Microsoft Word is a popular word-processing program used primarily for creating documents such as letters, brochures, learning activities, tests, quizzes, and students' homework assignments. There are many simple but useful features available in Microsoft Word to make it easier for study and work.How to create a random text: to arrange a text on word of 10 paragraphs each paragraph is of 5 lines type: =rand(10,5) then press ENTER key.
Google drive is a great application that helps you work easily without losing your documents because it can save things automatically. In Education, you can share some online assignments with your students and check them easily. As
a teacher, I can use this application to store my files (exams/ activities/
quizzes) securely. Google drive
facilitates my work because I can access it using any device (cellphone!). You can share stuff with your colleagues and work with them on the same thing at once.
Forms are an interesting application where the teacher can create quizzes with others at the same time.
Form is a good application because it is free; everyone can access it easily. In the teaching domain, this kind of application can be used to create a quiz about any reading text with the students and assess their understanding. Students will enjoy using this application because they can immediately see the result.
A webinar is an interesting live
video that presents precious information. Attending such webinars can provide
the teacher with effective tools/ways that can be used in the classroom. As a
teacher, I can attend online workshops, communicate with experts, and benefit
from their experience. https://www.6seconds.org/, https://home.edweb.net/, http://www.ascd.org/ are helpful webinars sites.
Pad let is an easy way to organize the teacher's life. The teacher can share
beautiful and beneficial content
with students. It engages all the students.
Also, students can share their opinions or their journals. They all would
be not noticed! It is an entertaining application, we had a lot of fun learning it. It ensures involvement as well as spreading happiness and enjoyment in this class while learning
This website is really
important because it provides good rubrics for the teacher. Actually, it takes
long hours to create a rubric. As a new teacher, creating a rubric is really
tough! Having such an organization would facilitate my life and provide
me with the needed rubrics. It offers plenty of rubrics; I can pick
what suits my objective.
posts. It is useful for me because I can share my journals with educated people and discuss their content with them. Also, students' published work can be posted and shared with parents in an advanced way.
WebQuest is really useful for
projects and research papers. Throughout this application, the teacher can
direct the research because the internet has a lot of bad sites. The teacher
can make students' search safe, and she can provide them with useful links that
facilitate their search.
ActivInspire is a new program that enhances interaction in the classroom. It's much more enjoyable to use an interactive board. It can present things in an interesting way; it makes things alive. More than that, it is full of educational games and useful gadgets that can be used. Students enjoy using it because it requires body movement.
It is a screenshot tool that is an initial program on the computer. It is a very helpful tool that allows you to save a copied captured image and edit it in another application
Poll Everywhere is an online audience poll that can be used
over mobiles. Devices, twitter and online. Classroom applications use it for
test-taking. Teachers use it to learn about students and how well they are
adapting to the class. Moreover, it allows students to be in charge and let
them poll on a fun class activity they may want to participate in. What is good
that Poll Everywhere is trusted and secure and it seems to be very effective
and essential to be used in many different aspects of teaching and among
different subjects as well? It gets the students interactive and very hands-on
with the growing technology of today's society. You can use it in statistics to collect data about a topic and its very helpful in this situation.
Quizlet is a web-based application developed to help
students study information through interactive tools and games. Quizlet's
mission is to help both teachers and students practice and master what they are
learning. It can be used in any grade level and type of class. Through Quizlet,
students log in and choose the appropriate study set for the concepts they need
to review. Therefore, it helps the teacher to review for students. It encourages
collaboration and teamwork skills while reviewing information through working
together in a team. In addition, it helps students prepare for tests. With the
engaging study tools and differentiation options available, students have so
different ways to study information when using Quizlet. It enhances learning definitions though the uses of flashcards. Also, it captures students' interest in spelling activities. Teachers can use it to check students' progress.
Canva is an online design tool that offers users the
opportunity to create professional-looking posters. Canva can be used to create a variety of images, including events as flyers, resumes, cards, certificates,
and info-graphics. It allows students to design posters to display their
knowledge in a visual way.
Canva is a collaborative tool allows students to share their
work and request feedback from their classmates. Students can use Canva to
construct and show knowledge. They also can capture photos or videos of their
classwork, homework, assignments, school activities, post those in their
account, or a class account and have a discussion about the posts. Teachers use
Canva to design visually appealing infographics, posters, and images to
complement the text-heavy learning experience.
-It helps students think critically about a subject, data set, or complex ideas.
-It aids students in organizing information in a logical way.
-Infographic creation helps meet tech literacy standards.
-The process of making infographics helps students improve their research chops and find trustworthy sources of information.
-It helps students exhibit their understanding of a subject in different ways. In short, it makes them more creative shifting perspectives.
-It helps teachers save time in creating visual aids, particularly if they use infographic templates!
-It’s also a great opportunity for teachers to learn something new!
We had an online session with Dr. Amal and it was a great experience, she discussed with us some tools in the active inspire and it was a very useful session, we felt as in class but in a more comfortable way since we were in our homes maybe. This application is very easy to use, she sent us the link with the user name and the password to join the meeting and during the session, you can have a video on you or not, even you can mute the sound or participate in class, and you can ask the teacher whenever you want and all students her the question as the answer as well.. just like in class. Zoom brings video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging into one easy-to-use application. Highly recommended...
Google slides is one of the applications of the google documents. It can be used to prepare a presentation. It is beneficial to use it when you are doing group work presentations because you share it with your group members and work together at the same time and each one from his own place, so you can be all together but not physically together. You can use within it diagrams, charts, tables, pictures, videos, etc... and It is really cool since it is saved on the drive so you can access it wherever you are
Good job Atika ! these are brief and enough description for major tools and sites we learned in this amazing course. Hope everyone would benefit from them.
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