ICT in TESOL

Are you still worrying about how to collaborate and interact with your students? With the development of technology, it becomes more and more convenient to do that by using some online tools. Tricider is one of the powerful online tools that can help you in many ways. https://www.tricider.com/home Introduction Tricider offers an online platform for users to create polls, surveys and brainstorms in any sessions or classrooms with your colleagues or students. It allows users to do many things like raising a question, gathering suggestions and collecting feedback. It is collaborative and interactive for all users that everyone can show his personal opinions that can be seen by all the others in this platform. You can also vote on other's ideas. How to use it in classroom There are a lot things you can do in classroom. I will give you some common activities created in classroom but please do not be constrained by them. Frist, there is no doubt you can use it in a vocabulary lesson, let

Mobile learning has been improved a lot since the COVID-19 because people find that using mobile learning apps can help us learn remotely at any time. Even we are not suffering the "study at home" policy any more, these apps are still useful and beneficial.  Here is one of the apps I want to show you, called "Nearpod".  https://nearpod.com/ Introduction Nearpod is a versatile platform for teachers to create interesting and engaging lessons to their students. There are a lot of things you can do with Nearpod, including designing presentations, video classes and even virtual reality images in your class and creating games and quizzes freely. How to use Like I said, it's not only for online teaching, but also a hybrid learning platform that allows teachers to use it in off-line classes. By designing lessons with VR images and all kinds of videos can greatly attract student's interests and attention. Besides, combining learning content with games will encourage

Today I am going to intorduce a platform that allows users to create interactive and visually appealing content such as presentations, infographics, quizzes, games and animations. You can use it to design whatever you like and make it be a part of your classroom. Let's see how we can use it. Introduction The platform is called "genially". First of all, register an account of "genially" and then you will see a lot of things you can create, including presentations, infographics and so on. After you choose one of them, there will be many template offered for you. One of the powerful features is that it's easy to create and edit content you want.  My favorite function I love the gamification part that gives many possibilities in classroom. Instead of testing your students with basic quizzes, I prefer creating some interesting games by utilizing cartoons and animations to attract students' attention. Moreover, the games in your classroom can not only be a qui

 Have you ever been troubled with your pronunciation? Youglish will be the best tool for you to learn how to pronunce every word accurately with real context. https://youglish.com/ Introduction After you enter the website, you just need to put the word or phrase in the search box and click "say it". Then it will show you a video that a speaker says the word or phrase you typed. Moreover, there are all kinds of accents you can select. You can choose your favorite accent, listen to videos and practice through repetition. Below the video, the definition, nearby words and phonetic transcription are presented for you to know more about the word or phrase. Also you can see the tips to improve your pronunciation at the end.  How to use it in classroom The basic use of Youglish is to show students the word or phrase they want to learn. The process can include pronunciation practice, vocabulary learning and listening comprehension. It gives many possibilities for teachers to motivate

Have you ever thought about helping your students to be an autonomous English learner? In the context of Chinese classroom, it's quite rare for students to do listening exercises without being guided by teachers because not only they concentrate more on reading but also students have no idea where they can improve listening skill effectively and authentically. Fortunately, a library for English listening gives more possiblities in Enlgish listening learning. Let's take a close look at it. Here is the URL  https://www.elllo.org/ Introduction Once you access the website, you will find all kinds of listening material including different levels. On the top of the home page, you can choose the video or audio as you like. Moreover, click "search" and you will be able to find a lot of useful content by selecting the "topic", "country", "level" and "media". It is definitely a library for everyone who wants to listen to diverse English c

Is it becoming more difficult to catch student's attention in your classroom? Especially when they are tried of hearing your voice. Here is your saviour! Why not use avatars to make your classroom more attractive and help student enjoy the game and learn the language  at the same time? It definitely will help you in your teaching career. Let me introduce the Voki.com to you and see what this can benefit language teaching. Here is the URL https://www.voki.com Introduction Based on the avatars, there are a lot of things you can do at Voki.com, including assigning homework to your students, inserting your character into slides, creating an avatar to teach in your classroom and so on. Just enter the website and create an avatar. Use your imagination to make your classroom more interesting. Let me give you an example. I made two avatars to describe their appearance. You can find many different avatars in Voki.com and make full use of them to teach your students how to describe a person