Our main app for this course is Padlet. All the notes, presentation, and so on are posted on Padlet. I have never thought Padlet would be very useful at first but I was wrong. It is a great app. 

Overall, I looked forward learning in this class. 

One of the things Padlet can be used by teacher to teach English is teaching reading skills. Teacher can use Padlet to ask student to read and study notes posted and list out the new vocabularies that student learn from the notes and search for the meaning of the vocabularies and later post and share it on the Padlet wall. 

Padlet is useful for classroom collaboration. From my experience, Padlet is very helpful for passive and quiet students to share their thought or ask question freely without being scared or shy. Next, one weakness that I discovered in Padlet is that teachers have no control of what students may type or post on the wall. From my experience, students used it to chat with each other, in an informal way, where they left comments everywhere and laughing, with the lecturer on the same Padlet wall. It can be understood that it was their first time using Padlet, so they were excited to use it. In term of the ease of use, I would give it a 5 because Padlet is very easy to use. In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4 because Padlet is a shared wall, so everyone in the classroom can view each other’s works and even take a sneak peek and copy others’ works. Overall, I really like Padlet. It is very easy to use but I don’t think I will use it in my teaching in the future. 

Teacher and student can use Mindmeister to make notes and summary of a topic in a mind map form more appealing and interesting by adding media and customize it nicely. 

From my experience using Mindmeister, it is very easy to use to make and customize my mind map to look more interesting and appealing as users add can picture and video into their mind map. They can also customize colour according to their like. And it is also saved automatically on the cloud, so I users can always view their mind map. 

One weakness in Mindmeister is that it is difficult to use on phones because of the size of the text, but it is easy to use on computers.

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 as it is very easy to use. In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4.5 as some features to exporting it into certain format cannot be done freely. Which means we have to pay in order to convert the mind map. 

Overall, I like Mindmeister because it is very easy to use and I will probably use it in my teaching in the future and would recommend it to my student. 

 Teachers and learners can use Vocaroo in different activities, such as podcasting, digital storytelling, and giving so on. Language teacher can use Vocaroo for teaching pronunciation drills. 

Some advantages of Vocaroo is that, first, it does not require registration to use it. Teacher and student can immediately use it without having to register an account.  Second, users can share, embed their audio recording on a lot of apps and LMS, and users can even turn their audio into a QR code format. 

One weakness of Vocaroo is that it the users’ audio or voice recoding will expire in a few months, which means if user do not download their audio, they cannot access it after a few months. In term of the ease of use, I would give it a 5 as it is very super easy to use. In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 5 too as it is super useful for teaching and learning purpose. 

Overall, I like Vocaroo because it is very simple yet very easy and useful and I will probably use it in my teaching process in the future. 

On teaching and learning process, using infographic template in Canva, teacher can use it to make teaching notes more interesting and appealing as it integrates media in the format. Teacher can make a simple notes or summary of an English topic and put in some media element like picture, icon, and so on using infographic template in Canva. 

One advantage in Canva is that there are a lot of interesting and eye-catching templates that make users’ task easier. Users just need to choose a template and edit it with their own. 

One weakness of Canva is that in the making of a product, Canva eventually become heavy and consistently become lagging. This can make users feel very frustrated. In my experience using Canva, my laptop even hang that I need to restart my laptop to continue editing my product in Canva. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 4 since it lags easily that makes people feels frustrated.

In term of its usefulness, I would give a 4.5 since it is very useful for teacher and student to use it in their teaching and learning process as it is very appealing and it have a very good quality features, templates and so on. 

Overall, I have a 50-50 feelings on Canva. It is very interesting and appealing, but the fact that it always lagging frustrated me. I will probably use it in my teaching and for other use, but not so much, I guess. 

Teacher can use Microsoft Excel to make record of students’ mark and grade. Other than that, teacher can also teach student how to make calculation using formula in Excel. Besides, teacher can also use Microsoft Excel to make crossword puzzle activity for students.

One advantage of Microsoft Excel is that it is very easy and helpful for teacher to organize data and do calculation of students mark and grade

One weakness of Microsoft Excel is that it is very difficult and complicated to use. It is impossible to use it for the first time without knowing anything about the features and formulas first. From my experience, I need to write down formulas so that I can refer to it another time or else I will be completely lost. 

In term of ease of use, I would give a 3, because as mentioned before, it is super difficult and complicated to use it. From my experience, if I learn a new feature or formula, I need to use it consistently, or else I will forget everything. But it is so hard that I rarely used it. 

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4.5 as it is very useful for teachers, but it is hard to master it. 

Overall, I dislike Excel because it is super difficult and complicated to use it. But, I will need it in my future teaching career especially in calculating and grading students’ mark. I guess I to learn basic features and formulas before I started teaching 

Teacher can create an idiom lesson and include a brainstorm activity to ask student to list out idioms that they have learned before. This can bring out students’ interaction in the class. 

One advantage of Nearpod is that it is a very fun and interactive as teacher can make notes and tasks within a presentation. it can attract students’ focus and interest as from my experience using Nearpod, I think students will always waiting for the next task within a lesson. In my opinion the tasks within a presentation is the thing that make it interesting. Besides, it requires students’ engagement in class.

One weakness of Nearpod is that it requires good and strong internet connection to use it. Creating an IT product itself requires a lot of time. If the app requires a strong internet connection, then it might be burdensome for users. It is time consuming. 

In term of the ease of use, I would give it a 3.5 since it always slows and requires strong internet connection.

In term of its usefulness, I will give it 5 since Nearpod is very engaging, interesting, and interactive to use. 

