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Lyrics training.com is a great website for teachers and students. If students want to learn the lyrics of songs, then this is an ideal website.Learn songs in many different languages. A great online education tool that encourages student autonomy and allows students to learn on their own or in the class. There is material in a range of languages including English, French, Spanish, German and many more.  Lyrics Training is a website which includes YouTube music videos of popular songs to provide language learners with a fun way to practice language skills. Users can choose from 6 languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Dutch but no Chinese!!) and videos are categorized into three levels of difficulty (easy, medium and hard). Even though six languages are given in the language menu, it is important to note that the vast majority of videos available are in English. In fact, the final choice on the menu, Dutch, only contains several videos at...

Nearpod is a tool that allows you to create a variety of interactive presentations and display directly on students' mobile devices. When creating a ppt, you can select text, images, audio or video slideshows to various interactive activities. In lectures or seminars, speakers can control progress through slides, and students can use applications or interact via mobile devices through a web browser. If needed, students can add their own notes during the presentation. Presentations can be controlled via mobile devices (tablets) so that teachers can move around the room during presentations. The primary job for a teacher in the class is to deliver information, collect feedback and share ideas. Based on these needs, Nearpod can be an excellent tool for both teaching and modeling. Advantages In terms of giving information, Nearpod lessons allow teachers to add in a wide variety of content and online resources from website links to YouTube videos or local files. ...

A webinar is a live web-based video conference or lecture that uses the internet to connect the speaker and audience. Hosts can show themselves speaking, switch to their computer screens for PPT or demonstrations, and even invite guests from other locations to co-host the webinar with them. There are also interactive features that the audience can use to ask questions and chat with host. Many people who host webinars include Q&A sessions at the end to answer viewers' questions. After my second peer teaching, I wanted to have a brief discussion about how to improve the class with my mentor Cliff. However, the time is limited, and the weather is bad, so Cliff invited me to use Zoom, which is an interesting tool like skype to chat with each other. From this experience I knew more about this webinar tool. To get started with Zoom, first create an account. A free account allows you to hold meetings that last up to 40 minutes with a maximum of 25 participants. Send the in...

    In the past, when I was looking for some material, I have seen some people sharing and using some keywords as the effect of the tag cloud of the imaging site. This is actually called the word cloud. Through an article, we can find the keywords and the higher the frequency of its appearance in the article, the greater the size of keywords will be. Recently, Tilly officially introduced a platform that can quickly generate a beautiful word cloud with one click. In the "WordSift" text cloud platform, there are many built-in styles that can be applied, and even customizable to create text cloud angles, color combinations and fonts, resulting in quite distinctive word cloud. In addition, it allows text to have different size changes, which means that the word cloud can be used whether in ppt or on a web page. First, after entering the website of the word cloud, put the text you want to make in the input box at the top.   Then, type a paragrap or text to cr...

Sometimes if you want to do some computer teaching, the traditional way of illustration is to use screenshots or pictures along with many explanation texts. After a series of actions is done, whether it is a good teaching documents still remains a problem. If there is a tool that through which we could not only has screen recording function, but also operating the description, allowing users to quickly understand the use of skills, it could be a good show tool In the past, there are many free or paid screen recording software, but all of them need to upload the files online. There is an on-screen screencasting tool called screencast-o-matic, which has many special features. 1. Free 2. Online use without having to install the software, as long as you can use the Internet (perhaps it is also a disadvantage) 3. After use can be directly linked with the youtube upload video files, convenient and effective! 4. Quality and file size of upload are not bad. ...

There are many websites or applications for learners to study a new language. However, each of them has one particular drawback: there is no output. What I want to focus on in this article is a language learning website called Duolingo. I never used Duolingo before and it was the first time for me to experience it in ICT class. So instead of hiring a personal tutor to teach you, this website emphasis not only on input like teaching you vocabularies or grammar rules, but also allow you to speak, which is the output. Basically it is the way how Duolinguo works: First of all, you need to create an account on  www.duolingo.com . After you are logged in you can start by choosing the language you are interested in learning. Once you choose the language you have two options; the first one is to start from the beginning, as a completely new learner; the other is to take a placement test and according to your results pass some levels and go directly where you fit in best. I ...