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  what is Trello and what is it used for? Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. it is a white board, filled with lists of sticky notes, with each note as a task for you as an educator and your students. this is how a trello board looks like.  https://trello.com/invite/b/zP6NMoSA/0352653f98f741bd00e0ef9f1efde22e/web-20-tools-for-teaching This is your Trello homepage. you can create board by clicking the area "create a new board".  these are my notes. in order to add more notes, click the button "add to list" after you write down your notes. you can edit your notes by clicking the icon next to your post-it. it is possible to add a more detailed explanation, add hashtags, attach documents from other applications or your PC and add a reminder onto your note which any participants can see. for more advanced setting...

  SOCIAL NETWORKING AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL   Web 2.0 has changed the popularity social networking sites which have three defining characters: ·        A profile: it includes the name or nickname of the user or information about the person’s sex, age, location, etc. also, most of them include photographs of the users. Profiles have unique URLs that can be visited directly and updated. ·        Traversable, publicly articulated social network: participants have the ability to list other profiles as friends or contacts. ·        Semi-persistent public comments: participants can leave comments on others’ profiles for everyone to see. These are semi-persistent. Because, they may disappear over some period of time or upon removal.   USER GENERATED CONTENT ·        Users have the tools to actively engage in the construction of their experience...

  what is nearpod and what is it used for? Nearpod helps educators make any lesson interactive whether in the classroom or virtual. The concept is simple. A teacher can create interactive presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and more.The students can access a teacher’s presentation through a code and the teacher then moves the class through the presentation and lets students interact with the media as they go. Teachers can also opt for Student-Paced mode ,  where the student controls the flow of the lesson. The app is web-based and works on any device with an internet connection. to create four types of document which are lesson, video, activity or google slides, you should just click the button 'create'. then, you will come across four choices.  1. creating activities firstly just to exemplify, in the category of activities, you are going to come across three activity types which are matchings pairs, time to climb, or draw it.  a...

  what is voki and what is it used for? Voki is an educational tool for teachers and students, which can be used to enhance instruction, engagement, and lesson comprehension. It  can be used in class (for student work), as an animated presentation tool, for student assignments, and as a virtual supervised discussion. V oki is a free service that lets you create a talking avatar to help students share their learning. The other excellent feature is that it can then be embedded onto a blog or Wikispace like this:  Voki gives you as a teacher the opportunity to engage students in any topic area through a simple to use and free resource available anytime and anywhere for almost any purpose. It provides you with: Getting students to share their learning Getting feedback from students Getting students to add a more human feel to their blog or wiki Foreign language speakers to express views and opinions easier Engaging and hooking students into a subject or topic Interacting with...

  what is flipgrid? and what is it used for? Flipgrid  is a simple, free , and accessible video discussion experience for learners  and families.  Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.  One of the main things going for flipgrid  is its ease of use . Teachers set up an account and create grids, which act as communities for students to work in. Within each grid, the teacher creates prompts called topics, and students post video responses to the prompts and replies to each other's videos. 1. after you sign up as an educator, you should create a group for your students.  you can send invitation links, emails or codes to your students. 2. secondly, you should create a new topic filling in title and description for the assignment. also, yo...

  what is padlet? and what is it used for? Padlet is a digital tool that can help teachers and students in class and beyond by offering a single place for a notice board. That's at its most basic. This digital notice board is able to feature images, links, videos, and documents, all collated on a "wall" that can be made public or private. This means that not only can teachers post on the wall but so too can students. Since the interactive space is easy to use and easily accessible from nearly any web browser-capable device, it's a great resource for teachers and students.  if you want to have a padlet page for you, you can follow the instructions below: after you sign up for padlet, you come across a page like this. then, you have got to click the button " create a padlet" in order to get started. after you click the button, you will see the page below. this page offers you lots of ideas about background wallpapers. you have got to choose between one of them...

  WHAT IS PEARDECK? WHAT IS IT USED FOR? Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress. Pear Deck is a freemium service; teachers and schools can access a wide array of tools and resources for free or opt to subscribe to a premium account. after you sign up for free, you can get use of peardeck activities.  you can create simple and instructionally effective lessons with the help of google slides. regarding the subject you all have talked about together. also, your students can work on their own or you can guide them through it as a teacher.  regarding the lesson plan, you can guide your students to effective activities from "pop up activities" part. activities are divided into three sections named co...