Write brief reviews about the two tools you used to create short lessons with this week.
I'll explain two tools briefly.
1. Storybird: http://storybird.com/
When I first saw this site, I was surprised and excited. I thought it's very amazing and useful tool for teachers and learners. Teachers can make beautiful and understandable classroom materials by using this tool. And learners also create their own stories using their imagination.
Storybird is a user-friednly site. Users can create and utilize this tool very easily. They can choose pictures and then write a story. There are various tags that users can choose like festival, friend, family and so on. Users just choose, drag imagies and wirte a story based on these pictures. It allows students to focus more on the content of their writing rather than drawing pictures.
2. Domo Animate: http://domo.goanimate.com/studio
Domo animate is a tool designed to create text-based presentations online. Leaners can add speech bubbles, animate characters and add mulitple effects to their presentations.
It's very easy-to-use and simple tool that present contents like classroom materials. It helps learners improve writing skills. And it helps learners stretch their imagination. It's very useful to share ideas each other.
How could these tools be used by teachers AND students? How could they be incorporated into a class?
As you know, stories are very powerful source of teacing and learning. Especially stories give young learners a lot of opportunities to learn language. Stories represent holistic approaches to language teaching and learning that place a high premium on children's involvement with rich, authentic uses of the foreign language. Stories offer a whole imaginary world, created by language, that children can enter and enjoy, learning language as they go.
Digital stroytelling is very effective way to teach and learn lessons. Integrating technology into lessons is very powerful and useful approache. Digital stroytelling tools can be very usefutl to both teachers and learners. Both of them can make and design classroom materials. They are very understandable and attractive.
These digital storytelling tools can be incorporated into a class. These tools can maximize a class effect. For example, teachers create very moral or insturctive stories that dealt with social issues like bullying by using storybird tool. Teachers tell the stories to their students and then give them opportunities to think about these serious issues and discuss the solutions. Or teachers give students writing assignments.
Teahcers can make classroom materials more dynamic with Domo animate tool. It can be express contents more lively and funny. For example, teachers can make conversational scenarios to illustrate language in use or particular misunderstandings in communication. Leaners show this animations with pleasure and learn some teaching points(spoken language-communicative language in particular situation) and repeat the patterns, and improve their conversation skills.
These tools are very powerful and useful for both teachers and learners. Teachers can make their classroom materials more various and dynamic. On the same time, these materials can improve learners's interest and motivation. There are so many ways to use these tools to incorporate into a class.
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