Category: Technology

How to Make a Photography Video in 3 Steps

1. Add MediaAdd videos or photos from computer or stock libraries to the storyboard.
2. CustomizeAdd text, music, and voiceover to customize your photography video.
3. ExportDownload your photography video in various ratios and definitions or share it online with the world.

Category: Technology

The lessons are set up in mini-quizzes, in which you can:

• Transcribe a chunk of spoken text.
• Translate a chunk of spoken and written speech into English.
• Identify the translations of a chunk of spoken or written text.
• Identify the correct meaning of a vocabulary word.
• Use a microphone to repeat a spoken text.

Many teachers and even entire governments around the world already view Duolingo as the perfect blended learning companion for their classrooms. Duolingo lessons give each student personalized feedback and practice, preparing them to get the most out of classroom instruction.
Good points

1. It’s totally free. No ads, no subscriptions, no 5-easy-payments plan.
2. Help with motivation. You get a sense of accomplishment by the progress through the levels and stages.
3. The interface is very easy to use.
4. Correct mistakes.

 Bad points

1. No human interaction.
2. Not too much grammar explanations.
3. Some sentences are unnatural and you will not use in your everyday life.
4. It uses a computerized voice system for all of its listening exercises, so you’re not introduced to how the language really sounds.

https://en.duolingo.com/

Good points

1. Easy to use.
2. A huge number or courses available.
3. Uses photo and audio for quick learning.
4. The system of encoding and testing is effective.
5. Allows offline mode.

Bad points

1. No enough explanations of what you’re practicing.
2. The user-generated courses are inconsistent.

​https://www.memrise.com/

Category: Technology

You can make your own multimedia educational activities with an attractive and professional result in only a few minutes, and easily share them with your students, using www.educaplay.com.

Integrating technology into the classroom is definitely a great way to reach diversity in learning styles.

Educaplay is a free website and it doesn’t require the installation of any software in the computer; you only need the browser and the plug-in of the installed flash.

The activities generated by the Educaplay can be reproduced from any browser whether online, through the web, or in a local way that means from any storage methods CD, USB memory, etc. This way any teachers can facilitate the activities in a fast and easy manner for his students, whether they have the internet in class or they can only use a few computers.

Advantages:

• Create multimedia Educational Activities according to your students’ needs.
• It has 15 types of fun activities to engage your students.
• Create groups for you class and collections of activities linked by a common theme or goal.
• Identify classified activities by your educational system in the directory.
• Download HTML5 or FLASH activities.
• Download the activities to be used off-line from any computer without Internet connection.
• Share your activities in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
• Share activities on blogs and limit access with “ticket access” option.
• Multilingual activities (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Galician, Catalan, Basque).
• Some activities like dictation and dialogues allow voice recording.
• Get reports from the activities’ evaluation.

Types of activities:

• Riddles.
• Crosswords.
• Fill in the blanks.
• Dialogues.
• Dictations.
• Interactive maps.
• Jumbled Word.
• Jumbled Sentence.
• Matching Games.
• Matching Columns Games.
• Matching Mosaic Games.
• Quizzes.
• Slide show.
• Video quizzes.
• Word search puzzle.

Want to learn more about educaplay? Here is a video tutorial: