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Speak Out

Teachers want their students to talk in the classroom and VoiceThread. With this tool students can share their opinions, and so can the teacher. The linguistic skill that more tested with VoiceThread is speaking. The following activities can be developed using VoiceThread Role-play:                                                                                                                                                 It is not a secret that students do not like to talk in front of their classmates or teacher. In this activity, teacher can give a topic to students and they have to record a video doing the role-p...
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Tell me a story

Tell a story is very funny and interesting and now teachers and students have the chance to use a tool like Storybird to create activities in the classroom. Linguistic skills such as reading or writing can be tested with this tool. The following activities can be developed with Storybird Use the words:                                                                                                                                                          In this activity the teacher can give some words to students and they have to create a story using that words. The words can be related  to the t...
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An attractive way to create summaries

Sometimes it is boring to write summaries by hand. Spider Scribe is a tool that can help not only teachers but also students to create summaries. Spider Scribe allows people to create mind maps. The use of this tool can test skills like reading and writing. The following activities can be created using Spider Scribe Follow a step:                                                                                                                                                          With this activity the  teacher can show a mind map explaining the procedure of something. For example, if the topic ...
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A creative way to create presentations

Using Power Point is not the only option to create presentations. Teachers and students can also use Google Slides. This stool can test a linguistic skill such as  speaking and reading. The following activities can be created using Google Slides  Snakes and Ladders :                                                                                                                                                         We know that students like to play and Snakes and Ladders is a great option for students to enjoy the class. Snakes and Ladders can be use to evaluate vocabulary because every time th...
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