature is a form of practice questions such as essays. Then
from that, students will answer the questions provided with
write / type the answer on the screen. The right or wrong answer will be
directly displayed on the application. The uniqueness of the write feature is the user has
the right to claim answers that are considered wrong by the application. This feature
deemed necessary because in written language, errors might occur
typing, so the application reading the answer is wrong, though
actually the answer is correct but a typo.
4. Spellers: spellers are one of the audio-visual media inside
Quizlet In addition to writing, there are also sound recordings that we can
listen as one question. Similar to the writing feature, the spelling feature also requires students to write or type answers
on the screen then the answer will be indicated whether or not correct.
5. Test (Test): In this feature there are forms of essay questions, matching, multiple choice, and
true / false (True / False) based on the set that has been learned.
6. Match (Match): is one of the test tools to match with
the game features disappear as an attraction for users / students. Game Features
This disappears when students drag two matching words,
then these words will disappear. If participants can make all the words
disappears, then the student has completed all the tests in the feature
this well.
7. Live: Quizlet Live is the most interesting feature, this is due
because participants can group and create groups later
competing in working on the Quizlet Live test simultaneously. Score
The highest will be displayed directly on the screen after the Live session
ends. Live or live "is a feature in the quizlet that is used to test students' understanding of the sets that have been given online, live can be played with individuals or groups for individuals can be played at least 2 people and for groups of at least 4 people, for each group's features group
Must answer correctly because of one Incorrect answers will cause the group to start from the beginning.
to learn more about this media we provided website link https://quizlet.com
for more information about quizlet please check this out

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Start studying simple present tense. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

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Edmodo: Learning can be anytime and anywhere

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Edmodo: Learning can be anytime and anywhere

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We have familiar with Google Classroom, right? Yes! However, we found something looks like it but more interesting. It's called Edmodo. It is a social networking based learning platform intended for teachers, students, and parents. It really helps the teacher in teaching and makes it easier for students in learning. In addition to teachers and students who are helped, parents can also easily monitor the academic development of their children through Edmodo.

Edmodo service can be accessed by teachers, students, and parents anytime and anywhere by logging in on the desktop via their site (https://edmodo.com), or through an app available for iOS and Android.

app for teachers and students: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fusionprojects.edmodo
app for parents: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edmodo.parents

Why use Edmodo? What are the advantages?
1. Edmodo has a simple and attractive design that makes it easy for users to use it.
2. Edmodo can be used for teachers, students, parents and schools.
3. It provides complete features to facilitate the learning process. For example:
- Teachers can not only share subject matter with students, but also can create and design exercises and tests.
- Edmodo facilitates communication between teacher and student, which can be through the open discussion feature or private message.
- Edmodo also provides a special app for parents to monitor their children's development.
- Parents are provided features to discuss with the teacher and other student parents.
- There is a feature called Discovery. For students, they can play games and read interesting article. For teachers, they can get inspired for next lesson.

For more information about Edmodo and how to use it, you can check the link below:
- Get to know the differences between Teachers, Students, and Parents' features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qddFnlH0Yco

- How to use Edmodo for Teacher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaidAjzAL_o

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If you want to use games for teaching English you can use Trace Effects website. It can be used as a supplemental learning tool or re-enforcement of learning English language. Trace Effects was developed by the US Department of State and is intended for learners all over the world as a means of promoting American English and understanding of American culture. It may also be an interesting learning tool for younger ages that are not ELL. Trace is a college student from the year 2045 that has time traveled back to the current time in an effort to change his future for the better. To complete his mission Trace must help other people from the current time accomplish certain tasks, which in turn will return him to the future from which he came. The games were fun and engaging to play.

https://youtu.be/U-luAE4p7cw

https://youtu.be/A3peuh5i-98

https://youtu.be/BY_UOXNNLAg

https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/trace-effects

https://www.deborahhealey.com/trace/

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To learn more about this media we provided a link to its website so you can discover more from there
https://kahoot.com/

Here's a brief explanation about the media that we choose.

