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Hi everyone!! Welcome back hehe. Another day, another entry with me. Today's weather is such a blessing. I had a great day today so yeah lets move to another tool for digital teaching. The tool is Pear Deck.  Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress. Pear Deck is a freemium service ; teachers and schools can access a wide array of tools an resources for free or opt to subscribe to  premium account Pear Deck has been amazing for just in-time teaching. it allows classroom to feel more like a tutoring session rather than normal lecture class. We can see how student engage learning in class. This will allow to make whole class adjustments, small group adjustments and meeting one-to-one if ne...

Assalamualaikum and good morning everybody. Welcome back to my next entry. Weeeee. So today i am so excited to share with all of you another tool for digital classroom. yup, it is what it is. It is Quizlet. Quizlet provides a platform for students d teachers to create and shre their own learning materials, including flashcards and diagram. Quizlet Live is the free in-class quiz game, produced by Quizlet, that can then bring these learning materials to life. In this engaging and interactive game, students must all contribute, stay focused and communicate well to win. In order to memorize facts , this tool would be very helpful. We need to encourage students to use Quizlet on their own time as homework or to create their own custom flash card sets for Quizlet Live competition in the classroom. Interesting ain't it? we can also encourage students to create flash card decks to share with the class, it will be a nice way to help students collaborate as they preparing for test...

Have you ever heard of Prezi? no? rarely heard? not familiar? because you are only familiar to Microsoft PowerPoint? Do you know that Prezi is a tool that is very similar to Microsoft PowerPoint? According to Prezi, "creating,giving, and tracking beautiful interactive presentations is as easy as 1,2,3' with their cloud-based presentation software. Prezi was new, organic, exciting and one of the first SaaS platforms, although not without its critics. It was fluid, dynamic and different, but because of that lack of structure, and most people making use of every zoom, spin and pan feature, Prezi often become known for dizzying presentations that were confusing. On the other hands, some of students find it very interesting rather than PowerPoint slide. Prezi has An online Flash-based platform for creating, editing,collaborating and sharing A black canvas, flexible path and deep-dive zoom A desktop app for working offline- which syncs to online account A mobile vi...

Hi, welcome back to my next post! Today my entry will be about another tools for digital classroom. TED-Ed, have you ever heard about this? well TED-Ed is where students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. TED-Ed's videos and lessons can be implement to almost any subject. Although it might take a bit of time for searching but it will be worth it. The content is remarkable, and come from people with good knowledge and (brain hehe). Most of materials here is best for high school students. It also provides videos on special topics that help students collecting additional information and specialized information on a topic that certain student could not ask their teacher. TED-Ed provide us another alternative on how to understand any subjects or topics that we do not certain. Therefore, this tool really good for some students who find learning in class is boring and not focusing in class. Thus, this would be a good deal for them to gain their concentration...

I bet everyone know this tool. Kahoot! has been around since March 2013. Kahoot! was launched in private beta at SXSWedu. In September 2013, the beta was opened to public, and it's been quite a ride ever since! Kahoot! can quickly become a go-to for teachers looking for alternative way to run checks the understanding of students. Teachers can do something like Kahoot!Day for quick review foor some subjects they had learned. It also can be use to break ice at the beginning of school year to bond with learning-community members. With new Challenge mode, students can assign Kahoot! quizzes for homework by sharing a link or game PIN or by posting to Google Classroom (Challenge mode only works in the app, so students will need a mobile device or Windows 10 computer to access this feature). So this app is convenient to use for university students an school students. The advantages of Kahoot! is that effortlessly fun quizzing that can lead to productive formative assessment and s...

The first teaching tool that i will review is Socrative. Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows students to take quizzes and do activities on computers,laptops or their own smartphone. Socrative is one of the best tool because students can use their portable media to provide with instant feedback. it also does not require the students to buy anything and it will benefit teachers to create quizzes without time consuming. There are many activities that can be done in Socrative. 1)  Quizzes it is for design and edit our own library of assessment specifically for the students. Save them to the Socrative account to use at a moment's notice.  This can reduce the usage of paper or making copies. We can control the students while they are answering the question.  Build the library of quizzes to use at time easy to copies link and share with others Question types avail...

This course introduces students to the various computer applications software such as word processing, desktop publishing, web pages development, spreadsheet use, telecommunications and their uses in all areas of education .  Students will finish the course with a complete understanding of computers, how to use computer applications, and how to access information on the World Wide Web as an integrated teaching and learning tool.  Students will also be exposed to teaching and learning systems or tools, such as web-based teaching and learning tools and educational portals .  This will assist them in understanding other alternatives of teaching and learning techniques that can be used in classrooms.  Students are also given hands-on experience with each technique or application being explained and demonstrated via workshops in a computer laboratory.  At the end of the course, students should be able to:  - Explain the basic elements and component...