Web2 - 4 Languages Teachers

Professor Dagoberto shared with us this link, where teachers can find a lot of different tools to apply in the classroom.

It was a forum and we had to choose 3 of them and use them. The ones I chose were:

1. For All Rubrics https://www.forallrubrics.com/
2. Inkle Writer https://writer.inklestudios.com/
3. Flash Card Machine http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

I actually used only 2 of them because Inkle Writer was kind of difficult and boring to use, and the results were not as I expected, so I decided not to implement it. But the other 2 websites I did use them.

For All Rubrics
This website helps you create all kind of rubrics or checklists for several subjects or objectives. It also provides with sample rubrics that you can modify or use as a guide to create your own. Creating a good rubric can take too much time, that most time teacher DON´T have, and this tool minimizes that looong time.
I have done a rubric and a checklist with this tool to assess my student on Oral Presentations  wit a rubric and Writing Projects with a checklist.

Flash Card Flash

You can create sets of flashcards and then you can print them, take quiz on the contents of the flashcards.

You can share a public link to the flashcards where people can study them and then they can take a quiz about those flashcards.

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/machine/?read_only=3125213&p=a89e

This tool is very helpful when you teach a beginners group because they need to learn a lot of vocabulary but it can not be taught in the same way, so providing the students with flashcards is a great way to diversify the instruction method.

Examtime

On the forum "Show & Tell", Milagro shared a very useful website, which is Examtime. Here you can create c-maps or mind maps, create tests or quizes, create flashcards, create notes.

I have used the mind maps creator which allows you to set a background, and give ANY form you want to your c-map. I have worked with this mind map tool along this quarter for creating the homework c-maps from my Psychology course. Mila told me about it and it has been of a lot of help because it is easy to use it and it helps the people who are visual learners. I am one of that kind of learning style so colors, shapes, graphics, cmaps, and so on, are so helpful to learn better and easier.

These are the mind maps I´ve created with Examtime: (they are in sequence according as I have been making them). So you can notice the changes I´ve had. The more I use it, the more I am better at it.

https://www.examtime.com/es/p/1318589

https://www.examtime.com/es/p/1447973

https://www.examtime.com/es/p/1612193-Constructivism---Meaningful-Learning-mind_maps

https://www.examtime.com/es/p/1660767

https://www.examtime.com/es/p/1730232

The mind maps are a great tool for students to study. Sometimes they don´t know how to study for a very hard test, or they have a lot of contents and they have to summarize it so they can study and learn it correctly. There is when cmaps are one of the technological tools they can have access to because it is FREE and easy to use.

Powtoon

In this entry I´m going to write about this wonderful tool, Powtoon. It is awesome to create videos or presentations.

You can find like templates from which you can start making your own video/presentation, or you can start to do it from blank. If you are bored of using Prezi or Power Point, this is a great option to have some changes in your presentations.

Powtoon is great for making animated videos. If you are just starting to create your own videos for the classroom (introduce yourself, welcome from vacations, introduction to a topic) you can create them in this website and your students will totally love the product of this. The videos are of a high quality and you can upload them directly to Youtube (which is great nowadays). You can add backgrounds, transitions, animated cartoons, props, text with different effects, and more)

I implemented this tool with my brother (17 years old) and he found it easy to use after a little explanation. Then, he explored the website and created this video:
http://www.powtoon.com/show/dszGu2JFPxd/sebas-introduction/

Then, I had to create a lesson plan for two of my courses in the university and I used Powtoon to make an introductory video to the topic, which was Verb to be in simple present form.
This is my video:
http://www.powtoon.com/show/bc1x1lKbX9C/verb-to-be-examples-beginner-level/