Voki

It's an app to create an avatar. Its great because you can make anyone talk. It is useful to prepare presentations, practice areas of vocabulary or story telling.

Cons: only 60 seconds for each Voki.

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Other apps Gabi showed us, but we didn't use ourselves:

Mindmup: to create mind maps

Socrative: to create quizzes

Inigma: To make the students read QR codes. I thought I could use this to dsclose all the option for a problem-solving task. (QR Code Quest)

screencastomatic: to create tutorials

chirbit: to record voice and thetn add it to a picture, for example!

Kahoot!

I love this app. It's great to engage students because they can see how well they are doing and at the same time its demanding both in speed and knwledge.

Cons: You need a projector so that the student's can see the questions and the possible answers, otherwise they have to rely on the teacher's reading, what makes the whole activity more difficult.

Padlet

This is a good way for students to showcase their productions and everyone can see them. They can include written opinions, photos, videos or anything that they want to show.

It's perfect either pre or post group discussions or debates. Also, to show the results of their reasearch.
 I can make a box for each of the or allow them to write freely.

Cons: they can move each other's "boxes"

Voice thread

This is a good tool to add video, photos and voice.
I could use the one I've made to give information to my student's in a more appealing way. Also, it can be used for speaking activities, either to set tasks or to open a discussion
But I'd definitely make them do their own productions.

Cons: you have a limited number of productions with the free edition.

Storybird

This app allows to create stories. The good thing is that it provides users with a lot of images connected to the topic they want to write about. the bad thing is that you may be constrained because you can't use your own images.

Photopeach

This is good to create stories, but in my case I'll use to create questionnaires

I'd love to use it for my students to revise vocabulary or grammar points

It can also be used as a trigger for student's productions, showing them pictures and asking them questions so that they can write their own story.

Story board That

This is a lovely tool to create stories or comic strips where you can choose the setting, the characters and add any object you want.



Made with Storyboard That

It is a good idea to make students create story-strips with new vocavulary

Google story builder

This is a good way to tell stories. Although there are no pictures, characters are clearly identified

Google Forms

I use google forms a lot to do tests or quizzes. It's a great tool and with the Flubaroo add-on, corrections is much easier!

Google Slides

This is, in my view, one of the best tools by google. It not only allows me to make a traditional presentation but also to use it in an interactive way. I can divide the lesson into steps (each slide) and to add YouTube videos or links to useful information they can read or a google doc or a padlet where they can share what they have done.

This is the one I created at the course



And this is one I did later on

Google Docs

This tool is to work collaboratively. It can have many uses such as:

• collaborative writing 
• peer correction
• teacher comments
• share information among a group

This is the task I've created

cons: students interrupt each other, they eliminate what other's have written and they modify too much

Google drawings

This is a very useful tool to do speaking activities as well as written ones, in a collaborative manner. Among the activities that can be prepared, I'm going to mention a few.

• Mind maps
• Photographs with speech bubbles the students have to complete
• Drawings which link to information the students have to read/listen or watch and then do an activity
• Put the cartoons of a story in order and later tell the story
• Drag and match activity

This is the activity I created.

Cons: No video can be added 

Hello!

I'm Carolina and I've created this blog as a reminder of all the tools we've learned to use during the ICT course. I don't want to forget!!