WEB 2.0 TOOLS by Serkan Sarı https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh en-us 2017-12-28 14:57:48 UTC 2017-12-28 17:21:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png LESSON WRITER serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218108421 www.lessonwriter.com

LessonWriter was built by teachers, for teachers, with one idea in mind: make it easier to teach better.
One teacher created an application to perform repetitive tasks with new materials, such as formatting work sheets and creating flashcards from a newspaper article. Colleagues noticed and added their own ideas; e.g., "It would be cool if it could identify grammar points in an article" and "I'd love an app that remembered what I taught and suggested what to teach next", and additional features were added.

HOW CAN WE USE IT EFFECTIVELY IN ELT

- Teachers can create text and make inference question quiz in lessonwriter.

- Teachers give their students to analyze text and prepare some quizzes with lesson writer for preparation of their possible future jobs.

- Teacher can create some materials, worksheets and create flashcards form newspapers or something like it.

]]> 2017-12-28 15:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218108421 BLENDSPACE serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218108959 www.blendspace.com

Blendspace is an easy way to upload content (including pictures, videos, text, and quizzes) online so students can work at their own pace.This is helpful for creating your own online content for individual or group work, to be done at home or during class time. 

HOW CAN WE USE IT EFFECTIVELT IN ELT?

-Teachers can prepare lessons with dragging videos, pictures and so on.

- In this way, students can come to class with advanced preparation by following the teacher's instructions in blendspace.com.

- Teachers  can embed other educational webpages into  the slides and integrate them in their lesson.

- Teachers can also see how their students doing and can get great feedbacks through comments.

- In a few words, teachers can give their students visual lesson related materials like videos, pictures, you name it.
]]> 2017-12-28 15:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218108959 LIVEBINDERS serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218109698 www.livebinders.com

Livebinders is about categorizing virtual resources, spread them into subtitles to find it easier.

HOW CAN WE USE IT EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ?

- Teachers can organize their resources and split them into tabs. In this way, students can easily find what they they are looking for.

- Also, videos and pictures can easily be embedded into livebinders. 

- For example, let's say this week's subject is conjunctions and you want to tell this subject to your students part by part. You can create titles and subtitles through livebinders. Thinking that you are teaching adverbial clauses of time and split into three parts; after, before, until; hardly, no sooner, scarcely; while, when, as. This makes it easier for students to follow the lesson.


]]> 2017-12-28 15:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218109698 TEXT INSPECTOR and ANALYZEMYWRITING serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218110952 www.textinspector.com
www.analyzemywriting.com

Text İnspector is professional web tool for analyzing texts and give instant and detailed feedbacks.

HOW CAN WE USE IT EFFECTIVELT IN ELT ?

- Teachers can analyze their reading text and make it simple or harder according to the feedbacks come from textinspector.com.

- Teachers can get a great feedback from this reading texts because they exactly know haw hard or simple the text is and get an idea about students levels.]]> 2017-12-28 15:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218110952 LUNAPIC AND BIG HUGE LABS serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218111561
www.lunapic.com and www.bighugelabs.com

Both of these sites are photo editor and creator something different.

HOW CAN WE USE THEM EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ?

- Teacher, especially in primary schools, can create funny pictures about lessons to attract students attention to the lesson. By this way, student learn while enjoying.

- Teachers can create something like film covers and sum up the lessons in one picture. It is way easier adn funnier than teaching the whole lesson by speaking.

]]> 2017-12-28 16:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218111561 TOONDO, STORYBIRD, STORYBOARD, MAKEBELIEFCOMIX serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218111946 www.toondoo.com www.storyboardthat.com www.storybird.com
www.makebeliefscomix.com/

These are the caricature creators.

HOW CAN WE USE THEM EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ? 

- Teacher create funny, brief stories and caricatures about lessons. Visually learning is the most permanent one, as a result, it can help students to make the lessons permanent in their brains.

- For example, let's say this week's subject is idiomatic expressions. You can create 4 window caricature and can easily include many idiomatic expressions an when students hear these idioms later, they'll remember them easily thanks to these caricaures and stories.]]> 2017-12-28 16:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218111946 EASYDEFINE AND SIMPLEVOCAB serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218112472 www.easydefine.com
www.simplevocab.com

There are about defining words, like dictionary.

HOW CAN WE USE THEM EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ?

- You can get an instant definition for unknown words. Analyze your text through these web sites.

- You can save your words to see again and make copy pastei it is way faster than the old ways.]]> 2017-12-28 16:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218112472 MINDMEISTER AND POPPLET serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218114128 www.mindmeister.com
https://popplet.com/

This web sites used for making mindmaps.

HOW CAN WE USE THEM EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ? 

-  With creating mindmaps, students can easily see subject's subtitles and what's related to the main topic.

- They can be used like livebinders in terms of creating subtitles.]]> 2017-12-28 17:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218114128 KAHOOT serkansari876 https://padlet.com/serkansari876/6t1osm86diyh/wish/218114684 https://kahoot.it/

This is used for preparing online quizzes with online participants.

HOW CAN WE USE IT EFFECTIVELY IN ELT ?

- With preparing online quizzes in class, you can easily see student's level.

- You can get instant feedback from kahoot because it shows the results immediately after the quizzes finish.

- It attracts children attentions because it is like competition. And they have fun by the way.

- Funny moments and funny things that happen in class is way more recollective than just a paper and pen quizzes. And kahoot can be very entertaining.

- Because of the time limit, it can be helpful for exams because students have to answers questions within the time given. And also it can be helpful for thinking quickly.

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