Storybird is a platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird lets you write your own visual story or show your poetry. It also lets you garnish your writings with loads of arts. It is really easy to use. You simply create an account of your own and start with choosing arts and write or... you can just read. After writing your own story, you can get feedback from a community of 9 million readers, writers, and educators. This is the story I have written if you want to check out.
Socrative is a platform that is designed to help you quiz your students online. Just like Kahoot, you design your own quizzes and save them to your Socrative account. To engage your students, you share your room code and ask them to join it. After that, when you quiz your students you can see the results and each of the reports is saved to your account to be checked again later. There is also Space Race that is a friendly competition. The students race across the screen with correct answers and with this, you turn the quiz into an enjoyable activity. Also, students can submit feedback to the instructor in this platform which lets you know how good you are doing. I created an account of my own and also created a quiz about The Direct Method .
As I have always stated, whenever I got the chance so far, I have always been a traditional teacher. Instead of teaching in front of a screen, of course not when I am forced to because of a pandemic, I would always prefer to be face to face with my kids. But, during his course I was able to learn different ways of benefiting from the screen in front of us and communicating with my students. I realized that students, according to their ages, will always have the interest for electronics, digital tools and such so, even if this is forced for us at the moment, I guess willingly most of us will want to get in front of a screen in the future. So, we already are aware of the importance of giving feedbacks, designing lesson plans and formative assessments but applying these in a digital platform through screen may become a challenge for most of us. We learned how to do these in the most effective and easiest way. Our educator’s lessons were mostly interactive that actually showed us in t...
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