What is Kahoot?
Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform. What makes Kahoot! so great is that it has used beyond the classroom; it can be used in offices and social settings, making it a hit for all ages. This means that some parents may be familiar with Kahoot! as well. Kahoot! can be used from any device (through the website or the app), making learning fun and inclusive in all contexts for all ages. Teachers can create multiple choice games related to class content that students can play as a class by entering the game code on their app or device. Kahoot! offers a multitude of other forms of games related to class content that can make learning fun.

Why use Kahoot?
Kahoot! offers many benefits in the classroom. Because of its flexibility, Kahoot! can be used in various subjects — even physical education. Kahoot! is a great way to keep students engaged because it focuses on social learning and makes it fun. It’s also simple to use because it works on any device and players don’t have to create an account. Most importantly, it’s free for teachers and students.

If you’re looking for a new way to reinforce class content or keep your students engaged, Kahoot! is the solution you’re looking for. Using Kahoot! will make your students enjoy coming to class and is sure to boost the morale during those trying times of the semester, such as exam prep. Whenever students use educational technology, it’s important to teach and emphasize digital citizenship. Monitoring software like LearnSafe re-enforces these lessons and assures a safe learning environment.

The advantages of using Kahoot:
1. Students engagement with Kahoot is very high because it is visual, fast paced, and different from the average day to day quizzes
2. Teachers are able to asess student's performance and know student's understanding through the quiz that has been done
3.  If teacher found no time to create a quiz, teacher can use other quiz provided by other teacher found in Kahoot to help students to keep learning
4. Students can also create their own survey or quiz to show understand of the subject matter

Kahoot! is one of the right media to do Study from Home
Kahoot! provides some fitur to do interesting learning process. because it is online media learning based, teachers can use this media to make variety of question in the end of the learning process as a media for giving quizes or questions to evaluate students' understanding.  we can mix and match any kinds of questions such as
a. Quizes (in terms of multiple choices, questions on any topic or subject)
b. True or False. we can use this fitur to guess student's understanding wheter something is true or false
c. Poll. w ecan make a polling of some issues
d. Slide
e. Puzzle. to ask students to arrange answers in right order
f. Open-ended question (asking studnets to type a short answer)

by this varieties of questions, god willing, students will always be interested to join the class meeting.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Storyline Online is a online program that features video collection of renowned celebrities reading aloud their favorite children's books. The celebrities shows their voice-acting skills, and also the illustration on the book's page come to life because of great animation, and at the end, the celebrities explain what they love most about the story.
We choose this program as our media because Storyline Online can brings students a joy in learning thanks to its enjoyable videos and interesting animation, and also the actors can deliver the language clearly and there is subtitle that can be used while watching the video and it can be good for english learners to have more comprehension.
The advantages of Storyline Online is featured with accompanying activity guides on each videos that can be useful for the teacher whether the teacher wants to follow the guides or the teacher can simply connect it to a larger experience or any other material.
For more information about Storyline Online can be found on attached URLs.

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Over the past few years, I've had the chance to speak at a variety of literacy conferences. From Nebraska to Maryland, Orlando to Austin, I've shared strategies for integrating digital tools into the classroom and favorite online resources for educators. High on my list of favorite resources is Storyline Online.

If you haven't heard of Storyline Online before it is a free resource with read aloud videos. On their website, you can search for different children's picture books or browse their library. Each book is brought to life through the narration of a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and illustrations from the book. Since the narrators are all SAG members, you'll see lots of familiar faces with actors both you and your students may recognize.

In addition to accessing on the web, you can subscribe to Storyline Online's YouTube channelor download one of their mobile apps. Because it is such a dynamic online tool and available on lots of platforms, I featured it as one of my picks for this year's NYSCATE App Smackdown (see my "fierce" picture). I'd like to think it helped me win this year's event too since it was definitely a crowd pleaser!

