Padlet

Padlet is like a virtual poster, where you can showcase pictures or even videos.

This is just an example of what you can do with it.

Voicethread

Voicethread is a tool by which you can use images and sound to tell things.

You not only use it to tell stories, but also to present other kind of information.
In my case I have used it to explain a process to more advanced students using passive voice.

Storybird

STORYBIRD is a great tool to create stories.

Don't worry if you think you are not the imaginative kind of person, the beautiful pictures in the site will lead you to the creation of wonderful stories.
In this opportunity, I have created a story to exploit in class, but it could also be a way of working colaborately with the whole class, making decision together and telling a story. Otherwise students could work individually. 

Enjoy it! 

VOKI - creating avatars for the class.

VOKI is a tool for creating avatars. 

It can be used by the teachers to assign tasks, as the one I have done. Or you can also ask students to create their own avatars. In this way students decide on a character, and record their voices. You have them revising vocabulary and practicing their speaking skills. At the same time, classmates will be listening to what the others have recorded. 

I'm sure that it will be great fun!!

This is my avatar 👇

Google Slides

Google Slides is another way of presenting activities.
Instead of using posters, or pasting and removing pictures from the board, you can create slides for students to work with them.
Google Slides can be used for different purposes:

• present information
• assign tasks
• revise vocabulary
• play guessing games ans so on...

In this case, the slides are used for practicing Starters Speaking Test:

Google Drawings

Google Drawings can be used to create kind of "virtual posters".
Students can move pictures around, and if they are allowed, they can even add pictures of their own.
As with Google docs and  Google Forms, you can also send the link via Whats App or e-mail, so students can have access to it whenever and wherever they want to.
In this example, students have to guess who did what by drawing arrows, and produce "passive voice" sentences.

Google Forms

Love it!! ❤

Google Forms turned out to be a very useful tool!
I have used it many times to send homework, especially to revise vocabulary. Both young students and adults like it.
You can create a Quiz and send it via Whats App, or you can also send the link via e-mail.
Don't forget to start your Form by asking the students name, in that way you can check who has completed it.

Here are some examples of my Google Forms 😉

Google Docs

Our first task in this course was to use Google Docs. 

A very useful tool which you can use in many different ways.

In order to create a Google Docs you will need a gmail account, from which you can access to your Google Drive.
Once you have created your doc, you can share it with your students. In that way they can contribute to the document while all the changes are automatically saved.
I have used it for written assignments, in that way, each student wrote the task and they could see my corrections and/or suggestions.

This is an example of a Writing Task: