Free Explain Everything Lesson Ideas For Your Classroom Free Explain Everything Lesson Ideas For Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff If you use Explain Everything–or you don’t but perhaps should give it a look–there’s a free iBook of lesson ideas that you might appreciate. First things first: Explain Everything is a whiteboard and screencasting app that is a wonderful flipped classroom companion, allowing teachers and students to access content asynchronously. In the developer’s words, Explain Everything “is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. And now they’ve released an iBook with lesson ideas to use the software, because caring is sharing. The Free iBooks With The Free Lesson Ideas Part So the iBook then? You can get the Explain Everything app, and the free iBook here. Also available: Visible Thinking & Learning in Your Classroom with Explain Everything – One Day Workshop
11 Web-based Polling and Survey Tools Yesterday, I wrote a short post about Kwiqpoll. After that post was published I got a few requests for suggestions about other web-based polling/ survey tools. Here are eleven other ways you can conduct polls and surveys online. MicroPoll makes it very easy to create a poll, customize it, and embed it into your blog or website. To use MicroPoll just enter your question, enter answer choices, and enter your email address. Flisti is a free and easy-to-use polling tool. Quiz Snack offers a free service for creating polls and quizzes to post in your blog or website. Pollmo is a free service offering an easy way to create and post simple polls online. Urtak is a free and simple polling service that can be used on any blog or website. Using Yarp you can create a simple one question survey or one line event invitation. Vorbeo is a free service for creating polls for your blog or website. Obsurvey gives you the flexibility to create multiple choice surveys or open-ended surveys.
untitled 17 Best Online Survey & Poll Apps Reviewed Nowadays online surveys and polls are becoming more and more important as they are used on a large scale. Now site owners understand a significant role that surveys play for clients and visitors of the web site. If people are asked some feedback or comments, they feel that their opinion is very important for you and they become more reliable. So while creating a survey or poll you should do it as perfect as you can. #1 Polldaddy PollDaddy provides polling tools for blogs and websites. #2 SurveyMonkey SurveyMonkey is an online web application that allows to create surveys for personal and business needs. Also members have some analysis options like filtering and real-time results. #3 Zoomerang Zoomerang is an online survey tool that helps visitors to create online surveys in order to collect and share feedback. #4 eSurveysPro eSurveysPro.com is an online service that can help people design surveys very fast via web browser. #5 Pollcode Poll Code is a free poll generator. #6 Constant Contact
Groupboard Collaborative Online Whiteboard Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students This afternoon through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I received a request for some free whiteboard apps. All of the following seven tools can be used to draw and type on a whiteboard in your browser. With the exception of PixiClip all of these tools can be used collaboratively for brainstorming sessions. While PixiClip doesn't allow for collaboration it does have a voice-over capability. Sketchlot is a free collaborative whiteboard service that works on any device that has a web browser. Aww App is a simple browser-based application for creating drawings. PixiClip is a great new tool tool for creating, narrating, and sharing drawings. Stoodle is an online whiteboard service supported in part by the CK-12 Foundation. Draw It Live is a nice little website that offers a free space for you to instantly create a collaborative whiteboard to use with anyone you like. Realtime Board is a nice tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions.
12 Top Tips: Teaching Children on Skype - Lindsay Does Languages When I first started teaching online, I was reluctant to accept students younger than teenagers. However, as my timetable changed and I had to transfer all students online or stop lessons completely when I moved house at the end of 2014, I took on some of my regular younger students as online learners. Eek! The process has been a really great learning curve and proved to me just how accustomed to technology little people are nowadays. Tip 1 – Take advantage of emoticons My students love using emoticons as part of the lesson. Encourage them to share emoticons that can tell a story to be translated into the target language. As well as the faces you’d expect, there’s also a dog and cat, a house, a sun and raincloud, and various useful hand gestures including a thumbs up and thumbs down. There’s also been lots of new animated additions lately, which are really fun. For example: Let’s say you’re teaching Spanish and have been working on ‘ser’ and ‘estar’. Tip 2 – Show and tell Again – let them!
The Top 10 Work Opportunities for Online English Teachers | ToughNickel Teaching a language online has become a great opportunity to earn a side or even a full income from home. Working from home has many advantages such as flexible working hours, an improved work-life balance, the establishment of a family-work equilibrium, no commutes and more time for cooking and cleaning the house. In times of the crisis, an attractive side income can give you the backup you need. So if you have a good knowledge of English grammar, a clear voice, and the skills, patience and persistence you need to teach adults, teenagers and even kids, teaching English online might be the right thing for you. There are numerous teaching opportunities that have surfaced in the last few years and more and more companies are offering online language training all over the world. 1) VerbalPlanet is one of the best websites to teach English for. If students are satisfied, they will keep booking with the same teacher which is a real advantage. Good luck with your applications!
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