Voki is a great website that allows you to create speaking avatars. Voki has also expanded their brand to make the learning experience, even more, engaging with Voki Classroom , Voki Presenter , and Voki Teach . While these options are amazing in their own right, the free version of Voki can be utilized in many fun ways to help engage your students. With Voki you can make each character your own! You can customize the body, background, clothing, and accessories of your Voki. The possibilities are endless! Give your Voki a voice! Once you’ve created your Voki, you can make it speak with your own spoken voice! To create a talking Voki: 1. Select a character from the Voki Library 2. Select the record option and speak into your microphone 3. Export, share and/or present your talking character! Educational Benefits: - Increased student retention, engagement, and comprehension - Great for developing student speaking skills & abilities - A great way for students to...
Meet Socrative by mastery connect. Your tool for fun and effective formative assessment. Socrative enables you to engage and assess students on any device and operating system during class. All the activities visualize student answers in real-time and provide detailed reports for afterward. Directly from your teacher dashboard, you can launch all types of assessments: start a quiz, do a quick question or polling activity, play a fun space race game or doing out of the door exit ticket. Quick questions are perfect for no-prep activities. As students respond, the teacher can see in real-time what the students are thinking, have a discussion of the result or ask more quick questions. It is your choice. You can create your own assessments or share assessments with your colleagues and other Socrative users around the world. If you like you can tag it with a common core or state standard. As students take the quiz you'll see their graded responses populate your live results tab...
Edmodo is an application that focuses on communicating with students, parents and other teachers. You can create a class community, assign homework to your students and stay in touch with them, and inform their parents. The assignments you give to the students are stored regularly. You can give direct feedback to students. The application is easily accessible from the phone, tablet, and computer. You can also explore other lessons outside the school. We used this application last year for our Writing class and Introduction to Education class. It was a very useful app. I recommend this app. Way to use Edmodo; Utilize the Edmodo quiz builder or poll feature to assess students’ learning during or after a unit of study. Place students in small groups and have them post their work to their group for peer review and feedback. Enable students to tap into individualism and build self-esteem by sharing their writing projects with each other in Edmodo. Encourage students ...
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