Overall, although Nearpod is a good platform for students’ engagement in classes, I dislike Nearpod since it requires a strong internet connection and always slow down, but I think I will be using it in my teaching in the future but rarely. 

Teacher can use Thinglink to teach modal auxiliaries where teacher can upload an image contain of the modal auxiliaries and later put the tagging on each modal auxiliaries and explain its use, how to use, and example of each modal auxiliaries. 

One advantage of Thinglink is that it is very appealing and interesting. As teacher can turn information into an interactive graphic, it is very eye-catching and appealing. From my experience using Thinglink, its feature is very simple and it also attractive visually.

One weakness of Thinglink is that it does not engage students’ interaction as they can only access the Thinglink product and study it but without any feature of students’ engagement. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 as it is super easy to use. Its features are very simple yet powerful.

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a4.5 since it doesn’t have feature for students’ engagement. 

Overall, I really like Thinglink as it is very easy to use and very useful for teacher. I will definitely use it in my teaching in the future. 

With Edpuzzle, teacher teach listening comprehension skill by putting a video of a celebration in Malaysia and ask students to type in or record their voice on what do they understand from the video. Between that, teachers can also put multiple choice questions to keep students’ focus on the video. 

One advantage of Edpuzzle that it encourages students’ engagement in the class. Students will have to keep their attention and focus on the video. It also helps students to make full use of their short-term memory span effectively instead of watching the whole video and later answer the question after the video. 

One weakness of Edpuzzle is that it requires students to work individually. From my experience, students are encouraged to use earphone while watching the video, as it may interrupt other people and make loud noise. Students must use earphone to listen to the video and to be focused on what being said in the video. Edpuzzle does not encourage collaboration between student as Edpuzzle concept is like an assessment for student. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 since it is very easy to use for both teacher and student. 

In term of its usefulness, I would give 4 since it encourages students’ short-term memory use, but it does not encourage collaboration between students. 

Overall, I like Edpuzzle and will use it in my teaching in the future since it is very easy to use.  

Teacher can create a grammar worksheet using multiple tasks such as MCQ task, open-ended task and fill-in-the-blank task for questions and also drawing task for students to draw and describe how they understand a concept of tenses. For example, ask the student on how they can visualize the concept of simple present tense vs present continuous tense. As teacher can use wizer.me to make a combination of tasks within one worksheet, they can choose any suitable task to put in their worksheet.

One advantage of Wizer.me is that it is very engaging. From my experience using it, it is definitely more engaging and interesting than paper worksheet. For example, teacher can assign speaking skill assessment. Using wizer.me speaker feature, student can record their own voice for their speaking skill assessment which a paper worksheet cannot do. Thus, student can take time and work on their own pace. 

One weakness of wizer.me is that not all features are free. The free features are already great, but there are a few features that are not free thus users must pay in order to be able to use the paid features. One more,  wizer.me does not save users worksheet automatically. It would have been better if this feature is added. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 since it is super easy to use.

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 5 too since it is very useful for teachers to make worksheet more engaging and appealing. 

Overall, I really like wizer.me and will definitely use it in my teaching. With wizer.me, teachers can be more creative, and students are a lot more engaged in the classroom.

Teacher can create tenses quiz using Quizizz to test students’ knowledge about certain tenses. 

One advantage of Quizizz is that it encourages students’ engagement. It requires students’ attention and focus. Its meme feature is one of the things that keeps students to engage in the quiz. 

One weakness of Quizizz is that if the quiz is played live, students are determined and more likely to compete with each other on who is getting the most correct answer rather that understanding the quiz effectively. By playing it live, students can always predict the answer and get it right when they actually don’t know what the answer is.  

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 since it is very easy to use. 

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4 since it is useful for teacher to conduct simple quizzes from time to time

Overall, I like Quizizz as it is very easy and fun to use and I will definitely use in my teaching. 

Teacher can create an English idiom study set to teach student on idioms to help them in their essay. 

One advantage of Quizlet is that teacher can keep track on students activity on the assessment. Teacher can know which student have completed all task and which student haven’t completed their assessment. This feature has made teacher’s work become easier. 

One weakness of Quizlet is that some flashcards made by other can contain wrong information. As students can check out others’ flashcard, they might read some wrong information and use it for their lesson. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 4.5 since it is easy and fun to use.

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4.5 as it is useful for students to study yet they are open to wrong information if they access other people’s study set.

Overall, I like Quizlet and I will probably be using some features on it in my teaching. 

Teacher can quickly create a video using the explainer template to explain any topic of a lesson. This way it can encourage students’ engagement to the lesson especially visual learners as this type of students is more attracted to visual learning. 

One advantage of Biteable is that it is very easy to use, with a wide variety of built-in and ready-made templates. Teacher can use Biteable to create a video quickly with a high-quality, professional looking video in minutes. It also does not lag like other online video maker apps.

One weakness of Biteable is that users cannot download their own video. It is a part of their premium plan which means users have to pay in order to download their video. For free version, users can only share their video through link. 

In term of ease of use, I would give it a 5 since it is very easy to use with the built-in templates and it save time. 

In term of its usefulness, I would give it a 4.5 since it is useful for teacher to make lesson more engaging. 

Overall, I really like Biteable and will use it in my teaching in the future. 

Besides, I was so worried as I only have a friend from the same batch in this class. The other classmates are not the same batch as me and my friend. So, I was worried that I would be having problems in catching up with the lesson. But thanks a lots to Dr Tunku’s help, I am able to learn effectively in a very fun environment. I am grateful to learn from her. 

To conclude, the exposure of all apps has indirectly given me a vision of what app and how will I use it in the future. It gives me an opportunity to look ahead and plan my teaching method bit by bit.