Moving forward

How many digital tools do you know? These days, there are plenty of useful websites that not only guide teachers to plan and organize lessons but also help students to learn, practice and study. The examples we will show below are just an advance of the topic we are going to describe in great depth in the next entry.

On the one hand, we will present Voki which is a website that allows students to create a personalized avatar and make a speech of no more than 60 seconds. They can record themselves so as to give the voki a voice, and thus improve their speaking and listening skills. It can be used to describe a word or to tell a short story, for example. Here is the voki we created (recording ourselves!) with a description of this enjoyable tool: 

On the other hand, we have a more well-known tool called word clouds. When surfing on the net you have probably seen images with a lot of colourful related words arranged in a certain way. They are known as word clouds and can be designed in websites such as tagul , wordle or tagxedo.

A word cloud makes a piece of information more visually attractive for students. It can be used to teach related vocabulary, word families, and phrasal verbs among others. Students can design their own word cloud and share it with their classmates through social networks such as facebook, twitter or Instagram. Here goes our own word cloud. Can you guess the word it describes? 

Answer: uoıʇɐɔılddɐ