"VOKI"

"VOKI" is a fantastic tool that your students will love for sure. With this program, your studnets will produce wonderful and different avatars since it offers users plenty of different characters (presidents, monsters, animals,among others), as well as differents backgrounds. Your students will be amazed with this tool because they can explore and work with all the things that it offers them. Besides, once they choose a character and create the one they like the most, they can also give their avatars a voice. It is a very useful tool since teachers can work with it in the classrooms no matters the topic. Here on the left of the screen, you can appreciate my own avatar called "Gaspy the monster". The idea behind this was to put him as the guider of my blog.

Technology Resources Awakening Curiosity: “POWTOON”

POWTOON is an amazing tool that our students will love for sure. It is wonderful since we can revolutionarize our classes. Wth this page, teachers as well as students can create videos and animated presentations that are reproduced as a cartoon. I strongly believe that with "POWTOON" our students would like to prepare all their projects in such a web page. I have prepared a video presentation for my 3rd year students. The idea was to present them a task that they will have to produce related to our Planet. I consider that it is a great idea to change the traditional classes and show my students that learning English can be very fun.

Photo Essay: "CALAMEO"

The May Revolution

Publish at Calameo

"Calameo" is a tool that can help us to create web interactive publications. You can work with it without any problem since it is easier to use. All you have to do is to upload a pdf file and wonderful magazines, pamphlets, brochures, among others documents will be created. With Calameo teachers can produce different documents and organize the information for students, so as to facilitate their learning process. In the example above,I created a photo essay about "The May Revolution in Argentina" so as to work with my 3rd year students at a Private Institute. The idea behind this is to refresh my students´memory as regards such a date.

Exploration of Visual Tools: "VISME"

Created using Visme. An easy-to-use Infographic Maker.

"Visme" is a fantastic tool for helping our students since it facilitates the learning process and make it more dynamic. All the information your students need will be packaged in just one image. For sure, classes will change completely once you start using such a tool. In the example above, I prepared an infography as regards the use of prepositions. The idea behind this is to show as well as teach my students (Level A2/ Private institute)) that such prepositions implicate a certain property of space. The idea is to help them internalize the meanings behind the prepositions (in front of/ behind/ between/opposite/in the middle of/next to).

"Flipped Classrooms"

When we talk about "Flipped Classrooms", we are referring to a new form of teaching-learning system in which students can learn new content online by watching some videos, usually at home. What used to be homework, is now done in class and becomes useful for teachers because they can offer more personalized guidance to their students and classes are more interactive, instead of the traditional lecturing. As a way of using this new form of teaching, I will work with the video called "The last knit" and I will present it to a group of adults learners. From the video, we can work with simple questions such as, who is she? What is she doing? Why is she there? What are her problems? among other questions. This would help them to participate even more and learn simple concepts.

"WEBQUEST"

"Exploring Cultures" from Beluky

"WEBQUESTS" are very useful for students of levels A1-A2-B1-B2-C1-C2. It is very practical for them, for example,whenever the teacher asks them to make a search project. With this tool,the teacher facilitates students´ work by giving them factual and serious pages about a certain topic. Once they analyze the different pages proposed by the teacher, they can start doing their work.

"Presentation and Publication Tools: ISSUU"

"ISSUU" is a fantastic tool that you could use in the classroom. For sure, your students will be engaged for using it, since they would be able to create their own e-books and organize all their homework. With just a click, you could upload different documents (word, PDFs, among others)and your book is ready for sharing. In this case, I created one about "Workers´Day" as a way of teaching and showing my students (3rd Year) why we celebrate such a day on May, 1st. This page could be used with intermediate- advanced learners.