Vera’s ICT in ELT Blog

I mage by  mohamed Hassan  from  Pixabay   Hello, welcome back to my 6th blog post! Today I am going to talk about an online speaking tool that benefits both teachers & students!  This is week's tool is Voki , by using it, you can create and alter a character's appearance and make it speak by adding a voice message recorded from your phone/tablet or microphone. This tool also offers a text-to-speech feature with more than 25 languages.  Conversing with Vokis can boost learner motivation, make the classroom more fun and the students more comfortable with class projects and presentations.  Shy students can use Vokis to express feelings and share writing with the class, but make sure they don't get used to hiding behind an avatar!! How to Create a Voki: Here are some student activities and lesson plans that you can do with Voki :   The Voki Blog  British Council - Teaching English  Lesson Id...

Image by  Karolina Grabowska  from  Pixabay   Hello, welcome back to my blog!  This is going to be the second part of the online classroom tools! I also find  Conceptboard a really useful tool, even though it's quite similar to Twiddla (which was mentioned in my previous blog post ), I though it deserved it's own blog post! These two tools and blog posts will be very essential for any teacher who is interested in Online Teaching! What is Conceptboard ?  I t's shared, persistent place where work gets done! Conceptboard enables your teams to collaborate and communicate better. You can also video call your team while using it, you can teach, have meetings, group projects, etc! The video calling feature is very convenient and it's one of the reasons why I wanted to talk about this tool as well ! Conceptboard  Advantages: Free to sign up! Accessible to all devices from any location. Includes a Virtual Whiteboard You c...

Image by  Malachi Witt  from  Pixabay   This week I had the opportunity to experience some student collaboration tools in my ICT in TESOL class! One of the useful collaborative tools that interested me was Twiddla .  Obtained from  https://www.twiddla.com/ What is  Twiddla ? Twiddla is an interactive whiteboard and a collaborative writing tool. If you are interested in online teaching this is the tool for online clas sroom s! It's a  web-based program which allows you to hold meetings online while adding text, shapes and drawings to an existing on-screen background. Some background options that you can add are: webpages, a whiteboard screen and imported images and documents. You can use Twiddla to:  Interact with students and peers Teach students with the use of the Whiteboard Upload images, texts, drawings or websites Host collaborative meetings  Real-time chat and use voice functions  Writ...