EDEN 427 Technology Use for Material Development in TEFL

  Socrative is an assessment tool through which the teachers assign quizzes and exit tickets to students routinely and assess and give feedback instantly. It can be accessed through web browsers and does not need any apps or programs to be downloaded. There are different assessment choices such as traditional quizzes, space race (students compete with each other by answering the questions) and exit tickets. There are also ''quick questions'' that are done during the lesson. So instead of teacher orally asking a question, there will be some pre-prepared questions on the program and students can answer them on Socrative. This garanties that every student tries get to answer, which is not really possible in classes, normally; however, it can be disruptive. Teachers can actively track students' movements: which student is doing what at that time. I would assign brief exit tickets for every lesson that the students have with me and they would need to be done on the same ...

Flip (formerly known as Flipgrid) is an educational platform owned by Microsoft Corporation. It is a tool via which the teacher can ask questions or give a task through recording a video, a voice recording or simply give it in written format, but the students have to answer the questions or do the task by recording and sending a video to the class page. Every student enrolled in the same class page can see the video of their peers and send them responses or comments, again through recording a video.  Link:  https://info.flip.com/  

  Can We Create the ''Perfect'' Farm? - Brent Loken Question: How has contemporary non-technological farming strategies affected both nature and the crops in the countries mentioned in the video?  

  Storybird is a storytelling platform that can be used in both website and app formats. On the platform there are drawings made by the Storybird's own staff and aim of these drawings is to inspire students to come up with their own stories and/or poems. The teacher can create a community where all the students in the class can see each other's stories. It is also possible to invite other users to one's own writing and do collaborative writing. Essentially it is a story writing platform, but the users can read other stories they find on the platform too if they want to. Unfortunately it is a paid platform and the free trial lasts for only 7 days. Link: storybird.com

  Rewordify is an online free tool that, as their motto suggests, helps you ''understand what you read''. When a student comes across a reading passage that (s)he cannot really understand because of the level of the language used, especially outside of classroom when asking the teacher is not the immediate solution, (s)he can enter the text on the space on the website and the tool will automatically paraphrase the text into a simpler one.  Link:  https://rewordify.com/

  WordHippo is a free tool that comes in both website and app formats and that functions as an online thesaurus with some extra functions as well. A user can simply enter a word in the search bar and through different searching categories s/he can find lots of results about the target word from synonyms and antonyms to sample sentences with the word, from rhyming words and word meanings to other words containing the word written in the search bar, and so on.  link:  https://www.wordhippo.com/

  Quill is a free tool for K-12 students that integrates grammar into the writing skill thus making it more authentic compared to stand-alone grammar activities. It gets the students to practise grammar through writing sentences (with revision ideas and sentence examples regarding the quality of both sentence and grammar) or making them proofread ready-made sentences. It is a diagnostic tool that assesses skills to guide them more in line with their levels.  link:  https://www.quill.org/