Read Aloud Videos

Each read aloud video from Storyline Online varies in length. But all include engaging narration and illustrations that jump off the page. You can turn on the closed captioning if you wish and play them on any device connected to the Internet. Head over to this page to see a list of all of the titles they have to offer. In the list below I share some ways to make the most of this resource. If you have ideas too, add them to the comments section or share on social media and tag me (@classtechtips).

Read-to-Me Stations

The videos from Storyline Online are perfect for students to explore independently or with partners during a station rotation. Students can listen to one of the videos and then respond to what they have read. This reading experience is the sort of activity that fits perfectly into a 15-20 minute station rotation and can connect to a specific reading or listening comprehension goal you've set for students. Regular readers of the blog have seen me share blended learning resources on the site before - including this tip of sharing videos with Seesaw.

A read-to-me station with Storyline Online might include giving students a list of one or more videos to choose from during this time. Then they can listen and watch on a tablet or Chromebook. When students finish reading, they can respond with an illustration, answer a question, or jump into a discussion about the book.

Introduction to Children's Literature

A few months ago I visited a school where we discussed a range of favorite read aloud books. There were a lot of brand new teachers in one of the grade level team meetings I led. As we talked about our favorite children's books, I could tell that some of the titles the veteran teachers shared weren't ones the new teachers had heard of before.

I immediately thought of Storyline Online, a resource I typically discuss for student and family use. If you are looking to increase your knowledge of children's literature - maybe you moved from fifth grade to first grade and need some new book titles - Storyline Online is a great resource. You might play a couple of videos when folding laundry to get an introduction to a new book to share with students!

Family Read Alouds

Every family's reading experience and comfort level is different. In your classroom, some students might be surrounded by confident readers at home. Other families who may not feel comfortable reading aloud a picture book to their child. Storyline Online is a fantastic resource for families to explore outside of the classroom.

You might send a list of a few links home in a school newsletter each month with a few suggestions of books for families to explore. This strategy can help families get a feel for the types of books shared in a classroom or extend a reading experience. For example, if you read aloud for your students one day, try sending home the link to the video to families the same week. This way families can listen along with their children and talk about the same book explored in the classroom.

Read Aloud Teacher Guides

In addition to placing this fantastic video content at your fingertips - for free - there are also individual teacher guides that go along with each book. You'll find these guides on the landing page for the individual videos. The drop-down menu lets you access both a teacher and parent guide which are full of high-quality resources you can tailor to your group of students.

From discussion questions to clear standard alignment, each teacher guide has something to offer educators. You might use some of the resources just as they are. Or you might tailor some of the questions or ideas to learning goals you've set for students.

For example, if you want to read Here Comes the Garbage Barge with your students, all you have to do is type in the title for a keyword search. Then you'll see a page like the one in the image below. Right underneath the video is a button labeled "activity guides."

When you click on the activity guide button, you'll see both a teacher and parent version. This spot is where you will find a PDF lesson guide full of information ready for your next English Language Arts lesson or cross-curricular connection. The image below provides a quick snapshot of the resource you'll find when visiting the Here Comes the Garbage Barge landing page.

I can't wait for you to dive into this robust resource with your class! If you are looking for reading response ideas, take a look at this post featuring three reading activities. You can tailor each of these activities to any of the books in the Storyline Online library!

Download my free reading poster with more favorites!

Dr. Monica Burns is a former classroom teacher, Speaker, and Curriculum & EdTech Consultant. She is the author of Tasks Before Apps (ASCD) and #FormativeTech (Corwin). Visit Monica's site ClassTechTips.com for more ideas on how to become a tech-savvy teacher.

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Class Tech Tips: Read Aloud Videos and Teacher Guides from Storyline Online

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Over the past few years, I've had the chance to speak at a variety of literacy conferences. From Nebraska to Maryland, Orlando to Austin, I've shared strategies for integrating digital tools into the classroom and favorite online resources for educators. High on my list of favorite resources is Storyline Online.