[Speaking] MoveNote

Today I'm going to introduce MoveNote, a very simple tool for students to practice speaking. Regarding CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), MoveNote provides a platform for asynchronous, speaking communication. Due to these two features, students can have opportunities to practice speaking in a more relaxing way without the pressure of real-time communication.

[Lesson Plan] Nearpod

[Collaboration] Edmodo

Speaking of online collaboration, Facebook may firstly strike to people of my age. When we were college students, we used it as a platform to discuss assignments or other student events. Doing teacher training internship, we organised student teacher works on Facebook group pages. Thus, it can be easy to think of Facebook as a collaboration  platform in teaching. In this post, I'm going introduce you Edmodo.

[Material] Triptico

Triptico is one of my favorite tools introduced by my tutors. It's very versatile in making digital teaching materials, that is, it can be used to produce tasks and exercises of vocabulary, reading comprehension, creative writing, etc.

[Speaking] PodBean

Last week, we just had a look at VoiceTube that can be used for extensive listening. Apart from listening, speaking is also crucial in having good communicative competence. This time I'll introduce how to use PodBean to help students practice speaking.

The index of PodBean (Web)

[Blog] Free Technology for Teachers

I'm going to recommend a very nice blog entitled Free Technology for Teacher, written by Richard Byrne.